sharing sessions with windows and Mac users

Henrik1

• May 19, 2011 23:36

Hi guys,

Its 2011, and some places we have both Mac and Windows based computers in the production. It would be really great if I can move a session and its folder from Mac to Windows and back again (order isn;t important) so people for various reason can work on the same job on either platform.

Is there currently a way around this? convert it all to EIP or DNG?

thanks guys

Henrik

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • May 20, 2011 07:16

  To start with your own suggestion regarding EIP or DNG: not necessary. The image adjustments you make are cross-platform compatible. Of course, EIP makes transfer of a single image or few images with their adjustments easier, but when you move an entire folder, EIP does not add much value. Summary: just move the folder with the images around and you're set.
  
  A session - collection of folders with a session (*.col50) file however is not cross-platform compatible because it contains folder information. If you like to maintain entire sessions in your workflow with both Win & Mac systems, I suggest you setup a test which includes some additional steps. First, stay within one platform as long as possible (move between Win-Win or Mac-Mac). When you finally have to make a cross-platform step, I suggest you recreate the session file (delete it after a move, create new session with same name in same location).

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  Gareth

  • May 20, 2011 08:30

  This seems the perfect situation to use .eip file format.
  
  IMO the whole session does not need to be duplicated, just the captures and any image adjustments. I would make sessions of the same name on both PC and Mac, pack all file as .eip and when the shoot is over copy the specific files or whole capture folder to the other platform.

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