Culling Images in Photo Mechanic: Part 1 of Sports Photo Post Processing with PM-R

This video shows the most powerful photo culling/deleting software available (Photo Mechanic) in use. Just a few years ago, the fastest cameras could shoot was 10-12 frames per second. But newer mirrorless cameras like the Sony a9, a9II, a1, and Canon R3 & Nikon Z9 allow photographers to shoot at 20 and even 30 frames per second. This makes editing after games really time consuming. In this video, I show what it's like to cull down 1500 photos to just 67 in a few minutes using Camera Bits Photo Mechanic. PM has no equal if you have to edit thousands of photos down to a tight take on a regular basis. This is just part one of a two-part series on my own editing process from almost forty years of shooting high school, college, and pro sports.

[@michaelanspach6314]

Great post. Thank you for sharing.
Just looked and didn’t see part 2?

Why pics are not separated by bursts ? iPhone does that 😢

[@PMRTV]

this is a camera, not a phone ;)

[@kuau714]

If you “were” a RAW shooter do you still see an advantage to using PM?

[@PMRTV]

even more so as RAW files are so large and cumbersome. There is simply no editing software out there that even competes with PM

[@mikekolleth6168]

Things are changing with raw files.
Like PRM , I’ve shot JPEG for sports for more than a quarter century… Now with Nikon, for example, the raw high-effiency compressed files sizes are essentially the same size as the JPEG fine files and packed with information. Add that fact to the new / powerful Lightroom denoise app, RAW is looking like a far more viable option than it was even 5 years ago.

What about an ai culling app ? Thx

[@PMRTV]

not for me... I need to look, choose, and tone the best frames, period.