如何使用照相机械来加快照相工作流程

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2. Merci Chris. Nicely done ?

3. Great video, Chris. Thanks for the quick walkthrough.

4. Amazing video! THXS a lot!!! Just bought it!

5. Thank you for putting this together. I've been using this exact method for over a year and it works amazing. However, ever since I upgrade OSX to Catalina, the drag and drop of photos from Photo Mechanic to Lightroom works differently now. I initially import all my files to a USB backup drive, which is backed up via a web based backup service. Once files are culled in Photo Mechanic, I drag the pictures I want to edit into LR. Once imported into Lightroom, instead of having the source on the left hand side of the screen be the Backup drive, it now says 'Macintosh HD' and doesn't carry over the folder structure with the name, date etc. Any input you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

6. In programming variables are memory packets (containers) that hold data…numeric, text, boolean…typically defined by the programmer. I shoot raw and jpeg and use the jpegs as thumbs…I prefer to do my culling manually…even if I shoot 600-1200 images…additionally as a programmer I can write my own scripts to manage my files and the script will run faster since it does not use as much memory as a full blown software…I prefer Iridient Developer as my raw converter.

7. Once you are done editing the photos in Lightroom would you just export the final product to a new destination folder? Or would you replace the original photo with the new edited photo in the original location that photo mechanic made? Idk if that made sense haha

8. Hi Chris do you still use this software? I am a wedding photographer and i am looking for a software like this. Got more than 5000 photos dont know where to start. Is PM the right one for selecting the picutures and edit later in LR?

9. Thanks a lot! You have given so clear guidance to start my first Photo Mechanic workflow!

10. Can't seem to import any kind of metadata from PM. Lightroom just import them like they've not been processes throught PM.

11. I just downloaded PM6 to test it. But that at 12:22 does not work at all with 0-8 as in your example here. I get PM to Lr only white color.

12. Cool, thanks. It would be great, if you could make a video on the content how you fill up IPTC Stationery, literally, specially Right of Usage, all that stuff ?

13. Thanks for a great video, and especially explanation of the variables! It makes lots of sense, and i completely get it – when i have only one shoot on my card. Now im in the situation that i actually have 3 different shoots on my card.. How do i separate them, or like ingest them in different "rounds", so i can give them the right location and info?? Hope it makes sense?

14. Another benefit of using PM to do an initial cull is that your LR catalog is LOTS smaller and that can help LR run faster.

15. So helpful, thanks!

16. Thanks Chris for this super helpful tutorial. One question, not sure if this had been asked, why didn't you select the photos you like from photo mechanic then do an ingest to your hard drive?

17. I used i-view which turned into expression media but it's been dropped. Was always aware of Photo Mechanic but never used it (it's very similar). In Expression Media I used to save my catalogues (contact sheet projects). Can you do this in Photo Mechanic? Thank you.

18. Ciao Chris do you know how many computers we can share/use with one licence? thanks Marco

19. Why do you need LR with photomechanic? ACR has all the Lightroom functionality to edit photos.

20. Hi, I make different folders for different cameras used at a shoot. Photo Mechanic creates different contact sheets for each folder. Is there a way where it can create a contact sheet of a master folder containing files from all the cameras ( subfolders)?

21. Thanks! Awesome setup detail.

22. You had me at “How amazing was Slovenia?”

23. piece of cake 🙂

24. What if I'd already imported to LR….then wanted to try PM…how do i get them to LR once culled and work on them if they're already in there??

25. Amazing – thank you – I'm signing up for the trial today and this video was so helpful!!

26. Wow so I have a few questions for photo mechanic

    1st of, if I take a photo and it has GPS latitude and longitude, then could photo mechanic automatically lookup the locations and add them to the photos, kind of how Lightroom does but just suggests the locations instead of adding them in?

    2nd, can you set photo mechanic to automatically inport as soon as you connect up your camera?

    3rdly, could photo mechanic run in the background on start-up to check a certain folder for new photos?

    Finally, can photo mechanic add things like copyright such taken by gold master as well as automatically add keywords based on the image and location (so a beach photo would have words like sea, Sun ect)?

    Lots of questions is there any more for this?

27. Very useful for a person who just downloaded the 30 day trial of Photo Mechanic. I do lots of events with 300-400 photos and I expect this will be a big timesaver in the culling and importing process with Lightroom CC. Thanks!

28. I've been trying out a few applications to cull my figure skating photos, such as spins and jumps, shot at high frame rates where you get just a few with the skaters face. In Photo Mechanic, is there a way to automatically go to the next image after setting a rating or tagging? In ON1 Photo RAW you select a rating, or like an image, and it instantly goes to the next image so you can program my ShuttlePro buttons to rate/like and do it one handed, but I can't seem to find a similar feature in Photo Mechanic. It seems like something it would have, but I can't find how to turn it on.

29. Great Tutorial Thank you 🙂

30. Thanks for the video, it is very informative.
    I've one question left. Can I synchronize the rating backwards, ie. from Lightroom to Photo Mechanic?

31. 12:54 how do you get Lightroom to automatically show the updated metadata without the warning?

32. I heard about this software so wanted to look into how well it works compared to LR. Well although I know you were trying to show how good it is, all you've actually done is put me off. You think that's fast workflow? Wow, it's STAGGERINGLY slow and messy. So many extra steps for absolutely no benefit at all. Then you process in LR AFTER going through all that? I think I must be missing something!

33. When I cull images from my contact sheet, I end up with mismatching sequence numbers, It just hurts my OCD. How can I add them to lightroom without having missing sequence numbers? Can I re-apply the name files on my "selections"?

34. Good workflow inside this software and I thank you for that. However, my two cents, you should never trash any photo from any shoot IMHO. I always copy the folder from the card then convert all the proprietary files to DNG and archive those on an external hard drive once they're properly classified. I don't need to have all my files readily accessible on my computer however I always want to archive everything, because you never know how a client could come back to you, or sometimes you find a gem that you overlooked by browsing through your archives, etc
    Then once every file is converted to DNG and archived, I select the keepers, delete the rest from my internal drive, and start editing. This way it's really bulletproof – in fact I have two archive drives, A and B, in case one fail, but I do NOT have a RAID because if you make a mistake on one drive of any RAID it will be replicated on all the other drives.
    Anyway a good intro to this software. Seems like the best solution I've seen so far for cataloguing your files 😀

35. Photo Mechanic is fast yes but the pictures are not in 100% sharpness I can always see a different to Lightroom

36. Great job, I have a problem adding keywords to my video images, they dont appear at all in my PC, how should I proceed to fix this?

37. cool tutorials, make more like this 🙂

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