Photo Mechanic 4.6.9 Serial Number Machine 1
Calvin Beauchamps
I believe it can do some magic on applying IPTC metadata in batch mode. I tried to import ratings and labels from a text file but could not figure out how to do it. Exporting metadata worked fine though.
I believe it writes the star/labels etc. in JPG header itself. Which updates last modified timestamp of the image file. Is there any way to write those information in an external file or that is not an option?
It's a tool to download your files from your camera or storage card, automating a multitude of functions while doing so, allow you to very rapidly add captions, keywords and photographer information as it is downloading.
Once downloaded you can very quickly scroll through your images, rating them as you go (I don't know why you would use it to add ratings that you have previously applied in another app) selecting keepers and then uploading those images to your photo agent, employer, your online storage site or whoever.
It is a complex program, so saying "I played with it for a couple of days and I couldn't figure out how to use it, so it's overrated" does it a disservice. I could say that I played with Photoshop for a couple of days and I couldn't understand it so it's rubbish as an editor but that is obvious nonsense If you make the effort to learn it, it's probably the best software for what it does.
And that's the point: I suspect you are trialing it for the wrong purpose and you've chosen the wrong software. As you've found out, it isn't an editor so if that's what you expect then you've got the wrong software.
But then I hunkered down and started utilizing some of the goodies in PM. For editorial photographers like myself it allowed me to crank out vast number of captions or just boilerplate EXIF info in seconds.
Or you can "tag" several near identical images, enlarge the group and quickly compare to see which is best. You can work with RAW+jpegs and export them to Photoshop (etc.) with a single click. It has built in FTP capabilities and even allow direct uploads to Zenfolio. You can covert RAW to DNG. Ingest, color code and tag, and much, much more.
On a side note, if FSV (Fast Stone Viewer) can somehow incorporate star rating , then it can be a contender against PM. FSV already have tagging and it uses a catalog database to implement this feature.
Have a look at XnViewMP -- I prefer it to FastStone because it supports the DAM elements I use in Lr, C1, DxO or dartkable. It also supports ExifTool (you can update it manually) to gain much more info out of your photos. And its colour management is superior as well (it supports LUT based monitor profiles).
If your kind of photography produces thousands of images of an event (think daylong music festival, sporting events) on a regular basis, the ingest function of PM will allow you to ingest multiple cards simultaneously, limited only by the number of card readers you have hooked up to your editing machine. That in itself justified PM for me.
I don't shoot a couple of thousand photos at an event more than once or twice a year - and that is where PM seems to stand out for those that love it; those who shoot in the thousands of photos on most outings.
PM is awesome for people that use its features to the max. On a typical race day I take thousands of photos and need to select picks, add metadata, crop, and ftp to a home office.within a couple hours of the end of a race. PM performs these tasks very fast. PM is not a DAM.
You have to approach it after almost having a breakdown having to cull a shoot of 10,000 photos, preferably after trying a different program that had its database crash on you. It's the mutt's nuts for speed of building a directory of thumbnails and can write text to the files and choose text fields to display.
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