Media Pro

ianbowie

• 11. Mai 2011 17:44

Hi

Opened the EM2 catalogue and got all the keywords from EM2.

Given that the improvement was to handle a lot more photos , can we get a method of importing a set of keywords from a .txt file. LR3 can do this and I have a very large keyword index available.

This would also fix the layout in the panel which appears random at the moment.

We cannot add lots of keywords one at a time.

Anyone got any other ideas?

Ian

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  Larry_S

  • 11. Mai 2011 19:53

  Ian,
  
  Have you tried the Vocabulary Editor (under Preferences on Mac OS X)? I believe you can start a new vocabulary file (or set) and add a couple of starter keywords, then quit Media Pro and open the text file in the Finder (~/Library/Application Support/Phase One Media Pro/Plug-ins/Vocabulary/...) in a program like TextWrangler/BBEdit and paste in your exported keywords, or other supported field, from your other program. Then, relaunch Media Pro to check out the new vocabulary.
  
  For example, in the Default vocabulary, for Creator, I added a starter keyword and description and got this:
  
  <!-- Field must select from terms = false -->
<!-- Field keep terms order = true -->
Larry, (My Description)
  
  Manually adding "Joe, (Another Description)" in BBEdit to "~/Library/Application Support/Phase One Media Pro/Plug-ins/Vocabulary/Default/Creator.txt" caused the term to show up in Media Pro (even while it was running, which I don't recommend).
  
  Creating the file and then editing in TextWrangler/BBEdit makes sure encoding and line endings, etc. are saved correctly, and you can choose to sort selected lines if necessary (Sort Lines... under Text menu in BBEdit, though ). Once you know what encoding/line endings to use (UTF-16 Little-Endian, Unix LF, on a Mac), you can make your own files from scratch or via a script from your other program.
  
  Note: there seems to be a bug, in that if the <!-- Field keep terms order = true --> is set, all is well until you add a new term via the Editor, then the list is sorted alphabetically and your order is lost. (Unless I am misunderstanding that setting, which is no longer even choose-able in the Editor anymore.)
  
  Larry

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  Larry_S

  • 11. Mai 2011 20:25

  Also, it appears the Vocabulary Editor only works with single entries for the Keywords field, not Hierarchical Keywords, which are saved only in the catalog (I think).
  
  If you want to build a Hierarchical Keywords setup for a new catalog from another program you could create an import-able XML file. Start by exporting an existing Media Pro catalog, with H. Keywords, but with all media items removed, to get an understanding of the required XML format to be built from your export from another program, and for import into Media Pro.
  
  I don't see an easy way of re-associating the old program's H. Keywords to the new media items in Media Pro. It is possible with a full tabular export from your previous program and AppleScript, and possibly Perl or Python, though an extensive script and understanding of XPath and creating an XML file element-by-element from scratch would be necessary.
  
  Larry

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  ianbowie

  • 12. Mai 2011 08:54

  Thanks for your suggestions.
  
  While I can program in Perl, it sounds like it is a medium-large job.
  
  I might be able to create the structure in LR3 and then import the photos?
  
  Thanks

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  ianbowie

  • 13. Mai 2011 18:28

  An update after testing.
  
  After saving an EM2 catalog as MP one, Keywords.txt was not created.
  
  After adding a few keywords this was created and contained the new keywords.
  
  Replaced this with a copy created outside MP.
  
  Success a keyword list under keywords that was alphabetical.
  
  No hierarchy though and no full list under "Hierarchical Keywords".

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