Variant ID by order images selected?
I know this is a pretty big shot in the dark but need to ask, any chance there is some code to figure out the order in which variants are manually selected? We're working on a workflow update so the user can define the order in which the images will appear on our website. In one part of the studio it will work just fine to have the user manually sort into the order they want and we can easily grab that order with our AppleScript.
In the other part of the studio it isn't as easy. For productivity reasons, they shoot one view (front view) of each product on the shoot list and then switch to the next view (back view) for each product so camera/lighting adjustments don't need to be made repeatedly throughout the day. Therefore there is one capture folder with probably 100 shots. Manually reorganizing all of those would add significant time to each photographer's workflow each day, which we are trying to avoid.
Wondered if there was a way to capture the order in which images were selected (with command + click) instead of just "variants whose selected is true"?
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We use rating numbers to define the order and use the output naming sub name to add that to the processed files. So item code abc might have filenames abc-123_1 where -123 is the capture frame number and _1 is the image position. We then have a processing done script that uses regex to find the dash and three numbers in a row and strips it out. Final filename abc_1,abc_2 etc. if only capture had a regex token in the output naming tools.
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Thanks. That is what we currently do also but need to change now that we'll be adding more than six images. Trying to find a good solution that doesn't add too much production time. WIll probably end up having to rename files (which moves those images into their own folders, and then manually sort within there since we can pull that sort order from Capture One programmatically.
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Do the products have a barcode?
I have some automations for the barcode reader in the Enterprise version that will:
- Make a product folder based on the scanner result
- If the code is scanned again in the same session, re-select the folder already made with that code, set as Capture again and sets counters to pick up from the number of shots in the folder already.
- Some fixed barcodes for altering angle codes or additional data
This provides a pretty quick way to shoot product non linearly - but with everything per collection you can then use your batch rename macros with the replacement suffixes on a manual sort, as the order in the browser is reflected in the variant list.
if you are interested in having a chat about this, email me at the usual address.
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I know of no way to capture the order of selection.
It seems to me that you don't want the order of selection, its just amenas to an end, What you want is a way for the photographer to quuickly indicate "these items are related (same product)" The way I would implement that is to write an Applescript that adds the same keyword to the all variants related to the images that are selected. Lets say that keyword is "ProdPhotos_xxxx" where xxxx is auto incremented every time the script is run.
To simplify selection you may want a smart album that selects the variants that do not have a keyword that begins with "ProdPhotos_", the same script can create that if it does not exist.
You may also want a smart album for each new selection, that selects variants with the newly assigned keyword, the script can also create that.
The workflow would be like this.
1) Run the script once, with or without selecting an variants. If the current collection is "Unorganised", proceed to step 2. Otherwise a) create the Smart Album "Unorganised" (if it does not exist not present), b) make "Unorganised" the current collection. c) Select the same variants as were selected in the previous collection. d)Srop (allows the user to adjust the selection)
2) Select some related variants and run the script. These variants, and any variants of the same parents, are assigned the keyword "ProdPhotos_0001". The smart album "ProdPhotos_0001" is created and selects these variants. The variants disappear from "Unorganised"
3) Repeat 2 until there are no variants shown in "Unorganised". Smart albums "ProdPhotos_0002", "ProdPhotos_0003", .... will be created.
It may be efficent to assign a hot key to run the script.
You may want a second script to remove a "ProdPhotos_xxxx" keyword from all variants and remove the Smart Album for that keyword.
You need to decide what the script should do if a variant already has "ProdPhotos_xxxx" keyword. Allow? Deny? Overwrite?
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Or how about. Photographers give a rating to the selects then filter the folder by rating (keyboard shortcut) order the thumbnails then run a batch renaming script that renames the files from abc-123 to abc_1 etc.
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I actually made a set of scripts for a client this week that do exactly that: a rating macro and a rename batch - all boiled down to two shortcuts. :)
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Thanks for the information, I will try to figure it out for more. Keep sharing such informative post keep suggesting such post.
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