Sometimes the filenames contain information that define on which dimension each image has to be located in the resulting image.

  1. Choose Selection > Pattern matching... to open the import pattern matching dialog. Here you can define a pattern that contains specific identifiers that mark parts of the input filename as a locator for an image dimension.
  2. The identifiers match numeric values (including leading zeros). Use the wildcard identifiers * and ? to ignore other numeric values. If your input files start counting a dimension at 100, Edit offsets helps you set a new start for counting. E.g. if your first input file is named "input_plane0100_frame010_channel01", and you don't adjust the offsets, your resulting file may contain empty data. To alleviate this change the plane offset to -100, the time point offset to -10, and the channel offset to -1. Now your resulting file will only contain the data you set up to import.
  3. Press the Refresh button to refresh the preview of how the current pattern affects your import scenario in the lower preview panel.