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   Registered Member #1 Joined: Wed Feb 07 2007, 07:06PMLocation: Mason, Ohio, USA Posts: 92 | Folks, The next component of Photo Parata I am going to be focusing on improving is the ingestion process. People keep making wonderful suggestions on how to to improve it, such as adding something to the existing name rather then changing it all together. I would like to hear from you on how you want to rename your files. Sam | ||
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| Mike E |
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 Registered Member #156 Joined: Sat Mar 15 2008, 08:23AMLocation: NJ Posts: 1 | I'd like to be able to add text to start of an existing file name while ingesting. Right now I add a prefix that has the event name through a renaming program. Keeping the original name allows to be backup the cards to another computer or portable drive with CF at the event and have a reference to the ones customers are seeing. I'd also like to be able to sort by time when ingesting and renaming for the times I roll the camera over 9999. | ||
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| UIP1 |
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 Registered Member #157 Joined: Mon Mar 17 2008, 03:00AMLocation: UK Posts: 11 | I'd like to be able to prefix the incoming files and have parata set the numbers (5 digits), so that when I have multiple photographers there is no chance of duplicate numbers if 2 bodies end up on the same number. At the last event I attended using a different solution I had 4 photographers shooting for 4 days with up to 6 bodies, and I had duplicate number mayhem As important is that the thumbnail only displays the last 5 digits (the unique number). I would also want the import to be to two places a reduced res (not size) folder so I have a single place to find the files. As many of the customers call out the file number from the screen - or just point - can I have that one. I'm reluctant to use the cart option as I think it will slow the progress down and potentially tie up the screens for 2 long UIP | ||
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| Sam |
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| Registered Member #1 Joined: Wed Feb 07 2007, 07:06PMLocation: Mason, Ohio, USA Posts: 92 | UIP1 wrote ... I'd like to be able to prefix the incoming files and have parata set the numbers (5 digits), so that when I have multiple photographers there is no chance of duplicate numbers if 2 bodies end up on the same number. At the last event I attended using a different solution I had 4 photographers shooting for 4 days with up to 6 bodies, and I had duplicate number mayhem So if I understand you correctly, you always want to prefix the filename with one name and then a sequence number that is padded with zeros to make it 5 digits long, correct? Example: [Photographer 1] DCS_4123 --> IMG_00001 DCS_4124 --> IMG_00002 ... DCS_4366 --> IMG_00242 [Photographer 2] DCS_7314 --> IMG_00243 [Photographer 1 -- many frames later ] DCS_0032 --> IMG_10324 DCS_0033 --> IMG_10325 I have great new, that is EXACTLY how Photo Parata works right now! It is defaulted to 3 digits padding but can be changed from 2 digits to 6 digits. Right now each Image Gallery always starts at 1, but a request has been made to sequence number event wide. In other words if the last image in one Image Gallery is IMG_10325, the first image in the next Image Gallery you ingest to will be IMG_10326. UIP1 wrote ... As important is that the thumbnail only displays the last 5 digits (the unique number). I would also want the import to be to two places a reduced res (not size) folder so I have a single place to find the files. As many of the customers call out the file number from the screen - or just point - can I have that one. I'm reluctant to use the cart option as I think it will slow the progress down and potentially tie up the screens for 2 long. So you do NOT want to display the prefix, only the number, and then have a quick and easy way to find the image by number. Sam [ Edited Mon Apr 28 2008, 04:40AM ] | ||
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| UIP1 |
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| Registered Member #157 Joined: Mon Mar 17 2008, 03:00AMLocation: UK Posts: 11 | Spot no - the event will start with a show code prefix of say 818041, and that will be fixed for all downloads, a variable prefix will then be added to identify photographer and or class / age group/ match or whatever, then the unique number, which would start at 00001 and increment with evenry download. So download 2 would pick up where doenload 1 left of no matter what folder it was. And your right I don't want the prefix displayed, just the final unique number UIP | ||
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| luketrot |
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| Registered Member #140 Joined: Tue Jan 22 2008, 12:08PMLocation: Maine Posts: 10 | This was going to be my suggestion as well. However for the naming scheme how about this.. Photographer A IN5L5001 - 12345A IN5L5002 - 12346A IN5L5003 - 12347A Photographer B DCS_0032 - 12348B DCS_0032 - 12349B If possible have the filename on the kiosk not display the photographer's identifier. It would be nice to import via folders created in the camera. For example we may have someone shooting gymnastics covering two floors at once. Often we use multiple folders within the memory card to keep the images separated. Folder 1 --> Beams Folder 2 --> Vault Folder 3 --> Floor Folder 4 --> Bars Moving on.. Often we have 3-4 photographers covering the same team and we need to import 3-4 cards at once into the same folder. This can be done with 3rd party software however with Photo Parata we need to import each card at a time which takes way too long. It would be great to be able to choose 4 card readers and have the readers import at the same time. | ||
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| UIP1 |
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| Registered Member #157 Joined: Mon Mar 17 2008, 03:00AMLocation: UK Posts: 11 | MULTIPLE card readers - now that would be cool, esp if the downloading gets backed up. Which can happen as I just have ONE poor s*d doing everything - downloading, printing, serving, smoozing, making tea etc [ Edited Tue Apr 29 2008, 10:02AM ] UIP | ||
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| Jaycee |
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| Registered Member #329 Joined: Sun Apr 12 2009, 10:41AMPosts: 5 | Having used this for a few months now I can see this is one of the things I'd ask for before many others. I could minimize cost with less shooters if the few shooters you have were able to shoot into folders (which our cameras are able to do) and shoot multiple things. If Photo parata allowed you to ingest from one of those specific folders instead only being able to only ingest from the my life would be much less stressful. I gotta believe this something Sam will be able to figure out. | ||
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| immfotos |
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 Registered Member #441 Joined: Mon Dec 21 2009, 10:07AMLocation: Sioux Falls, SD Posts: 4 | Being able to ingest from numbered folders on a CF card, into matching prefixed numbered folders in Photo Parata, w/o having to manually select folders would be fantastic! For example: Card Folder 106 >>>>> ingest to >>>>>>>>>> 106-Youth Level3 soccer Card Folder 107 >>>>> ingest to >>>>>>>>>> 107-Junior Level2 soccer Pop a CF card full of numbered folders in the reader and click on "Ingest", then Photo Parata would match folder numbers to prefixed numbers in the root folder and ingest the images. Wow....that would streamline our on site workflow! Brad immfotos.com | ||
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