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Dave Heap

2011年05月12日 11:57

[quote="Raffi3" wrote:
Hi Dave and others,

thank you very much for giving your explanation.

So when I have a shoot of say roughly 80GB on 4 CF cards I bring to unload, How do you feed the 80GB to your workstation?

I'll explain how I would do it in your example situation.

Create a folder called Images.

Create a sub-folder within "Images" called "Nikon D90" or whatever necessary to uniquely identify your camera, and others if necessary if you have more than one camera.

Create a folder called "2011051201" within "Nikon D90". The name being made up of the year, month, day and 01 for the first card to be loaded that day.

Use the CF card reader and Explorer to drag all the files from the card to "2011051201". Whether you copy just the files or the whole DCIM folder doesn't matter at this stage.

Using Explorer preserves file creation dates. ACDSee or the like don't usually preserve file creation dates and only waste time. You don't want to see your images yet.

Create a folder called "201105120s" within "Nikon D90" and drag your second card. Repeat with remaining cards.

Note that at this stage you have not made any attempt to view or make any judgements on the contents of any of your images. Nor have you attempted to relate file or folder names to content.

If you already have an EM Catalogue file, open it now. If not, open EM and you will get a blank catalogue.

Go to Edit/Thumbnails and Previews. Uncheck "Use built-in thumbnails". I save that as default for all new catalogues.

Minimise your EM window an go back to Explorer.

Right-click on the "Images" folder and select "Expression Media Import.

Flip back to your EM window and go get yourself a coffee while EM renders the thumbnails and imports any EXIF data already in the images.

If want to see progress, click the "+" button below the right hand scroll bars to open up a progress frame. When finished, save the catalogue.

Make sure you are in thumbnail view and open View Options. I have saved a View called "All Info" I use when cataloguing. The fields I have in this view are File Name, Capture Date, Event, Location, City, State, People, Keywords, Subject Code and Caption. You are limited to a maximum of 10 fields visible at one time (unfortunately)under the thumbnail. For your situation I would probably drop Subject Code and use Catalog Sets instead. Some filed may need to be more than one line in height, and the order you enable fields sets the order they display.

Now to start filling in the fields. Start at the largest common group for your recent imports, which will probably be State. Select all images taken in the same State. Click on the Info Panel and Type into the State field, followed by the tick at the top right of the Info Panel to save. Reduce your selection to a City and enter that. Continue to fill in Location, People, Event, Keywords, et-cetera as applicable. Minimise the use of captions as information in that field in not as easily selectable. For you situation, I would put Landscape, Animals, et-cetera in Keywords. Also specifics such as cat, dog would be keywords. I don't use Hierarchical Keywords as they are broken. If they ever fix them it's easy enough to transfer them then. Don't use Catalog Sets for image-intrinsic annotations such as those described above as they can't be saved back to images if you need to, or transferred if you copy or move images between catalogues. I make very little use of them, except for transient sets of data. In your Case I would use them for Product, Company Name & Project (hierarchical). Family is probably more appropriately a keyword, but that is your call.

I use Label Red (keyboard shortcut 1) to mark unwanted images for eventual deletion.

Once annotating is done, saving frequently (you can also drag groups of images onto attributes in the Organise Panel, I drop back to a view called Filename Only. In your case you should define a view with Rating visible and use Control 1 to 5 to assign ratings.

Now you are done and can instantly select say all images for 2011 by a single click to the right of 2011 in the Date Finder in the Organise Panel. Or a client,project, dog, cat, all animals, your child's name ...

Note that at no stage have you made any changes to file or folder names. The original filenames and folder names are sufficient for EM to locate the original image when you want it. All your sorting is done by selecting in EM and is multi-attribute indexed - you cannot do that with file or folder naming. That is the the big benefit of true DAM software like EM.

The next shooting day you create and drag new folders to your catalogue...

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Permanently deleted user

2011年05月13日 12:28

[quote="Drew" wrote:
http://www.phaseone.com/en/Online-Store/Media-Pro.aspx

Thank you. I like what I see so far, but have only just upgraded.

Once the dust settles, let's start to talk about some of the "niggles" that previously existed and the myriad of work arounds. Hopefully they have gone away, but it's a complex piece of code, so I doubt they all have.

To be honest the changes were evolutionary definitely not revolutionary. What would it have hurt had you told us things like "we hope to eliminate the catalog size limit", etc?

Being honest and upfront with your customers gains you a lot of good will.

cheers,

chris

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Raffi Hadidian

2011年05月13日 16:50

Thanks Dave for the detailed info...What do I do with the 8+TB of images on my servers that are setup in folders?...LOL

I do as you said with Explorer transfer to drives, faster with multiple transfers in Wn7 than Acdsee.

Maybe EM is a good way to go forward? It just seams redundant if you are creating folders within the catalogue anyway. Although the advantage is you're tagging the images..But ACdsee and others do that also without the hoops of creating catalogue(Main reason I love C1 over Lightroom, database is transparent, access to file structure).

Looks like if you setup drives that are dedicated to images, this cataloguing stuff being the users job makes little sense, no?
I must be missing something? I would love to hear others way of importing and workflow.

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Dave Heap

2011年05月13日 22:41

[quote="Raffi3" wrote:
Thanks Dave for the detailed info...What do I do with the 8+TB of images on my servers that are setup in folders?...LOL

If they are not already in the catalogue, right click on the highest level folder and select "Expression Media Import". Go have a beer or two!

EM doesn't care what folders you've already created. But once they are imported, you can select to view only individual or groups of folders in the Organize panel the same way as you do keywords. That will speed up adding your annotations. Once that's done you can ignore the folder structure and just select by annotation.

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