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1. Once all the folders for the shoot are listed in the table examine the starting and stopping date times for each folder to see if they re correct or at least correct enough so that the images files will sort into the right sequence Note that these are the date times for the image files in the folder not the date time of the folder itself which is irrelevant How close the date times have to be is up to you For a wedding you ll want the times to be very accurate because some events such as cutting the cake may be heavily photographed and need to be in sequence If you re personally handling the cameras probably accuracy to within 10 seconds or a bit more is OK since that s about how long it would take you to switch cameras and frame the shot It s important to be able to tell which folders go with which cameras If you re using number range folders with file name numbers and the numbers used by the cameras are sufficiently spread out then that s all you ll need Otherwise it s better to incorporate the camera name or some other identifier into the folder name For example when you ingest choose a distinct card name for each camera and incorporate it into the folder name like this card name numberrange Note that for number range folders the numberrange macro must always be last In my example I knew that the folder 0000 0360 was the Nikon and the folder 0350 0363 was the Casio The 0000 came from an extra ingest
2. Volumes External Backup ImageingesterBackup i Path to folder that is the root for backup after DNG Conversion if any Best Post Conversion Backup Root s ona different drive irom he primary image folder _ Create Backup The pre conversion backup also allows you to save the original raws e g NEFs if you re converting to DNG Alternatively you can embed the original raw in the DNG see page 25 It also contains everything else that s ingested such as JPGs The post conversion backup allows you to back up converted raws as well as non raws If you re not converting the two backups are identical If you re only going to have one backup it s required to be the pre conversion backup but that s the better one anyway since it s taken directly from the card If you re converting to DNG you re required to at least have a pre conversion backup since that s from where Adobe DNG Converter takes its input The post conversion backup is always optional The folder arrangement descending from the backup folders is identical to that of the primary folder and all file names are the same too Remember that ImageIngester s backups contain only ingested images not any subsequent work you do after ingestion AM Tip The pre conversion backup is usually enough since your regular backup will back up the primary folder eventually anyway Add a FireWire hard drive to your system and put the backup there so that you ll still ha
3. Auto Number Prefix YYMMDD 3456 Auto Number Number Hanga Folders Prefix YYYYMM 3456 Auto Number Prefix YYMM 3456 Auto Number Prefix _YYYYMMDD_23456 Auto Number C Auto Numbers Prefix YYMMDD 23456 Auto Number Filename Numbers Prefix YYYYMM 23456 Auto Number D Show Macros E E Prefix YYMM 23456 Auto Number Prefix_YYYYMMDD_123456 Auto Number J Partition Prefix YYMMDD 123456 Auto Number Size 300 Prefix YYYYMM 123456 Auto Number Prefix YYMM 123456 Auto Number Prefix YYYYMMDD hhmmss 0001 Filename Number Prefix YYYYMMDD hhmmss 3456 Auto Number Prefix YYYYMMDD hhmmss 23456 Auto Number F editing text Prefix YYYYMMDD hhmmss 123456 Auto Number Original Filename a PIECE eem em Skee Maren emer el Using the Image Naming Drop Down The drop down menu for the Image File Name has 20 or so choices for some common naming options If none of those are quite right you can design your own naming by using macros which will be explained shortly The first choice Prefix YYYYMMDD 0001 means that image file names will consist of 1 the prefix you ve typed into the field to the right of the drop down MJR in this case followed by 2 an underscore followed by 3 the modification date of the image file in the form YYYYMMDD e g 20061229 followed by 4 another underscore followed by 5 the filename number which is the last four digits
4. Prefix_YYYYMMDD_3456 and for the sequence macro which that choice uses More on macros on page 49 The maximum Auto Number is 999999 and then it wraps back to zero However if you use fewer than 6 digits wrapping will occur earlier For example if you use just 4 digits as in the drop down choice Prefix_YYYYMMDD_3456 then wrapping will occur when you ve reached 9999 since the next number is 10000 whose rightmost 4 digits are 0000 The Starting Number is incremented by the number of images ingested even if Auto Numbers aren t used in file or folder naming Name Conflicts ImagelIngester never overwrites an existing file If after renaming a file with that name already exists a sequence number e g _001 is appended to the file name to make it unique This sequence number is unrelated to the Auto Number Arranging Images Into Folders Recall from page 12 that the folder that images are ingested into is determined by the Primary Root Folder which contains the Destination Folder which contains the folder arrangement Folder arrangement means the scheme you ve chosen to distribute your images into folders according to date or client project or number range folders or whatever you want You make your choice on the Preferences Naming panel One way to think about the Primary Root Folder versus the folder arrangement is that the Primary Root Folder determines where the images go and the folder arrangement determin
5. lists of catalog sets and keywords However you re not restricted to using only the QG keywords macro in the Photoshop File Info XMP Description panel s Keywords field as shown in the picture It uses the Project as a keyword in addition to any keywords checked in the dialog see next section 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 34 Similarly on the Photoshop File Info XMP iView MediaPro panel you can code the Catalog Sets field like this catalogsets client name project name This would use a 2 level hierarchy of Client and Project as a catalog set in addition to the catalog sets checked in the dialog see next section The ISO Country Code field on the Bridge Photoshop IPTC Image panel isn t large enough to contain the corresponding IPTCimage countrycode macro so you ll have to enter that yourself by editing the metadata template It s already coded in the ImageIngester xmp template however and you can open ImageIngester xmp in a text editor to see how to code it See page 57 for information on where to find it On Windows don t forget that special characters need to be escaped as explained on page 29 Establishing Adobe Camera Raw Settings Once you ve saved one or more Camera Raw settings in Adobe Camera Raw you can choose the settings you want from a drop down on IIP s main window If you ve also chosen a metadata template the Camera
6. Krogh www thedambook com Used with permission Imagelngester ImagelIngester can save the original raw files as DNGs but it can t do the other things in the Adobe Bridge box which is why the arc cuts through that box The next section provides more details on what ImageIngester can do and how the DAM workflow in the book needs to be modified ImageIngester and the Editing Workflow Chap 6 The Editing Workflow of The DAM Book starts with his suggested work order means that IIP can do the step Ingest to computer In the field save the card s images to a digital wallet Back up Build cache in Bridge Verify files he does it visually in Bridge Erase cards Sort images if from multiple cards Rename files Apply copyright and bulk metadata 10 Rate images with stars 11 Adjust in Camera Raw 12 Apply keywords etc 13 Create DNGs es OVUT oe 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 46 14 Back up DNGs 15 Save original raw files if desired 16 Catalog images he uses iView Media Pro and so do I ImageIngester can do the steps marked with a automatically but obviously it doesn t do them all The problem is that relative to Krogh s workflow the steps ImagelIngester does are intermixed with the ones it doesn t so it s not obvious how you can use ImageIngester and then pick up from there To maximi
7. MJR EXIF Macro EXIF datetime yyyymmdd HHMMSS Useful Examples Filename lst 4 characters ABCD Filename last 4 characters 0001 Date YYYYMMDD Year 4 digit YYYY Year 2 digit YY Month MM Day DD Time hhmmss Hour hh Minute mm Second ss Sequence 2 digit 56 Sequence 3 digit 456 Sequence 4 digit 3456 Sequence 5 digit 23456 Example File Names MJR YYYYMMDD 0001 MJR YYYYMMDD hhmmss 0001 MJR YYYYMMDDhhmmss 0001 MJR YYYY MM DD hh mm ss 0001 MJR YYYYMMDD 3456 YYYYMMDD 23456 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 55 Database IIP keeps its table data e g cards ingestions IPTCstatus in an SQLite3 database You can access the data directly with a copy of an open source application called SQLite Database Browser or with SQLite3 itself both of which you can download for free It s risky to change any data unless you know exactly what you re doing since inconsistent data can mess up IIP But there s never a problem if all you want to do is read or export data II doesn t use a database The location of the database on various platforms is given on page 57 Accessing the Database with SQLite Database Browser The easiest way to access the database directly is with the SQLite Database Browser available for OS X and Windows and other platforms on which IIP doesn t run which can be downloaded from sourceforge net projects sglitebrowser After you download and install the Brows
8. Raw settings will be placed inside the resulting XMP sidecar by IIP If you re converting to DNG also DNG Converter will incorporate the Camera Raw settings along with the rest of the template s metadata into the DNG What s more DNG Converter will use the Camera Raw settings when creating its JPEG Preview If you re not converting to DNG the settings in the sidecar are still effective and they re applied by Bridge when it builds its cache and by Camera Raw Camera Raw settings are honored by Lightroom but IIP doesn t yet have the ability to place Lightroom Develop settings on IIP s main window drop down If you made a Camera Raw settings choice from the menu in IIP but not a metadata template a sidecar containing only the Camera Raw settings will be synthesized To begin you save the settings in Camera Raw e Save Raw Conversion Settings Save As Flash Elks Lodge xmp fv Where Settings H Cancel E You must save to the Settings folder which is the default location ImageIngesterPro won t look anywhere else for them You choose the settings from the ImageIngesterPro main window Choose Refresh if the settings don t appear Metadata Template Camera Raw Settings Destination Copyright Basic a Flash Elks Lodge eJ primary root 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 35 When you view the images in Bridge you ll see your Camera Raw settings in the
9. Y Annual Reports Accorn Oaks Corp Saturn Industries Y Vacation 2006 Arizona 2005 Maine Y Keywords CJ EXE EU D70 Landscape New York x s IPTCcontat Marc Rochkind E IPTCcontent Content 0001 IPTCimage Image 0001 IPTCstatus Std UserData UserData 0001 Press Return after entering text Job Subject Beachfront Location Boulder Quick Field 4 gagag Beas S Quick Field 5 The checked items apply to all images ingested until they re changed It isn t possible to vary the settings per image Catalog Sets and Keywords and which are checked are part of a Preference Set The items you check become the values for the catalogsets and keywords macros To make them effective you have to enter those macros in the appropriate places in your dynamic metadata template page 32 or use the supplied template ImageIngester There isn t any way to import Catalog Sets and or Keywords from iView MediaPro or other applications The Metadata panel is opened automatically if you left it opened when you last quit ImagelIngesterPro and its position is remembered so you can arrange in on the screen as you like for convenient access and it should stay put Quick Fields You can certainly enter data that varies frequently such as location into the IPTCimage table s location field and that makes sense for locations that you use often But if there s no need to keep the location in the database
10. back in the camera and format it so it s ready for more shooting I put in keywords assign images to catalog sets and do other maintenance in iView as I get around to it Even if I never do the images are accessible by date both logically in iView and physically because of where ImageIngester put them so I can easily find what I m looking for When I do go to Photoshop to work on a DNG or JPEG from the Casio image I save it as a PSD file in the same dated directory that the original was in where iView shortly discovers it If I want a JPEG from Photoshop I save that there too as a copy I print directly from Photoshop so I don t normally bother saving a JPEG unless I need to put it on a web site or email it to someone I never overwrite the JPEG that came from the camera I rarely use Bridge because iView give me a view of my images and because I use Photoshop as my gateway to Camera Raw When Lightroom is released I ll probably very rarely use Photoshop since I can print directly from Lightroom which Camera Raw can t do I don t know yet whether Lightroom will replace my use of iView Media Pro I should emphasize that this Simplified Workflow works for me only because I have very few images With more volume it becomes too inefficient and you have move towards Krogh s DAM Workflow previous section ImageIngester and Lightroom ImageIngester works fine with Lightroom whether DNGs are generated to bind metadata and Cam
11. but by Adobe DNG Converter running as a separate task It s a free download from Adobe 2 Images can t be viewed in ImageIngester because there are too many types of image files to deal with and because viewing delays ingestion which prolongs the time until the card is backed up No editing printing or cataloging either 3 Given the constraints of 1 and 2 ImageIngester should handle as much of the workflow as possible Here s the whole list of everything IIP can do with one press of the Start button or no press if auto ingestion is enabled Copying images page 11 from the camera or card to the hard drive Automatic ingestion page 14 and ejection of cards Backing up images page 14 so there s a second or even third copy ideally on a separate device such as a FireWire drive Renaming images page 16 to something more descriptive than say DSC 0123 NEF Perhaps something like MJR 20061204 173802 0123 NEF my initials date time and original file sequence number e Arranging images into folders page 19 set up however you like Perhaps something like 2006 12 04 or 2006 2006 12 04 or Commercial Muriel s Wedding 01234 01399 Converting images to DNG page 25 which is Adobe s universal raw format You can choose most of the DNG options such as full size JPEG preview and embedding the original raw I like to convert during ingestion others like to wait until they ve done some adjusting in Adobe Ca
12. choose the records for a specific ingestion Since your choices are kept in the Preference set you ll probably also want to organize your Preference sets so that choosing a Preference set automatically also chooses the appropriate IPTC records For metadata that varies with the ingestion such as location and subject use the Quick Fields on the Metadata panel Also use that panel to set the Catalog Sets and Keywords for each ingestion You can t use IIP to set metadata that varies with the image e g rating because you can t preview the images in IIP and because the metadata you enter applies to the entire ingestion With II there s only one place to enter metadata Into the static metadata template Filtering By Image Type By default ImageIngesterPro and ImageIngester ingests every file it finds in the tree of folders below the Card Folder However you can specify a list of file extensions to include and all other files are skipped Or you can specify extensions to exclude and those are skipped all others being ingested Separate the extensions upper or lower case by a space For example a DO Imagelngester Preferences Production Preference Set Production 1 Folders Apps Naming Ingestion Data Automation Auto Ingest IV Auto Eject Extensions Include JPG DNG NEF TIF GIF PNG PSD ay f Include Exclude JPG DNG NEF TIF GIF PNG PSD Press Return after editing tex
13. hursday September 14 200 Part of the spelled out date is cut off because I had characters enlarged in my browser and the web site s coding couldn t handle it properly But the time is accurate 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 40 Step 2 Ingest All Cards The next step is to ingest all the cards for the shoot from all cameras any way you want to Step 3 Open the Multi Camera Shoot Panel and Choose Folders Next you choose Multi Camera on the Tools menu to open the Multi Camera Shoot panel You can leave it up if you want while you operate other parts of the IIP interface In particular you ll often want to adjust the Preferences just before you re ingest Most often you ll probably press the Choose button to choose the folders that contain the images comprising the shoot Choose all the relevant folders at once on a Mac holding down the Shift and or Command keys to make multiple selections All the folders must have the same parent folder If you choose incorrectly just press Choose and do it again If you ve put all the folders for the shoot in the same parent folder which makes a lot of sense then you just select all the folders in that parent folder Choosing folders normally takes just a few seconds so I didn t bother to implement ways to choose a few at a time or to remove individual chosen folders from the list Step 4 Check Date Times
14. import the data into another program If that s the case open the CSV file in a text editor and fix the quotes If you use the SQLite Database Browser as explained in the previous section the CSV file is OK and won t require fixing The file csv file should look something like this first few lines shown 1 1 1 1 9 2006 07 14 12 34 18 SUCCESS 1 1 1 9 2006 07 14 12 34 39 SUCCESS 1 0 0 0 2006 07 14 12 48 23 Ingestion stopped 1 1 3219 9 2006 07 14 12 48 43 SUCCESS 1 876 884 9 2006 07 14 12 49 16 SUCCESS You can open the file in Excel or in many other applications Accessing the Database with ODBC If you can locate an ODBC open database connectivity SQLite3 driver for your system you can access the database directly from within many applications including Excel Try Googling sqlite odbc driver You might start with www ch werner de sqliteodbc I haven t tried any SQLite3 ODBC drivers so I can t provide support Locating Preferences Databases and Templates This section documents where Preferences and Templates are normally located Note that Adobe software such as Photoshop and Bridge have the ability to locate templates and Camera Raw settings in various folders that you can select but IIP looks only in the default location as indicated in the table The notation user in a path is a placeholder for your user name For II substitute ImageIngester for ImageIngesterPro On Win
15. in the left pane and even paste in a metadata template you ve prepared You ll have to copy it from a text editor as the Macro Lab can t open files for itself Press the Show All button to get the initial comprehensive macro list back into the left pane The following are Macro Lab Show All example macros on the left with their replacement text on the right card card name card name card inservice_dt card inservice_dt card description card description client client name client name client created_dt client created_dt client description client description ingestion ingestion ingestion_sk ingestion ingestion_sk ingestion ingested_dt ingestion ingested_dt ingestion notes ingestion notes project project name project name project created_dt project created_dt project description project description project checklist project checklist IPTCcontact IPTCcontact creator IPTCcontact creator IPTCcontact title IPTCcontact title IPTCcontact address IPTCcontact address 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved card card name D200 002 SanDisk 2GB card inservice dt 2006 10 22 08 55 02 card description client client name Client 001 client created dt 2006 07 12 15 27 43 client description ingestion ingestion ingestion sk 504 ingestion ingested dt 2007 01 01 16 28 28 ingestion notes project project name Project 001 project created dt 2006 07 12
16. straight to the choose folder dialog X Tip Usually you ll want to set the card folder to user choice It s fairly rare to want to ingest from the same fixed folder all the time Choosing the Primary Root and Destination Folders Choosing the primary folder is complicated because it involves an interaction between The Primary Root Folder chosen on the Preferences Folders panel The Destination Folder chosen on the main window and e The folder arrangement chosen on the Preferences Naming panel These three form a hierarchy The Primary Root Folder is at the top level the Destination Folder is under it and the folder arrangement is under the Destination Folder For some examples see the pictures starting on page 20 Normally you ll set the Primary Root Folder to the top level folder where you want all your images kept regardless of client project date or anything else For example on the Mac and Windows Vista I might set this to Users marc Pictures a directory that s automatically created for each user On Windows XP I ve created the 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 13 folder C Pictures You re free to choose any folder you like but take into account whether it s subject to your regular backup since it will hold all of your ingested images By default the Destination Folder is set to dot which means that it doesn t cause a
17. study this table carefully The filename in this case is ABCDOO01 Macro Replacement Explanation filename ABCD0001 Entire filename filename 1 ABCD0001 From character 1 to end same as entire filename filename 2 BCD0001 From character 1 to end filename 1 1 From character 1 counting backwards from the end to the end filename 3 001 From character 3 counting backwards from the end to the end filename 6 001 From character 6 to end same as filename 3 but only because filename is 8 characters filename 1 4 ABCD From character 1 for a length of 4 characters filename 2 3 BCD From character 2 for a length of 3 characters filename 4 1 0 From character 4 counting backwards from the end for a length of 1 character filename 4 4 0001 From character 4 counting backwards from the end for a length of 4 characters filename 5 0001 From character 5 to the end filename 5 4 0001 From character 5 for a length of 4 characters same as filename 5 but only because filename is 8 characters filename 5 100 0001 From character 5 for a length of 100 characters but there are fewer than 100 characters remaining abc 8filename 4 4 jdef abc0001 def abc and def are outside of a macro so they appear literally macro is filename from character 4 counting backwards from the end for a length of 4 characters followed by an underscore because the rest of the macro i
18. you can just enter it into one of five Quick Fields at the bottom of the Metadata panel Three of these are initially set up for Job Location and Subject but you can change the labels from the Preferences Data panel But if you do the corresponding macros in the supplied dynamic metadata template ImageIngester xmp will no longer work You ll have to change them The current setting and the previous 9 are saved in a Preference Set and they re kept in most recently used order So for example selecting a location you ve recently used from the menu is midway between having to type it each time and pulling it from the database according to your selection in the IPTCimage menu 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 37 Nothing at all is done with Quick Field data except to provide values for macros mainly for use in metadata templates What Metadata Goes Where There are a lot of places to enter metadata in IIP the metadata template the database the catalog sets keywords checkboxes on the Metadata panel and Quick Fields on the Metadata panel Where you put what depends on how often it changes Put fixed information such as your name address and copyright notice in the IPTC tables in the database You can add multiple records for different purposes e g commercial art family or for different photographers Then use the IPTC drop downs on the Metadata panel to
19. 03 Page 14 disallowed That is you can do DNG conversion only if you also have a pre conversion backup Once all copying to the primary folder s is complete an additional copy is made to the post conversion backup if you ve enabled it All copies have their file modification times set to those of the original files in the card folder This goes for DNGs produced by DNG Converter too As noted on page 5 one of ImageIngester s design principles is that the contents of an image file are never altered Internally ImageIngester s copying routines make sure that every copy is bit for bit identical to the original Not Erasing the Card ImagelIngester doesn t do it for two reasons 1 It s not a good idea to erase or reformat the card on a computer it s better to do it in the camera and 2 since there s no code in ImageIngester to erase the card you ll never do it by accident if you make a mistake setting the Preferences Automatic Ingestion If you check Auto Ingest on the Preferences Ingestion panel ingestion starts automatically without your having to press Start when you insert an image card or connect a camera while ImageIngester is running However if you launch ImageIngester with a card or camera already mounted it prompts you before ingesting If you check Auto Eject the card or camera is ejected after a successful ingestion Thus if you have several cards you can ingest them automatically by simply insertin
20. 03 Page 29 17 and 25 aren t very useful in templates but many others are such as those for IPTC data The template is still the same for every image but the sidecar might be different for different images since macro processing occurs Moreover the same dynamic metadata template can be used by different photographers since the information in it such as the copyright notice is inserted by a macro and doesn t have to be literally entered into the template Static templates II and IIP are covered in this section and dynamic templates IIP only are on page 32 X Tip Dynamic metadata templates are really useful static templates are awkward because you ll either need to keep creating them or you ll do without some useful metadata that you could be applying at ingestion time Consider upgrading to ImageIngesterPro if you haven t already done so You can have as many metadata templates as you like A drop down menu on the main window makes it easy to vary the template from ingestion to ingestion Typically you use this to insert standard static metadata such as your contact and copyright information but not image specific information such as the caption It is practical to have separate static templates for each project however which is why there s that drop down menu To read more about applying common metadata and where it fits into the workflow see Chap 5 of The DAM Book see footnote at bottom of page 17 in this manual E
21. 15 27 43 project description project checklist DAM Book IPTCcontact IPTCcontact creator John Smith IPTCcontact title photo assistant IPTCcontact address 123 Main St 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual IPTCconten IPTCimage IPTCstatus UserData Quick Fiel Simple Mac EXIF Macro Useful Exa Example Fi IPTCcontact city IPTCcontact city IPTCcontact state IPTCcontact state IPTCcontact post IPTCcontact post IPTCcontact country IPTCcontact country IPTCcontact phones IPTCcontact phones IPTCcontact emails IPTCcontact emails IPTCcontact websites IPTCcontact websites t IPTCcontent id IPTCcontent id IPTCcontent headline IPTCcontent headline IPTCcontent description IPTCcontent description IPTCcontent keywords IPTCcontent keywords IPTCcontent subjectcode IPTCcontent subjectcode IPTCcontent writer IPTCcontent writer IPTCimage id IPTCimage id IPTCimage genre IPTCimage genre IPTCimage scene IPTCimage scene IPTCimage location IPTCimage location IPTCimage city IPTCimage city IPTCimage state IPTCimage state IPTCimage country IPTCimage country IPTCimage countrycode IPTCimage countrycode IPTCstatus id IPTCstatus id IPTCstatus title IPTCstatus title IPTCstatus job IPTCstatus job IPTCstatus instructions IPTCstatus instructions IPTCstatus provider IPTCstatus provider IPTCstatus source IPTCstatus source IPTCs
22. 7 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 28 Verifying Images ImageIngester can automatically verify that raw images are in the proper format by running DNG Converter on them either to convert them to DNG or just to verify them as explained in the previous section In addition you can check Verify JPEGs on the Preferences Apps panel to have JPEGs JPG file extension verified If either verification fails an error message will show up on the main window Neither verification provides a guarantee that the image is OK but they will detect gross file errors that might have resulted from an improperly written or improperly copied card If you get such as error try ingesting from the card again and then check the ingested image files visually to make sure they re OK before you erase the card If the second ingestion also fails you might try to recover the images using recovery software Google image recovery for some possibilities X Tip Keep Verify JPEGs checked Launching a Viewer You can arrange for an external application to be launched when ingestion is completed by choosing it in the Preferences Apps panel If you don t want an application launched press the Choose Viewer button and then cancel the dialog that results which will set the viewer preference to none ImageIngester will attempt to pass to the viewer the folder that you most recently ingeste
23. EG thumbnail 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 26 e a medium or full size JPEG preview metadata e g keywords copyright notice e EXIF data e g shutter speed ISO focal length Camera Raw settings The JPEG preview Peter Krogh calls is a pretty good print is perhaps the most overlooked feature For many purposes such as viewing a slideshow a DNG aware application like iView Media Pro can access the already created JPEG preview without generating a new one and without your having to keep additional derivative files around If you make further adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw you can arrange for the JPEG preview to be automatically updated For more about the benefits of a DNG based workflow read Chapter 1 of The Dam Book see footnote on page 17 of this manual or read it for free at thedambook com TheDAMBook Chapteri pdf or the web page barrypearson co uk articles dng A few cameras such as the Leica M8 use DNG as their native raw format With the current DNG Converter version 3 6 you can pass these DNGs through DNG Converter to get a JPEG preview but then you don t get metadata or Camera Raw settings applied via sidecars If you don t pass these DNGs through you don t get the preview but Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom will pick up the sidecars Sidecars are discussed later in this section I ve chosen not to pass these DNGs through DNG Conve
24. IPTCcontact title Description Notes IPTCcontent description QF subject Description Writer IPTCcontent writer Keywords Keywords IPTCcontent keywords Commas can be used to separate keywords Copyright Status Unknown Hd Copyright Notice IPTCstatus copyright Copyright Info URL To use this dynamic template set ImageIngester as your metadata template on the ImageIngester main window choose the metadata you want in the ImageIngester Metadata panel page 35 and your metadata will get applied to each ingested image Creating a Dynamic Metadata Template You create a dynamic metadata exactly as you create a static one as explained on page 30 except you type macros into the Photoshop File Info fields instead of static data like this Description Document Title Author Marc Rochkind Author Title Description Notes Description Writer Keywords Keywords Project Commas can be used to separate keywords Copyright Status Copyrighted m Copyright Notice Copyright 2006 by Marc Rochkind All rights reserved Copyright Info URL This picture is from an earlier beta version The macro project has been replaced by project name You may find it convenient to use the supplied ImageIngester template as a starting point Bring it up in the File Info panel as explained in the previous section The macros catalogsets and keywords are specifically designed for handling
25. ImageIngester User s Manual For ImageIngester 2 and ImageIngesterPro 2 Manual Version 2 1 03 February 24 2007 ImageIngester com Marc Rochkind Basepath Associates marcQImageIngester com WARRANTY THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 2 If you want to start ingesting now and read the manual later 1 Download ImageIngester or ImageIngesterPro for Mac OS X or Windows XP Vista from ImageIngester com and install it Connect your camera or card and make sure it s visible in the Finder or Windows Explorer If you re prompted to do something with it by the operating system or another photo ingestion program say no Choosing Preferences from the Im
26. KGdatetime 1 8 Gfilename 4 This sequence consists of three macros each surrounded by braces and one literal character which is the underscore between the second and third macros The first underscore is part of the prefix macro Here s what the three macros mean prefix 1 1 _ This macro consists of the macro name prefix followed by 4 arguments which are 1 1 and an underscore For every macro the 1 argument is the starting character the 2 argument is the number of characters to use 1 means use them all and the 3 argument is literal text that should follow the macro only if it s replaced by something That way if you don t have a prefix the file name won t start with an underscore datetime 1 8 Recall that the datetime macro by itself gets replaced by the date and time in the form YYYYMMDD_hhmmss But the 3 argument means to use only the first 8 characters so all we get is YYYYMMDD filename 4 If the 1 argument is negative it counts from the end not the beginning So this macro gets replaced by the last 4 characters of the file name which is the file name number Put it all together and you get the prefix an underscore if the prefix isn t empty the date without the time and the file name number For example MJR 20061229 0235 NEF You always get an extension Everything you need to know about macros is in the Reference section starting on page 49 X Tip Wait until you ve us
27. MIR 0001 33408 dng MJR 0002 33408 PG MJR_0004_ 33424 dng MJR_0005_ 33428 JPG MJR_0007_ 33440 JPG MJR_0008_ 33444 dng MJR_0012_ 33504 JPG MJR_0013_ 33506 dng MJR_0016_ 33512JPG MJR_0017_ 33514 dng MJR_0018_ 33518JPG MJR_0021_ 33524 dng MIR 0022 33526 PG MIR 0023 33528 dng MJR_0024_ 33530JPG MJR_0025_ 33532 dng The images are crooked and blurry because I was holding each camera with one hand which is very difficult with the little Casio and not really bothering very much to aim This proves that however wonderful the Multi Camera Shoot feature is it won t do anything about the quality of your shots They ll be in the right order though 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 45 More About Workflow ImageIngester and DAM Workflow This section is for readers of Peter Krogh s The DAM Book Digital Asset Management for Photographers see footnote at bottom of page 17 If you re not familiar with the book you may want to read it a bit before continuing with this page Even better Read the whole thing it s a terrific book Where ImageIngester Fits In the DAM Workflow In the workflow diagram the appears in Chap 1 of the book ImageIngester takes over most of the work at the top right as shown in the following diagram Diagram from The DAM Book Digital Asset Management for Photographers by Peter
28. Rename files 9 Apply copyright and bulk metadata 12 Apply keywords etc Those that apply to the entire ingestion 13 Create DNGs 14 Back up DNGs 15 Save original raw files if desired With ImageIngester after all relevant images are ingested 7 Sort images if from multiple cards using IIP s multi camera shoot feature page 38 With the camera s anytime after ingestion 6 Erase or reformat cards 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 47 With Bridge Camera Raw and your cataloging app 16 Build cache in Bridge and review images Rate images with stars Adjust in Camera Raw Apply keywords etc Those that apply to individual images Catalog images You don t have to do things exactly this way it s only a guide You ll want to work out for yourself the workflow that make the most sense A Simplified Workflow I work with very few images compared to Krogh or any pro or busy amateur so the time to regenerate previews in the DNGs isn t significant for me and I like the convenience of converting to DNG very early Since ImageIngester makes the previews and DNGs for me I go straight from IIP to iView Media Pro and go from there to Bridge or Photoshop only when I m ready to do some work on the images which for me might be days or even weeks later This also makes sense even to Krogh if you work with JPEGs rather than raws In deta
29. This is the earliest date time for any file in the first selected folder Next you adjust the date time in the control to match whatever date time it needs to be In this case it s easy since both folders should have exactly the same Start Date Time So I set the Date Time in the control to 1 34 08 and pressed the Adjust button Now you see why I shot that first image by pressing both shutters at the same time eoe Multi Camera Shoot Parent Folder Volumes External TestData MultiTestingests Folder 0000 0360 0350 0363 Start 4 End 2006 09 14 01 32 58 PM 2006 09 14 01 34 22 PM Adjust Images 0 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 35 34 PM 0 14 Choose Clear Table Re Ingest 2006 09 14 1 34 08 PM 5 e First Selected Start Date Time Reset 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 42 Pressing the Adjust button brought up this alert Adjust Date Time 1 minute s 10 second s will be added to each selected Start and Stop date time in table Files on disk will not be affected until you press Sync Files Adjust o gt After pressing Adjust in the alert the listed information is changed showing the adjustment but also indicating with the symbol that the actual file modification date times haven t yet been changed just the times that appear in the table eoe Multi Camera Shoot Parent Folder Volumes External TestDa
30. abase panel For any table other than the Ingestions table you add a record with the button and you delete a record with the button Fields are edited in place like on a spreadsheet Some fields can t be edited There are some restrictions on what you can delete for example you can t delete a client record if there are still projects for that client You can get to the Database panel quickly by choosing the Manage item on the main window drop downs for client project and card or by pressing the Ingestions button on the main window Also the IPTC and UserData drop downs on the Metadata Panel page 35 have Manage items Recall that the client and project are also useful in folder arrangements and appear in one of the drop downs on the Preferences Naming panel page 23 All database data is kept in an SQLite database which you can access directly to import it into Excel or for other purposes Details are on page 55 Ingestion Notes Prior to ingesting you can enter notes on the main window that are recorded with the other ingestion data in the database You can view or edit ingestion notes on the Database panel The notes are also accessible with the notes macro and are incorporated into the supplied dynamic metadata template ImageIngester xmp see page 32 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 32 IPTC and UserData Database Tables The built in IIP
31. acros see 2 1 02 below changed to indicate that they work properly in II and IIP 2 2 and above 2 1 02 Added information about ImageIngester mode in IIP page 4 about per image macros such as filename not working in metadata templates page 32 deleted section about getting new and old file names into metadata which was added in version 2 1 01 added note about keywords in Lightroom page 48 2 1 01 Added information about entering special characters page 29 basing a new metadata template on an existing one page 31 other mentions of this technique were already present in version 2 1 00 getting new and old file names into metadata page 34 Folder Options on Windows to see Application Data paths page 57 ingesting from cameras that use DNG as their native format such as the Leica M8 page 25 use with Lightroom page 48 2 1 00 Original 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24
32. ageIngester or ImageIngesterPro menu Mac or Tools menu Windows If you re using ImageIngesterPro click on the Folders tab Change the Primary Root Folder may be called Primary Image Folder to where you want ingested images to go Leave the Card Folder set to user choice Change the Pre Conversion Backup Root may be called Backup Image Folder to where you want backed up images to go Click on the Apps tab and uncheck Run DNG Converter if it s checked Close the Preferences panel Press the Start button at the top of the main window You ll be prompted to choose the camera or card Navigate to the card s DCIM folder and choose it That s it your images will be ingested to the Primary folder If you don t like the way your files have been named or how they ve been arranged into folders or that your raw files didn t get converted to DNGs or that you didn t get a chance to enter keywords then that s what the rest of this manual is for 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 3 Table of Contents The Digital Photography Workflow ccscccseeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaeeseeeeeeeaeeuauaeaeaeaseseeeeueeeeaseeaeaeages 4 ImageIngester Versions eeeeeeseseseseseueana sa suuunuaena nanus Ru Ramus u mnnn 4 What ImageIngester Can Do seseseseseseseieinunanununa sunu nananauau uua a usada san anese nasa u aua u au ua
33. aps unusual to use number range folders if the image file names aren t numbered correspondingly but there s no requirement to do so A set of controls to the right of the Preferences Naming panel affects number range folders Number Range Folders Filename Numbers f Auto Numbers Digits 4O5 O6 _ Partition Size 300 The first set of radio buttons determine whether filename or auto numbers are used If filename numbers are used they re taken from the second 4 characters of the filename as though the filename 1 4 macro were used This matters if you re ingesting from a hard drive and you ve renamed the original files 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 25 If you choose Auto Numbers you can set whether the number range should be composed of 4 5 or 6 digit numbers That is 3456 3481 23456 23481 or 123456 123481 If the card has a lot of images on it say more than 500 you can partition the number range folders so there are no more than a maximum number of images per folder For example if you check Partition and enter 400 in the edit field instead of getting all 2000 images in a single folder named say 123456 125455 assuming 2000 images you ll get 5 folders named 123456 123855 123856 124255 124256 124655 124656 125055 and 125056 125455 each containing 400 images Using Folder Arrangement Macros As with image naming pag
34. asaeeeeseeeaees 45 ImageIngester and DAM Workflow cceeee ee eee eee ena een e eene 45 A Simplified WOEKfIOW wanes ede einn dete buts Ero uty ole ded EE xU ea Ee ea pass hues xe aee prd expresa eMe sa E eens 47 ImageIngester and Lightroom rere rhe xr pxek tnter ee xxu Re ERR a aeu Ra Ra Res E eeE nare E NRRE D 48 Reference Materrial c cccceceeseeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeueuaeaeasaeeeeseeeaeeuauavasaeeseseseeueueuauaeasaeagagegegeeeaeaueuenaes 49 MACOS e Por TETECUOE TURAE A 49 Milego E a E umm 53 prre Em 55 Locating Preferences Databases and Templates cceceeeeeee nent eee eter eens eee e teeta eee ener 57 Acknowledgements 2 ccececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuaeaeaeeeeeeseaeeueeauauaeaeasagaseeeeeeeaeeuauaeasaeaeeseseeeaueeeeaeeueuenas 59 eILnpPIInea 59 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 4 The Digital Photography Workflow In pre digital times after shooting a roll of film photographers either took it into their darkroom to develop and print the images or much more commonly dropped off the film at a lab for processing The negatives got filed away or sometimes thrown away or misplaced and the prints were saved in a drawer or put into an album A few images were reprinted maybe even enlarged from negatives or slides But now photography has changed dramatically for many photographe
35. ater Sale MJR 20060324 23451 DNG 421 images not shown MJR 20060324 23873 DNG none Destination Folder only This choice puts the images directly in the Destination Folder Since you can choose the Destination Folder on the main window it s an easy way to decide 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 24 at ingestion time where to put your images For example you might create and choose a Destination folder named Family Thanksgiving 2006 which would result in an arrangement like this Thanksgiving 2006 MJR_20061123_0127 DNG MJR_20061123_0128 DNG AM Tip Number range folders are what Peter Krogh recommends in The DAM Book see footnote at bottom of page 17 I like YYYY YYYY MM DD folders better because I shoot many fewer images a day most days none at all than he does You re free to do it any way you like of course About Number Range Folders Unlike any other ImageIngester folder arrangement it s guaranteed that every ingestion will use a unique number range folder so a letter is appended to the folder name to make it unique if a previous ingestion happened to create a folder with the same number range You can use number range folders even if you re not incorporating a filename or auto number into the image file name the two features are entirely independent It s perh
36. ation Folder set to and set the Primary Image Folder on the Preferences Folders panel How ImageIngester Copies Images ImagelIngester copies all the files it finds in the card folder and in all subfolders of the card folder This includes not only image files JPG NEF CR2 MOV etc but any other files that happen to be present whether they re image files or not With IIP you can exercise more fine grained control over what kinds of files are copied with an include exclude filter discussed on page 35 Files known to be in raw format are passed through Adobe DNG Converter to convert them to DNG if you ve enabled that feature page 25 Currently these image types are CR2 CRW DCR EEF KDC MRW NEF ORF PEF RAF RAW SRF TIF and X3F For the latest information go to ImageIngester com ImagelIngester technotes php where the current list is posted If you ve enabled a pre conversion backup page 14 files are copied from the card folder to the backup folder and then from there to the primary folder The second copy from backup to primary is done by DNG Converter if enabled for raws and directly by ImageIngester for non raws and for raws if DNG conversion is disabled If you haven t enabled a pre conversion backup files are copied directly by ImageIngester from the card folder to the primary folder and DNG conversion is 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1
37. ave one If you don t have a pre conversion backup folder images are copied 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 12 from the card to the primary folder then from there to the post conversion backup folder if you have one If you have neither pre nor post conversion backup folders the only copying is from the card to the primary folder Choosing the Card Folder Choosing the card folder is straightforward especially in comparison to the complicated way the Primary image folder is determined You set the card folder in one of three ways 1 You can set it to a specific folder on the Preferences Folders panel see page 15 2 You can it to user choice which means that the actual folder is chosen when you press the Start button to start ingestion 3 You have Auto Ingest turned on page 14 which sets the card folder to a card that s inserted If none is pressing the start button does what it normally does 1 or 2 above To set the card folder to user choice press the Choose Card button on the Preferences Folders panel and press the Cancel button If the card folder is set to user choice and a card is mounted assuming auto ingestion was turned off or ImageIngester wasn t running when the card was inserted a popup dialog will give you the choice of ingesting from that card or from some other folder If no card is inserted you ll go
38. ch as unwanted cropping This isn t a problem with ImageIngester 2 x and ImageIngesterPro but it s still a good idea to avoid using Bridge to create a metadata template 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 31 AM Tip You can create a new template from an existing one just by choosing the existing one from the File Info panel s template menu Checking For Updates If you check Update Check on the Preferences Apps panel ImageIngester checks for an update once a week If you get a notification that an update is available you can download it from the ImageIngester web site which you can get to easily by choosing ImageIngester Web Site from the Help menu Advanced Features IIP only Tracking Clients Projects Cards and Ingestions Database Tables for Clients Projects and Cards Most ingestion utilities treat each ingestion as an isolated event but IIP knows that ingestions occur from a card usually and are part of a project on behalf of a client There s a Database panel accessible from the Tools menu that you can use to add descriptions of clients projects and cards Corresponding drop down menus on the main window see page 10 let you pick the client project and card prior to starting an ingestion Then data about the ingestion is recorded and is associated with the project and hence client and the card You can view the ingestion data on the Dat
39. d 1 and continuing for ength characters A length of 1 means the rest of the text e g an infinite number Thus the macros notes notes 1 and notes 1 1 are equivalent If the combination of start and length begin before the text or go beyond its end the extra part is ignored A negative start means that it s counted from the end with 1 being the last character For example filename 4 is replaced by the last 4 characters of the filename or fewer if it has fewer characters The last parameter delimiter is appended to the end of the replacement text if the replacement text was non empty It s useful in situations like qf subject 0 1 qf location which would be replaced by something like Boulder if qf subject is empty This is cleaner than qf subject 0 1 qf location which would be replaced by Boulder The name part of the macro has one of four forms simplemacro aqf quick_field_label table field exif field 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 50 A Tip The best way to see how the various macros are used is with the Macro Lab page 53 You can also use the Macro Lab to select and copy macros so you can paste them into your metadata template Macro Examples The following table shows examples illustrating most of the features explained in the previous section It s a good idea to
40. d to This tends to work well with Bridge on the Mac With other applications and on Windows even with Bridge the application may not open to the right folder although it should still open Using a Static Metadata Template Static and Dynamic Metadata Templates ImageIngester can automatically apply metadata from a template to each file as it s ingested It doesn t matter what kind of file it is NEF JPG TIF etc as long as the extension is exactly three characters which is true of all image files written by a camera to a card The way ImageIngester applies a template is by writing a sidecar file for each image that has exactly the same file name e g MJR 20070101 3256 but with an XMP extension If you re converting raws to DNGs the sidecars will be incorporated into the DNGs and then erased explained on page 27 If the image to be ingested already has a sidecar it stays with the image being renamed as necessary to keep it connected with the image and a new sidecar isn t generated by ImageIngester There are two kinds of templates static and dynamic Static templates contain fixed data which will be exactly the same for every ingested image that is the template is just copied literally to the sidecar Dynamic templates are handled similarly except that they re scanned for macros The macros used for file and folder names pages 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1
41. d_label is what is set in the preferences For example if you ve labeled the 4th Quick Field Art Director you would reference it in a metadata template macro as QF Art Director or if you prefer af art director Capitalization doesn t matter but you do need the space if you have a space in the label If you change the label you also have to change the macro Database Macros For the database macros here are the tables and their fields You can also see the fields on the Database panel In each case the selection on the drop down on the main window or Metadata panel determines the row to be accessed card name description inservice_dt client name description created_dt ingestion ingestion_sk unique ingestion ID ingested_dt notes IPTCcontact creator title address city state post country phones emails websites IPTCcontent id headline description keywords subjectcode writer IPTCimage id genre scene location city state country countrycode IPTCstatus id title job instructions provider source copyright rights project name description created dt checklist UserData id field1 field2 field3 field4 field5 field6 field7 field8 EXIF Macros The only EXIF macro available is exif datetime which is in the same format as datetime but accesses the EXIF DateTimeOriginal field It works with JPEGs TIFFs and most raw formats including DNG It s best not to use this macro when ingesting
42. database Type tables don t forget the leading dot to see a list of tables sqlite3 Users marc Library Application Support ImageIngesterPro ii main sqlite3 SQLite version 3 3 6 Enter help for instructions sqlite gt tables IPTCcontact IPTCimage UserData client project IPTCcontent IPTCstatus card ingestion step sqlite gt 7 Once you re in sglite3 you can execute any session or SQL commands see the SQLite3 references above One particularly useful thing to do is to export the ingestions table in comma separated value CSV format for import into a spreadsheet e g Excel or database program 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 57 8 To export data you need to set the output file name and the mode and then issue an SQL select statement like this sqlite gt output Users marc file csv sqlite gt mode csv sqlite gt select from ingestion sqlite gt output stdout sqlite gt An absolute path is used for the file name so it can be found later If you specify plain file csv it will be a challenge to discover what folder it s been created in The path shown replace marc with your own user name works on OS X and Windows Vista For Windows XP use something simple like C file csv A problem with the CSV output from sqlite3 is that values that contain quotes don t have their quotes properly escaped which may cause problems when you
43. database has four tables that correspond to the IPTC panels as used in the Adobe Bridge and Photoshop File Info panels and as described in a PDF at www iptc org std Iptc4xmpCore 1 0 documentation Iptc4xmpCore_1 0 doc CpanelsUserGuide_13 pdf These tables are IPTCcontact IPTCcontent IPTCimage and IPTCstatus For a list of the fields and how you use them in a macro see the reference material on macros starting on page 49 A fifth table is called UserData and has 8 fields that you can use for whatever you want The field names are fixed id and fieldi through field7 and can t be changed but the data they contain is up to you The IPTC tables are useful for relatively static data such as the information address emails etc associated with a contact The IPTCcontact table has a natural identifier the creator field For the other four there s an additional field called id that you can put any identifying name or phrase you want into These identifying fields creator or id populate the drop down menus on the Metadata panel page 35 which also contains the Catalog Sets and Keywords Nothing at all is done with IPTC and UserData data except to provide values for macros mainly for use in dynamic metadata templates On Windows don t forget that special characters need to be escaped as explained on page 29 Using a Dynamic Metadata Template With IIP you can put macros into a dynamic metadata template and have them processed fo
44. dows you probably need to change a Folder Options setting in order to see your Application Data folder Open the Control Panel Folder Options applet click the View tab and set the option for Show hidden files and folders like this 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 58 Folder Options General View Search Folder views You can apply the view such as Details or Icons that you are using for this folder to all folders of this type diss A Folder Reset Folders Advanced settings amp Files and Folders Always show icons never thumbnails Always show menus Display file icon on thumbnails F Display file size information in folder tips Display simple folder view in Navigation pane F Display the full path in the title bar Classic folders only b Hi il Do not show hidden files sd folders Show hidden files and folders 3 X Hide extensions for known file types Hide protected operating system files Recommended Restore Defaults Cancel Mac OS X Preferences Users user Library Preferences ImageIngesterPro main pref where pref is the name of the Preference set Database IIP only Users user Library Application Support ImageIngesterPro ii main sqlite3 Metadata Templates Users user Library Application Support Adobe XMP Metadata Templates Camera Raw Settings Users
45. e 17 the folder arrangement drop downs really just expand into macros which you can see by checking the Show Macros checkbox Macros are explained in detail starting on page 49 but you might find it illuminating to look at the macros for the drop down choices even though they may not make much sense until you ve read the macro reference material Choice Macro Equivalent YYYY MM YYYY MM DD datetime 1 4 datetime 5 2 datetime 1 4 datetime 5 2 datetime 7 2 YYYY YYYY MM DD datetime 1 4 datetime 1 4 datetime 5 2 datetime 7 2 YYYY MM YYYY MM DD datetime 1 4 datetime 5 2 datetime 1 4 subject datetime 5 2 datetime 7 2 qf subject YYYY YYYY MM DD subject datetime 1 4 datetime 1 4 datetime 5 2 datetime 7 2 qf subject 0420 0511 number range numberrange client project 0420 0511 client name project name numberrange none Destination Folder only Converting Images to DNG Benefits of DNG DNG is Adobe s Digital Negative Format which is a universal raw format In principle any camera s native raw format can be converted to DNG In practice nearly all can be because Adobe updates its conversion software several times a year to handle new formats DNG is more than just a raw format It s a single file container that can hold raw camera data converted to a universal format e the original raw file e g NEF CR2 e a JP
46. e folders and files follow the DCF standard see www exif org dcf pdf which nearly all cameras do This is the folder arrangement you may have seen on the card that has a folder named DCIM at the top level Method 1 works with ImageIngester if the camera is can mount as a mass storage or removable device which many cameras can On some such as the Nikon D70 it s an option you set If the camera connects as a PTP Picture Transfer Protocol device ImageIngester can t access it If that s an option then your choices 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 9 are to set the option to Mass Storage or whatever your camera calls it or to use Method 2 Method 2 is almost always a better choice even if Method 1 works because the transfer is usually much faster you don t have to plug anything into the camera you don t run down the camera s battery or risk it running down while you re ingesting you don t forget to turn the camera off and you don t tie up the camera More importantly Method 2 is the only practical method if you have several cards from a shoot You don t want to load them back into the camera to ingest them The main reason for preferring Method 1 even when Method 2 will work is that the camera comes with a dock perhaps one that also charges the battery In this case Method 1 is actually the more convenient of the two A potential reason fo
47. ed ImageIngester for a while before you get into macros Just use the drop down choices About Dates and Times The image naming and folder arrangement drop downs use the datetime macro to access the image file s modification date and time Depending on your OS files may also have a creation date time and a last accessed date time but ImageIngester can t get at those Inside the file there are also two EXIF date times DateTimeOriginal and DateTimeDigitized and one TIFF DateTime The two EXIF date times are immutable once the image is captured but the TIFF Date Time changes when the file s contents are rewritten e g if a JPEG is changed in Photoshop and then saved 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 19 You can get the EXIF DateTimeOriginal via the exif datetime macro Macros are discussed on page 49 If you re ingesting from a card rather than a folder on your hard drive the file modification date time will be nearly the same as the EXIF DateTimeOriginal certainly within a few seconds and it s faster for ImageIngester to access which means faster ingestions Setting the Auto Number and Wrapping You can set the starting Auto Number used for the for the next ingestion to whatever you like by typing into the Starting Number field on the main window Starting Number 436 The Auto Number is used for image naming drop down choices such as
48. ed Preference Set Default B Metadata Template Camera Raw Settings Destination f Imagelngester t Flash Elks Lodge Hal primary root m Client Project Card Client 001 3 Project 001 E D200 002 SanDisk 2GB Notes for Next Ingestion Starting Number Ingestions Metadata Starting Card Folder Volumes External TestData NIKON D70 DCIM 1 OONCD70 Primary Image Folder Volumes External TestData II Primary Backup Image Folder Pre Conversion Nolumes External TestData II Backup not used Backup Image Folder Post Conversion Users marc Pictures ImagelngesterBackupPostConv not used Run Adobe DNG Converter No Metadata Template Imagelngester Camera Raw Settings Flash Elks Lodge Primary Folder Arrangement datetime 1 4 4 datetime 1 4 datetime 5 2 datetime 7 2 Starting Number 503 Creating folders Ingestion Progress Copying files Copying files a a a al Stop 4 You ve probably already tried the Start button and I ll explain the other controls later The big text box in the middle is the log that shows ingestion status messages error messages such as a JPEG or raw that didn t pass validation and final totals about the number of images ingested the number converted to DNG and other interesting facts The most important thing you ll ever see there is the message at the end that tells you that ingestion was successful That means all of the imag
49. ed file that was present in the Nikon card s root folder I should have chosen the DCIM folder I didn t correct my error because I knew that all the images were going to be re ingested anyway 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 41 In the view of the Multi Camera Shoot panel shown above I could see that the camera times were off since I knew that the both cameras shot their first image at the same time So I had to make an adjustment Step 5 Adjust Date Times Optional To adjust the Date Times for the image files in one or more listed folders you select the folders in the table In the demo I selected only the first folder but if I had multiple folders from the Nikon I would have selected them all since they all should get the same adjustment After all the Nikon and Casio clocks are very accurate they re just set incorrectly When you select a row the adjustment controls appear eoe Multi Camera Shoot Parent Folder Volumes External TestData MultiTestingests Folder Start End Adjust Images 0000 0360 2006 09 14 01 32 58 PM 2006 09 14 01 34 22 PM 0350 0363 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 35 34 PM 0 oose ear Table Re Ingest Ch Clear Table Re l t Date Time Adjustments 2006 09 14 1 32 58 PM Adiust_ Firstiselected Start Date Time Reset Zi The first Start Date Time appears in the time control
50. elp Database Macro Lab Multi Camera lera All of the choices on the Tools menu except for Macro Lab and Preferences on Windows are available in IIP only Basic Features II and IIP Copying Images Four Folders ImageIngester deals mostly with four folders although the two backup folders are optional 1 Card Folder Where the images to be ingested are located It s usually on a card either still in the camera or mounted on a card reader attached to the computer You can ingest from any folder though not just ones on cards Folders on hard drives network drives CDs and DVDs all work OK 2 Primary Folder Where the ingested images are placed It s nearly always on a hard drive There can be multiple primary folders if the images are distributed by date or image number 3 Two Backup Folders Where backups of ingested images are kept You can back up images before they ve been converted to DNG pre conversion backup or after post conversion backup or both If you re not converting raws or for non raw images e g JPEGs the two backups are essentially the same The first two folders are discussed in this section Copying Images the backup folders are discussed on page 14 If you have a pre conversion backup folder images are copied from the card to the pre conversion backup folder then from there to the primary folder then from there to the post conversion backup folder if you h
51. er you open the ImageIngester database and you ll see a window like this e OE SQLite Database Browser Users marc Library Application Support ImagelngesterPro ii C I 3 C Ed o ee e e Database Structure Browse Data Execute SQL Name Object Type Schema b IPTCcontact table CREATE TABLE IPTCcontact IPTCcontact sk integer n b IPTCcontent table CREATE TABLE IPTCcontent IPTCcontent_sk integer n b IPTCimage table CREATE TABLE IPTCimage IPTCimage sk integer not gt IPTCstatus table CREATE TABLE IPTCstatus IPTCstatus sk integer not UserData table CREATE TABLE UserData UserData_sk integer not nu card table CREATE TABLE card card_sk integer not null primary b client table CREATE TABLE client client sk integer not null prima gt ingestion table CREATE TABLE ingestion ingestion sk integer not nul Pm project table CREATE TABLE project project_sk integer not null pr gt sqlite_sequence table CREATE TABLE sqlite_sequence name seq b step table CREATE TABLE step ingestion id integer not null na sqlite_autoindex_card_1 index sqlite autoindex client 1 index sqlite autoindex step 1 index To export data choose Table as CSV file from the File menu choose the table e g ingestion and then choose the output file e g ingestion csv You can read the relatively standard CSV comma separated values data in lots of applications
52. era Raw settings to the raw file or whether they re left in a sidecar that sits next to the native raw or JPEG Keywords work as expected but Catalog Sets which are unique to iView MediaPro are not picked up by Lightroom Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom can both process JPEGs exactly as they do raws so this distinction goes away 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 49 It appears that Lightroom will even bind metadata and Camera Raw settings to native DNGs ones that came straight from a camera such as a Leica M8 something that DNG Converter as of Version 3 6 does not do Lightroom has its own ingestion capability but IIP s is much more powerful Reference Material Macros Macros are used in metadata templates file names and folder names Macro Format Macros are of the form name start length delimiter where the last three parameters are optional If delimiter is present ength must be present also if ength is present start must be present also When coding a macro you should treat spaces as significant For example notes won t work it has to be notes You can get away with spaces around the start and ength but it s better to treat spaces as significant always The macro is replaced in the text in which it appears by the definition of name as explained below starting from character start the first character is numbere
53. es how they re organized The Destination Folder if you ve set it to anything other than the default is a little of both depending on how you use it As with image file names there are some basic folder arrangement choices on a drop down on the Preferences Naming panel 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 20 enn Imagelngester Preferences Production Preference Set Production Folders Apps Naming Ingestion Data Image File Name Example filename numbers 0001 Example auto numbers 3456 23456 123456 Prefix may be empty Prefix YYYYMMDD 0001 Filename Number 1 C Show Macros MJR Press Return after entering text Example MJR_YYYYMMDD_0001 DNG Number Range Folders f Filename Numbers Auto Numbers YYYYIMM YYYY MM DD __ Show Macros gt G YYYY MM YYYY MM DD subject EX YYYYIYYYY MM DD subject _ Partition 0420 0511 number range client project 0420 051 1 none Destination Folder only Size 300 To customize image or folder naming check Show Macros and edit specification Press Return after editing text Folder Arrangement Drop Down Choices Here s what the various choices do remember that each folder arrangement described is created under the Primary Root Folder and Destination Folder YYYY MM YYYY MM DD This arranges images in a three level hierarchy according to image file modif
54. es were copied backed up and verified Preferences and Preference Sets There are a lot of ImageIngester preferences so they re split up into tabs for Folders Apps Naming Ingestion and Data For an example the Folders tab is shown on page 15 You can save an entire collection of preferences into a named Preference Set that you can recall whenever you need it In effect that sets all the preferences to what they were when you last set them under that name You can keep one set for each camera type SLR point and shoot etc or one set for each of your photographic pursuits commercial art family or whatever you like With one exception any changes you make to preferences when a given Preference Set is selected are automatically saved in that set The exception is the Update Check option on the Preferences Apps panel which applies to all Preference Sets There s no save button for Preference Sets think of saving as occurring automatically whenever you make a change 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 11 You can choose the active Preference Set from the drop down on the Preferences panel or the main window but you can create a new one or delete an existing one only from the options on the drop down on the Preferences panel The Tools Menu Here s the Tools menu on the Mac the Windows Tools menu has one more choice the Preferences item Edit RET H
55. etime 5 2 datetime 7 2 datetime 10 2 datetime 12 2 datetime 14 2 8filename 4 MJR_ datetime 1 8 _ sequence 4 datetime 1 8 qf subject 1 1 sequence 5 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved Version 2 1 03 Page 54 IPTCcontact city Mytown IPTCcontact state AZ IPTCcontact post 12345 IPTCcontact country USA IPTCcontact phones 123 456 7890 IPTCcontact emails john nowhereville org IPTCcontact websites basepath com IPTCcontent IPTCcontent id Content 0001 IPTCcontent headline IPTCcontent description IPTCcontent keywords IPTCcontent subjectcode IPTCcontent writer IPTCimage IPTCimage id Empty IPTCimage genre IPTCimage scene IPTCimage location IPTCimage city IPTCimage state IPTCimage country IPTCimage countrycode IPTCstatus IPTCstatus id Status 0002 IPTCstatus title IPTCstatus job IPTCstatus instructions IPTCstatus provider IPTCstatus source IPTCstatus copyright IPTCstatus rights UserData UserData id UserData 0001 UserData fieldl UserData field2 UserData field3 UserData field4 UserData field5 UserData field6 UserData field7 Quick Fields qf Job qf Subject qf Location qf Quick Field 4 qf Quick Field 5 Simple Macros CatalogSets Keywords Notes Filename sample data ABCD0001 Datetime sample data YYYYMMDD hhmmss Sequence sample data 123456 UniqueID sample data ABCDEF0123456 NumberRange sample data 0420 0511 Prefix
56. extension For files copied from a card that meets the DCF standard it will always be 8 characters with the last 4 being a number Does not work in metadata templates in Versions earlier than 2 2 see Tip on page 32 The checked Keywords See the section Catalog Sets and Keywords on page 35 This macro is only useful in metadata templates because its replacement uses XMP syntax The Notes entered on the main window Replaced by a special code that s replaced by the actual number range of images e g 2301 2455 when used in a folder name Not useful in other contexts Whether the range is formed from filename numbers or automatically generated numbers is controlled by radio buttons on the Preferences Naming panel If used in a folder name the numberrange macro must be last Does not work in metadata templates because the number range isn t known until ingestion is completed The contents of the Prefix edit field on the Naming tab of the Preferences panel A 6 digit automatically generated sequence number using the starting number as set on the main window Use subscripting to get fewer than 6 digits for example sequence 3 is replaced by the rightmost 3 digits Does not work in metadata templates in Versions earlier than 2 2 see Tip on page 32 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 52 Quick Field Macros For the Quick Field macros the quick_fiel
57. from a card because it causes a second read of the image and the image file s datetime accessible via the datetime macro usually serves just as well If the two are different on the card the differences is probably only a second or two With files on a hard drive that may have been copied or edited however exif datetime is sometimes very useful Does not work in metadata templates in Versions earlier than 2 2 see Tip on page 32 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 53 If there is no EXIF data or no EXIF DateTimeOriginal field the file date time is used which is equivalent to datetime Macro Lab Choose Macro Lab on the Tools menu to bring up the Macro Lab where you can view all the available macros and see what they get replaced by Cala Run Show All card card name G card name card inservice dt Gcard inservice dt card description card description client client name Gclient name Chentcreated dt G clientcreated d client descripSon client description ingestion ingestion ingesSon sk G ingeston ingestion sk ingestion ingested dt ingestion ingested_ dt ingestion notes Gingestion notes project project name project name project created dt project created_dt project description G project description project checklist G8 project checklist IPTCcontact IPTCcontact creator amp IPTCcon
58. g and removing them without having to interact with ImageIngester at all X Tip You ll usually want to enable Auto Eject since there s nothing more to be done with a card after ingesting it but you ll probably want to disable Auto Ingest unless you have a stack of cards to ingest That way you get a chance to check the Preferences and set up the metadata before ingestion starts Backing Up Images ImageIngester s backup feature allows you to make a second copy or even a third on a device other than the card and wherever the primary folder is 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 15 You set the backup folders on the Preferences Folders panel ern Imagelngester Preferences Production Preference Set Production E Folders Apps Naming Ingestion Data Card Path to card containing images e g NEF and JPG files Press Choose Card TTE Folder button and choose Cancel from the dialog to restore user choice setting Choose Card user choice Primary Root Folder Path to folder that is root of the primary folder tree Choose Primary Users marc Pictures Primary i Path to folder that is the root for backup prior to DNG Conversion if any ossa Re d Pre Conversion Backup Root DO PE different drive from the or mary image folder Use this to save Choose Backup V Create Backup original raw images if you re converting to DNGs
59. gement is Pictures GS GD CO 2006 11 23 Thanksgiving MJR_20061123_0127 DNG MJR_20061123_0128 DNG YYYY YYYY MM DD subject This arrangement skips the month folder Y Applications CBocumenis sq 2006 11 23 Thanksgiving MJR 20061123 0127 DNG MJR 20061123 0128 DNG 0420 0511 number range This arrangements creates a new folder for each ingestion and names it according to the range of filename or auto numbers corresponding to the image files ingested For example 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 23 Pictures Applications MJR_20060324_23451 DNG 421 images not shown MJR 20060324 23873 DNG For more about number range folders see page 24 client project 0420 0511 This arrangement also uses number range folders but there are two additional levels above the number range folders client and project both set on the ImageIngesterPro main window not available in II Metadata Template Camera Raw Settings Destination b Imagelngester B Flash Elks Lodge d primary root Client Project Card Acme Marketing m Hardware Sale B D200 For more about tracking clients and projects see page 31 Here s an example of a client project number range folder arrangement Applications Acme Marketing Hardware Sale Swe
60. gester mode If ImageIngester won t run after you install it do the following in order 1 Make sure you re running a supported OS 2 Uninstall it and then reinstall it 3 Download it again and then uninstall it and reinstall it 4 Send email to support ImagelIngesterl com and ask for help You can run IIP for a while up to 25 ingestions to try it out without registering it but then you ll have to pay for and enter a registration code that you can get by choosing Buy a License from the ImageIngesterPro Mac or Tools Windows menu That takes you to the purchasing web site which you can also access directly at ImageIngester com ImageIngester buylicense php Follow the instructions on the web site to complete the registration process When run in ImageIngester mode ingestions don t count towards your 25 ingestion trial If you don t want to pay for a license after the trial is over you can still switch to ImageIngester mode at that time There s an Update Check option on the Preferences Apps panel that you can check if you want an automatic check for an available update to be run once a week or so Mounting the Camera or Card There are two ways to get images from your digital camera into your computer 1 Attach the camera to the computer with a USB cable or rarely with FireWire 2 Take the card out of the camera and connect it to the computer with a card reader In both cases ImageIngester can access the images only if th
61. ication date 4 digit year month and date in the form year month day Images from multiple ingestions can go into the same folders since the images could be in the same year and or month and or day For example if the Primary Root Folder is Users marc Pictures and the Destination Folder is Family two image files from 2006 12 30 would be arranged like this 2006 12 29 2006 12 30 MJR 20061230 0235 DNG MJR 20061230 0236 DNG The folder 2006 12 29 whose contents isn t shown is presumably from an earlier ingestion other folders aren t shown 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 21 YYYY YYYY MM DD This arrangement is similar but the month folder is absent Pictures 2006 12 29 2006 12 30 MJR_20061230_0235 DNG MJR_20061230_0236 DNG Applications YYYY MM YYYY MM DD subject This is the same as the year month date arrangement above except that the subject is appended to the date folder You enter the subject e g Thanksgiving on the IIP Metadata Panel Job te Subject Thanksgiving te Location Home in Boulder II non Pro doesn t allow you to enter a subject because it has no Metadata Panel so this folder arrangement choice isn t useful 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 22 An example folder arran
62. il my simplified workflow is like this I set ImageIngester s Preferences to convert to DNG not verify only full size JPEG previews and auto eject along with the backup folder etc I set ImageIngester s primary folder to somewhere in the tree in my main iView catalog and I set it for Auto Update in iView Or a higher level folder is set for Auto Update which works just as well For most of my cameras I always remove the card from the camera and insert it into a SanDisk ImageMate 12 in 1 card reader For my Casio Exilim EX S500 I dock it in its cradle and press the USB button on the cradle I could put the Casio s card in the ImageMate as well but the dock came with the camera and it s the only way to charge the battery anyway ImageIngester automatically senses the mounted card When I press Start it goes to work renames the files makes a backup converts raws to DNGs adds bulk metadata verifies JPEGs and puts the final images in dated folders where iView can discover them When I m ready finished browsing the web answering email etc I go to iView which has discovered the images and displayed them on the screen Or sometimes I m already in iView because I m doing some tagging and organizing If I don t want to wait I right click the folder in iVieew and choose Update Folder Now If I want to do some quick image processing I right click one or more of the DNGs to open them in Photoshop Camera Raw actua
63. ing Macros Actually ImageIngester s renaming is controlled by macros and all the choices on the drop down do is automatically set up appropriate macros So for more flexibility you can just edit the macros directly A macro is a symbol or group of symbols that get replaced by actual data For example the ImageIngester macro datetime gets replaced by the file modification date and time in the form YYYYMMDD_hhmmss ImageIngester has dozens of macros but only a few of them are useful for file naming Others are more useful for folder naming page 19 and still others help insert metadata e g keywords copyright notice into metadata templates page 28 The best way to learn what macros do is to check the Show Macros checkbox shown above and then see what the various drop down options do For example here are the macros for the Prefix YYYYMMDD 0001 choice The DAM Book Digital Asset Management for Photographers O Reilly 2005 Many of the concepts behind ImageIngester are based on Peter s recommendations Also check out the Krogh s terrific web site thedambook com which has an ImageIngester section in its forums 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 18 Image File Name Example filename numbers 0001 Example auto numbers 3456 23456 123456 Prefix YYYYMMDD 0001 Filename Number m Y Show Macros Example MJR YYYYMMDD 0001 NEF prefix 1 1
64. ion is that all folders comprising the same shoot must have the same parent folder Number range folders are ideal 2 When everything is ingested you bring up the Multi Camera Shoot panel and choose the folders that comprise the shoot You can see the earliest and latest date time for the images in each folder nan Multi Camera Shoot Parent Folder Volumes External TestData MultiTestingests Folder Start End Adjust Images 0000 0360 2006 09 14 01 32 58 PM 2006 09 14 01 34 22 PM 0 2 0350 0363 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 35 34 PM 0 14 Folders added manually Choose Clear Table t Re Ingest 3 You correct the file date times if necessary using an adjustment tool built into the Multi Camera Shoot panel More on that later 4 You re ingest the images but this time all the images from all cards are ingested in a single ingestion in order by date time You should use 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 39 an auto number in the file names so that they will sort in the order they were ingested and then they will then also be in date time order The rest of this page explains the details Step 1 Synchronize the Cameras Optional You don t have to synchronize the cameras since it s fairly easy to adjust the date times later but you won t have to make any adjustments if the clocks are synchronized Alternatively if i
65. l rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 30 Creating and Applying a Static Metadata Template You set up a metadata template with Photoshop CS or newer or Photoshop Elements 3 or newer Here s what you do both programs are called Photoshop for simplicity 1 Create a new image from within Photoshop It doesn t matter what its size background etc are The only reason for starting with a new image is so that it won t have any residual metadata 2 Choose File Info from the File menu and enter the metadata into the forms 3 Click the button at the upper right of the File Info window and choose Save Metadata Template see screen shot below 4 Choose a name and save the template It s saved in a standard place and ImagelIngester will know where to find it For this example I called it Contact Info Only Untitled 1 Copyright Basic Copyright Jobs Delete Metadata Template Show Te Then start ImageIngester and choose the template from the menu like this Imagelngester ied Contact Info Only E v Copyright Basic E Copyright Jobs none WF refresh If ImageIngester is already running you can choose refresh to get the menu updated If you don t want any metadata added to your images choose none 5 Don t use Bridge or else your ImageIngester 1 x sidecars might contain image altering Camera Raw settings that will cause strange effects su
66. les button 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 43 Permanently synchronize file date times to match adjustments EXIF data will not be affected Sync C Skip After synchronizing the symbol is removed and the adjustment amounts become zero eoe Multi Camera Shoot Parent Folder Volumes External TestData MultiTestingests Folder Start End Adjust Images 0350 0363 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 35 34 PM 0 14 0000 0360 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 51 21 PM 0 12 Choose Clear Table Re Ingest Step 7 Re Ingest After the files are synchronized and you re satisfied with the date times you press the Re Ingest button to re ingest the images in the listed folders in date time order The files are guaranteed to be ingested in date time order regardless of the file names That is the alphabetical order of the names need not be the same as the date time order which is why the Multi Camera Shoot feature is so much more useful and less error prone than an ordinary ingestion You do want the results of the re ingestion to be preserved in the file names however so it s best to use a naming scheme that puts an auto number in the primary sorting position perhaps preceded by a date Names of the form MJR YYYYMMDD nnnn where nnnn is the auto number are OK as are simpler names like MJR nnnn or even nnnn But a name that use
67. lly I usually select them all again in Camera Raw if they re similar so I can make some rough adjustments to the whole set Sometimes I then select them one by one to do some cropping The great thing about Camera Raw here is that nothing I do changes the image permanently so I can go back and do it right later if 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 48 the image is worth it and if I have the time There s nothing equivalent for JPEGs so I find raw more convenient than JPEG not less I then press the Done button in Camera Raw I usually don t open any images in Camera Raw which opens them in Photoshop unless I m going to do some more work on the image or print it e Going back to iView with the images still selected I choose Rebuild Item on the Action menu to get a new set of thumbnails I think iView eventually gets around to doing this itself but I usually don t want to wait If I double click on an image in iView I go to the Media View when I can see the JPEG preview either the original put there by DNG Converter as run by ImageIngester or the modified one updated by Camera Raw At this point I m at a stopping place The images are backed up and will get backed up again when my normal nightly backup works on the primary folder My ImageIngester backup folder is on an external drive separate from the one that my nightly backup uses I put the card
68. mera Raw and others don t want DNGs at all That statement is true of ImageIngesterPro 2 1 and later running in ImageIngester mode ImageIngester 1 x has a feature set that doesn t include all the Basic Features and implements a few of them such as Destination Folder differently 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 6 Verifying images page 28 to help ensure they got copied OK from the card You can run DNG Converter without actually converting to check raws the checker for JPEGs is built in Launching a viewer page 28 so iView Media Pro Bridge or whatever you choose gets started as soon as ingestion is complete e Adding bulk metadata pages 28 and 32 so you can insert data that applies to the entire ingestion such as your copyright notice keywords subject and location information and even iView Media Pro catalog sets e Establishing Adobe Camera Raw settings page 34 IIP only so that the images come up in ACR with your chosen settings already applied Filtering by image type page 35 IIP only which allows you to ignore unwanted files such as JPEGs from a camera that insists on including a JPEG along side of each raw Or you can choose to include only designated files which is handy when you re using IIP to re ingest an entire folder tree on your hard drive e Tracking clients projects cards and ingestions page 31 IIP only i
69. metadata window Metadata Keywords Make NIKON CORPORAT Mode NIKON D70 Y Camera Raw White Balance Custom Temperature 5450 K Tint 11 Exposure 0 60 Shadows 7 Brightness 122 Canteset 241 Finally in Camera Raw its settings selection will be Image Settings indicating that the image contains or the sidecar contains Camera Raw settings You can leave them as is make adjustments choose other settings etc Settings Image Settings C Adjust Detail Lens NCurve Calibrate White Balance As Shot 3 Temperature 4850 Tim 4 Camera Raw settings along with other irrelevant data such as EXIF present in the metadata template will be ignored Any Camera Raw settings will be replaced by those you ve chosen from the main window Camera Raw Settings drop down or eliminated entirely if you ve chosen none Entering Data into the Metadata Panel Catalog Sets and Keywords You can define and check Catalog Sets for iView MediaPro and Keywords for Bridge iView MediaPro and possibly other applications Press the Metadata button on the main window to open the Metadata panel for keywords IPTC and UserData selections and Quick Fields too Use the and buttons at the bottom to add or delete a Catalog Set or Keyword Double click a name to change it 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 36 ane Metadata Smith Y Catalog Sets
70. mited support is available from me if you re running II or IIP on an unsupported OS which includes Mac OS X earlier than 10 4 Windows earlier than XP such as 2000 or any non Windows system running the Windows version including Linux under a Windows emulator or Mac OS X running Virtual PC or Parallels I ll still try to answer your questions as time permits but as I don t have those environments available to me I won t be able to diagnose any system problems you might have No support is available for any software other than ImageIngester itself such as your OS SQLite SQLite Database Browser ODBC drivers iView Media Pro Photoshop Lightroom and Aperture However sometimes you can get help if you post a message to a web forum such as the ImageIngester forum at thedambook com smf 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 8 Downloading and Installing IIP You can download II and IIP from the web site ImageIngester com That gets you a DMG file on the Mac and an MSI file on Windows If the files don t run automatically double click on them The DMG file should mount as a folder from which you can just drag the ImageIngester application to your Applications folder or wherever you want it to be On Windows the MSI file starts an installation program that takes you through the necessary steps Note that downloading II is really downloading IIP and running it in ImageIn
71. n 5 Getting Started 7 Hardware and Software Requirements sssssssssssssssssesesesen ene eee mesesesesesi sie e nenne esee 7 SUDDOEL uiei exisse rece sero eden eae VY SIR IOQUN ERREUR IRI ed eee CD EN COR UON sess EPERIE RE VZNRSR RR MRYXRI IURE E MEE 7 Downloading and installing Pics 2 iex tT ages PR seen PORRSEXAR AR eal na ERE A RRRYER RR 8 Mounting the Camera or Card oec Leere eine LR dee debates ERR a RE RARR AE A RYE aueuun E AEn EE ERR AE 8 A Quick Tour of the User Interface eseieieieieieseeeesesenenenenuhuana auus ananas nnmnnn 9 Th Main WINGOW 9 Preferences and Preference Sets icis esce a aaa AEEA a Ea a APAKAN RA aces 10 The Tools MENU rnea aAA A A ae AE E Sea aieuts E A a E E EE rE Scene 11 Basic Features II and TIP seseeeeeeiesesesesninanana aas nanain ikhasi itawa 11 Gopylhg Images ree a Dehe ES EAA oret nn em od EE DE Dpuda Rem ans TN gia dange Fuit inne SRM wi aA drip AENT EA risa han 11 Automatic INGESTION on i5 sai r itia rena a EA Da RR EE EXER E ERR LR TRERRXTISR DR IVIRVERRR IATER ERA NE VERERERTRIA DSA TENE ET 14 Backing Up Images 2e dere tte caw odes us hindu ede ean Btn rex ori cosas no vete vacua EN aer T 14 Renaming Imiages zuschicken RTL a Rn a RR Cee ED RR ROIG AR ale DDR Wa C RC wen RR RC 16 Arranging Images Into Folders eren assi
72. n a built in SQLite3 database which allows you to review the details of every ingestion you ve made including any notes you ve entered at ingestion time Handling multi camera shoots page 38 IIP only so that files from different cameras can be renamed in time sequence order Each of these bulleted features is discussed in its own section under Basic Features starting on page 11 or Advanced Features starting on page 31 The following diagram shows how IIP automates ingestion Some features such as the post ingestion backup aren t shown LI R Size verified after copy 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 512 dis m Adobe ie y DNG Converter I Ny Verifies raw format Copy n Backup and Primary 24 t best on separate drives 7 p Size verified after copy P4 7 3 Ey Ey Bridge Photoshop etc E gt 3 Each JPEG read and decompressed 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 7 Getting Started Hardware and Software Requirements ImageIngester has no special hardware requirements assuming your computer is powerful enough to do whatever photo editing you re using it for and that is has a way to mount your camera or card as a mass storage device which usually means a USB connection see the section Mounting the Camera or Card on page 8 There are versions of ImageIngester II and IIP for the Mac running OS X 10 4 Tiger and for Windows running Wi
73. n actual folder to be created under the Primary Root Folder If you want to keep different folders for different purposes e g commercial art family weddings you might want to choose an appropriate Destination Folder under the Primary Root Folder For example if you set the Destination Folder to Family and the Primary Root Folder is set to Users marc Pictures then ingested images will go under Users marc Pictures Family In practice the only real difference between the Primary Root Folder and the Destination Folder is that the former is relatively stable and is set on the Preferences Folders panel whereas the latter is often changed from ingestion to ingestion and can be set on the main window The Destination Folder doesn t even have to be under the Primary Root Folder If it isn t then the Primary Root Folder plays no role in determining the ingestion folder The backup folder s will be nested more deeply as a result but that s not a serious problem Once you ve set up the Primary Root and Destination Folders the folder arrangement you set on the Preferences Naming panel will determine what additional folders if any will be created to organize ingested images by date client project file number or whatever you want Choosing the folder arrangement is discussed on page 19 A Tip If you re confused about the distinction between the Primary Image Folder wv n and the Destination Folder just leave the Destin
74. n your camera and press the ImageIngester Start button If auto ingestion is switched on you don t even have to press the Start button ImagelIngester Versions There are two versions of ImageIngester A free version called just ImageIngester and a commercial 40 version called ImageIngesterPro I ll often call them II and IIP for short If I use the full name ImageIngester I m talking about both In fact II and IIP are the same application called ImageIngesterPro and you pick which version you want to run by choosing Switch Mode on the ImageIngesterPro Mac or Help Windows menu In this manual however II and IIP will usually be discussed as though they were different applications 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 5 II the free version is missing the Advanced Features discussed starting on page 31 1 Menu items and buttons for Advanced Features are still there but they re ineffective although you can still try out the Metadata and Multi Camera Shoot panels You can view the Database but you can t update it What ImageIngester Can Do What sets ImageIngester apart from other ingestion utilities is the amount of processing it can do automatically ImageIngester s design was dictated by three guiding principles 1 The contents of the image file must not be altered in any way Even conversion to DNG if requested is performed not by ImageIngester
75. ndows XP or Vista ImageIngester won t run on OX X 10 3 or earlier and although it might run on earlier versions of Windows the installation program won t work on earlier versions and there s no support available Apple s next version of OS X 10 5 Leopard will be supported when it s released by Apple If you want to convert or verify raw files pages 25 and 28 you have to install Adobe DNG Converter It s available free from Adobe adobe com products dng If you have a newer camera and it won t convert your raw files make sure you have the latest version Adobe updates DNG Converter and Camera Raw several times a year Support If you need help or have a question first check ImageIngester com which contains lots of material that s updated frequently The Technical Notes and FAQ pages contains answers to commonly asked questions There s a lot of other material on the site also The most efficient way to get direct support is on the ImageIngester forum at thedambook com smf scroll down to the ImageIngester section under Software Discussions I check this forum regularly and often respond to posts that request support or ask general questions in a few hours If you d rather not post your question publicly or if it s too specific for a public forum send email to support ImagelIngester com If you re running a paid for copy of ImageIngesterPro please put IIP Support in the subject line so I can give your email priority Li
76. ntering Special Characters On Windows a non ASCII character such as N and has to be preceded by an escape character Unicode 194 if it s to appear in a metadata template because the Adobe XMP specification requires that the template be coded in UTF 8 The escape character may be entered by holding down the Alt key and typing the 4 digits 0194 on the numeric keypad You ll see the escape character appear as A Do not press the Esc key on your keyboard that s for a different purpose entirely You ll need the escape character when entering data in the Database panel or the Metadata panel IIP features or the main window Notes field or when entering characters in a metadata template with a text editor You don t need it when entering special characters in the Photoshop File Info panel see next section as Photoshop supplies it automatically Mac users don t usually have to worry about the escape character as it s inserted automatically on the Database and Metadata panels They might need the escape character when editing a metadata template with a text editor depending on whether the editor is aware of UTF 8 If you omit the escape character you ll get an error message in the main window log when you ingest like this one Invalid character context content description amp ZxA O rdf li Ir 2s ERROR Generated sidecar XMP file contains invalid character Precede it with Alt 0194 A 2007 Marc Rochkind Al
77. of the image file name on the card e g 1234 if the name on the card was DSC 1234 NEF followed by 6 a dot followed by 7 the extension part after the dot which will be whatever was on the card or DNG if the file was converted to DNG 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImageIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 17 Some other choices use other data Auto Number which uses a sequence generated by ImageIngester that starts with 1 when you first install ImageIngester and continues from there with each ingestion picking up where the previous one left off You can set the starting number on the main window see page 18 Card file modification time in the form hhmmss using the 24 hour clock Atwo digit year instead of a four digit year The original filename in case you don t want renaming An example file name is shown on the panel each time you make a choice so you can just try the various choices to see what they do For example Image Flle Name Example filename numbers 0001 Example auto numbers 3456 23456 123456 Prefix may be empty Prefix YYYYMMDD 0001 Filename Number ES Show Macros MJR Press Return after entering text Example MjJR_YYYYMMDD_0001 NEF AM Tip The choice shown in this example Prefix_YYYYMMDD_0001 is a good one to start with if you re new to image renaming It s the one recommended by Peter Krogh in The DAM Book Using Image Nam
78. ons earlier than 10 4 may not have it but those earlier versions won t run ImageIngester anyway 2 On Windows open the downloaded ZIP file and copy or extract the sglite3 exe file to some folder such as C Program Files SQLite Create the folder first if necessary 3 On Windows go to the Control Panel Folders applet click the View tab and check Show hidden files and folders Otherwise it will be too hard to find ImageIngesterPro s database file 4 Navigate with Windows Explorer XP or Vista or the Mac Finder to the SQLite3 database file ii main sglite3 Its location may vary with your system see page 57 5 On Windows right click on ii main sglite3 and choose Open From the dialog choose Select a program browse to the sglite3 exe program you installed and use it to open the ii main sglite3 file On the Mac open the Terminal application type sglite3 don t forget the space after the command name and don t press Return and then drag the file ii main sglite3 from the Finder previously located in Step 4 to the Terminal application so the path becomes the file name argument after sglite3 which you just typed Then hit Return The command line should look something like this sqlite3 Users marc Library Application Support ImageIngesterPro ii main sqglite3 You can also just type the whole command line but that s much too hard 6 You should now be in the sglite3 command opened to the ImageIngesterPro
79. r each image that gets a sidecar file The macros are processed separately for each image not just once per ingestion So you can if you want put image specific data such as the original filename filename macro in the metadata A Tip Per image macros filename datetime sequence and exif datetime don t work in metadata templates in Mac version 2 1 02 and earlier and Windows version 2 1 08 and earlier They do in versions 2 2 and above Supplied Dynamic Metadata Template The easiest way to use dynamic metadata templates is with the supplied template ImageIngester xmp which is installed automatically when you run ImageIngester for the first time You still have to choose it from the drop down on the main window It already has macros in it for the most useful IPTC data as well as macros for keywords iView Media Pro catalog sets and the Quick Fields job subject and location which appear on the Metadata panel by default To see where the macros are used in ImageIngester xmp launch Photoshop or Bridge select an image and choose File Info from the File menu Then use the menu at the upper right small arrow to choose the ImageIngester template and you can see where macros appear For example 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 33 Description Document Title IPTCstatus title Author IPTCcontact creator Author Title
80. r not using Method 2 is that you don t have a card reader They re cheaper than you might think I use a SanDisk ImageMate 12 in 1 which takes just about every card made and it costs only about 30 Readers that take fewer than 12 kinds of cards sell for even less like 10 Feedback from ImageIngester users indicates that some Canon SLRs support only PTP so for these the only way to use them with ImageIngester is to remove the card Method 2 Sometimes you re not actually ingesting from a card but from a portable hard drive In that case just connect it directly to your computer A Quick Tour of the User Interface Nearly every control you need to configure and use ImageIngester is on the main window the Preferences panel or the Tools menu They ll be briefly introduced here saving the details for later on when specific features are discussed in detail The Main Window The main window looks like this What you see in the various screen shots in this manual might not match exactly what you see on your own screen as the user interface may have changed since the shots for the manual were taken Also most screen shots are of the Mac version but the Windows screens are very similar with the same controls 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 10 i ImageingesterPro Edit Tools Help inn e ImagelngesterPro Copying images No image card mount
81. rs who now have their own digital darkrooms Photoshop Camera Raw Aperture Lightroom Capture One Nikon Capture and many others The control and flexibility of your own darkroom is terrific but doing all those processing steps yourself takes time and energy especially because most photographers are shooting more with digital than they did with film and because clients want their pictures right away Consider everything serious photographers have to do just to get their images ready for viewing and processing Copying the images into the computer Making a backup you don t want to erase the card with only a single copy on your computer Renaming the files perhaps with the date and time the image was taken Placing the images from each shoot in a folder so you can find them later perhaps organized by date or by client or by image sequence number Converting raw images to Adobe DNG Applying bulk metadata such as your name a copyright notice and the location and subject matter of the shoot Those getting ready steps called ingestion are tedious time consuming and boring but very important Since they re also repetitive what you do is nearly identical for every card they re a perfect candidate for automation and that s exactly what ImageIngester is for Once you ve set up your preferences backup location naming scheme folder locations and so on all you do to ingest is insert the card in your card reader or plug i
82. rt any formatting errors without actually converting to DNG except temporarily 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 27 The drop down selects what size JPEG preview you want if any Finally check Embed raw if you want the original raw file to be embedded in the DNG You can recover it later by running the DNG Converter application directly that is not from within ImageIngester and pressing its Extract button If you are converting to DNG the pre conversion backup will contain the original raw files in addition to non raw files and the post conversion backup if you have one will contain the DNGs in addition to non raw files If you re not converting to DNG no raw files or Run DNG Converter unchecked or Verify only checked the pre and post conversion backups contain copies of the same files Two DNG Converter options are set by ImageIngester and can t be changed using ImageIngester preferences Compressed lossless and Preserve Raw Image The latter has to do with whether the raw data is stored in its original mosaic format and is independent of whether you want the original raw file embedded which you can set with an ImageIngester Preference When to Convert to DNG Some photographers who process a lot of images find that they prefer to do their initial processing in Adobe Camera Raw or Bridge on the original raw image before they conver
83. rter because it s time consuming because Lightroom doesn t use the JPEG previews or update them and because you can use ACR to generate the previews If they were passed in it would ruin the only opportunity to apply metadata and Camera Raw settings Installing DNG Converter ImageIngester converts raws to DNGs by invoking Adobe DNG Converter It s a free application but you have to download it and install it yourself The web page adobe com products dng and the instructions and download links Once DNG Converter is installed go the ImageIngester Preferences Apps panel and press the Choose Converter button to locate it so ImageIngester can find it DNG Converter Preferences The DNG conversion preferences are on the Preferences Apps panel DNG Processing Get Adobe DNG Converter fre No JPEG preview jgnt BCHSGRSCORSHSHEN Medium size JPEG preview Mi Run DNG Converter Verify only y Full size JPEG preview Embed raw Applications Adobe DNG Converter app C Check the Run DNG Converter checkbox if you want DNG Converter to process raw image files The types of files passed to it are listed on page 13 Recall from page 15 that you re required to have a pre conversion backup if you want to run DNG Converter If you check Verify only the DNGs produced are thrown away and the original raw files are copied to the primary folder this has the effect of verifying raw files since DNG Converter will repo
84. s non empty abc 8filename 50 1 jdef abcdef Similar to previous example but underscore in macro does not appear because rest of macro non existent character 50 for a length of 1 character is empty abc filename 50 1 def abc def Similar to previous example but underscore does appear because it is a literal character not a conditional character inside a macro Simple Macros These are the simple macros of the form simplemacro 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual catalogsets datetime filename keywords notes numberrange prefix sequence Version 2 1 03 Page 51 The checked Catalog Sets See the section Catalog Sets and Keywords on page 35 This macro is only useful in metadata templates because its replacement uses XMP syntax The date and time of the original image file in the form YYYYMMDD_hhmmss where hh is in 24 hour time Note that this is the modification date and time of the file itself not anything e g EXIF data from inside the file You ll rarely want the entire datetime for example datetime 1 8 is replaced by just the date part and datetime 10 or datetime 6 by just time part You can use other parameters to pick off the year as many digits as you want month etc Does not work in metadata templates in Versions earlier than 2 2 see Tip on page 32 The original file name of the image without the
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86. s the file name number probably won t work since the resulting files when ordered by name might be in the wrong order In practice you ll probably want to use one Preference Set e g Multi Camera 1 for the initial ingestions of a multi camera shoot and a second Preference Set e g Multi Camera 2 for the re ingestion For my demo I put the date time in the name in addition to the auto number so T could easily check my work by just looking at the names I used this macro sequence for my file names prefix 1 1 sequence 4 datetime When re ingesting you can use whatever folder scheme you want e g date folders number range folders but bear in mind that mixing the output from a Multi Camera 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 44 Shoot re ingestion with other images may defeat the purpose of the date time ordering It s probably best to use number range folders based on auto numbers perhaps with partitioning if you have a lot of images Remember that with number range folders you re guaranteed that each ingestion will get a fresh folder or multiple folders if you re partitioning For evidence that the Multi Camera Shoot processing worked here are some of the shots shown in Bridge sorted by file name You can see that the auto number order shown at the end of the file names is the same as the time order which was the objective ai OO A
87. such as Excel Here are a few lines from an example ingestion csv file the first line is folded for readability in this manual ingestion sk card id project id number start number stop image count notes ingested dt result 1 1 1 1 1 9 2006 07 14 12 34 39 SUCCESS 2 1 1 0 0 0 2006 07 14 12 48 23 Ingestion stopped 3 1 1 1 3219 9 2006 07 14 12 48 43 SUCCESS AU 1U UIU B876 884 9 2006 07 14 12 49 16 SUCCESS 5 1 1 1 1 9 2006 07 14 12 53 44 SUCCESS g 1 1 Q 0 0 2006 07 15 13 47 30 No card chosen UT VQ 1 1 0 0 0 2006 07 15 13 48 40 Terminated with error 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 56 Accessing the Database with the SQLite3 Command Line Tool To learn how to access data with the SQLite3 tools and SQL language either read the documentation at www sqlite org or buy the excellent book The Definitive Guide to SQLite Michael Owens Apress 2006 To access the database with SQLite3 follow these steps 1 You need a copy of the SQLite3 command line program For Windows go to www sqlite org click the download link and download the command line program sglite 3 3 8 zip version number may be higher For Mac OS X the command line program sqlite3 is shipped with the OS so you don t need to download it OS X versi
88. t SSS ee 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 38 Handling Multi Camera Shoots Introduction This section describes the Multi Camera Shoot feature of IIP available by choosing Multi Camera from the Tools menu The basic idea is to first ingest the images on all the cards shot by all the cameras and then to re ingest them in date time order Re ingestion should assign them sequential file names so that when ordered by name the images are in the order in which they were shot You can do this with II or IIP without using the Multi Camera Shoot feature provided 1 You incorporate the date and time into the file name so that the image files sort appropriately and 2 The cameras clocks are perfectly synchronized and 3 You either use a folder naming scheme that puts all the images into the same folder or you manually move the images from all the cards to the same folder so that the names sort together Things get complicated if you want to use image file names that don t incorporate the time e g MJR_20060914 1234 or the clocks are off a bit or you want to use number range folders and don t want to have to move the images IIP s Multi Camera Shoot feature is designed to make things very easy and therefore very reliable The basic workflow is 1 You ingest the cards into whatever folders you want using whatever IIP settings you want The only restrict
89. t it to DNG Then they convert the raws to DNG all at once in Bridge They find that if they convert to DNG earlier such as with ImageIngester then the time to remake the JPEG preview when they leave Adobe Camera Raw is excessive Apparently Bridge does the initial conversion to DNG in the background but remaking JPEG previews is done in the foreground locking out other Bridge processing If you want to delay conversion to DNG either don t run DNG Converter at all in ImageIngester or run it with Verify only checked and convert to DNG later outside of ImageIngester X Tip Let ImageIngester convert to DNG unless you find that preview remaking in Bridge is a problem Even then let ImageIngester at least verify raws if you can afford the extra ingestion time that running DNG Converter takes Sidecars and Conversion to DNG If you use ImageIngester s metadata template II and IIP and or Camera Raw settings IIP only features an XMP sidecar file is created for every ingested image If you convert to DNG the XMP data is included in the DNG and the XMP is automatically erased by DNG Converter This happens whether you convert to DNG with ImagelIngester or later on e g from Bridge For non DNG raws and non raws e g JPEGs the XMP sidecar files created by ImagelIngester stay around Adobe applications such as Photoshop and Lightroom will read them as will certain other applications notably iView Media Pro 200
90. t s too much trouble to bring up the menus for all the camera bodies and synchronize them just put the cameras on a table leaving the lens caps on if you like and fire the shutters as close to simultaneously as you can That will give you an initial image for each camera that you can use to determine how much to adjust the date time of the image files later on see below For example in a demo for this page I placed a Casio EX S500 and a Nikon D 70 on my desk and fired both shutters at once producing these two images The file modification time on the card for the D70 image on the left was 1 34 08 and for the Casio on the right it was 1 32 58 But since I fired the shutters together not even aiming the cameras as you can see the image file times tell me that the clocks are off by 1 10 That s all I need to know If I didn t have a contemporaneous set of pictures I could still make the adjustments but then I d have to look at one or more images to try to guess how far the clocks are off I then proceeded to use the cameras to shoot a computer screen showing the time generally going back and forth between cameras but sometimes using the same camera twice in a row In the following steps I ll show how I used the Multi Camera Shoot panel to put the images in time order using the pictures of the clock as a check that the results are correct One of the screens looked like this the offistal U S time ta Right now EE ETT A H
91. ta MultiTestingests Folder Start End Adjust Images 0000 0360 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 35 32 PM 70 12 0350 0363 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 35 34 PM 0 14 Choose Clear Table Clear Adjustments Sync Files Re Ingest Z A The Adjust column shows the adjustment in seconds positive or negative If you ve changed the time in the control but haven t yet pressed the Adjust button you can set the control back to the file date time with the Reset button You can continue to make adjustments to other folders as needed Generally you may need to adjust one or more folders for each camera other than the camera you re using for your standard So if you have four cameras you will need to make at most three adjustments You can cancel all adjustments that haven t yet been synchronized to files indicated by the presence of the symbol with the Clear Adjustments button Step 6 Synchronize Adjustments to Files Optional When you re satisfied with the adjustments press the Sync Files button to change the actual modification date time of the image files This can t be undone but you can adjust the date times a second time if needed You don t have to wait until all adjustments are completed before synchronizing You can synchronized each camera s folders as soon as you ve adjusted them or wait until the end or any combination you prefer You get this alert when you press the Sync Fi
92. tact creator IPTCcontact title amp IPTCcontact tiSe IPTCcontact address PIPTCcontact address TCcontact city PTCcontact city IPTCcontact state amp IPTCcontact state IPTCcontact post amp IPTCcontact post IPTCcontact country amp IPTCcontact country IPTCcontact phones amp IPTCcontact phones IPTCcontact emails G IPTCcontact emails IPTCcontact websites IPTCcontact websites Macro Lab You can enter your own text and macros in the left pane card card name 2GB SanDisk 21 card inservice dt 2006 07 12 15 27 43 card descnption client clientname Acme Marketing clientcreated dt 2006 08 02 10 07 23 client descripSon ingestion ingestion ingesSon sk 116 ingestion ingested_ dt 2006 08 02 10 10 34 ingestion notes card was dropped needs extra checking project project name Hardware Sale project created dt 2006 08 02 10 07 23 project description for Fall 2006 insert project checklist DAM Book IPTCcontact IPTCcontact creator John Smith IPTCcontact title photo assistant IPTCcontact address 123 Main St IPTCcontact city Mytown IPTCcontact state AZ IPTCcontact post 12345 IPTCcontact country USA IPTCcontact phones 123 456 7890 IPTCcontact emails john nowhereville org IPTCcontact websites basepath com SS Initially the left pane lists all of the available macros Press the Run button to see their replacements in the right pane You can also type your own text and macros
93. tatus copyright IPTCstatus copyright IPTCstatus rights IPTCstatus rights UserData id UserData id UserData fieldl UserData fieldl UserData field2 UserData field2 UserData field3 UserData field3 UserData field4 UserData field4 UserData field5 UserData field5 UserData field6 UserData field6 UserData field7 UserData field7 ds qf Job qf Job qf Subject qf Subject qf Location qf Location qf Quick Field 4 qf Quick Field 4 qf Quick Field 5 qf Quick Field 5 ros CatalogSets catalogsets Keywords keywords Notes notes Filename sample data filename Datetime sample data datetime Sequence sample data sequence UniqueID sample data uniqueid NumberRange sample data numberrange Prefix prefix EXIF datetime exif datetime mples Filename 1st 4 characters filename 1 4 Filename last 4 characters filename 4 Date datetime 1 8 Year 4 digit datetime 1 4 Year 2 digit datetime 3 2 Month datetime 5 2 Day datetime 7 2 Time datetime 10 Hour datetime 10 2 Minute datetime 12 2 Second datetime 14 2 Sequence 2 digit sequence 2 Sequence 3 digit sequence 3 Sequence 4 digit sequence 4 Sequence 5 digit sequence 5 le Names MJR 8datetime 1 8 8filename 4 MJR 8datetime 8filename 4 MJR 8datetime 1 8 6datetime 10 6filename 4 MJR_ datetime 1 4 dat
94. user Library Application Support Adobe CameraRaw Settings Windows XP Preferences C Documents and Settings N user NMApplication Data ImageIngesterPro main pref where pref is the name of the Preference set Database IIP only C Documents and Settings N user NMApplication DataMImageIngesterProNii main sqlite3 Metadata Templates C Documents and Settings user Application Data Adobe XMP Metadata Templates Camera Raw Settings C Documents and Settings user Application Data Adobe CameraRaw Settings 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 59 Windows Vista Preferences c Users user AppData Roaming ImageIngesterPro main pref where pref is the name of the Preference set Database IIP only c Users user AppData Roaming ImageIngesterPro ii_main sqlite3 Metadata Templates c Users f user AppData Roaming Adobe XMP Metadata Templates Camera Raw Settings c Users fuser AppData Roaming Adobe CameraRaw Settings Acknowledgements Thanks to Dave Coffin for dcraw www cybercom net dcoffin dcraw And of course to Peter Krogh for The DAM Book and for hosting the ImageIngester forum at thedambook com smf Change History The following lists major changes in each version of this manual Minor edits aren t listed These are changes to the manual not to the app see ImageIngester com for those 2 1 03 Information about per image m
95. ve it if the main computer fails Backing up over a network isn t usually a good idea as it will slow down ingestion too much Because of this ImageIngester never erases your original raw files They re either in the primary folder or the pre conversion backup folder If you don t want the originals you ll have to erase them yourself 2007 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2007 02 24 ImagelIngester User s Manual Version 2 1 03 Page 16 Renaming Images Just about every digital camera saves image files with names like DSC_1234 NEF Sometimes you can change the first four characters and exercise some control over the last four numbers but nothing beyond that ImageIngester can rename files for you to incorporate the date the time the subject or client project location etc your initials a sequence number or any combination of those You choose the naming options you want on the Preferences Naming panel which looks like this ern Imagelngester Preferences Production Preference Set Production ES Folders Apps Naming Ingestion Data Image File Name Example filename numbers 0001 Example auto numbers 3456 23456 123456 Prefix may be empty v Prefix YYYYMMDD 0001 Filename Number B Cl Show Macros MJR Prefix YYMMDD 0001 Filename Number Press Return after entering text Prefix YYYYMM 0001 Filename Number Prefix YYMM 0001 Filename Number Prefix YYYYMMDD 3456
96. ze the use of ImagelIngester and therefore to maximize the amount of automation and time savings for you we need to reorder the steps Step 2 saving to a digital wallet can just as easily be done before ImageIngester runs and probably should be done then if your in the field and ingestion will be delayed Since with ImageIngester it s not necessary to do a visual check in Bridge to verify the images it s not necessary to do step 4 build cache that early Krogh likes to erase the cards as soon as it s safe to do so step 6 to avoid later confusion But postponing this until ImageIngester finishes is a minor change Krogh s step 7 sort images is much more easily done by IIP s multi camera shoot feature page 38 after ingesting all the relevant images This leaves us with just one remaining issue Should ImageIngester make the DNGs which is the way I like to do it or should that be postponed to be done by Camera Raw There s a Preference in ImageIngester that allows DNG Converter to be run only for verification without ingesting the resulting DNGs the original raws are copied to the primary folder So you can certainly do what Krogh does and postpone DNG creation A Modified DAM Workflow The modified workflow then looks like this Preceding ImageIngester 2 Save images to digital wallet if in the field With ImageIngester one click or zero clicks 1 Ingest to computer 3 Backup 5 Verify files automatically 8

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