diff --git a/scripts/bin/tar_derived_data b/scripts/bin/tar_derived_data
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f0c9e4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/bin/tar_derived_data
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+scene_dir=${PWD##*/}
+echo "Creating a tar.gz for only the derived data of this scene " $scene_dir
+
+cd ..
+tar --exclude='*resized_images*' --exclude='*log*' -zcvf "$scene_dir"-labeled.tar.gz $scene_dir
+cd $scene_dir
+
+
+
diff --git a/scripts/bin/tar_raw_log b/scripts/bin/tar_raw_log
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f4b6e8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/bin/tar_raw_log
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+scene_dir=${PWD##*/}
+echo "Creating a tar.gz for only the raw logs (both trimmed and untrimmed) of this scene " $scene_dir
+
+cd ..
+tar -zcvf "$scene_dir"-log.tar.gz $scene_dir/*log*
+cd $scene_dir
+
+
+
diff --git a/scripts/cleanAllSceneFolders.py b/scripts/cleanAllSceneFolders.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db6c150
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/cleanAllSceneFolders.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#
+# Usage: python /path/to/cleanAllSceneFolders.py
+#
+# Iterates (non-recursively) over all scene folders and does 
+# a couple cleaning operations.
+
+import os
+
+for item in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
+    if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), item)):
+        print item
+        os.system("cd " + os.path.join(os.getcwd(),item) + " && ls")
+        os.system("cd " + os.path.join(os.getcwd(),item) + " && rm -f *.jlp *.freiburg && find . -name *lcmlog.ply | xargs -I '{}' mv {} binary.ply")
diff --git a/scripts/prepareForObjectAlignment.py b/scripts/prepareForObjectAlignment.py
index c2dc6ec..326428a 100644
--- a/scripts/prepareForObjectAlignment.py
+++ b/scripts/prepareForObjectAlignment.py
@@ -18,15 +18,11 @@
 # Run Elastic Fusion #
 ######################
 
-# later, I want to try automatically install ElasticFusion
-# or at least check for it
-# for now, just need to specify ElasticFusion executable location
 path_to_ElasticFusion_executable = os.environ['ELASTIC_FUSION_EXECUTABLE']
 if not (os.path.isfile(path_to_ElasticFusion_executable)):
 	print "You need to install ElasticFusion and set the path to the executable in setup_environment.sh"
 	quit()
 
-
 path = os.getcwd()
 yaml_path = path + "/info.yaml"
 f = open(yaml_path)
@@ -52,9 +48,11 @@
  	os.system("cd " + path_to_ply + " && make")	
 
 ply_binary_filename = lcmlog_filename + ".ply"
+desired_binary_filename = "binary.ply"
+os.system("mv " + ply_binary_filename + " " + desired_binary_filename)
 
 # call ply2ascii
-os.system(path_to_ply + "/ply2ascii <./" + ply_binary_filename + "> ./converted_to_ascii.ply")
+os.system(path_to_ply + "/ply2ascii <./" + desired_binary_filename + "> ./converted_to_ascii.ply")
 
 # change header to be compatible with Director
 # TODO: make so Director accepts other header?
@@ -88,5 +86,5 @@
 os.system("directorPython " + path_to_labelfusion + "/scripts/convertPlyToVtp.py " +  "./converted_to_ascii_modified_header.ply")
 
 # clean up and rename
-# os.system("rm *.ply *.freiburg")
+os.system("rm *.freiburg *.jlp")
 os.system("mv converted_to_ascii_modified_header.vtp reconstructed_pointcloud.vtp")
diff --git a/scripts/tarAllSceneFolders.py b/scripts/tarAllSceneFolders.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b329ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tarAllSceneFolders.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#
+# Usage: python /path/to/tarAllSceneFolders.py
+#
+# Iterates (non-recursively) over all scene folders and packages 
+# them into .tar.gz compressed files
+
+import os
+
+for item in sorted(os.listdir(os.getcwd())):
+    if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), item)):
+        print item
+        try:
+            os.system("cd " + os.path.join(os.getcwd(),item) + " && ls")
+            os.system("cd " + os.path.join(os.getcwd(),item) + " && tar_derived_data")
+            #os.system("cd " + os.path.join(os.getcwd(),item) + " && tar_raw_log")
+        except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
+            raise