how do I divide catalogues and buckets?

[Oliver]

I intitially thought I was going to circumvent issues with catalogue size by starting a new catalogue every year.  However, I have maxed my 2007 catalogue already using large built in previews.  So now I thought I could further separate catalogues by job type.  (i.e. I'll have a 2007 Portrait Catalogue, 2007 Corporate, 2007 Stock, 2007 Weddings)  However, this creates problem if I want to keep one bucket for DRVs.  As I create DRV's I dump them into that sequential bucket and then go into IVMP to update the folder and it, of course, finds images that live in the other catalogues as well.  Is it DAM smart to create separate DRV buckets for each catalogue?

I know in the book Peter has a DRV catalogue that holds all of those images, but I haven't found that that works well for me and the way I have to go back and find images for clients.

Any thoughts on how to streamline this?  Should I try on creating large previews for higher rated images?

Oliver

[peterkrogh]

Oliver,
How many images in the catalog?  I've got 60,000 in my biggest one.  You can save a lot of space by building previews at a lower quality, even if you keep them large.
Peter