PS: I work on a Mac

Hi,

I have a good workflow for Canon .CR2 in operation since 8 years now, it is stable.

Basically I organize my files in a folder structure and assign keywords with bridge. Keywords are assigned in Bridge, since I can just pick from a predefined list, which is quick and prevents typo errors.

Now I also shoot with phaseone. How can I assign Keywords here (I mean not typing them, but assigning them from a structured list)? Bridge is (I think) not the tool of choice, since I can't get the Information from the .xmp back to Capture One (which is my raw converter & partly organization tool). In Capture One I do not have predefined structured lists so I have to type every single keyword :-(

DNG does not make sense with Phase One I think, since Capture One is pretty bound to the original iiq raw format.

Is there anybody out there with a good .iiq workflow including keywords. There are other issues with an .iiq workflow (file organization) but let's keep it to the keyword issue for the moment.

Regards, Wolf

Hard to say if it's worth it. System changes are always tiresome, so never change a winning system.

If you want to change you should make sure to have 2 bootable systems: the old one and the new one (if that is hard for you, make sure that the old system in it's exact configuration is on your Backup)

Then make sure to test if all the drivers work on the new system (esp. Printer).
Also test your workflow

There is a nasty bug in Lion: You can transfer your account from the old machine to the new one with migration assistant. I did that via Time Machine. The bug is, that by transfering the account from a 10.6 TMbackup to a 10.7 (Lion) system with migration assistant the privileges get corrupted (which is a loss of data!). Bridge was a total mess because of this bug. My whole System was messed up and I had to set up the system from scratch! If you transfer accounts via Network or target boot mode there is no problem.

My recomondation: Wait with the Upgrade to 10.7 until you buy a new machine. Then you have the old machine as a fallback for the first month, then sell it.

Even though Lion is good. It is especially strong on Computers with small screen space (eg Laptops).

Regards, Wolf

wow, thanks!

Hi,

after I have the jpegs ready for my customer I would like to strip all metadata but the following
.) Color Profile
.) Copyright Notice
The reason: Normally there is no reason to transfer the serial number of your camera, the camera type, the lens used, the aperture used etc. to the rest of the world

Right now, I strip all the data with a command like
exiftool -overwrite_original -all='' my.jpg
which works fine. Everything but the picture is gone. Then I reassign the profile and the copyright data. I am sure there is a better way and to leave these two things in the file in the first place.

Regards Wolf

Thanks, that basically does the trick.

Wolf

Hi,

the following problem: My Harddisc is full of dng files, all neatly organised in their folders. But until 2 month I generated a lot of the DNGs with a medium size jpeg embedded. That was due to a false setting which I did not realise for quite a while.

Now I would like to update the embedded jpegs to maximum size according to the ACR parameters. The only way to do this, that I am aware of, is within ACR: Open some of the dngs in question, "Update DNG Previews", do it with the next few files. But this is a next to impossible task: 20.000 files in more than 200 folders are concerned. Is there a better way to achieve this?

Is there an easy way to sense the size of the embedded jpeg (say from the shell or a script), so at least I know which files have the wrong jpeg embedded.

Regards, Wolf

Hi,

there is another issue which bugs when looking at pictures in Bridge. I set the option for thumbnail quality and preview generation to:
Always High Quality and Generate 100% Previews
I shoot in raw using DNG

When I look at the pictures in full screen mode (hitting blank or cmd-L) all I get to see is a picture which differs notably to what I see in ACR. The previewed picture seems to be jpeg in not very good quality, therefore not as sharp as the ACR/PS version. Bridge only displays a low quality jpeg and you get to see a lot of compression artifacts. For this reason I am not able to tell the sharpness of the shot in Bridge which makes it next to unusable! I need to see the sharpness, otherwise I can't do the rating.

Is there a way to get a full screen display in Bridge with close to perfect quliaty (like jpeg 10)? Looking at the pictures in Expression Media Light Table would be a work around. But this is far to slow for the rating process.

The configuration I use:
Mac OS 10.5; CS4; Expression Media SVCP 2

Regards