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So by default VLC uses DATE(YYYY-MM-DD)-TIME and there doesn't seem to be a way to change that. I can add a prefix but cant customize default naming it seems.

This is what I have so far

$A_$N_$T---

So $A doesn't always work and isn't doing what I want. What I want is SNAPSHOT DATE(MM-DD-YYYY)_TIME(HH-MM-SS)_VIDEO FILENAME_TIMESTAMP(using - instead of _).png

So using a video I downloaded from twitter, the snaphot filename would be _Hd3pmj_es0nFRE6Y.mp4_00_00_41---2021-06-05-23h34m39s638.png

What I want it to be is

06-05-2021_23-34-39_Hd3pmj_es0nFRE6Y_00-00-41.png

Since Windows lists files alphabetically by default and I like listing my files by date modified or date created, I like having the date created being the first info in the snapshot filename so when browsing the directory where all my VLC snapshots go, they will all be listed alphabetically and by date created. Next is the filename of the video. Sometimes VLC will use the title of the video if it is available but I want it to always use the filename of the video and it doesn't need to have the video file extension, in fact I would strongly prefer it didn't include that. Lastly I would like it to end with video time stamp so I know exactly when in the video that screenshot was taken. I also don't want it to have the millisecond time taken/created info that it normally uses.

So is there any way to achieve what I want to do?

As far as I'm aware vlc doesn't have those capabilities, but you could probably achieve those results with a third party app such as Faststone Photo Resizer which will keep original timestamps among other things such as batch convert.

Thanks but I already have a program that can batch rename files but since I generate so many tens of thousands of snapshots from so many different videos every year, doing it that way just isn't an option.