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[ScottBuckel]

I was fortunate enough to take an one month trip to photograph in a trip that included South Georgia, Falklands, and Antarctica this last February.  I shot over 5000 frames and even more memories.  This made me realize that my workflow is not adequate.

I saw one person use a program that allowed him to write files to his hard drive in his lap top and to an external HD as well.  He also at the same time.  He also wrote some copywrite info, caption info and keywords at he same time (atleast that is what I think he did - he was running Windows XP).  I think the program was something like Downloader (was it Downloader Pro from Breeze?), but I am not sure if that is true. 

From readiing Peter's book I have a desire.  While traveling (I shoot wildlife) I need (well like to) to rename like Peter does - something like:  Buckel_YYMMDD_frame#.nef to both the HD on my laptop as well as an external drive.  To top that off, what about adding copywrite information and possibly keywords like locality (or something that would be easy to template).  It seems to me that this would be a first step in my workflow.  Does this sound reasonble?

I use a Windows XP laptop and desktop.

Thanks for your help,

Scott

[johnbeardy]

Downloader Pro from http://www.breezesys.com/ is quite possibly the program you saw. Its file renaming system is amongst the best around, ahead of anything in Adobe or iView. You can search and replace, slice and dice (ie chars 5-9), as well as more conventional things like adding a prefixx, suffix or sequential number. I'd recommend you get the bundle with Breezebrowser Pro. The can also write IPTC metadata into Canon and Nikon raw files - whether you want to do this is up to you!

Another program to try out is PhotoMechanic from www.camerabits.com. Like the Breeze products, it's much faster than Bridge.

John

[Marc Rochkind]

Scott--

My ImageIngester app can rename files on ingestion according to Peter's scheme, and add metadata template info as well. It can also run DNG Converter, if only to verify raws, create temporary backups, and more.

There's a separate section here on ImageIngester in the Software Discussion category.

Details are at http://basepath.com/ImageIngester/.

--Marc
(I'm in Boulder!)

[ScottBuckel]

Marc - maybe some time we should talk.  Can your program also write to multiple drives at the same time?

Thanks,

Scott

[Marc Rochkind]

Scott--

Indeed. During ingestion, ImageIngester makes a backup on another device (if you've chosen another device for it). That's just for emergencies, however--it's assumed that there is a more complete backup that will back up the primary images later.

One purpose of ImageIngester's backup is to save original raw files if the optional conversion to DNG is in effect. There's also an option in the new Mac beta to exercise the capability of Adobe DNG Converter to embed the raw in the DNG. (In the DAM workflow, however, conversion to DNG occurs later, not during ingestion.)

--Marc

[ScottBuckel]

Marc - I would just like to make a backup while I am traveling for just a little more security.  I'll look at your program in the near future.

Thanks for the information,

Scott