New free ImageIngester Mac application

[Marc Rochkind]

I've recently completed a new Mac application, ImageIngester, designed to import images with maximum safety: It makes two copies, one a backup on a different drive. It can automatically convert raws to DNGs if you like, and it can rename files according to your specifications, which can conform to DAM-Book recommendations. If you import JPEGs, it automatically verifies them by reading and decompressing to ensure that there are no errors. After optionally running DNG Converter, it resets the modification time of the DNG to match that of the original image file.

ImageIngester is for import only--it never alters any images or tampers with any metadata.

I like the idea of keeping the original raw on the backup device, while automatically creating DNGs for me to use as working copies. However, if you want raws as working copies, converting to DNGs later or never, you can use ImageIngester that way as well.

To read more and download (free; Mac OS X only): http://basepath.com/ImageIngester/

Enjoy!

Marc Rochkind

[David Arnold]

Sounds good...except for those of us who run Windows. Any possibility of a Windows version?

Thanks, Marc.

David

[Marc Rochkind]

Yes, I am planning a Windows version. I wrote the main engine of ImageIngester in standard C, with "standard" (Single UNIX Specification) OS calls, so it's just a matter of adapting the engine for Windows and writing a new GUI to wrap it. I hope to get to that over the next couple of months.

--Marc

[peterkrogh]

Marc,
This looks very cool.  Wish I had a team of testers to try stuff like this out and give recommendations...Wait... I might know where I can find some volunteers... ;-)

I'd love to know what people think of this.

Peter

[Marc Rochkind]

Thanks for the encouraging words, Peter.

I don't have your book (won't until Tuesday), but I've read the first 3 chapters on various websites, and from that I got your recommended naming scheme. (Chap. 3, I think it was.)

Somewhere I saw that you ran DNG Converter early not to convert, but just to verify. I am thinking of an ImageIngester option to run DNG Converter on all raws, but just for verification (analogous to what I do internally for JPEGs). The images moved to the primary working folder would still be original raws. Does this sound like a useful option?

--Marc

[peterkrogh]

Marc,
That would be a helpful function.
Peter

[Marc Rochkind]

Peter--

Sorry if I started this thread in the wrong section!

I misread "Import from Camera" as a generic topic, rather than the name of the Bridge script.

Should it have gone into "Choosing Software/Other DAM Applications?"

--Marc

[peterkrogh]

Marc,
There's enough overlap to put it here. 
Peter