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ImageIngester/ImageVerifier User`s Manual

1. All database data is kept in an SQLite database Details are in the Reference section 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 IPTC and UserData Database Tables Four IPTC Database tables IPTCcontact IPTCcontent IPTCimage and IPTCstatus were used with earlier versions of II and should no longer be used They are still present so long time users can still access any data they ve stored there 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 field1 through field7 and can t be changed but the data they contain is up to you They are accessible via the UserData macro Adding Bulk Metadata to Raw Images Metadata is data added to an image that describes the image It includes EXIF and other data inserted by the camera as well as data inserted by you such as copyright information subject and keywords Bulk metadata is metadata that is the same for every image in an ingestion If you want to add metadata for a specific image such as a caption you ll have to do that after ingestion e g with Bridge Lightroom or Aperture Sometimes image metadata is called IPTC data because it goes into fields defined by the International Press Telecommun
2. Separate Keywords Catalog Sets and People with semicolons or commas Cancel Save As Save For each panel you ll want to enter fixed text and calls to macros and then save those settings as a Metadata Template preset For example here s one of my Rights presets Copyright 2008 Marc J Rochkind Rights Usage Terms All rights reserved Copyright Info URL basepath com copyright htm Copyright Status Copyrighted El Instructions Contact the photographer for permissions Provider Source Csave X Tip To enter a copyright symbol on OS X type Option G on Windows press Alt while you type 0169 on the numeric keypad Alt 0169 Metadata Template presets must be saved you can t just make a setting and ingest without first saving You ll be prompted to enter a name when you click Save or Save As and then that name will appear on the drop down AM Tip For JPEGs II writes sidecars exactly as it does for raw files If you check Merge XMPs on the File Handling Details panel the data in those sidecars is then written directly into the ingested JPEGs by II and the corresponding sidecars are deleted 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 45 Metadata Preset vs Metadata Template Presets _ Metadata Preset e Metadata _ Preset f Marc Copyrighted M Enabled Photographer Content Rights Marc H Normal H Copyrighted i
3. This is what caused the a Quick Field named location to appear on the main window and the value entered there to appear in the IPTC Location field in the metadata Macros are processed separately for each generated sidecar which is what allows you to put macros for per image data such as filename into an IPTC Field You re free to augment your preset with any macros you like For example if you want the original filename make and model you might put that into the Instructions field like this Copyright Status Copyrighted Bl EEE Instructions filename exif make exif model _ Provider Source Here s the data in Lightroom after ingestion Workflow Job Identifier Instructions DSC 0006 NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D7O Provider Source Perhaps the most useful macros to put into IPTC Field presets are Quick Field macros as explained in the next section Using Quick Fields in IPTC Fields Instead of typing metadata that varies with each ingestion such as the subject into an IPTC Field in a template you can enter such data into one of eight Quick Fields Quick Field macros control where in the metadata the Quick Field data should go The corresponding text field automatically appears on the main window when you use a Quick Field macro not only in a metadata template but also in your folder arrangement and file naming You can use the same macro such as QF subject in sev
4. Here s what the various choices do remember that each folder arrangement described is created under the Primary Root Folder YYYY MM YYYY MM DD This arranges images in a three level hierarchy according to image file modification 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 Family two image files from 2006 12 30 would be arranged like this Applications 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 YYYY YYYY MM DD This arrangement is similar but the month folder is absent 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 27 Applications 2006 12 29 2006 12 30 MJR_20061230_0235 DNG MJR_20061230_0236 DNG 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 as a Quick Field on the main window Quick Fields location Grandma s Farm subject Thanksgiving An example folder arrangement is oomen Petes 2006 11 23 Thanksgiving MJR_20061123_0127 DNG MJR_20061123_0128 D
5. r de gt Metadata Template Presets The Metadata Preset shown in the drop down at the top of the Metadata group behaves like the Master Preset in that you can make settings in the group choosing from the Photographer Content and Rights drop downs in this case without having to save them in a preset You save them only if you think you ll want to reuse them later or if you want to save a Master Preset However the Metadata Template Presets behave like the Destination and File Handling Presets You re forced to save any settings you make for them to appear in the drop down so you can select them You ll notice that Save and Save As appear as button in the panels not as items on the drop down list In practice you don t really have to be concerned with this difference in behavior because II will force you to save your Metadata Template presets automatically The Metadata Preset is also like the Master Preset in that the Metadata Preset doesn t save the details of the Photographer Content and Rights Metadata Templates e g All rights reserved in the Rights Usage Terms field but rather just the names of the Metadata Template Presets e g Copyrighted in the screen shot above That way if you change the settings saved in a Metadata Template Preset the new settings are automatically referenced by the Metadata Preset Here s a table that summarizes the differences and similarities Preset Forced to sav
6. whether to process subfolders or just the top level what kinds of images to process PSD TIFF JPEG raw the maximum number of errors to report and whether to store the results in a built in database You can save the settings in a named job which acts something like Imagelngester s Master Presets On OS X only there s a built in scheduler that allows you to schedule jobs to be run once at a specified time daily at a specified time on specified days e g Tuesdays and Saturdays at 2am and monthly on a specified day and time e g the 3rd of every month at 5am 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 76 The scheduler uses the cron facility built into OS X IV doesn t have to be running for a scheduled job to run nor does it keep its own daemon process running More About Detection of Invalid Files With Structure Checking On one test of 100 defective images produced by punching holes of 40 000 zero bytes at random points ImageVerifier reported 88 of them as invalid which is exactly the same result produced by DNG Converter running standalone Detection of invalid JPEGs was even better about 98 The very high compression of JPEGs makes even small errors detectable Detection of invalid TIFFs with an 800 000 byte hole punched in them was poor Only 13 However 6MB TIFFs with 100 000 200 000 400 000 and 800 000 bytes lost from the e
7. 23 project description project description project description for Fall 2006 insert project checklist project checkiist project checklist DAM Book IPTCcontact IPTCcontact IPTCcontact creator iPTCcontact creator PTCcontact creator John Smith TCcontact ttle iPTCcontact tite PTCcontact ttle photo assistant PTCcontact address DIPTCcontaciaddress PTCcontact address 123 Main St PTCcontact city PTCcontact city PTCcontact city Mytown PTCcontact state BIPTCcontact state PTCcontact state AZ TCcontact post iPTCcontact post PTCcontactpost 12345 TCcontact country iPTCcontact country TCcontact country USA TCcontact pnones HIPTCcoontact phones PTCcontact phones 123 456 7890 IPTCcontact emails DIPTCcontactemails PTCcontactemails jonn nowhereville org IPTCcontact websites DIPTCcontact websites PTCcontact websites basepath com a OO EE eC 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 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 The text has been reformatted to fit
8. ApertureValue Artist Contrast Copyright CustomRendered DateTime DateTimeChanged DateTimeChangedMonth DateTimeChangedWeekday DateTimeDigitized DateTimeDigitizedMonth DateTimeDigitizedWeekday DateTimeOriginal DateTimeOriginalMonth DateTimeOriginalWeekday DigitalZoomRatio Here are the notes ExposureBiasValue ExposureMode ExposureProgram ExposureTime Flash FNumber FocalLength FocalLengthIn35mmFilm GainControl ImageUniquelD ISOSpeedRatings LightSource Make MakeFirstWord MeteringMode Model MaxApertureValue Orientation PhotometricInterpretation Saturation SceneCaptureType SceneType SensingMethod SerialNumber Sharpness ShutterSpeedValue Software SubjectDistanceRange SubSecTime SubSecTimeDigitized SubSecTimeOriginal WhiteBalance All date times DateTime DateTimeChanged DateTimeDigitized and DateTimeOriginal are in II s standard date time format YYYYMMDD_hhmmss The three macros that end in Month are replaced by the fully spelled out month in English e g November These are not standard EXIF fields The three macros that end in Weekday are replaced by the fully spelled out weekday in English e g Wednesday These are not standard EXIF fields DateTime which was the only EXIF macro in Version 2 2 is now equivalent to DateTimeOriginal which is what you should use instead That is DateTime is obsolete In Version 2 2 if DateTimeOriginal wasn t present in the EXIF data D
9. Step 2 saving to a digital wallet can just as easily be done before II runs and probably should be done then if you re in the field and ingestion will be delayed Since with II 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 II finishes is a minor change Krogh s step 7 sort images is much more easily done by II s multi camera shoot feature after ingesting all the relevant images This leaves us with just one remaining issue Should II 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 setting in II 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 Imagelngester 2 Save images to digital wallet if in the field With II one click or zero clicks 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 59 1 Ingest to computer 3 Back up 5 Verify files automatically 8 Rename files 9 Apply copyright and bulk metadata 12 Apply keywords etc Those that
10. This is very convenient if you change something in common e g the location of the viewer as you only have to make the change to one or maybe a few presets It can also be a little risky as changing a group preset may change a Master Preset in a way that you didn t expect So be careful when changing a group preset To say it another way the Destination File Handling Metadata and Keywords presets operate hierarchically The Master Preset saves the name of a group preset not the various details This is somewhat analogous to a disk folder say Pictures that contains another folder say Commercial If you add anything to the Commercial folder whatever you added is then indirectly also in the Pictures folder down one or more levels Using Group and Master Presets In practice here s what you ll usually want to do Set up your most frequently used group presets For example for a laptop you might have one Destination preset for when you re in your office connected to external drives for backup and another for when you re in the field with only a small portable drive Similarly you might have only a few File Handling presets and a few Metadata presets Then to set your Master Presets choose some combination of group presets making any additional ad hoc changes to settings and save the Master Preset If this seems all too complicated then just completely ignore presets You can still use every feature of II You l
11. and clicking Start it s easier to click Cards It will survey the mounted cards and list them so you can decide which ones you want to ingest like this 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 15 OOO Ingestion Monitor No ingestions running Stop Start NO NAME Kingston FCR HS219 1 M ingest Ready NO NAME 1 Kingston FCR HS219 1 M Ingest Ready NO NAME 2 Kingston FCR HS219 1 M ingest Ready NO NAME 3 Kingston FCR HS219 1 M ingest Ready NIKON D200 Kingston FCR HS219 1 M ingest Ready NIKON D200 1 Kingston FCR HS219 1 M Ingest Ready NIKON D200 2 Kingston FCR HS219 1 M ingest Ready NIKON D200 3 Kingston FCR HS219 1 M ingest Ready Eject Refresh Close You can see that it s pretty hard to tell which of the 8 mounted cards is which but that s a problem with cards and card readers that II can t solve It s not a problem if you want to ingest them all however You can t choose from thumbnails from the Cards button however For that you ll have to press the Thumbs button There s more about ingesting from multiple cards below Choosing the Primary Root and Destination Folders Choosing the primary folder is a little complicated because it involves an interaction between The Primary Root Folder chosen on the Destination Details panel The folder arrangement chosen on the Destination Detail
12. apply to the entire ingestion 13 Create DNGs 14 Back up DNGs 15 Save original raw files if desired With Imagelngester after all relevant images are ingested 7 Sort images if from multiple cards using II s multi camera shoot feature With the camera s anytime after ingestion 6 Erase or reformat cards With Bridge Camera Raw and your cataloging app 4 Build cache in Bridge and review images 10 Rate images with stars 11 Adjust in Camera Raw 12 Apply keywords etc Those that apply to individual images 16 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 II makes the previews and DNGs for me I go straight from II to 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 detail my simplified workflow is like this I set II to convert to DNG not verify only full size JPEG previews and auto eject along with the backup folder etc I set II s primary folder to somewhere in the
13. don t have one that means the first copy of the card is made to the primary folder and so the images there are tagged JPEGs and many raw formats are supported by ExifTool but some are not You ll see an error message if a raw file can t be tagged If you do have a pre conversion backup whether you re converting or not the images in the pre conversion backup folder aren t tagged just those in the primary folder Therefore converting to DNG is a good way to get images tagged if ExifTool can t support your raw format In this case you should keep a copy of the GPX or LOG file see previous section since the untagged backup images may be useless without their GPS tagging In all cases if you have a post conversion backup those images are tagged since they are a copy of what s in the primary folder Tagging adds time to the ingestion because ExifTool is fairly slow However it has an excellent reputation for reliability so I m likely to keep using it unless technical problems other than speed arise Sometimes ExifTool reports a minor error but the resulting images and the entire ingestion are OK as in this example ERROR processing Volumes External Temp PrimaryTest 7136 7136 L1000568Leica Camera AGM8 Digital Camera 0 dng Error minor Bad MakerNotes directory pointer for tag 0x311 Volumes External Temp PrimaryTest 7136 7136 L1000568Leica Camera AGM8 Digital Camera 0 dng Reviewing Tagging Results Tagging results are re
14. not nul project table CREATE TABLE project project_sk integer not null pr sqlite_sequence table CREATE TABLE sqlite_sequence name seq 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 such as Excel Here are a few lines from an example ingestion csv file the first line is folded for readability in this manual 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 71 ingestion sk card_id project _ id number start number stop NY OAU gt WYN E image_count notes ingested dt result rt A MA Mar 9 2006 07 14 12634239 SUCCESS no 0 0 2006 07 14 12 48 23 Ingestion stopped p 1 3219 9 2006 07 14 12 48 43 SUCCESS 876 884 9 2006 07 14 12 49 16 SUCCESS a A 97 0 8 2006 07 14 12 53 44 SUCCESS nor 0 0 2006 07 15 13 47 30 No card chosen 1 0 0 0 2006 07 15 13 48 40 Terminated with error a Pp a a Pp Accessing the Database with the SQLite3 Command Line Tool To lear
15. same as the EXIF date times certainly within a few seconds and it s faster for II to access which means faster ingestions Setting the Auto Number and Wrapping You can set the starting Auto Number used for the next ingestion to whatever you like by typing into the Starting Number field on the main window Start Cards Starting Number 12113 The Auto Number is used for image naming drop down choices such as Prefix_YYYYMMDD_ 3456 and for the sequence macro which that choice uses More on macros below 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 OOOO The Starting Number is incremented by the number of images ingested even if Auto Numbers aren t used in file or folder naming The current Starting Number is saved automatically across II launches but it isn t Saved in any preset Name Conflicts and Duplication Detection Imagelngester never overwrites an existing file If after renaming a file with that name already exists in the same folder the files are compared to see if they re identical If they are ingestion of the newer file is skipped If the files aren t identical a sequence number e g _001 is app
16. the Camera or Card There are versions of ImageIngester for the Mac running OS X 10 4 Tiger through 10 7 Lion and for Windows running Windows XP Vista or 7 Imagelngester won t run on OX X 10 3 or earlier Although it might run on earlier versions of Windows the installation program won t work on earlier versions and there s no support available If you want to convert or verify raw files 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 Imagelngester com which contains lots of material that s updated frequently The Technical Notes pages contain answers to commonly asked questions There s a lot of other material on the site also If you can t resolve the matter yourself send email to supportOImagelngester com 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 8 AM TID Don t forget to tell me your version and platform and if you re sending email to include the main window and external log If you don t there will be an extra cycle of email or forum posts as I ll have to ask you what they are Limited support is available from me if you re running 11 on an unsupported OS whic
17. tree in my main Expression Media Media Pro 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 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 II 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 7 Since this was first written I ve been mostly using Lightroom instead of the combination of View Bridge and Photoshop but my simplified workflows is essentially the same 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 60 metadata verifies JPEGs and puts the final images in dated folders where View can discover them Now that II has a thumbnail chooser I usually Start with that 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 iView and choose Update Folder Now If I w
18. 06 Partition To customize folder naming check Show Details and edit specification Press Return after editing text Size 300 Reset Cancel Save As Save The pre conversion backup allows you to save the original raws e g NEFs if you re converting to DNG You can also embed the original raw in the DNG 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 source 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 Imagelngester s backups contain only ingested images not any Subsequent work you do after ingestion The Folder Arrangement and Names part of this panel will be explained later AM TID The pre conversion backup is usually enough since your regular backup will back up the primary folder eventually anyway Add a USB or FireWire hard drive to your system and put the backup there so tha
19. 141 41 ft Lowest elevation 2180 16 m 7152 75 ft Highest Lowest 301 35 m 988 67 ft The information starting with Start Time is calculated by 11 from the track points and may not correspond exactly to what the device itself shows You can copy this information and paste somewhere to save it 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 42 Advanced Features Tracking Clients Projects Cards and Ingestions Database Tables for Clients Projects and Cards Most ingestion utilities treat each ingestion as an isolated event but II 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 view and export descriptions of clients projects and cards Corresponding drop down menus on the main window 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 Database panel To add delete or edit card project or client data choose Manage from the corresponding drop downs Then use the and Edit buttons to make the desired changes Recall that the client and project are also useful in folder arrangements and appear in one of the drop downs on the File Handling Details panel
20. 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 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 section 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 it 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 1 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 im
21. All buttons at lower left of the chooser Or you can check or uncheck images in groups by selecting one or more rows in the Folders Dates and or Types lists and pressing the buttons just below each list You can also select images by clicking an individual thumbnail shift clicking to extend a selection or Cmd Control clicking to add to or subtract from a selection Discontinuous selections are possible as shown in the screen shot When you have a selection you can check or uncheck the selected images When you ve checked just the images you want ingested you have three choices Press Choose to choose the checked images for ingestion II remembers your choices and ingests them the next time you press the Start button on 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 18 the main window This gives you an opportunity to set metadata or make other changes before ingestion starts Press Choose amp Start to choose the checked images and start ingestion immediately Press Cancel to close the chooser and disregard the checked images The chooser never appears if automatic ingestion see next section occurs that is automatic ingestion effectively presses Start not Thumbs It also isn t available if you click the Cards button Multi Card Ingestion Clicking Cards on the main window brings up the Ingestion Monitor panel as shown below Only actual imag
22. Auto Number Prefix YYYYMMDD_hhmmss_0001 Filename Number Prefix YYYYMMDD_hhmmss_3456 Auto Number Prefix YYYYMMDD_hhmmss_23456 Auto Number Prefix YYYYMMDD_hhmmss_123456 Auto Number Original Filename Custom 55 ente text DNG Processing Get Adobe DNG Converter free from www adobe com Set path with button at right 4 Choose Converter W Run DNG Converter C Verify only No JPEG preview EH C Embed raw Applications Adobe DNG Converter app JPEG Processing M ve rify JPEGs Eil Merge XMPs Viewer Path to Bridge Lightroom or other image viewer Press Choose Viewer button Choose Viewer A and choose Cancel from the dialog if you don t want a viewer to be launched O ee eee M Pass in folder Applications Adobe Lightroom 2 app GPS Input Reset Cancel Save As Save 1 3 1 gi m 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 th
23. ImageIngester ImageVerifier User s Manual For Imagelngester 3 5 and ImageVerifier 1 3 Manual Version 3 5 September 16 2011 Imagelngester com Marc Rochkind supportOdImagelngester 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 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 2 If you want to start ingesting now and read the manual later 1 Download ImagelngesterPro for Mac OS X or Windows XP Vista 7 from Imagelngester 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 Click on the Set button in the Destin
24. N A folder arrangement of SourcePath will reproduce the Epson s folder hierarchy onto the Primary Folder and also onto the backup folders if you have them If you ve clicked the Cards button the SourcePath is always between the DCIM folder not included in the path and the image file Quick Field Macros For the Quick Field macros the quick_field_label can be anything you like and it will automatically appear as the label for a text field on the main window You can have up to 8 Quick Fields defined at a time If you define more II will put up a warning dialog and ignore the extras 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 66 AM Tip In folder and file naming you can have at most one Quick Field macro Database Macros For the database macros here are the tables and their fields You can also see the fields on the Database panel For card client and project the selection in the drop down on the main window determines the row to be accessed AM TID Don t use the IPTC database macros for getting IPTC metadata into images via sidecars Use the Metadata Templates instead 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
25. NG YYYY YYYY MM DD subject This arrangement skips the month folder 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 28 Applications Documents Pictures 2006 11 23 Thanksgiving MJR_20061123_0127 DNG 0420 0511 number range This arrangement 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 Applications MJR_20060324_23451 DNG There s more about number range folders below 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 in the Identification group on the main window Identification Client Acme Marketing 4 Card 007 H Project Hardware Sale H There s more about tracking clients and projects later on Here s an example of a client project number range folder arrangement 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 29 Applications Acme Marketing Hardware Sale Sweater Sale v MJR_20060324_23451 DNG none directly in Primary Folder 421 images not shown MJR_20060324_23873 DNG This choice puts the images directly in the Primary Folder For example if th
26. Tim 4 Entering Catalog Sets and Keywords In the Keywords group at the right of II s main window you can define and check Catalog Sets for Expression Media Media Pro and Keywords for Bridge Lightroom Expression Media Media Pro and possibly other applications Use the and buttons at the bottom to add or delete a Catalog Set or Keyword Double click a name to change it e e Metadata Smith Y Catalog Sets Y Annual Reports Accorn Oaks Corp Saturn Industries Y Vacation 2006 Arizona 2005 Maine Y Keywords JM D70 Landscape New York 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 can be saved in a Keywords Preset which operate similarly to other presets One special feature is that you ll be asked whether you want to just save the outline or also the checkmarks II Include checkmarks in preset Cr A 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 a Metadata Template They are already present in the default Content Template There isn t any way to import Catalog Sets and or Keywords from Expression Media Media Pro or other applications into II Also hierarchical keywords as used in Lightroom aren t supported by II yet 2007 2011 Marc Rochk
27. a medium or full size JPEG preview metadata e g keywords copyright notice EXIF data e g shutter speed ISO focal length ACR Develop 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 Expression Media 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 or Lightroom 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 or the web page barrypearson co uk articles dng A few cameras such as the Leica M8 M9 use DNG as their native raw format If you want you can still pass these native DNGs through DNG converter even though no actual conversion will occur to get a JPEG preview and or to get metadata or Camera Raw settings applied via XMP sidecars Sidecars are discussed later in this section Installing DNG Converter II 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 has the instructions and download links Once DNG Converter is installed go the Imagelngester File Handling Details panel and press the Choose Converter button
28. ably press the Choose button on the Multi Camera Shoot panel to choose the folders that contain the images comprising the shoot Choose all the relevant folders at once 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 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 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imageln
29. age file times tell me that the clocks are off by 1 10 That s all I need to know 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 52 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 13 35 57 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 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 Too s menu to open the Multi Camera Shoot panel You can leave it up if you want while you operate other parts of the II interface In particular you ll often want to adjust the settings just before you re ingest Most often you ll prob
30. an image by reading a track log containing coordinates and times written by a GPS device when the photo was taken and then interpolating between the times using the photo s EXIF date time to find the coordinates For example suppose the track log contains these coordinates along with dozens or hundreds of others lt trkpt lat 40 085725375 lon 105 588521529 gt lt ele gt 3240 260742 lt ele gt lt time gt 2007 09 01T20 28 35Z lt time gt lt trkpt gt lt trkpt lat 40 085720262 lon 105 588498395 gt lt ele gt 3240 741699 lt ele gt lt time gt 2007 09 01T20 29 19Z lt time gt lt trkpt gt lt trkpt lat 40 085707856 lon 105 588466460 gt lt ele gt 3241 222168 lt ele gt lt time gt 2007 09 01T20 29 58Z lt time gt lt trkpt gt lt trkpt lat 40 085716574 lon 105 588510381 gt lt ele gt 3241 702637 lt ele gt lt time gt 2007 09 01T20 30 51Z lt time gt lt trkpt gt Suppose then that you ve taken an image on Sept 1 at 20 29 27 UTC or GMT There isn t a track point for exactly 20 29 27 but interpolating between the 2 Y and 3 track points listed gives a position of 40 085718 latitude and 105 588492 longitude Looking that up on Google Maps shows that the photo was taken in the Indian Peaks area just west of Boulder f 40 085718 105 588492 40 5 8 58 105 35 18 57 Get directions To here From here Search nearby Save to My Maps There are a few cameras th
31. ant to do some quick image processing I right click one or more of the DNGs to open them in Photoshop Camera Raw actually 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 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 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 Imagelngester 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 II backup folder is on an external drive separate from the one that my nightly backup uses I put the card bac
32. at use GPS accessories to tag images directly but the great thing about the way II does it is that any camera at all will do The GPS device just has to be turned on and set to record a track log It doesn t need to be connected to the camera at all in fact I usually keep mine in my pocket or backpack while I m shooting The tagging takes place not when the image is shot but during ingestion when II merges the track log with the image data 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 36 As will be explained shortly you don t even have to synchronize the camera s time or even its time zone to that of the GPS device You can adjust the times during ingestion GPS Devices for Use With ImageIngester You can use any GPS device that can record a track log in GPX format which includes almost all devices designed for hiking Some portable devices designed mostly for in car use can t record a track log make sure you check You also need a way to get the GPX track log into the computer you re using for ingestion Many devices mount as a drive like USB flash drives and some cameras do which is the easiest way to do it If your device doesn t mount as a drive maybe you can use the software that came with it to extract the track log Imagelngester can also read track log data directly from some Garmin devices such as the 60CSx You just connect it to your c
33. ateTime reverted to the file s modification date time but Version 2 3 and later versions no longer work that way Instead use the DateTimeAny macro DateTimeChanged is the II name for what the EXIF standard calls DateTime defined as The date and time of image creation In this standard it is the date and time the file was changed II calls it DateTimeChanged so as not to confuse it with Version 2 2 s DateTime which was not equivalent to the EXIF DateTime field see previous paragrapn DateTimeOriginal is defined in the EXIF standard as Date and time of original data generation DateTimeDigitized is defined in the EXIF standard as Date and time of digital data generation It s common for a camera to record DateTimeOriginal but not DateTimeDigitized or vice versa Check out what your camera does before using these macros 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 68 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 SubSecTime is the subsecond component of DateTimeChanged Few cameras record the actuation count Actuations macro Those that do are Nikon DSLRs at least some models possibly all and Canon 1D DSLRS Other cameras will show data in this field but it isn t necessarily the actuation count II supports th
34. ateTimeAnyWeekday DateTimeAnyWeekday Sequence sample data sequence UniqueID sample data uniqueid NumberRange sample data numberrange Drafiwe SAnrafiwvl 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved Version 3 5 Page 69 card card name 002 card inservice dt 2006 07 15 14 53 26 card description client client name Client _014 client created_dt 2007 02 10 10 16 55 client description ingestion ingestion ingestion sk 1748 ingestion ingested dt 2007 10 31 12 22 54 ingestion notes project project name Project _028 project created_ dt 2007 02 10 10 16 55 project description IPTCcontact IPTCcontact creator Marc Rochkind IPTCcontact title IPTCcontact address 123 Main St IPTCcontact city Mytown IPTCcontact state CO IPTCcontact post 12345 IPTCcontact country USA IPTCcontact phones 987 654 3210 IPTCcontact emails IPTCcontact websites basepath com IPTCcontent IPTCcontent id 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 2007 by Marc Rochkind All rights reserved IPTCstat
35. ation group about mid way down on the left Change the Primary Root Folder to where you want ingested images to go Check Create Backup under Pre Conversion Backup Root and then set the path to where you want backed up images to go Close the Destination Details panel Press the Start button at the top right of the main window You ll be prompted to choose the camera or card Navigate to the card s DCIM folder and choose it 9 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 or that you didn t see thumbnails then that s what the rest of this manual is for 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 3 Table of Contents The Digital Photography Workflow oooocccccccccccccccccconcccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nn nn nan nn nn nn nnnnnnnnnnaanas 5 What Imagelngester Can DO shivnisiisarccscceciccinsevsvavideccccecveserdsassastssiuirdussiesceesdecesinnsusisddcee ecsccesuns 5 Gening Started ina OO 7 Hardware and Software Requirements cccccccccccccncnonnna cnn rr rr rr rr 7 SUP a a A 7 Stay Ind GCUGFENE stato cant eaten idas 8 Downloading and Installing I yeiio iieo E A E A aE E E A AOA 8 Mounting tHe camne aro Caldas 8 A Quick Tour
36. 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 II and can t be changed using II settings 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 does have an II setting 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 convert 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 Imagelngester 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 II or run it with Verify only checked and convert to DNG later outside of II AM Tip Let II convert to DNG unless you find that preview remaking in Bridge is a problem Even then let II at least verify raws if you can afford the extra
37. customize the metadata especially the Photographer and Rights parts To do that choose Set from the corresponding drop down Metadata Preset Marc Copyrighted H e M Enabled Photographer Content Rights Default Default B Y Copyrighted D Normal Quick Fields pa Rename Delete location Default Choosing Set brings up different panels for Photographer Content and Rights that contain IPTC Fields Here are the panels with the Default settings that you get when you first install IT AOO Photographer Metadata Template Default Address City ODO Rights Metadata Template Default Postal Code Rights Usage Terms Country Copyright Info URL Phone s Copyright Status l Unknown B EMail s Instructions Web URL s Provider Job Title Source Reset Cancel Save As Save Reset Cancel Save As Save 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 44 IE CATARATA Caption Description QF subject Intellectual Genre Caption Descr Writer IPTC Scene Headline IPTC Subject Code Category Location QF location A a Job Indentifier QF job State Province Country ISO Country Code Keywords Keywords lt Event rdf li gt lt rdf li gt IPTCcontent keywords Status Catalog Sets CatalogSets lt People rdf li gt lt rdf li gt client name project name
38. cuts through that box This section is based on the first edition of the book but the concepts still apply 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 58 The next section provides more details on what Imagelngester can do and how the DAM workflow in the book needs to be modified ImagelIngester and the Editing Workflow Chap 6 The Editing Workflow of The DAM Book first edition starts with this suggested work order 64 means that II can do the step 1 Ingest to computer 4 In the field save the card s images to a digital wallet 3 Back up 4 Build cache in Bridge 5 Verify files he does it visually in Bridge 4 6 Erase cards 7 Sort images if from multiple cards 4 8 Rename files 9 Apply copyright and bulk metadata 4 10 Rate images with stars 11 Adjust in Camera Raw 12 Apply keywords etc 4 13 Create DNGs 4 14 Back up DNGs 15 Save original raw files if desired 4 16 Catalog images he uses Media Pro and so do I II 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 II does are intermixed with the ones it doesn t so it s not obvious how you can use Imagelngester and then pick up from there To maximize the use of II and therefore to maximize the amount of automation and time savings for you we need to reorder the steps
39. d as a drive just like an external drive card reader or USB flash device In this case choose the GPX LOG File radio button on the GPS Data panel and press the Read GPS Data button to navigate to the file that contains the track log You might have to first save it using a command on the GPS device This is also what you do if you already have the GPX or LOG file on your computer You can select and open several track logs at once if you need to II will find what it needs from among them Connected natively not as a drive This works well with many Garmin devices such as the 60CSx I have never seen it work with a Magellan device but it s worth a try the Imagelngester coding is there To read the data this way choose the Garmin or Magellan radio buttons and then press the Read GPS Data button II uses GPSBabel which is installed automatically to read devices directly You don t have to install any software to access a USB connected GPS device on OS X On Windows you may have to install the device driver that came with your device II can read track logs only if they re formatted with one element per line like this lt trkpt lat 40 085725375 lon 105 588521529 gt lt ele gt 3240 260742 lt ele gt lt time gt 2007 09 01T20 28 35Z lt time gt lt trkpt gt It can t understand track logs with the track point on a single line like this shown wrapped lt trkpt lat 40 085725375 lon 105 588521529 gt lt e
40. d cards and the Source setting on the main window is ignored AM Tip You can ingest from any folder not just ones on cards Folders on hard drives flash 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 or other folder arrangements 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 in the section Backing Up Images If you have a pre conversion backup folder images are copied from the source to the pre conversion backup folder then from there to the primary folder then from there to the post conversion backup folder if you have one If you don t have a pre conversion backup folder images are copied from the source to the primary folder then from there to the post conversion backup folder if you have one 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 14 If you have neither pre nor post conversion backu
41. dification date time of the file the EXIF DateTimeDigitized the EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized and the DateTime from the image header It s still possible for two different images to have identical keys but the worse that will happen in that case is that IV will erroneously say that they are different and then later you can determine that they are not After the key is generated a 512 bit hash is computed from the entire file and both are stored in the IV database Note that the location of the file what folder it s in is stored for reference purposes but plays no role at all in associating keys and therefore files and their hashes Here s an example key DSC_0003 JPG 2591469 2007 02 05 22 56 43 2004 06 23 18 59 27 70 2007 02 03 14 00 20 The corresponding example hash is a 128 character string of hex digits If the file is copied to a backup or moved to another folder IV will still find its hash as long as none of the components of the key have changed Copying normally doesn t change the modification date and you need to be careful not to rename your files when you back them up Once a file is named ideally during ingestion it ought to keep that name forever A key and hash take up around 150 bytes in the database depending on the length of the key Recall that the hash represents all the bytes in the file which for most of us is around 10MB or more per image In addition there s space needed for the parent folder o
42. e Primary Folder is Users marc Pictures Family Thanksgiving 2006 you would get this Applications Documents Pictures Thanksgiving 2006 MJR_20061123_0127 DNG MJR_20061123_0128 DNG MN Tip Number range folders are what Peter Krogh recommends in The DAM Book 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 II 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 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 30 perhaps 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 Destination Details panel affects number range folders Number Range Folders Filename Numbers Auto Numbers Digits QM405 O6 Partition Size 36 The first set of radio buttons determine whether filename or auto numbers are used If file
43. e What s saved Master no all settings Destination yes Destination group settings File Handling yes File Handling group settings Keywords no Keywords group settings Metadata no Metadata group settings three drop down names Photographer Metadata Template yes template settings Content Metadata Template yes template settings Rights Metadata Template yes template settings IPTC Fields That Are Lists Several IPTC Fields are lists Keywords Catalog Sets and People Keywords and Catalog Sets have their own macros that take data from the outline in the Keywords group on the main window II doesn t have a specific user interface for People as it does for Keywords and Catalog Sets but you can use a Quick Field for this purpose if you want see below 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 46 If you want to augment what s already in the default IPTC Fields or supply your own data via Quick Fields you can separate items in a list with semicolons or commas Internally ImageIngester uses the sequence lt rdf li gt lt rdf li gt which you will occasionally see but you don t have to do it that way Macros in IPTC Field Presets IPTC Field presets can contain any II macros except for NumberRange SourcePath and a few others that apply only to folders There are already macros in the default templates For example Location QF location
44. e Naming 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 II macro datetime gets replaced by the file modification date and time in the form YYYYMMDD_hhmmss II has dozens of macros but only a few of them are useful for file naming Others are more useful for folder naming and still others help insert metadata e g Subject location into metadata templates The best way to learn what macros do is to check the Show Details 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 Image File Name Example filename numbers 0001 Example auto numbers 3456 23456 123456 Prefix YYYYMMDD_0001 Filename Number KH M Show Details Example MJR_YYYYMMDD_0001 NEF Oprefix 1 1 datetime 1 8 filename 4 To customize image naming check Show Details and edit specification Press Return after editing text 4 The DAM Book Digital Asset Management for Photographers O Reilly 2009 Many of the concepts behind Imagelngester are based on Peter s recommendations Also check out the Krogh s terrific forum thedambook com smf which has an Imagelngester section gt The actual macro u
45. e actuation count only for Nikon and Canon cameras MakeFirstWord is the first word of the value of the Make macro and is almost always the camera make That is if Make is NIKON CORPORATION MakeFirstWord is NIKON if Make is Leica Camera AG MakeFirstWord is Leica MakeFirstWord is not a standard EXIF field MakeFirstWord doesn t work well when the make is two words as in Better Light which is replaced by Better but if you have a Better Light back you ll remember what Better means in a a Macro Lab Run Show All y You can enter your own text and macros in the left pane card card card name card name card name 2GB SanDisk 21 card inservice_dt card inservice_dt card inservice_dt 2006 07 12 15 27 43 card description Bcard description card description cliem client clientname Sclient name clientname Acme Marketing chientcremed_ dt clientcreated_ dp Clientcreated_ dt 2006 08 02 10 07 23 client descripton Scliem description Clientdescripton ingestion ingestion ingestion ingestion_sk ingeston ingestion_sk ingestion ingeston_sk 116 ingestion ingested dt ingestion ingested_ di ingestion ingested_ dt 2006 08 02 10 10 34 ingestion notes ingestion notes ingestion notes card was dropped needs extra checking project project projectname project name projectname Hardware Sale project created_dt project created_ dt project created_ dt 2006 08 02 10 07
46. e cards are listed which are those that the operating system considers to be a removable drive and which have a top level folder named DCIM Cameras connected via PTP are not shown Both the card label and the description of the card reader are shown but if you have multiple cards from the same camera and card readers of the same model you won t be able to tell which is which If you can tell you can choose not to ingest from a card by unchecking its Ingest checkbox If cards are mounted or unmounted with the Ingestion Monitor panel already showing you can bring it up to date with the Refresh button You can eject all the cards with the Eject button It s also OK to eject them with the Finder or Windows Explorer but then you have to press Refresh or close the panel Click Start when you re ready to ingest The current settings apply to all cards as though they were a single giant card Auto numbers and number range folders are by card so you won t get images intermixed from different cards For auto numbering and number range folders cards are considered in order of the date of the first image on the card as though the images were sorted alphabetically by name If you re not naming cards with auto numbers or using number range folders it doesn t matter what the order is since folders and image names are determined by considering each image independently If you need to stop the ingestion click the Stop button which is enabled dur
47. e dialog that results which will set the viewer setting to none 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 34 II will pass to the viewer the folder that you most recently ingested to if you have the Pass in Folder checkbox checked This tends to work well with Bridge on OS X With other applications and on Windows even with Bridge the application may not open to the right folder although it should still open On Windows there s a checkbox Folder Has Spaces that causes the folder passed to the viewer to be quoted It is turned off by default If you re having trouble passing the folder to the viewer try both settings for this option to see if either helps However if you uncheck it make sure the folder path does not have spaces Note that the viewer will probably not honor the folder if the viewer is already running If you ingest to several folders only one of them will be passed to the viewer AM Tip If your ingestion puts images in several folders only one of them the most recently ingested to will be passed to the viewer Checking For Updates If you check Update Check on the Preferences panel II checks for an update once a week If you get a notification that an update is available you can download it from the Imagelngester web site which you can get to easily by choosing Imagelngester Web Site from the Help menu External Logging If yo
48. e filename number which is the last four digits 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 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 23 Some other choices use other data Auto Number which uses a sequence generated by II that starts with 1 when you first install II 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 Card file modification time in the form hhmmss using the 24 hour clock A two 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 File Name Example filename numbers 0001 Example auto numbers 3456 23456 123456 Prefix Prefix YYYYMMDD_0001 Filename Number B 1 Show Details MJR Press Return after entering text Example MJR_YYYYMMDD_0001 NEF M TID 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 Imag
49. e 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 If two files have the same date time they re ingested in alphabetical order by name 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 uses the file name number probably won t work since the resulting files when ordered by name might be in the wrong order 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 56 In practice you ll probably want to use one Master Preset e g Multi Camera 1 for the initial ingestions of a multi camera shoot and a second Master Preset 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 I 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 inges
50. e 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 below Accessing the Database with SQLite Database Browser MN Tip Everything in this section is still accurate but now II s Database panel has its own Export button 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 II doesn t run which can be downloaded from http sourceforge net projects sqlitebrowser After you download and install the Browser you open the II database and you ll see a window like this e O A amp SQLite Database Browser Users marc Library Application Support ImagelngesterPro ii_ A iw Be Ge e I ee ly Database Structure Browse Data Execute SQL Name Object Type Schema IPT Ccontact table CREATE TABLE IPTCcontact IPT Ccontact_sk integer n IPT Ccontent table CREATE TABLE IPTCcontent IPTCcontent_sk integer n PTCimage table CREATE TABLE IPTCimage IPTCimage_sk integer not 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 gt client table CREATE TABLE client client_sk integer not null prima ingestion table CREATE TABLE ingestion ingestion_sk integer
51. eeded as explained in the previous section This behavior is identical whether you press Start or Thumbs Here s the thumbnail chooser 00 Choose Photos to be Ingested Folders 2008 03 08 2008 03 12 2008 03 14 2008 03 15 2008 03 27 2008 04 04 2008 04 16 2008 04 18 2008 04 20 2008 04 30 2008 05 17 2008 05 25 Check Selected Uncheck Selected Dates 2008 04 04 2008 04 16 2008 04 18 2008 04 20 2008 04 25 2008 04 27 2008 05 01 2008 05 17 2008 05 25 2008 05 26 2008 05 30 2008 06 12 _ Check Selected Uncheck Selected Types DNG JPG PSD As VER _ Check Selected Uncheck Selected Check Selected Uncheck Selected Select All Select None Invert Selection A missing or improperly displayed thumbnail will not interfere with ingestion Check All Uncheck All Total 681 Skipped O Checked 5 Cancel Choose Choose Start Initially all of the images in the source folder and its descendant folders are represented and checked I say represented because Imagelngester is unable to Show thumbnails for every image type and might show a placeholder instead However whether a thumbnail is shown has no effect on ingestion II can ingest files of any type If any filtering is in effect via the File Handling Details panel that filtering takes place before the chooser is shown You can check or uncheck all images with the Check All and Uncheck
52. ended to the file name to make it unique This sequence number is unrelated to the Auto Number As II doesn t maintain a catalog as Expression Media Media Pro and Lightroom do it doesn t detect duplicates that are not in the same folder or which don t have identical names Arranging Images Into Folders Recall that the folder that images are ingested into is determined by the Primary Root 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 Destination Details 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 determines how they re organized As with image file names there are some basic folder arrangement choices on a drop down on the Destination Details panel 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 26 YYYYMM YYYY MM DD Show Details YYYY MM YYYY MM DD subject YYYYNYYY MM DD subject 0420 0511 number range client project0420 0511 none directly in Primary Folder Custom To customize folder naming check Show Details and edit specification Press Return after editing text Folder Arrangement Drop Down Choices
53. er on when specific features are discussed in detail The Main Window The main window looks like this OOQ ImagelngesterPro i Press Start or Cards to begin Master Preset Production D200 Metadata Starr i a Source Mounted NIKON D200 Kingston FCR HS219 1 Preset ral Enabled e Cards 4 user choice Set Photographer Rights o Full Normal Normal H Starting Number Thumbs Eject C Auto Ingest _ Auto Eject po 12113 x E Quick Fields Keywords Identification y ar A Preset Client Personal H Project General H l Catalog Sets Card unspecified H A y Keywords H O Birthday A gt ome Destination O Claire M D200 Preset B Set subject O 070 Flag O EX 5500 Primary Users marc Pictures Primary2 O Gillian Backup Pre Volumes External Backup ImagelngesterBackup Backup Post Users marc Pictures ImagelngesterBackupPost not used Folder Arr datetime 1 4 datetime 1 4 datetime 5 2 datetime 7 2 Number Range filename numbers File Handling Preset Seti i Notes for Next Ingestion File Name i prefix 1 1 K datetime 1 8 filename 4 Filter Exclude JPG INF CCH ID Results DNG Run DNG Converter no JPEG preview JPEGs verified 0 Files copied without error but unverified 0 JPEG SUCCESSFUL INGESTION no errors detected ACR Develop Setings none H Number range 12108 thro
54. eral places such as metadata and file name but only one text field labeled subject will appear on the main window 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 47 As shown in screen shots above the default Metadata Templates already define three Quick Fields QF job QF location and QF subject which causes those three text fields to appear on the main window Quick Fields job ABC Corp Annual Report location Steamboat subject __ ski lifts Here s how Quick Fields work When ingestion starts the data you typed e g Steamboat is substituted for the Quick Field macro so the metadata template becomes in effect Location Steamboat City State Province The actual data isn t really entered it s just that II behaves as though it had been Since the metadata templates control what goes into the sidecars Steamboat becomes the value of that IPTC Field for each ingested image If you want say City to also take on a Quick Field value just enter a macro for it Location QF location City QF city State Province and then one more text field will appear on the main window Quick Fields city job ABC Corp Annual Report location Steamboat subject ski lifts Establishing Adobe Camera Raw Lightroom Develop Settings Once you ve saved one or more Camera Raw s
55. es of the two files will show that the files are not the same Comparing the actual files is even better but in the case of a single file that s been damaged you don t have two files All you have is the damaged file and the hash from when it used to be good Also reading one file to compute its hash takes half as long as reading two files The nice thing about structure checking is that no bookkeeping is involved each file stands on its own Hash checking however does create complications because you need to put the hash somewhere and you need a way of associating the image with its hash This is easy for a DAM system that controls all the assets but much harder with a little passive utility like IV Putting the hash inside the file is one approach but this has two problems It s safe only for certain formats for which it s allowed such as DNG and it requires IV to write into the file which 1 don t want to do because it raises the possibility of damage to the file during verification and because many photographers don t want to use any utilities that write into their files 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 77 So here s the scheme that IV uses For each file a key is generated that s rich enough so that two different images won t have the same key The key is the concatenation of the filename not the path just the last component the size the mo
56. ettings in Adobe Camera Raw ACR or Develop settings in Lightroom you can choose the settings you want from a drop down on II s main window 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 48 Backup Post Volumes External Temp TempBackupPost not used Flash Elks Lodge Grayscale GreenFilterApprox MJR Grayscale MJR Folder Arr nu Nikon Weird Number Range auto WorldsFair File Handling _ Antique Grayscale LR 3 l Crazy Blue LR Preset rese Cyanotype LR gt File Name lenam Direct Positive LR Dust 2009 02 25 LR Grayscale Conversion LR Filter Exclude Sepia Tone LR Tone Curve Lightroom Default LR Tone Curve Linear Contrast LR Tone Curve Medium Contrast LR JPEG verify Tone Curve Strong Contrast LR Zero d LR ACR Develop Seting Y G9 ISO 800 LR User Preset Landscape LR User Preset my new preset LR User Preset Sharpen Zero LR User Preset DNG Run DNG C GPS tagging no Viewer none none Refresh If you ve also enabled metadata the ACR Develop settings will be placed inside the resulting XMP sidecar by II otherwise a sidecar will be created just for the ACR Develop Settings If you re converting to DNG also DNG Converter will incorporate the ACR Develop settings along with the rest of the metadata if any into the DNG What s more DNG Converter will use the ACR Develop s
57. ettings 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 or Lightroom Here s an example of how you save the settings in Adobe Camera Raw Lightroom works similarly oe Save Raw Conversion Settings Save As Flash Elks Lodge xmp Where Settings You must save to the Settings folder which is the default location II won t look anywhere else for them You choose the settings from the ACR Develop drop down II main window as shown above Choose Refresh if the settings don t appear Metadata Template Camera Raw Develop Settings Imagelngester IPTC a Flash Elks Lodge a When you view the images in Bridge you ll see your settings in the metadata window Metadata Keywords gt Make NIKON CORPORAT Mode NIKON 070 Y Camera Raw White Balance Custom Temperature 5450 K Tint 11 Exposure 0 60 Shadows Brightness 122 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 49 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 Adjust Detail wens Curve Calibrase White Balance As Shot 3 Temperature 4850
58. evelop settings to the raw file or whether they re left in a sidecar that sits next to the native raw Keywords work as expected but Catalog Sets which are unique to Expression Media Media Pro are not picked up by Lightroom Hierarchical keywords aren t supported by Imagelngester 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 length must be present also if length is present start must be present also When coding a macro you should treat spaces as significant For example notes gt won t work it has to be notes You can get away with spaces around the start and length 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 numbered 1 and continuing for length 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 t
59. f each image but these are shared by all the images in that folder so if you have say 50 images in a folder storing the parent path adds only around 1 or 2 bytes per image Doing the math the space to store the keys and hashes for 200 000 images is only about 30MB which is about the space of 3 images A lot of overhead space is also need for indexing so the 30MB maybe should be tripled Still the space cost is reasonable When you run IV you have the option of doing a hash check a structure check or both To run a hash check you must have previously generated the hashes for the files you want to check If during a hash check no stored hash can be found for an image that is no match for the key you get a failure message that s different from the message you get when the hashes fail to match The hash check is pretty fast Less than a half second per image compared to 2 4 seconds for a structure check In practice the workflow is something like this You take a folder of images known to be good and run IV on them with the Store Hashes checkbox checked This automatically checks the Check Structure checkbox because a hash is stored in the database only if the file passed the structure check Then after the hashes are stored you can run a hash check on the same files now or a year from now or 5 years from now Here s a simple test I ran I stored hashes from a folder of JPEGs and then took one of them copied it to another fo
60. f the User Interfaces mr 10 TEM A VAIN GOW Ac 10 Set nas ana Presets ii A E A AA RA enna 11 TRe TO01S Menu ci AS ao 12 Basic Features AR 13 COPYING Mad Sii A A A a eee ee ee 13 Choosing MATES A Aa 16 MultiCard INGESTION ssuvewisescadoreevansinastwanesd tevevexveasoudete2tvascededdscnesgeesentdenesenceetoudaeenanzawatereesaens 18 AULOMALIC INgGestoON ri A NA 19 Back AG UpiMades va daa 19 BUIN DISCS ata oia 21 RENAMING IIMAGSS indica di led Dad ae O AD DA O TE A NT EEN ANS 21 Arrandgina Images Into POIS nit as 25 Converting images to DN Gisselle i 31 Vernfving INIA ESA A A A oe eae 33 Extracting JPEGS rO RAWS ar E E 33 kaunching a VIEW ecrire A A ead OA EAE 33 CHECKING FOR UD GaleSies acceso casita E a 34 External LOGGING ir AA 34 SLOG Ingesti n Detalla a ON 34 unsaved Preset Reminder asa NES 34 GPS TAG o Mea alan 34 Advanced Features a 42 Tracking Clients Projects Cards and INgestiONS ccoccococnnnnnnncocccnncncnannr rr ran rre rr 42 IPTE ana UserData Database Tables tada 42 Adding Bulk Metadata to Raw MITOS ini AA 42 Establishing Adobe Camera Raw Lightroom Develop SettinQS cccccccccccccccccnnnnnnnnnnnnn nn n naar 47 Entering Catalog Sets and KeywWordS 00occcccccccnococeccccorooonacnccr rana rr ner rra rre 49 Fiternng BY Image TYDE dada ANA AA oda 50 Hanalina Multi amet SiOGts a A AS id 50 Examining Image Interna Siria a 57 More ADOUE WorkflOW siii aia 57 Imagelngester and DAM Workflow oocccococcccccocccccccc c
61. fier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 57 won t do anything about the quality of your shots They ll be in the right order though Examining Image Internals You can use the Too s Examine command to select a single image file whose internal structure you want to examine This is also the best way to determine what the values of EXIF macros are for a particular image Ignore error and warning messages that appear in the details output These messages have no effect on ingestion To get an even more detailed view of EXIF IPTC and other metadata check out my app ExifChanger which is in the Mac App Store It s for MacOS only More About Workflow Imagelngester and DAM Workflow This section is for readers of Peter Krogh s The DAM Book Digital Asset Management for Photographers 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 II Fits In the DAM Workflow In the workflow diagram the appears in Chap 1 of the book II 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 Krogh www thedambook com Used with permission Imagelngester E E A Catalogi rake a 1 II 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
62. g 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 ImagelIngester com and ask for help You can run II 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 ImagelngesterPro OS X or Tools Windows menu That takes you to the purchasing web site which you can also access directly at Imagelngester com buylicense php Follow the instructions on the web site to complete the registration process There s an Update Check option on the Preferences 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 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 9 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 Method 1 works with Imagelngester if the camera is can mount as a mass storage or removable device or as a PTP device II on Windows XP doesn t support PTP Method 2 is almost always a better choice even if Method 1 works beca
63. gester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 53 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 ingested 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 In the view of the Multi Camera Shoot panel shown above 1 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 ge
64. h includes 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 Imagelngester itself such as your OS SQLite SQLite Database Browser ODBC drivers Expression Media Media Pro Photoshop Lightroom and Aperture However sometimes you can get help if you post a message to a web forum such as the Imagelngester forum at thedambook com smf Staying Current The best way to keep up with Imagelngester and ImageVerifier developments is to subscribe to the RSS feed for the Imagelngester Blog Details are at Imagelngester com look for the link at the left of the web page Downloading and Installing II You can download II from the web site Imagelngester com That gets you a DMG file on OS X 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 ImagelngesterPro3 app file 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 If Imagelngester won t run after you install it do the followin
65. he 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 gf subject 0 1 qf location which would be replaced by something like Boulder if gf subject is empty This is cleaner than qgf subject 0 1 qf location which would be replaced by Boulder The name part of the macro has one of four forms simplemacro af quick_field_label 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 62 table field exif field MW Tip The best way to see how the various macros are used is with the Macro Lab 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 study this table carefully The filename in this case is ABCDOOO1 filename 1 ABCDO0001 From character 1 to end same as entire filename filename 2 BCD0001 From character 2 to end filename 1 1 From character 1 counting backwards from the end to the end filename 3 00 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 charac
66. he Store Hashes for Invalid TIFFs that then appears That way you can still perform hash checking in the future on all your TIFFs even those that IV erroneously called invalid Acknowledgements Thanks to Peter Krogh for The DAM Book for hosting the Imagelngester forum at thedambook com smf and for designing the new Version 3 user interface Also thanks to the many users especially beta testers who found many bugs verified that features were working and contributed many suggestions for new features 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16
67. he 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 gqf subject YYYY YYYY MM DD subject datetime 1 4 datetime 1 4 datetime 5 2 datetime 7 2 qf subject 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 31 0420 0511 number range numberrange client project 0420 0511 client name project name numberrange none Primary Folder only AM Tip In folder and file naming you can have at most one Quick Field macro 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 the original raw file e g NEF CR2 a JPEG thumbnail
68. hecked Catalog Sets See the section Catalog Sets and Keywords This macro is only useful in Metadata Templates because its replacement uses XMP syntax Datetime 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 date time 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 DateTimeAny One of 4 date times considered in order until one of them produces a date time The order is exif DateTimeOriginal exif DateTimeDigitized exif DateTimeChanged DateTime This macro is useful when various image formats are processed that may have one or more of the 3 EXIF date times missing e g DateTimeDigitized but not DateTimeOriginal or the other way around If there is no EXIF time the file modification time is used Therefore some date time is guaranteed DateTimeAnyMonth The month part of datetimeAny spelled out in English e g November 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 64 DateTimeAnyWeekday The weekday part of datetimeAny spelled out i
69. hotoshop 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 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 to 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 Maybe even tagging images with GPS location data 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 Imagelngester is for Once you ve chosen your settings backup location naming scheme folder locations and so on all you do to ingest is insert the card in your card reader or plug in your came
70. ications Council and because Adobe and other software vendors call it IPTC data 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 43 Sidecars Except for GPS data and JPEGs if Merge XMPs is checked on the File Handling Details panel Imagelngester never writes metadata or anything else into an image file Rather it writes a sidecar file for each image that has exactly the same file name as the image 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 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 II II will not update an existing sidecar II can write sidecars for all ingested files but only a few imaging applications make use of them Among those that do are Adobe applications such as Bridge Photoshop and Lightroom and Microsoft s Expression Media Media Pro AM Tip As of this writing Adobe applications do not read sidecars associated with JPEG files Instead II will write metadata directly into JPEGs if you check Merge XMPs on the File Handling Details panel Entering Metadata To get II to write your metadata to sidecars just check the Enabled checkbox in the Metadata group at the top of the main window You ll probably want to
71. if the camera or card is mounted as a drive is to press the Set from Photo button on the GPS Data panel and navigate to the picture of the clock Or just display the picture on the camera s LCD along with the EXIF time This works only if the EXIF time is displayed with seconds 4 The Set from Photo button will automatically set both the EXIF Time and Actual Time fields on the GPS Data panel to the EXIF time from the photo Then set the Actual Time to what the picture shows You ll see the Adjustment on the GPS Data panel 15 sec in the example shown earlier 5 If you didn t use the Set from Photo button just enter both times into their respective fields The Adjustment is used only for matching the images with the track log No image data or files are changed The track log isn t changed either Remember that setting the time adjustment is only necessary if your camera s clock wasn t set correctly to begin with If you do set it you can leave the adjustment on the GPS Data panel at zero 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 39 Reading the Track Log To read the track log you can either connect your GPS device to your computer with its USB cable so II can read it directly or get a GPX file onto your computer any other way your want such as with software supplied with the device There are two ways that GPS devices can be connected Mounte
72. image location IPTCimage location IPTCimage city IPTCimage city IPTCimage state IPTCimage state IPTCimage country IPTCimage country IPTCimage countrycode IPTCimage countrycode IPTCstatus IPTCstatus id IPTCstatus id IPTCstatus title IPTCstatus title IPTCstatus job IPTCstatus job IPTCstatus instructions IPTCstatus instructions IPTCstatus provider IPTCstatus provider IPTCstatus source IPTCstatus source IPTCstatus copyright IPTCstatus copyright IPTCstatus rights IPTCstatus rights UserData UserData id UserData id UserData fieldl UserData field1 UserData field2 UserData field2 UserData field3 UserData field3 UserData field4 UserData field4 UserData field5 UserData field5 UserData field6 UserData field6 UserData field7 UserData field7 Simple Macros CatalogSets catalogsets Keywords keywords Notes notes Filename sample data filename Extension sample data extension FilenameNew sample data filenameNew SourcePath sample data SourcePath DateTime datetime of file sample data DateTime DateTimeCurrent DateTimeCurrent DateTimeAny DateTimeAny DateTimeMonth month of file sample data DateTimeMonth DateTimeCurrentMonth DateTimeCurrentMonth DateTimeAnyMonth DateTimeAnyMonth DateTimeWeekday weekday of file sample data DateTimeWeekday DateTimeCurrentWeekday DateTimeCurrentWeekday D
73. ind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 50 Filtering By Image Type By default II ingests every file it finds in the tree of folders below the Source Folder However on the File Handling Details panel you can specify a list of file extensions to include which causes all other files to be 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 Extensions _ Exclude BC BCT CCH DB DMG DSC EXE ICO ID ID INF LSC LST MP3 MRK NJB SYS E O include Exclude BC BCT CCH DB DMG DSC EXE ICO ID ID INF LSC LST MP3 MRK NJB SYS Press Return after entering text AM TID Don t forget to press the Return or Enter keys after typing in the extensions field Handling Multi Camera Shoots Introduction This section describes the Multi Camera Shoot feature of II 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 without using the Multi Camera Shoot feature provided e You incorporate the date and time into the file name so that the image files sort appropriately and e The ca
74. inds of files are copied with an include exclude filter If you re using the thumbnail chooser by pressing Thumbs on the main window instead of Start you get to choose what images are copied after the include exclude filter if any is applied Files known to be in raw format are passed through Adobe DNG Converter to convert them to DNG if you ve enabled that feature Currently these image types are ARW CR2 CRW DCR DNG EEF IIQ KDC MOS MRW NEF ORF PEF RAF RAW SR2 SRF TIF and X3F The web page Imagelngester com technotes php has the current list If you ve enabled a pre conversion backup files are copied from the source 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 II 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 II from the source folder to the primary folder and DNG conversion is 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 above one of Imagelngester s design
75. ing ingestion 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 19 Ingestion s active 2 Stop Start SANVOL Y E DATA USB HS SD Card Media Y Ingest Writing XMP to JPEG CIMGO064 JPG image 11 USB SOOMB Kingston DataTraveler 2 0 Media Y ingest Running Adobe DNG Converter for verification only NO NAME HP Digital Drive Media Y ingest lst copy L1000499 DNG image 3 NIKON D200 EPSON Storage Viewer Media Y Ingest lst copy _NKNO792 NEF image 6 NO NAME 1 EPSON Storage Viewer Media Y ingest lst copy L1000413 DNG image 8 Eject Refresh Close Don t eject or remove any cards until the entire ingestion is completed While II might support this someday the current ambiguous naming makes it extremely hazardous as you can easily ruin the ingestion by removing the wrong card Automatic Ingestion If you check Auto Ingest in the Source group on the main window ingestion starts automatically without your having to press Start when you insert an image card or connect a camera while II is running 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 inserting and removing them without having to interact with II at all Neither setting affects the Ingestion Monitor panel that you get when you click the Cards button as it manages cards for i
76. ingestion time that running DNG Converter takes Sidecars and Conversion to DNG If you use II s metadata and or ACR Develop settings 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 II or later on e g from Bridge 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 33 For non DNG raws and non raws e g JPEGs the XMP sidecar files created by II stay around Adobe applications such as Photoshop and Lightroom will read them for raws not JPEGs as will certain other applications notably Expression Media Media Pro If you check Merge XMPs on the File Handling Details panel data from sidecars associated with JPEGs is written directly into the JPEG by II and then the sidecars are deleted Then Adobe applications will pick up the metadata associated with JPEGs Verifying Images II 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 File Handling Details panel to have JPEGs JPG file extension verified If either verification fails an error message will show up on the main window Neither verificat
77. ion IV is designed to process large numbers of images Folder hierarchies with 100 000 images or more should be no problem In one test run IV ran for 14 hours There are two kinds of verification that IV performs Structure checking and hash checking described in a separate section below All verification other than for raws is built in JPEGs and TIFFs are verified using built in libraries as well PSDs are verified using code written specifically for IV Raws e g NEFs DNGs are verified by running them through Adobe DNG Converter For all image files structure checking is performed by reading the actual image data decompressing as necessary This can find many errors but not all as some errors are indistinguishable for image data See below for more information The list of extensions for raw files is the same as Imagelngester s except that unlike Imagelngester there s a hidden way to change the extensions Send mail to Support Imagelngester com if you need this If your raw files end in TIF you can set an option for that on the main window The real work is done by subprocesses so IV can take advantage of multiple CPU or multiple core computers If you have 4 CPUs it should be capable of fully loading all 4 at once You can control the number of subprocesses with a drop down on the main window in case you want IV to take less that the whole machine For each verification run called a job you can choose the folders
78. ion 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 You can also verify images with a separate application ImageVerifier described below Extracting JPEGs from Raws If you check Extract from Raw on the File Handling Details panel II will extract a full size JPEG from raw files it ingests and write it to a subfolder under the Primary Folder named JPEG Not all raw formats support full size JPEGs those that do include NEF CR2 PEF and RW2 You ll have to experiment if you re using another type of raw This feature may make it unnecessary to shoot raw JPEG if you want JPEGs right away I don t know however whether the extracted raws are identical to those produced as separate files by the camera s firmware Even if they aren t they may be suitable for your purposes Launching a Viewer You can arrange for an external application to be launched when ingestion is completed by choosing it in the File Handling Details panel If you don t want an application launched press the Choose Viewer button and then cancel th
79. k 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 II 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 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 8 Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom can both process JPEGs exactly as they do raws so this distinction goes away 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 61 Imagelngester and Lightroom II works fine with Lightroom whether DNGs are generated to bind metadata and ACR D
80. l know when it s time to start experimenting with presets you l get tired of all that clicking around Default Presets The presets labeled Default aren t special or reserved you can make changes to them just as you can to any other presets To get the as installed settings back use the Reset button on the detail panels The only purpose of the Default presets is so that you can just press the Save button to close a detail panel and save your settings without having to come up with a name The Tools Menu Here are the Tools menu on the Mac and on Windows the Windows Tools menu has one more choice the Preferences item On OS X it s on the ImagelngesterPro menu 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 13 EZTA Help A Database b i Database j Macro Lab Macro Lab verea 3 q Multi Camera Examine 1 ae GPS Input amine g h GPS Input Burn Discs Burn Discs I View Log It i _ Clear Log pons oo a Clear Log g Preferences p Basic Features Copying Images Four Folders Imagelngester deals mostly with four folders although the two backup folders are optional 1 Source 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 If you press the Cards button ingestion is from mounte
81. lder and wrote a single x byte into it 123 bytes from the end being careful to reset the modification time back to its original value The resulting damaged JPEG passed the structure check but it failed the hash check 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 78 In use IV seems to magically just remember all your images and what their bytes are supposed to be and then dips into its memory whenever it sees a repeat image All this works no matter what folder structure you use how many backups you have or how often you rearrange things Just don t change the file names Administration of the hashes is limited but they re not supposed to be anything you need to tend to There s a panel you can open up to see the folders whose images were hashed along with a list of the keys for those images You can purge a single folder although you don t have to since storing new hashes with the same keys will overwrite the old hashes Dealing with Invalid TIFFs Photography apps play fast and loose with the TIFF standard so IV s structure checking frequently calls TIFFs invalid when they are actually perfectly OK For this reason structure checking on TIFFs isn t very useful You can still use hash checking with TIFFs however If you know that your TIFFs are good and you want to ensure that they stay that way you can check the Store Hashes checkbox and also t
82. le gt 3240 260742 lt ele gt lt time gt 2007 09 01T20 28 352Z lt time gt lt trkpt gt If II is unable to read your track log open the file with a text editor and check the format You can probably reformat to something II understands by running it through GPSBabel available free from gpsbabel org Saving the Track Log A Tip If you read the track log directly from the device Garmin or Magellan radio buttons you ll probably want to save the track log so you ll have it if you need to ever re ingest the images To save the log check the Save File checkbox that appears when you check the Garmin or Magellan checkboxes If the checkbox is checked you ll be prompted to choose a file name when you press the Read GPS Data button If you re reading a file directly GPX LOG File checked you ll have to save the data yourself if it s not already copied from the GPS device to more permanent storage 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 40 How and When Images Are Tagged Actual writing of GPS data into images is done by ExifTool sno phy queensu ca phil exiftool which is automatically included in the II installation MN TID The two external tools mentioned GPSBabel and ExifTool are automatically installed and invoked by II You don t have to install them What images get tagged depends on whether you have a pre conversion backup or not If you
83. le layer DVDs or Blu ray discs 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 II can rename files for you to incorporate the date the time the subject or client project location etc your initials a sequence number EXIF data or any combination of these You choose the naming options you want on the File Handling Detail panel which shows when you click the File Handling Set button 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 22 DUDO File Handling Details Image File Name Example filename numbers 0001 Example auto numbers 3456 23456 123456 Prefix Y Prefix_YYYYMMDD_0001 Filename Number M Show Details MJR Prefix_YYMMDD_0001 Filename Number Press Return after entering text Prefix YYYYMM_0001 Filename Number Prefix YYMM_0001 Filename Number Prefix YYYYMMDD_3456 Auto Number Prefix _ YYMMDD_3456 Auto Number Prefix YYYYMM_3456 Auto Number Prefix YYMM_3456 Auto Number lext Prefix YYYYMMDD_ 23456 Auto Number Prefix _YYMMDD_23456 Auto Number Prefix YYYYMM_ 23456 Auto Number Prefix YYMM_23456 Auto Number KH Prefix YYYYMMDD_123456 Auto Number Prefix YYMMDD_1235456 Auto Number Prefix YYYYMM_123456 Auto Number Prefix_YYMM_123456
84. les such as JPEGs from a camera that insists on including a JPEG along with each raw Or you can choose to include only designated files which is handy when you re using II to re ingest an entire folder tree on your hard drive Tracking clients projects cards and ingestions in 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 so that files from different cameras can be renamed in time sequence order 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 7 Examining the internal structure of images and viewing the values of EXIF macros Each of these bulleted features is discussed in its own section under Basic Features or Advanced Features The following diagram shows how II automates ingestion Some features such as the post ingestion backup and GPS tagging aren t shown Size verified after copy Backupana rary best on separate drives Each JPEG read and decompressed Bridge Photoshop etc Getting Started Hardware and Software Requirements Imagelngester 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 connect to your camera or card which usually means a USB or FireWire connection see the section Mounting
85. meras clocks are perfectly synchronized and e 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 II 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 II settings you want The only restriction is that all folders comprising the Same shoot must have the same parent folder Number range folders are ideal 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 51 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 Multi Camera Shoot Parent Folder Volumes External TestData MultiTestingests Folder Start End Adjust Images 1 0000 0360 2006 09 14 01 32 58 PM 2006 09 14 01 34 22 PM 0 0350 0363 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 35 34 PM 0 14 Folders added manually Choose Clear Table Re Ingest dh
86. n English e g Wednesday DateTimeCurrent The current date and time as set on the computer at the time the macro is processed DateTimeCurrentMonth The month part of datetimeCurrent spelled out in English e g November DateTimeCurrentWeekday The weekday part of datetimeCurrent spelled out in English e g Wednesday DateTimeMonth The month part of datetime spelled out in English e g November DateTimeWeekday The weekday part of datetime spelled out in English e g Wednesday Extension The extension part of the original filename The entire extension is used even if it s more than three characters The dot is not used Filename The original file name of the image without the 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 XXXXNNNN Be careful it you re re ingesting because the filenames may no longer be in their original format FilenameNew The new filename as set on the File Handling Details panel Does not include the entire path or the extension For example if the naming is prefix 1 1 _ datetime 1 8 _ filename 4 the value of lt filenamenew might be MJR_20071102 1234 whereas the value of filename might be NIKN1234 Keywords The checked Keywords See the section Catalog Sets and Keywords This macro is only useful in Metadata Templa
87. n choose Save from the Master Preset drop down rivuutwivuiir wry naitu 4 Production Epson P 3000 L Production G9 Se Y Production Leica SidecarCopyTest Test LR Develop Settings Test Metadata testl testl multi E 31 Ig A Save As Rename Delete eaten Default 2 If the preset doesn t yet have a name you ll be prompted to enter one You can also Save an existing preset under a different name with Save As rename one with Rename or delete one with Delete Whenever you change a setting that s potentially saved in a preset an orange marker appears next to that preset drop down to remind you that you might want to save your settings Master Preset Production D200 Source Mounted NIKON D200 Kingston FCR HS219 1 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 12 Group Presets There are also presets for the Destination File Handling Metadata and Keywords groups These save only the settings for that group They also have Save Save As Rename and Delete commands and a Default choice at the bottom For the two groups with detail panels and Set buttons on the main window the Save and Save As buttons appear on the panel not on the main window drop down If you save settings in one of the group presets Destination say it indirectly affects a Master Presets that refer to that group preset
88. n 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 sqlite 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 versions earlier than 10 4 may not have it but those earlier versions won t run Imagelngester anyway On Windows open the downloaded ZIP file and copy or extract the sqlite3 exe file to some folder such as C Program Files SQLite Create the folder first if necessary 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 ImagelngesterPro s database file Navigate with Windows Explorer or the Mac Finder to the SQLite3 database file li_main sqlite3 Its location may vary with your system On Windows right click on ii_main sglite3 and choose Open From the dialog choose Select a program browse to the sqlite3 exe program you installed and use it to open the ii_main sqlite3 file On the Mac open the Terminal application type sqlite3 don t forget the space after the c
89. name 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 MW Tip A common mistake is to use Filename Numbers when the file names don t follow the standard XXXXNNNN EXT format which might happen if you re re ingesting images whose file names have been changed In such a case the number range folders might not have the numbers you expect and might even be strings of zeros e g 00000 00000 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 the folder arrangement drop downs really just expand into macros which you can see by checking the Show Details checkbox Macros are explained in detail later but you might find it illuminating to look at t
90. nd i e truncated files were all reported as invalid Perhaps truncated files and files with their headers clobbered are the most commonly found bad files and those are all detected For some additional insight into the problem of detecting invalid files imagine a file format that consists of a 4 byte width a 4 byte length and then width times height 3 byte RGB pixels In this arrangement as long as the width and length accurately describe the file since any RGB combination is valid no holes punched into the file would be detectable unless they affect the first 8 bytes That s the worst case and it s close to the TIFF case if no compression is used Hash Checking Structure checking can be effective in finding damage if the damage is large and or the image is compressed For highly compressed images like JPEGs damage detection is very good It s not so good for uncompressed raws such as the DNGs that come straight from a Leica M8 It s better for compressed DNGs but not as good as it is for JPEGs Another approach entirely is hash checking which is maintaining for each image known to be good a fixed length hash computed from all the bytes in the file so that it s unlikely that two different files will produce the same hash Not impossible since the hash is of fixed length and the number of possible image files is infinite If the two files are the good one and a copy or even the original that s been damaged then comparing hash
91. nn rr rr rr rr rr 57 A SIMPITEG WORKHOW da A oa 59 Imagelngester and LIRIOS A AA 61 Reference Matera lisisninicirara nd A A 61 A E AN 61 ME tre rere tres hee ne See eee a ee ee rer re ere eer err rrr error ce A 68 Database aa ias 70 Locating Presets Databases Templates and LOG cccsseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesececeseneeeeneneeteeenseneeeaaaans 72 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 4 EMAGE Verena Na 75 Overall OD SCAT ON ara A eee tndtavaae eeu 75 More About Detection of Invalid Files With Structure CHeECKING cccccceeee eee e eee e eee e ee eeeeeeeeeeaaaaes 76 PASH CHECKING A A on 76 Dea iia with Invalid TIFE S a A E A as 78 Acknowledgements isso ew nsnmedaW ena WnmnmedauwaiseswwasundnusiunadeuseuusuN 78 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 5 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 from negatives or slides For most photographers the process has changed dramatically They now have their own digital darkrooms P
92. ommand name and don t press Return and then drag the file ili_main sqlite3 from the Finder previously located in Step 4 to the Terminal application so the path becomes the file name argument after sqlite3 which you just typed Then hit Return The command line should look something like this sqlite3 Users marc Library Application Support ImageIngesterPro ii main sqlite3 You can also just type the whole command line but that s much too hard 6 You should now be in the sqlite3 command opened to the ImagelngesterPro database Type tables don t forget the leading dot to see a list of tables 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 72 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 sqlite3 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 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 g
93. omputer without setting anything on the device and Imagelngester can access it Aside from the connectivity issues there s also the issue of accuracy When you set your device to record a track log don t worry about any extra data points II will read the whole log to find the points it needs to interpolate between Just make sure the device is tracking before the first photo and after the last photo are taken as Imagelngester can only interpolate not extrapolate The GPS Panel GPS Data M Enable GPS tagging Close Time Zone Camera clock s time zone at time of shoot Boulder Mountain 7 HH vi Daylight Savings Summer Time Input GPX LOG File Garmin O Magellan USB Save File 4 gt Loaded 1916 points from gt Read GPS Data 2007 09 29T11 25 33 to 2007 09 29T17 42 31 times local to Show Details camera Camera Time Adjustment EXIF Time 3 26 08 PM l 8 Set from Photo Clear Actual Time 3 25 53 PM Adjustment 15 seconds Before you can tag ingested images you need to tell II that you want tagging which you do by bringing up the GPS Data panel with the Tools GPS Input menu item and checking Enable GPS tagging or by checking GPS tagging in the File Handling group on the main window The checkbox is checked but no track data has been loaded the panel will come up automatically when you start ingestion You can also bring up the GPS Data panel from the bu
94. on these pages 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual 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 IPTCcontact IPTCcontact creator IPTCcontact creator IPTCcontact title IPTCcontact title IPTCcontact address IPTCcontact address 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 IPTCcontent 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 IPTCimage id IPTCimage id IPTCimage genre IPTCimage genre IPTCimage scene IPTCimage scene IPTC
95. p folders the only copying is from the source to the primary folder Choosing the Source Folder Choosing the card folder is straightforward especially in comparison to the complicated way the Primary image folder is determined You set the source folder in one of three ways 1 You can set it to a specific folder with the Source Set button 2 You can it to user choice which means that the actual folder is chosen when you press the Start or Thumbs button 3 You have Auto Ingest turned on which sets the source folder to a card that s inserted If none is inserted pressing the Start or Thumbs button does what it normally does 1 or 2 above To set the source folder to user choice press the Source Set button and then press the Cance button on the choose folder dialog If the source folder is set to user choice and a card or camera is connected assuming auto ingestion is off when you press Start or Thumbs a popup dialog will give you the choice of ingesting from that card camera or from some other folder If no card camera is connected you ll go straight to the choose folder dialog AM 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 The Cards Button If you re ingesting from one or more cards which is the way you ll usually use II instead of checking that the Source Folder is set to user choice
96. ported on the main window Results log as in this example GPS Tagging 27 tagged 3 out of time interval 1 error s An error from GPS Tagging isn t considered to be an ingestion error so in this case II continued and reported the ingestion as successful This means that you have to look at the results of the GPS Tagging in the main window log you can t rely on the end result from Imagelngester to tell you if the tagging went OK AM Tip Often images reported as having GPS tagging errors are still tagged correctly The out of time interval count is the number of images that couldn t be tagged because their EXIF date times didn t fall within the time interval covered by the GPS track points 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Viewing Track Log Details Version 3 5 Page 41 If you re curious about what s on the track log you can press the Show Details button which then writes information to the main window Results log like this Analysis of stored GPS data all times local to camera Track 1 ACTIVE LOG111930 File Track points 2007 09 29T11 19 30 2007 09 29T17 54 20 06 34 50 14 15 km 8 79 miles 2 15 kph 1 34 mph Start time Stop time Total time Distance Avg speed Users marc Pictures GPSData 20070929 gpx 2000 Starting elevation 2371 29 m 7779 84 ft Ending elevation 2368 55 m 7770 85 ft Highest elevation 2481 50 m 8
97. principles is that the contents of an image file are never altered except for GPS tagging and XMP merging Internally Imagelngester s copying routines make sure that every copy is bit for bit identical to the original Not Erasing the Card Imagelngester doesn t do it for three 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 2 since there s no code in II to erase the card you ll never do it by accident if you make a mistake and click the wrong button 3 it s a good idea to quickly view your images in Expression Media Media Pro Bridge Lightroom Aperture etc as a final check before erasing the card Choosing Images Rather than starting ingestion by pressing the Start button you can press the Thumbs button in the Source group at upper left of the main window to bring up the thumbnail chooser so you can preview the images before ingesting them You can select specific images to be ingested and also groups of images by folder date or type You can start ingestion directly from the chooser or just keep your selections for later use when you press Start so you can set metadata and other options after you ve looked at the images but still before ingestion 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 17 When you press the Thumbs button you ll be prompted for a folder if one is n
98. ra and press the Imagelngester Start button If auto ingestion is switched on you don t even have to press the Start button What Imagelngester Can Do What sets Imagelngester apart from other ingestion utilities is the amount of processing it can do automatically Imagelngester 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 Imagelngester but by Adobe DNG Converter running as a separate task It s a free download from Adobe t There are two exceptions When you use the GPS tagging feature the external program ExifTool does alter the image files by writing GPS data into EXIF fields and there s an option to merge XMP metadata into JPEGs 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 6 Images can t be edited printed or cataloged in Imagelngester because those tasks aren t part of ingestion Given the constraints of 1 and 2 Imagelngester should handle as much of the workflow as possible Here s the whole list of everything II can do Copying images from the camera or card to the hard drive from up to 8 cards simultaneously Choosing images to ingest by viewing thumbnails and choosing individual images or by folder date or type Automatic ingestion and ejection of cards Backing up images so there s a second or e
99. ra Raw Settings C Documents and Settings user Application Data Adobe CameraRaw Settings Lightroom Develop Settings C Documents and Settings user Application Data Adobe Lightroom Develop Presets ImageVerifier Jobs C Documents and Settings user Application Data ImageVerifier IVMain Log C Documents and Settings user Application Data ImageIngesterPro ii log txt Windows Vista and 7 Presets C Users user AppData Roaming ImageIngesterPro Preset type preset where type and preset are as described for OS X above Databases C Users user AppData Roaming ImageIngesterPro ii main sqlite3 C Users user AppData Roaming ImageVerifier iv_ main sqlite3 contains hashes Metadata Template C Users user AppData Roaming Adobe XMP Metadata Templates ImageIngester IPTC xmp Camera Raw Settings C Users user AppData Roaming Adobe CameraRaw Settings 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 75 Lightroom Develop Settings C Users user AppData Roaming Adobe Lightroom Develop Presets ImageVerifier Jobs C Users user AppData Roaming ImageVerifier IVMain Log C Users user AppData Roaming ImageIngesterPro ii log txt ImageVerifier ImageVerifier IV for short traverses a hierarchy of folders looking for image files to verify It can verify PSDs TIFFs JPEGs DNGs and non DNG raws Overall Operat
100. s you know what time zone or at least the offset from UTC that Fiji uses If you don t know the time zone you won t be able to tell II what it is when you ingest your images Unfortunately EXIF data does not include the time zone so you just have to remember it You also have to tell II via a checkbox whether Daylight Savings Summer time was in effect when you set your camera s clock Setting the Camera s Time and Adjusting the Image Time MW Tip If your camera s clock isn t set accurately setting the time adjustment is important How accurately you need to set your camera s clock depends on how fast you re moving when you take the photo that s to be GPS tagged Good GPS devices are accurate to within a few meters but if you re moving at 25 kph an inaccuracy of 5 secs translates to 35 meters which is much worse than the device is capable of On the other hand if you spend a few minutes setting up for the shot an inaccuracy of a minute won t matter assuming you take a few minutes to get moving again The easiest thing to do is to set your camera s clock to the second using the GPS device as a reference Some cameras such as a Leica M8 can t be set to the second and for others that don t show seconds it s hard to be sure 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 38 If the camera can t be set to the second or if you forget to set it you re s
101. s ImagelIngesterPro Preset type preset where type is the type of preset Content Destination File Keywords Master Meta Photog or Rights and preset is the preset name Databases Users user Library Application Support ImageIngesterPro ii main sqlite3 Users user Library Application Support ImageVerifier iv_ main sqlite3 contains hashes Metadata Template Users user Library Application Support Adobe XMP Metadata Templates ImageIngester IPTC xmp Camera Raw Settings Users user Library Application Support Adobe CameraRaw Settings Lightroom Develop Settings Users user Library Application Support Adobe Lightroom Develop Presets ImageVerifier Jobs Users user Library Preferences ImageVerifier IVMain 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 74 Log Users user Library Application Support ImageIngesterPro ii log txt Windows XP Presets C Documents and Settings user Application Data ImageIngesterPro Preset type preset where type and preset are as described for OS X above Databases C Documents and Settings user Application Data ImageIngesterPro ii_main sqlite3 C Documents and Settings user Application Data ImageVerifier iv_ main sqlite3 contains hashes Metadata Template C Documents and Settings user Application Data Adobe XMP Metadata Templates ImageIngester IPTC xmp Came
102. s Sy Re Ingest Date Time Adjustments ay Adjust 2006 09 14 1 34 08 PMi OUST _ First Selected Start Date Time Reset Pressing the Adjust button brought up this alert selected Start and Stop date time in table Adjust Date Time 1 minute s 10 second s will be added to each Files on disk will not be affected until you press Sync Files Cos A 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 OOA Multi Camera Shoot Parent Folder Volumes External TestData 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 SyncFiles Re Ingest f 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 adjustmen
103. s panel These two form a hierarchy The Primary Root Folder is at the top level and the folder arrangement is under it For some examples see the pictures that appear later in this document 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 OS X and Windows 7 I might set this to Users marc Pictures a directory that s automatically created for each user On Windows XP I ve created the 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 Once you ve set up the Primary Root the folder arrangement you set on the Destination Details 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 later 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 16 How ImagelIngester Copies Images Imagelngester copies all the files it finds in the source folder and in all subfolders of that 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 You can exercise more fine grained control over what k
104. se is datetimeany not datetime but the principles are the same 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 24 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 7 argument is the number of characters to use 1 means use them all and the 3 4 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 if the file name is in its original form XXXXNNNN EXT Put it all together and you get the prefix an underscore if the prefix isn t empty the date withou
105. see Tip above IPTCcontent id headline description keywords subjectcode writer see Tip above IPTCimage id genre scene location city state country countrycode see Tip above IPTCstatus id title job instructions provider source copyright rights see Tip above project name description created_dt checklist UserData id fieldi field2 field3 field4 field5 field6 field7 field8 EXIF Macros EXIF macros access an image file s EXIF data Not all fields are present in all image files some files have no EXIF data at all and some fields e g Model are not in a standard format So it s important to verify that the files you work with have the fields that you want to access The best way to do this is if you re using II is to open a representative image with the Tools Examine command In very few cases all of which are discussed in the notes does II modify the values that are in the image file So for example ExposureBiasValue might have the value of 0 65536 for a Leica M8 and 0 6 for a Nikon D70 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 67 The following is a list of all EXIF macros the names of which mostly correspond to the standard EXIF names Macros marked with an asterisk which isn t part of the name are discussed in the notes that follow Be sure to read the notes before using any of these Actuations
106. t 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 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 1 2 3 4 57 876 884 9 2006 07 14 12 49 16 SUCCESS 1 1 1 1 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 sglite odbc driver Yo
107. t 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 AMA Multi Camera Shoot Parent Folder Volumes External TestData MultiTestingests Folder Start End Adjust Images 0000 0360 2006 09 14 01 32 58PM 2006 09 14 01 34 22PM 0 12 0350 0363 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 35 34 PM 0 14 Choose Clear Table Re Ingest Date Time Adjustments 2006 09 14 1 32 58 PM Adjust J First Selected Start Date Time Reset Za The first Start Date Time appears in the time control 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 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 54 606 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 12 0350 0363 2006 09 14 01 34 08 PM 2006 09 14 01 35 34 PM 0 14 Choose Clear Table Clear A t
108. t 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 AM Tip Wait until you ve used Imagelngester for a while before you get into macros Just use the drop down choices MW Tip In folder and file naming you can have at most one Quick Field macro 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 II 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 usually immutable once the image is captured but the TIFF Date Time changes when the file s contents are rewritten such as when a JPEG is changed in Photoshop and then saved You can get the EXIF DateTimeOriginal via the exif DateTimeOriginal macro the EXIF DateTimeDigitized via the exif DateTimeDigitzed macro and the TIFF Date Time via the exif DateTimeChanged macro Macros are discussed later 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 25 If you re ingesting from a card rather than a folder on your hard drive the file modification date time will be nearly the
109. t you ll still have 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 3 Because of this ImageIngester never erases your ingested original raw files They re either in the primary folder or the pre conversion backup folder or both If you don t want the originals you ll have to erase them yourself 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 21 Burning Discs As the screen shot in the previous section shows you can burn the pre conversion and or primary folder images to disc by checking the corresponding Burn checkboxes You ll be prompted to insert a disc and start the burn after ingestion is completed If you don t want to burn a disc at that time just cancel the burn If the images fit onto a single CD you ll be given the option of inserting a CD or DVD Otherwise you ll be prompted to insert as many single layer DVDs as it takes to burn all of the images II tries to keep from splitting folders across a disc but will split a folder into as many segments as it takes if the folder is bigger than the Capacity of a disc You can also burn arbitrary folders not necessarily containing ingested images with the Tools Burn Discs command The folders to be burned must have a common parent IT allows you to burn single layer DVDs or space allowing CDs only It can t handle doub
110. ters From character 1 for a length of 4 characters 1 From character 2 for a length of 3 characters filename 4 1 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 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 filename 4 4 abc0001 def abc and def are outside of a macro so they def 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 is non empty 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 63 abc filename 50 1 _ abcdef Similar to previous example but underscore def 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 Remember that capitalization doesn t matter CatalogSets The c
111. tes because its replacement uses XMP syntax Notes The Notes entered on the main window 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 65 NumberRange 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 Destination Details panel If used in a folder name the NumberRange macro must be last Does not work inMetadata Templates because the number range isn t known until ingestion is completed Prefix The contents of the Prefix edit field on the Naming tab of the File Handling Details panel Sequence 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 SourcePath The relative path in the source from the Source Folder or card DCIM folder to the image file Allowed only in the folder arrangement in the Destination Details panel For example if the Source Folder is Volumes P 3000 BACKUP and an image is ingested from Volumes P 3000 BACKUP 20070420 001 DCIM 100NIKON DSCNO484 JPG the value of the SourcePath macro is 20070420 001 DCIM 100NIKO
112. till OK because you can enter an adjustment in II s GPS panel when you set it to read in the track log The easiest way to get the adjustment is to take a picture of an accurate clock Then you can use the photographed time and the recorded EXIF data to calculate the adjustment or even simpler enter both times into II s GPS panel to have it calculated for you You can even press a button to get II to read the EXIF time for you Another easy way that works on some cameras is to display the image of the clock on your camera s LCD panel along with the EXIF time and then to just enter both times into the Imagelngester GPS panel Some camera s don t display the time to the second so this method won t work Here s the technique step by step 1 If you can set your camera s clock to the second before you start shooting do so Note the time zone as explained in the previous section 2 Otherwise don t adjust the camera s clock after your shoot but wait until you re ready to ingest so it stays as wrong as it was when you were shooting Then take a picture of an accurate clock The one on your computer screen is OK if it s set regularly via the internet Here s a typical picture Time Zone Clock automatically Apple Americas U S time apple com 1 7 10 03 3 9 12 57 AM 3 October 2007 oa he oe ee 2456 9 10 11 12 13 6 17 18 19 20 3 24 25 26 27 031 3 Get the EXIF time from the picture The easiest way
113. ting 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 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 fresh 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 MJR_0001_ 33408 dng MJR_0002_ 33408 JPG MJR_0003_ 33416JPG E YAA MJR_0006_ 33434 dng MJR_0007_ 33440 JPG MJR_0008_ 33444 dng MJR_0009 33450 JPG MJR_0012_ 33504 JPG MJR_0014_ 33508 JPG MJR_0015_ 33510 dng MJR_0021_ 33524 dng MJR_0022_ 33526 JPG MJR_0023_ 33528 dng MJR_0024_ 33530 JPG 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 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVeri
114. to locate it so II can find it DNG Converter Settings The DNG conversion settings are on the File Handling Details panel 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 32 DNG Processing Get Adobe DNG Converter free from www adobe com Set path with button at right Choose Converter M Run DNG Converter C Verify only Y No JPEG preview Embed raw Applications Adobe DNG Converter app Medium size JPEG preview IPEG Processina nel Check the Run DNG Converter checkbox if you want DNG Converter to process raw image files Recall 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 report any formatting errors without actually converting to DNG except temporarily 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
115. ts 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 55 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 again 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 Files button Permanently synchronize file date times IT to match adjustments EXIF data will not be affected Sync Skip After synchronizing the symbol is removed and the adjustment amounts become zero 606 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 4 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 th
116. tself AM 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 one by one That way you get a chance to check the settings and enter metadata before ingestion starts Backing Up Images Imagelngester s backup feature allows you to make a second copy or even a third on a device other than the one containing the primary folder 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 20 You set the backup folders on the Destination Details panel which you get to by clicking the Destination Set button 6 Destination Details Std Destination Primary Root Folder Path to folder that is root of the primary folder tree fUsers marc Pictures Primary Eil Burn Pre Conversion Backup OO e A pla maso lr e li ne Choose Backup Eil Create Backup original raw images if you re converting to DNGs Volumes External Backup ImagelngesterBackup H Burn Post Conversion Backup Root ff ona dieren arve from the priman mage folder Choose Backup C Create Backup Users marc Pictures ImagelngesterBackupPost not used Folder Arrangement and Names Number Range Folders CYYYYNYYYMM DD esi M Show Details Filename Numbers Example YYYY YYYY MM DD dci datetime 1 4 datetime 1 4 datetime 5 2 datetime 7 2 2405
117. tton at the lower left of the File Handling Details panel 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 37 You use the panel to adjust the image times and to indicate the source of the track log data as explained in the following sections About Time Adjustments The track log as recorded by the GPS device gets an accurate UTC GMT time from the GPS satellites However the image time as recorded by the camera may not be accurate and probably isn t set to UTC My cameras are normally set to Mountain Time and some of them don t even allow setting the time to the second Before the track log times can be compared to image times II needs to know two things What time zone the camera s clock was set to when the images were shot How wrong the camera s time is Setting the Time Zone You set the time zone on the GPS Data panel to the time zone that the camera s clock was set to For example if you travel from Colorado to California but don t change the camera s clock the time zone would be Mountain Time even though the images were shot in California If you set the clock to local time when you arrived however the time zone would be Pacific Time even if you do the ingestion back in Colorado If you do reset your camera s clock when you leave home make sure you know the time zone For example don t reset it to the time showing at the Fiji airport unles
118. u check Log on the Preferences panel II will write details about its activities to an external log file To see the log choose View Log on the Tools menu which will open up an external text editor e g TextEdit or Notepad From there you can copy the log to paste into or attach to a mail message or save it to another file To clear the log choose Clear Log Storing Ingestion Details If you check Store Ingestion Details on the Preferences panel II will store all of the settings in the database ingestion table Unsaved Preset Reminder If you check Unsaved Preset Reminder on the Preferences panel II will remind you if you switch presets or exit without first saving any new settings GPS Tagging About GPS Tagging GPS tagging means writing GPS coordinates latitude longitude and altitude into ingested image files Applications such as Preview on Mac OS X and Lightroom and web sites such as Flickr and SmugMug can read the coordinates and associate the photo with a map location With Lightroom if you click the small right arrow next to the coordinates your web browser is opened to that location on a Google Map 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 35 Make Leica Camera AG Model M8 Digital Camera Serial Number 3101068 Artist Marc Rochkind Software 1 107 GPS 40 5 8 N 10535718 W gt Altitude 3241 5m II gets the coordinates for
119. u might start with www ch werner de saliteodbc I haven t tried any SQLite3 ODBC drivers and I can t provide Support Locating Presets Databases Templates and Log This section documents where external files used by ImageIngester and ImageVerifier 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 II and IV look only in the default location as indicated in the table 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 73 The notation user in a path is a placeholder for your user name On Windows 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 np 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 Advanced settings Files and Folders a Always show icons never thumbnails de Hidden files and folders s Do not show hidden files and folders Show hidden files and folders gt Y Hide extensions for known file types tant it tati Mac OS X Presets Users user Library Preference
120. ugh 12112 C GPS taggin data loaded a ooo U No viewer chosen in Preferences k Ingestion time 1 min 3 sec Viewer Applications Adobe Lightroom app Finished Y You ve probably already tried the Start or Thumbs buttons and I ll explain the other controls later The text box at the lower right 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 images were copied backed up optionally and verified optionally 2 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 OS X version but the Windows screens are very similar with the same controls 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 11 Settings and Presets There are a lot of ImageIngester settings and they re mostly split up into Destination and File Handling detail panels that you get to via the two Set buttons in those groups You also use a Set button to choose the Source folder This section explains how to sa
121. us rights UserData UserData id UserData_0001 UserData fieldl UserData field2 UserData field3 UserData field4 UserData field5 UserData field6 UserData field7 Simple Macros CatalogSets Keywords test Notes Filename sample data ABCD0001 Extension sample data NEF FilenameNew sample data ABCDO001 SourcePath sample data path DateTime datetime of file sample data YYYYMMDD_hhmmss DateTimeCurrent 20071102 175848 DateTimeAny datetimeoriginal DateTimeMonth month of file sample data September DateTimeCurrentMonth November DateTimeAnyMonth datetimeoriginalmonth DateTimeWeekday weekday of file sample data Thursday DateTimeCurrentWeekday Friday DateTimeAnyWeekday datetimeoriginalweekday Sequence sample data 123456 TnisrmaTN camnla As taste ARAONTDNIIIWIARE 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 70 For examples of EXIF macros it s better to use the Tools Examine command instead of the Macro Lab because Tools Examine allows you to look at data from an actual image Database II keeps its table data e g cards ingestions 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 II But ther
122. use 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 With Method 2 you can also mount up to 8 cards at once and ingest them simultaneously 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 for not using Method 2 is that you don t have a card reader but they re inexpensive and well worth the money 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 You can also ingest from any folder on any drive that s mounted on your computer 2007 2011 Marc Rochkind All rights reserved 2011 09 16 Imagelngester ImageVerifier User s Manual Version 3 5 Page 10 A Quick Tour of the User Interface Nearly every control you need to configure and use Imagelngester is on the main window a details panel you access from one of the Set buttons or the Tools menu They ll be briefly introduced here saving the details for lat
123. ve settings in presets It s a little complicated and not at all necessary to fully exploit all 11 features so you may want to skip this entire section if you re a new II user Master Preset You can save an entire collection of settings into a named Master Preset that you can recall whenever you need it In effect that restores all the settings to what they were when you last saved them with that preset name You can keep one preset for each camera type SLR point and shoot etc or one preset for each of your photographic pursuits commercial art family or whatever you like In the screen shot above I ve chosen my Master Preset Production D200 A Master Preset includes not only the Source Destination and File Handling settings but also the three Metadata Presets Photographer Content and Rights the Catalog Sets and Keywords and values of Quick Fields Actually the Master Preset doesn t save the detailed settings for Destination File Handling Metadata and Keywords but only the names of those presets This is explained further in the next section You never have to save settings in a Master Preset if you don t want to You can just click the appropriate Set button or modify the Keywords or whatever make your choices and ingest But unless you explicitly save the settings in a preset they ll go back to the way they were when you next launch II To save settings in a Master Preset make your choices and the
124. ven third copy ideally on a separate device such as a USB or FireWire drive Burning discs that contain ingested images or any folders Renaming images 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 Arranging images into folders 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 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 Verifying images 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 GPS tagging which inserts latitude longitude and altitude into images based on data from a GPS track long Launching a viewer so Expression Media Media Pro Bridge Lightroom or whatever you choose gets started as soon as ingestion is complete Adding bulk metadata so you can insert data that applies to the entire ingestion such as your copyright notice keywords subject and location information and even Expression Media Media Pro catalog sets Establishing Adobe Camera Raw settings so that the images come up in ACR with your chosen settings already applied Filtering by image type which allows you to ignore unwanted fi

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