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I am trying the trial version of image ingester  the newest version 3 on my macbook pro 2010 i7 running mac os snowleopard 10.6.3.

I wanted to review the thumb files of the card content because I often want to pick out the files to download. I pressed thumbs to view the files, there are about 100-400+ images & some video files on the class 4 SDHC SD memory card. When I tried to open the thumb views, the progress window opened but it seemed to lock my laptop, I got "the spinning beachball" that people refer to when a mac hangs up. It seemed like it was stuck before even started, if the progress was going to happen, it would take hours.

I tried loading & previewing this same memory card with mac os x's native image capture, & it opened up the files without this trouble, even expression media can load content off it.

I contacted Marc Rochkind, & he replied that there maybe a problem with the memory card or my computer system. He said that that amount of images should not be causing this hangup. But if there was a system or card problem, why is image capture able to open up & view the card content? when slip the card into the mac's sd slot, it is recognized.

On a side note, about a week ago, I had this memory card in my camera & while taking a photo, all of a sudden the camera freezes, after pressing the shutter button, the screen went blank, I tried to power down the camera but I could not get it to respond, it was stuck with the lens out. So I left it on & put it away in my bag as I had to be somewhere & did not have time to fool with it. When I got back to my car, the camera lens had retracted back into the body.

I asked about this in another forum, & was told the battery was the problem, & it was drained. I thought I had just charged it, but I was told the battery meter on my camera was not accurate. So I recharged my camera battery, & have used it again, & so far so good.

I am telling about this incident because, I wonder if the memory card might be faulty, & possibly why image ingester is having a problem with it.

I now remember asking someone about this, & they said it would not be good because it uses quicktime compression. But I thought if it can add metadata to photos & it has the option to download, I cannot see why it would not be any good for downloading original content, it is file transfers.

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bumping thread, nobody has heard of Downloader pro? image ingester seems to have too many things going on.

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I discovered this quite a while back, I think maybe the only way after downloading the files may be to make some kind of sidecar files? there is a thread about DAM for video files on here, you could try searching for it.

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can I use this program to download my original photo & video files? would it be able to download DSLR files?

I have recently switched to a mac, & I already had the expression media 1.0 mac version & installed it. since it is DAM software, is there any reason I could not just use it, instead of buying another DAM program to download my files?

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I have just treated my video files like the image files, with keywords etc, on a PC with downloader pro. I give them the same file naming structure that I do photos; My name_YYMMDD_file number from camera_CO (for "camera original") this way I can detect originals from converted variations of a video file. The meta data does not stick to the original movie files, but it saves it to the side car files.

I have used a Sony still camera that shoots .mpg movie files, & now a Panasonic that I can choose either the MTS format or .mov, I use .mov as it is more compatible.

the .mpg movie files created .thm files that had the information. The .mov movie files from my Panasonic still camera saves a little jpg file alongside each movie file & I think the metadata gets stored in those.

when I have say some photos & movies from 10-02-2010, I will make a folder for this content, & subfolders, movies, for the video files, & photos for all the photographs.

ex; a photo shot on 10-2-2010; Sossity_101002_1250_CO.jpg

a video file shot on 10-2-2010; Sossity_101002_1251_CO.mov, the thumb or sidecar file would get the same name; Sossity_101002_1251_CO.thm

1250 & 1251 would be the individual file number the camera assigns, & helps to identify individual photos & video files.

the way I can preserve the video files is to make sure they have the _CO at the end of them like for my .jpegs, to prevent overwrites.

hope this helps, this is the best way I have tried to manage these files for now, I wish there was something for video as well.

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I have recently bought a mac laptop, and I have been using Downloader Pro for a while on a PC, & it has worked well for me so far unfortuneately it is PC only, I have looked at imageingester pro, but it seems a little complicated, I watched Peter's demo of it.

Right now, I do not have specific clients, I mostly just take photos for myself, for recreation, & for art reference, & manage some of the content or photos & video content my family shoots. I may get clients later on if I go into photography as a pro, but not just now. Although, I would like the software to be able to grow with me if I do get into photography more. Another thing, when I download my photos, & video files, I like to be able to view the content on my memory cards, & download content based on what keywords I would give to certain photo & video files. This way, if I had more photos with those keywords, they would already be filled out.

My workflow so far has been;

1. Import content of camera card

2. view the content, & create folders on my external hard drive for them to be downloaded to; for example, I would see that my memory card has photos from 10-9-2010 of a day at the harbor, so I would select these & set downloader pro in file>preferences to download them to this directory on my external hard drive; H\Raw_055\2010_10_09_Harbor days. Under downloader pros preferences.

3. In file> preferences, I would assign the file name structure, my name_YYMMDD_filename_CO

4. Then I would go edit> to the IPTC/XMP data area & fill in some basic metadata, for caption;  author, copyright, then some keywords, a category, then origin; location,city,state & country.

5. After I am satisfied with the info I typed in, I would have downloader pro download those selected images from 10-9-2010 to my external hard drive; H\Raw_055\2010_10_09_Harbor days.

6. I would then close up downloader pro, open these images in expression media & rotate any images that were not done automatically in downloader pro, & give ratings to the images, & correct any of the meta data I entered previously.


7. After a Raw "bucket" or in this case after Raw_055 reaches about the 4.30 GB size, I start a new one; Raw_056 & back up Raw_055 to a blank DVD.

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I recently got a new camera, among its options is to reset or not reset the picture file numbers, do I leave it to yes or no? should I just leave it alone & let the camera figure out the numbers?

Happy New Year, everyone.

I am in the process of ripping my Cds to .Flac & .mp3 formats. I know this DAM stuff is mainly for photography, but if anyone could give some input it would be nice, & save me alot of time, as I am ripping hundreds of CD's, & I do not want to have to keep going over info from them.

In the DAM Book, it states file names, should only contain dashes & underscores, & extensions should only be 3 letters long. Does all this really apply to individual song file names ripped from an album? or is it mostly for image files? I am finding it hard to apply, there is the usual punctuation; like commas, accent marks, periods & various brackets symbols; ie; [ ] & ( ).

In addition the 3 letter extension rule, it does not really seem to work either for one of the formats I am ripping in; .flac which stands for a non lossy format for audio files; Free Lossless Audio Codec. It seems to rip & show in windows with 4 letters.

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I think the link for the program that rod provided may have worked, I loaded the photos & changed the timestamps on them. I then reloaded them from my drive in itunes & they appeared in order. I think itunes arranges photos on download order, I synced the logo first & then my photos & this seemed to work.

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I am trying to get photos on my ipod touch to sort in the order I want & I read that they get arranged by the time stamps, a lot of the images I am working with are not original photos but derivatives, that were either scanned, or altered photographs. I discovered that expression media only adjusts timestamps creation dates for camera originals/photos taken directly with a camera.

does anyone know of software (preferably free) or a way that I can set the timestamps for these derivatives?

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I may be getting a mac later this year, & will probably be getting parallels to run windows for some of my windows only programs. Among these windows only programs that I have really come to like is Downloader Pro, I thought about it, & I could run this program under parallels, or boot camp, but I realized that I often input the copyright symbol onto my images in the IPTC data fields before downloading, &  I did this with my windows keyboard. I don't know if I will be able to input the copyright symbol on this program running through windows on a mac, I have learned the keyboard is different on a mac.

I looked online about mac versions of Downloader pro & someone posted in another frum that image ingester pro could be set up like downloader pro, can this be done? & how? I have sampled image ingester pro & found it a bit confusing & complicated, so I discovered downloader pro & like its straight forward interface.

I like to do as much of my DAM & meta data to my images in one shot of which downloader pro had; rename, keywords, copyright, author, origin; country, country code etc; state. location, category & so on. The only things I had to go to expression media for was; rotating my .jpgs & rating them. I like to use as few programs as possible to get my DAM work done.

does anyone know of other programs that are cross platform, under $100.00 & allow me to do most if not all of my DAM & metadata upon my 1st download?

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has anyone heard of shutterstock? I found a section where one submits their photos: http://submit.shutterstock.com/ where one is paid .25 everytime one of their photos is downloaded. Is this a good deal? would someone please look at the submit part/click the link I provided & tell me if it is worth trying or is it a scam? would I be able to use the photos I submit here to other places online? do I lose my copyrights? I have not registered my photos, I just put a little copyright watermark on them. Are there better places to go with my photos? to start? I have taken a few good photos around my town of the beaches & sunsets, & I need some income, but I am here asking for some guidance, as I know there are some experienced professional photographers on this forum.

looking to make income from my arts & photos,

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What about when someone like a family member takes a photo of me next to my artwork, & I want a watermark before I place the photo online, is the copyright still theirs even if my artwork is in the photo?

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