How To Use PHOTO MECHANIC Like a Pro
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- How to organize photo files from your camera to your hard drives and beyond using PHOTO MECHANIC.
I use Photo Mechanic to ingest and backup images from all my shoots and this workflow means I always know that my photos are safely copied and backed up in multiple places.
Feel free to grab a notepad and pen and take notes.
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00:00 Intro
00:41 Shooting to two cards
01:15 Separate the cards
01:50 Solid State Drives (SSD)
03:04 Transfer to card reader
03:20 Copying with Finder
03:46 Copying files with the same name
05:36 Ingesting with Photo Mechanic
06:46 Setting two destination folders
08:00 Renaming ingested photos correctly
11:15 Ingest!
12:07 Coloured Box Notifications
12:49 Ingest Complete
13:55 Online Backup
15:53 Shooting black & white previews
16:55 Outro
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Has this video changed how you import your images? Or do you have another method you prefer? Let me know!
This seems really like the best way. However, I'm still doing the same inefficient process as I have been doing earlier.
I use Capture One to import images - Basically, I create a new session, and then import from card - Capture One automatically puts them all in a new folder in the space I assigned to it, and it creates additional blank folders which will be used to save processed images or deleted files, etc.
The only reason I haven't switched to your method is because I don't know how to create a new session on Capture One with the photos already ingested this way.
In any case, great video.
I love seeing how other workflows. You have me thinking about changing the way I import my photos.
Just my opinion of course but it’s the best system I’ve tried and it’s one I’ve practiced for a long time now.
Steve, it is always interesting to see other creatives' workflows. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Craig. Yeah, my system has been tweaked a few times over the years but this works best for me with the amount of shoots I do these days.
Thanks Steve! Why did your ingest create an XMP file for each image? Is that the metadata?
Exactly. The metadata includes essential information about the images, such as camera settings, copyright details, keywords, etc
Thanks for the effort and sharing. I am still examining whether to commit to PM. Presently, I am relying on Apple's Finder which is NOT very useful with 30k images! My question is whether I can cull images on the SD card WITHOUT ingesting all the images that I do not like? It seems that first you load the images and then go through them. Is there anyway NOT to load the images onto my external hard drives but just review them before ingest. Thanks in advance. Thumbs up
You can absolutely do that. That's not the way I work as I like to have a backup of everything until I deliver the final images. But you can use PM to cull straight from the card if you prefer.
help. i have 1000s of pics on my pc in photo folders. how do i AUTOmatically add those unique folder names to the photo EXIF after the fact (because i'm upload to google photos and want to create albums based on those folder names)...thank you. (no sidecars....just adding info to the exif)
Hey Steve, Are the extra features in Photo mechanic plus worth it?
There was nothing that I think I'd use. I haven't tested it though, sorry.
How do you keeep the cards names? Mine always go back to EOS Digital after formatting
That's true for me too. I named them here to help identify them in the tutorial.
@@SteveGerrardPhotography damn! I thought you had some secret knowledge:)
@@MaxLemesh sorry bud. It would definitely be handy to keep the names I agree.
@@SteveGerrardPhotography Good video anyway, always good to learn something new from fellow Photomechanic adepts )
@@MaxLemesh cheers mate. Glad you found it useful
For online backup your internet must be very quick.
My internet is pretty fast yeah, but I think many pro photographers do need fast internet if it's available, Otherwise you just have to leave it running over time.
It‘s really a weird myth that harddrives get slower when they get filled up. That doesn’t make sense, don‘t spread this.
Even a large lightroom catalog shouldn’t introduce noticeable performance issues to LR, otherwise it would be a bad programmed software.
i am confused u are from the future? vid is 2 years old..ant it says about 2023....mmhh😉