EHD) destination drive, but if they are similarly speedy you can do so, then the "move" for Lightroom is a directory move not a physical copy (if you did COPY yes, it would be a copy).īut whether this is an issue depends heavily on your percentage of keepers. You could put the stage folder on the same drive as the final destination that's a bad idea if you have a fast C drive and slow (e.g. PM is actually more flexible than LR at file renaming and metadata changes, but to me those things LR does just fine, and fast enough, so since LR is the final destination (and sometimes I do not even bother with PM if most shots are keepers) I leave LR doing all that work.įor what it is worth, there are many paths through I recommend you do the following:įor what it is worth, there are many paths through it. I find most images then I can get away with just using the quick develop to touch up exposure or tone a bit, and do not need to go into develop mode often, which speeds things up. Lightroom can then do all the renaming and breaking into year/day or other changes you like, including metadata presets, develop presets, etc.īecause you now have a much smaller set of images they import quickly to LR, and you can build standard previews for further review with LR's default (or preset) adjustments. LR is fast for metadata in batches so I just do it there for consistency.ģ) Select all tagged, and drag and drop into Lightroom. I do not, except occasional captions, but you can. I do this in two passes - tag all the shots I like, then go back and crop them.ĢA) Optionally do metadata here.
Cull by marking the keepers, I use "tag" which is just hitting the T key (it is a toggle so it it again and it un-tags). Note at least by default the date is the date of the import, not the date of the shot never dug around to see if it could replicate LR in that regard.Ģ) Cull and Crop in Photo Mechanic. I also needed a warning if I had a jpg with no corresponding raw before I deleted all my jpgs from my I recommend you do the following:ġ) Import via Photo Mechanic, not Lightroom, let's say to C:\stage\date (let it put the folder name date in just so they stay separate). I stopped using PM for a variety of reasons, but the key problem is I wanted a unique serial number and PM kept resetting the sequence number. There are pros and cons to this scenario. You will need to decide what you want to do about the images ingested to disk but not imported to Lr. This will trigger the Import process dialogue (using the Add mode as the images are already on your disk).Drag and drop the images from PM into an open Library Grid View.Select in PM your images you want to import to Lr (by rating/colour etc).Use PM then to review and rate your images.In e the PhotoMechanic Ingest option to get the images to your hard drive with the folder/filenames as required.It has very sophisticated Ingest options, too many to reply specifically to your file/folder renaming needs (as I cannot remember the vast array of options possible). If I was shooting Pro sports it would be an essential tool. I used PhotoMechanic for a while and liked it for a lot of reasons.
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