Finally, FINALLY, someone who knows how to use RUclips to EDUCATE! This is truly one of the best educational videos I have ever seen. Every RUclipsr should be forced to watch your videos so they can see how it should be done.
13:38 Why would you save the file as Text and change the extension to CSV instead of just saving as CSV? Your method will likely result in some problems when importing into Excel if the metadata field content contains quotes or commas. Exporting to CSV will ensure that a field containing a comma is enclosed in quotes, or that a quote in the content is double quoted so it is imported correctly.
You've got me here. There's nothing about text files and CSVs at 13:38 in this video. I scrubbed through the whole video a couple of times. I couldn't find anything like that anywhere.
@ It seems my comment was posted on the next video in the sequence. It must have started auto playing iPad I didn’t notice. I was commenting on your MetaData Part II video, in the section starting at 12:00. ruclips.net/video/HoOpZo8aqLg/видео.htmlsi=bYjJ32gu1Jg_Z3KU I’ll try and repost my comment on that video, where it makes more sense and where your answer will be useful to others.
Superb tutorial and I’ve read the blog post too. I’m just an amateur photographer and it’s only me that searches my own content. I have recently started using Captions and now that I’ve read this I now know what needs to be put there and what to put into keywords. And I need to look at using a controlled vocabulary system as mine is currently just a long list of words. I’m using photo mechanic. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words! As we speak, I'm working on the HOW-TO videos for keywording. There will be two parts for Photo Mechanic. First will be the various ways you can apply "flat" keywords. The sequel will be working with hierarchical (Photo Mechanic calls 'em "Structured") keywords. (The keywords are normal keywords either way, it's just how they're applied.) Stay tuned.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Have you ever considered to make a video about tagging and metadata with Digikam? I do not use Photo Mechanic. For me as a hobby photographer it would be interesting to see a best practice example how to tag the photos. Usecase: family with kids and a dog. The family members have different hobbies (Tennis, Basketball, Hiking). They travel around sometimes, share pictures on social media and for Christmas the relatives get a printed calendar with the pictures of the year. At anniversaries photo collections are made.
Interesting video, but it is not correct that in Lightroom you cannot search for all keywords except certain ones you wish to exclude. You cannot do this on the pull down search menu, but it is a very simple matter to create a smart collection with two rules, the first being “contains” and the second being “doesn’t contain”. Works exactly as you would expect. Lightroom’s metadata management and searching has many deficiencies ( e.g. cannot search synonyms in the keyword list, or choose whole word or partial match), but including all metadata except certain text is achievable.
Hot damn! You're right! Thank you. Listen to this man. He speaks the truth. It's a workaround, but it does work. To reacp: *Go to Collections and make a new smart collection. You can reuse it, so you can name it whatever you want. I called mine "AA_NOT_SEARCH". Smart collections use the same filters that you have in the Filter or Find interfaces, but there's a little plus sign at the right that you click to add additional filter statements. *Just click the plus and add a second line. *Choose "Match all of the follow rules" in the pulldown at the top. *Use the pulldowns to make your first line be your main search, like "Caption contains words [some search terms]" (Note that "Contains" puts an OR operator between search terms, like "Contains Any Of". "Contains Words" or "Contains All" are probably what you are looking for.) *Put your NOT statement in the second line. " Keywords doesn't contain [some keyword]". *Click 'Save'. And you're good to go. Note that both the Caption and Keywords fields in the first column are under the 'Other Metadata' flyout. *To reuse the Smart Collection, right-click on it and choose 'Edit Smart Collection'. You are completely right that this is silly on Adobe's part, especially considering that the repeater multi-line interface that's in Smart Collections is used for the Find feature in Adobe Bridge. (But don't even think about trying to use Bridge as a digital asset management system.) I'll add this as a comment to the post on my blog. Again, Thanks.
Finally, FINALLY, someone who knows how to use RUclips to EDUCATE! This is truly one of the best educational videos I have ever seen. Every RUclipsr should be forced to watch your videos so they can see how it should be done.
Thank you! Some of these topics are a real challenge to do on video. I appreciate the encouragement.
Excellent info Carl. Thank you so much!
13:38 Why would you save the file as Text and change the extension to CSV instead of just saving as CSV? Your method will likely result in some problems when importing into Excel if the metadata field content contains quotes or commas. Exporting to CSV will ensure that a field containing a comma is enclosed in quotes, or that a quote in the content is double quoted so it is imported correctly.
You've got me here. There's nothing about text files and CSVs at 13:38 in this video. I scrubbed through the whole video a couple of times. I couldn't find anything like that anywhere.
@ It seems my comment was posted on the next video in the sequence. It must have started auto playing iPad I didn’t notice. I was commenting on your MetaData Part II video, in the section starting at 12:00. ruclips.net/video/HoOpZo8aqLg/видео.htmlsi=bYjJ32gu1Jg_Z3KU
I’ll try and repost my comment on that video, where it makes more sense and where your answer will be useful to others.
Very many thanks. Your insight has been really helpful and I look forward to watching the rest of your videos.
Thanks!
Superb tutorial and I’ve read the blog post too. I’m just an amateur photographer and it’s only me that searches my own content. I have recently started using Captions and now that I’ve read this I now know what needs to be put there and what to put into keywords. And I need to look at using a controlled vocabulary system as mine is currently just a long list of words. I’m using photo mechanic. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words! As we speak, I'm working on the HOW-TO videos for keywording. There will be two parts for Photo Mechanic. First will be the various ways you can apply "flat" keywords. The sequel will be working with hierarchical (Photo Mechanic calls 'em "Structured") keywords. (The keywords are normal keywords either way, it's just how they're applied.) Stay tuned.
Thanks for all your helpful insight Carl. I have a very large collection to keyword and your wisdom helps!
Amazing video! Never heard keywords explained so well. Thanks!
Thank you very much! It's great to hear that I helped.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Have you ever considered to make a video about tagging and metadata with Digikam? I do not use Photo Mechanic. For me as a hobby photographer it would be interesting to see a best practice example how to tag the photos. Usecase: family with kids and a dog. The family members have different hobbies (Tennis, Basketball, Hiking). They travel around sometimes, share pictures on social media and for Christmas the relatives get a printed calendar with the pictures of the year. At anniversaries photo collections are made.
Excellent.
Superb!
Interesting video, but it is not correct that in Lightroom you cannot search for all keywords except certain ones you wish to exclude. You cannot do this on the pull down search menu, but it is a very simple matter to create a smart collection with two rules, the first being “contains” and the second being “doesn’t contain”. Works exactly as you would expect. Lightroom’s metadata management and searching has many deficiencies ( e.g. cannot search synonyms in the keyword list, or choose whole word or partial match), but including all metadata except certain text is achievable.
Hot damn! You're right! Thank you. Listen to this man. He speaks the truth.
It's a workaround, but it does work. To reacp:
*Go to Collections and make a new smart collection. You can reuse it, so you can name it whatever you want. I called mine "AA_NOT_SEARCH".
Smart collections use the same filters that you have in the Filter or Find interfaces, but there's a little plus sign at the right that you click to add additional filter statements.
*Just click the plus and add a second line.
*Choose "Match all of the follow rules" in the pulldown at the top.
*Use the pulldowns to make your first line be your main search, like "Caption contains words [some search terms]" (Note that "Contains" puts an OR operator between search terms, like "Contains Any Of". "Contains Words" or "Contains All" are probably what you are looking for.)
*Put your NOT statement in the second line. " Keywords doesn't contain [some keyword]".
*Click 'Save'. And you're good to go.
Note that both the Caption and Keywords fields in the first column are under the 'Other Metadata' flyout.
*To reuse the Smart Collection, right-click on it and choose 'Edit Smart Collection'.
You are completely right that this is silly on Adobe's part, especially considering that the repeater multi-line interface that's in Smart Collections is used for the Find feature in Adobe Bridge. (But don't even think about trying to use Bridge as a digital asset management system.)
I'll add this as a comment to the post on my blog. Again, Thanks.