Hi,
How is the micrograph/movie “index” displayed in Curate Exposures determined? In the guide it states that e.g. for plotting phase shift vs index:
“Plot showing change of phase shift over time during data collection (NB: micrographs should be imported in chronological order for this to be correct)”
How does one “import micrographs in chronological order”? Are the index values just taken from the file creation time then?
Cheers
Oli
Hi @olibclarke - the order is displayed as the same order that the import job created when it was traversing the files, which is that the files that match the wildcard import path are all found and then they are sorted in alpha order. We don’t look at file metadata (eg creation time etc).
@apunjani It would be cool if those were natsorted, and also in the file browser. It’s hard to navigate to the most latest job in projects with many pages of jobs, for example.
Does this mean that everytime I initiate a “manual picker” job the micrograph index will be the same? I mean micrograph 13, is always micrograph 13?
If you load the same Micrographs output group from a specific instance (the same run) of a job into multiple Manual Picker jobs, you can expect consistent micrograph indices across those Manual Picker jobs.
Indices may not be consistent if you load Micrograph output groups from different jobs, even if each output group is based on the same set of movie files.