C1 6.4.5 script for finding EIPs
Hello,
Can anyone help me write a script for C1 (using C16.4.5, OS Lion). Or possible suggest some ideas.
For reasons I won't go into right now, the following explains my workflow:
I shoot about 50-60 different "looks." Each look, or group of shots, is labeled with a unique ID#. I shoot directly into the Capture folder so that all the images populate into the one Capture folder. Someone else from another machine is adding star ratings to the images via Bridge while we shoot. At the end I queue up all images in C1 and select all images and click Load Metadata so that the star ratings transfer over (C1 won't read color labels from Bridge XMP files). I then turn those starred images into Yellow tagged images. Then I convert all images to EIP's to embedded the metadata, and, for reasons I won't go into, in the Finder I use Big Mean Folder Machine to group all the images into their respective shot ID# folders, so that I end up with about 50-60 shot FOLDERS containing their respective "looks". The problem is, I need to then unpack ALL the EIP's (again, for reasons I won't go into) but after going through everything I've explained above, I can't get the capture session to queue up ALL IMAGES from within the "all images" smart folder, nor can I get C1 to queue up all the Yellow tagged images using a Yellow tag smart folder. No previews show up in those smart folders. I imagine this is because after I run BMFM, the Capture One proxies and settings files are displaced - in fact, I actually delete them from the source folder before running BMFM as they would just clutter the results. Which leaves me with having to go into each and everyone shot folder from within C1 to unpack the EIP's myself. As you can imagine this is very time consuming.
My question is: does anyone know of a C1 script I could use that would essentially go looking for EIP's within every subfolder of the Capture folder and unpack them, WITHOUT stripping the images of their tags. OR, likewise, does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could manipulate my workflow so as to accomplish what I've described above.
Thanks so much!!
C
Can anyone help me write a script for C1 (using C16.4.5, OS Lion). Or possible suggest some ideas.
For reasons I won't go into right now, the following explains my workflow:
I shoot about 50-60 different "looks." Each look, or group of shots, is labeled with a unique ID#. I shoot directly into the Capture folder so that all the images populate into the one Capture folder. Someone else from another machine is adding star ratings to the images via Bridge while we shoot. At the end I queue up all images in C1 and select all images and click Load Metadata so that the star ratings transfer over (C1 won't read color labels from Bridge XMP files). I then turn those starred images into Yellow tagged images. Then I convert all images to EIP's to embedded the metadata, and, for reasons I won't go into, in the Finder I use Big Mean Folder Machine to group all the images into their respective shot ID# folders, so that I end up with about 50-60 shot FOLDERS containing their respective "looks". The problem is, I need to then unpack ALL the EIP's (again, for reasons I won't go into) but after going through everything I've explained above, I can't get the capture session to queue up ALL IMAGES from within the "all images" smart folder, nor can I get C1 to queue up all the Yellow tagged images using a Yellow tag smart folder. No previews show up in those smart folders. I imagine this is because after I run BMFM, the Capture One proxies and settings files are displaced - in fact, I actually delete them from the source folder before running BMFM as they would just clutter the results. Which leaves me with having to go into each and everyone shot folder from within C1 to unpack the EIP's myself. As you can imagine this is very time consuming.
My question is: does anyone know of a C1 script I could use that would essentially go looking for EIP's within every subfolder of the Capture folder and unpack them, WITHOUT stripping the images of their tags. OR, likewise, does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could manipulate my workflow so as to accomplish what I've described above.
Thanks so much!!
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