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uli Landsherr
Leider ist das Programm grosser Mist. Habe dauernd Abstürze damit... 😁
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  • rmoorlag
    What is your question?
    Roelof
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  • Kevin Clapcott
    [quote="rmoorlag" wrote:
    What is your question?
    Roelof


    Errr... I think it's more of a statement 😕
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  • BastianL
    [quote="NN634854158078845865UL" wrote:
    Leider ist das Programm grosser Mist. Habe dauernd Abstürze damit... 😁


    let me translate:
    The software is a huge mess unfortunately. It keeps crashing...
    end of translation.

    I agree. It won't even let me sync annotations.
    I do have a question though:

    when using the date finder MP uses the dates of file creation. I would rather want to sort by capture date instead which does make a difference working with scans from analog film.
    Is there a way of doing so?

    Thanks,
    Bastian
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  • Royou
    Hi !

    You can use the "Find" menu "Find" option and sort by capture date.

    Roy
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  • BastianL
    Yes I could but it's uncomfortable and defeats the purpose of catalog fields which I love to use for finding specific images. I opened a case asking for a Capture Date Finder to be featured in the catalog fields.

    After all this is a DAM software for photographs so why not sort my images by capture date in the first place?
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  • Robert Edwards
    View > Sort > Capture Date
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  • BastianL
    not what I was looking for roberte, but with Media Pro 1.4 the date finder now does use capture date for filtering. very nice
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  • BastianL
    so MP1.4 does not load thumbnail previews for most images, it's slow, has trouble importing as many as 30 images, crashes regularly.
    I love CO7 and was hoping for a standardized open format like DNG that would have an up to date preview embedded so CO7 would work with any DAM software, but since the one DAM application CO7 does communicate with is unreliable I feel like I'm wasting my time here.

    Seriously CO creates a preview for every single image why not save that preview picture file with the raw file (DNG) so MP will not have to deal with preview rendering and will actually work.
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  • Jim MSP
    [quote="BastianL" wrote:
    so MP1.4 does not load thumbnail previews for most images, it's slow, has trouble importing as many as 30 images, crashes regularly.
    ....


    I had some similar issues which I could not resolve, even with the help of PO support.
    But then I downloaded the codecs from Fastpictureviewer [url]FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 3.4 Windows Add-In[/url] . I use Windows rendering, and the reaction is quick and reliable.

    I only use the CO rendering on processed photos - after CO has processed them. That part can be slow.
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  • BastianL
    mmh I only ever use Media Pro with processed images.

    After restarting the computer media pro does load all previews again.

    Next issue. After applying and exporting annotations in MediaPro the following string comes up as a keyword in C1:
    P1.C1.Framework.Collections.List`1[System.String]

    Plus are the hierarchical keywords MP produces compatible with other software?
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  • Jim MSP
    [quote="BastianL" wrote:
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    Plus are the hierarchical keywords MP produces compatible with other software?


    I'm trying to understand that issue right now.
    I have a number of photos that I cataloged in Lightroom during the time CO and MP gave me significant problems.
    I save all my keywords into sidecar files.

    It currently appears that Lightroom was able to read most (but not all) of my hierarchical keywords generated in MP.
    And MP seems to have an issue with reading many of the hierarchical keywords generated by LR. It seems like many of them were brought into the hierarchical list as stand alone keywords. Its a mess.

    I am now trying to get my hierarchical keywords in MP straightened out in my major catalog. But it appears that I can't even transfer the new structure into a separate MP catalog which is really a subset of the major one.

    I am beginning to understand why a couple of DAM experts have given up on using hierarchical keywords.
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  • Wolfram Hölzel
    [quote="BastianL" wrote:

    Plus are the hierarchical keywords MP produces compatible with other software?


    I don't know the current version, but as Expression Media 2 I can't import in other software the hierarchical keywords. But you can use exiftool (or exiftool gui) to see, how Media Pro is writing hierarchical keywords (with |, ; , . ,....) or another way.


    I am beginning to understand why a couple of DAM experts have given up on using hierarchical keywords.


    The problem is, that the "Metadata Working Group" make it complicate. Adobe set a quasi standard (as almost), but as I understand other software-developer, the mix up their own standards.

    I won't give up hierarchical keywords (e.p. for my science taxonomie). I just hope, that there will be a useful standard by Metadata Working group and all (even Phase One and Adobe) put this as reference/standard too.
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