too many pictures

[Dukytony]

Hi guys,

wondering if anyone would know a way to use only half of the pictures contained in a too big dataset.

Looking for a way to automatically select one out of 2 or 3 pictures in a folder.

Thanks a lot!

[wizprod]

Try Tools -> Reduce Overlap

[pbourke]

Easy enough to do outside MetaShape, assuming your photos are evenly distributed and have a unique continuous counting id ... for every second image simple make a new directory and
     cp *.0 *.2 *.4 *.6 *.8 ../newdir
Or the equivalent for your file numbering scheme and OS.

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Duktony,

Apart from the suggested Reduce Overlap option, you can also try to use the "old school" method suggested in another thread to disable  every N-th camera in the project:
https://www.agisoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=9430.msg43763#msg43763