Thanks for this mate. A good level of detail for someone getting started with Bridge. It's definitely time that I got a bit more savvy with my media organisation!
Great video Ben! Really cool that I can manage video files from my drones. Proves it can be a great photo/video management tool from editing-to-documentation-to-inventory for all my photography needs. This opens my eyes to Bridge's possibilities. Thanks.
Great video! I've been thoroughly trained on this in a matter of minutes thanks to you Good Sir! Nice cool tempo too without the unnecessary "RUclipsr's voice" haha
You broke my heart when you skipped over the Output tab! This is a great tool for creating contact sheets. I've used this so many times when I need people to review/decide on photos or files in general.
This might be saving my life. I've been building up a pretty sizeable library of audio, video and image files for my RUclips channel and it's been pretty disorganized. Thanks for the introduction! Meta tags FTW! 👍
@@BenRaddatz Interesting! I'll check it out and see which one works best for my workflow. I'm still looking for a way to link directly to Bridge from Premiere, but I guess just dragging and dropping the files might work fine for now so I keep my sorting in Bridge. Having tags and smart folders in Bridge is awesome though, I can see this saving me a lot of time in the long run!
I never used Bridge, but I have a friend that told me that is good and have a tool to increase resolution in photos that are not so well, I came here to watch your video because I don't know anything about Bridge, and your video is very helpful, you gave a very nice general Idea, now I am going to search, how can I find a version that works with M1 Processor on mac. thank you again, keep up the good work.
Ben if you have 300 images in a folder e.g., PIC001 to PIC300, is there any way to advance to PIC250 quickly? It seems like all you can do is use the scrolling wheel.
Hey Martin, sorry for the delay in this response. The best I've been able to find for your question is using the Home and End keys to go to the beginning and end of the list, and then Page Up and Page Down keys to advance by the visible page.
I'm not sure as I don't have much experience using servers in this way, but I'd guess this would work since the keywords are in the Metadata of the files... Might be worth a try!
Do you know why in the hell bridge make all the photos darker? I will appreciate any information, because is driving me crazy this problem now im having on bridge. thanks!
I have a huge library with thousands of photoshop, illustrator, png, vector, tiff, etc. My is due with Bridge is the amount of time it takes to generate thumbnail previews. Do you have any tips on how to speed up generating previews? Thanks
I don't I'm sorry, but maybe once you've taken the time to generate all the previews it stores them in a cache to come back to faster next time? Sorry I'm not really familiar with this
@@BenRaddatz that's exactly the problem: the cache management of of bridge is completely broken (it's rebuilding previews over and over) and Adobe is either ignoring the problem or they do not know how to fix it.
Now maybe I am wrong but the first part of the episode looks like all things you can do if you make the finder window just a little bit bigger. I am not saying that Bridge is not an incredibly powerful tool but if you just want it for that purpose and you use a mac unlike us unlucky windows explorer users it may not be neccesary
Does it keep files in place and recognize drives once you reconnect that drive and everything you did before show back up once reconnected to the drive?
@@BenRaddatz One problem I have run into is with Keywords. Bridge doesn't store them with the individual photos, so it doesn't automatically update these from one computer to the next. My computer crashed last fall and I bought a new one. When I installed Bridge on the new computer, all of my keywords (for thousands of photos) were gone! I'm now scrambling to find out if there is any way to recover them, but I think I'm hosed.
Are you searching through a slower hard drive? You may need to wait a bit longer to let the software browse the files and build the thumbnails when you first open up a folder
yes this is on windows, i currently use windows now a while after this video. as for your first comment, maybe try reinstalling it? I'm not sure what the issue is but adobe might have support for it too
Go to Tool -> Photoshop -> Image Processor. Then at the bottom of that popup there is an option to Run Action. Should be step #4 under Preferences. From that dropdown, you should be able to choose from whatever actions you've created in Photoshop. Hope that helps!
your flying around with the curser was driving me nuts, while your explaining things, found my eyes trying to follow it wheather it was on subject or not, looks like a good video tho
why are you going through photos in the preview only? There's a baked in solution that old heads in computing already known about. Hell young people are so reliant on it, they have no idea what a "my documents folder" is. You can search, number one. This requires at least 2 brain cells, because you have to have the intelligence to organize and name your stuff. Or you can just go to your folder and start typing the name and it'll jump down, which I find quicker. But, if you are a visual learner and or unorganized, you can always just make the preview a thumbnail and scroll through like 20 photos at a time, rather than 1. Best part is, I'm not supporting an absolute ass company. God do I hate adobe. I only stopped using vegas because somehow, vegas has become more unstable that premiere, the software that I'm convinced has bugs purposefully left in it to not give pirates a solid version to rest on. Well, beyond that, I also liked the ability to jump between programs a little quickly, though I rarely seem to use that, and it was good to learn as it's the industry standard. I don't plan to do video editing professionally, but it never hurts to have it for the ol' resume if you decide to do a side job. But as a company, I hope adobe burns and their software goes free. They don't actually do anything, let alone anything worth their cost. That's why I refuse to pay for it. Lucky me got a free license from uni, and I'll happily go back to pirating when done. But, all my ranting aside, thank you for explaining to me what this software is.
I mean bridge is primarily for people who work with photos, and normal file explorers don't always give previews of different photo files so you can be as organized as possible but still need to see previews of your files, which bridge helps with
@@BenRaddatz yea I learned that from your video, thanks for that! I thought it might be useful for film and video editors aswell and I heard something about working together with multiple editors in one cloud but in my case bridge wouldn't be very useful - for photographers it could be a thing I guess!
Maybe Media Bridge is what you heard about? www.tiger-technology.com/tiger-technology-provides-ai-enhancements-for-adobe-creative-cloud-applications-through-integrated-cloud-workflow-solutions/
Thanks for this mate. A good level of detail for someone getting started with Bridge. It's definitely time that I got a bit more savvy with my media organisation!
Good luck with it all Chris! Feel free to reach out with any questions or comments if you find something I missed in this video
Great video Ben! Really cool that I can manage video files from my drones. Proves it can be a great photo/video management tool from editing-to-documentation-to-inventory for all my photography needs. This opens my eyes to Bridge's possibilities. Thanks.
Great video! I've been thoroughly trained on this in a matter of minutes thanks to you Good Sir! Nice cool tempo too without the unnecessary "RUclipsr's voice" haha
You broke my heart when you skipped over the Output tab! This is a great tool for creating contact sheets. I've used this so many times when I need people to review/decide on photos or files in general.
Oh shoot, I can't believe I missed it! I can see how well it would be for approvals and stuff!
You did a great job with this video, you should keep making content like this. Larry
Thank You for this awesome video!
IVE BEEN MISSING THIS IN MY LIFE! 🤯🤩
CONGRATULATIONS!! ON 20K VIEWS brother !! 650k SOON
Loved the video for its super simplicity but with the Mario and Spider-Man icons you totally won my respect.
Hahaha I was hoping they would catch someone's attention, I always love having them as my editing company
Thanks fella. helpful refresher.
Happy to help!
This might be saving my life. I've been building up a pretty sizeable library of audio, video and image files for my RUclips channel and it's been pretty disorganized.
Thanks for the introduction! Meta tags FTW! 👍
I'd also recommend Eagle for someone like you! Fairly different but holds assets really well
@@BenRaddatz Interesting!
I'll check it out and see which one works best for my workflow.
I'm still looking for a way to link directly to Bridge from Premiere, but I guess just dragging and dropping the files might work fine for now so I keep my sorting in Bridge.
Having tags and smart folders in Bridge is awesome though, I can see this saving me a lot of time in the long run!
Very helpful! Thank you! Keep it up
thanks!
thanks, you gave a lot of interest.
im glad you exist
So helpful thanks 😋🙋🏻♀️
Glad it was helpful!
great video, thank you so much brother
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Perfect. Thanks
Happy to help 😊
Thanks for the video 🤗
Thanks for watching! Hope it helped!
hey, thanks for all. maybe anyone knows is it possible to shrink size of multiple photo catalogues?
Other than the fact that you called Mario, Mary-O (which was quite unsettling), great vid. Cheers!
I don't know any other way of saying Mario 😂 thank you though!
Does it work with images out on the cloud, like google or onedrive?
I never used Bridge, but I have a friend that told me that is good and have a tool to increase resolution in photos that are not so well, I came here to watch your video because I don't know anything about Bridge, and your video is very helpful, you gave a very nice general Idea, now I am going to search, how can I find a version that works with M1 Processor on mac. thank you again, keep up the good work.
Thanks for the kind words! Good luck with your search
Bout to finally get my videos organized this weekend just got a new 1 tb ssd! I like finder but for some reason I've been messy on my mac lately.
Is that on M1?
I'm trying to view my Adobe Lightroom albums on bridge... can I do that?
LETS GOOOO BEN
Dang you saw this quick 🙏🙏
can you search and remove duplicate pics & videos with this?
HI, am a new be to Bridge. When setting up a slide show can I extend the image view time beyond the 10 second maximum?
Sorry Marcel, everything I've tried and googled suggests you're stuck at 10s max
Ben if you have 300 images in a folder e.g., PIC001 to PIC300, is there any way to advance to PIC250 quickly? It seems like all you can do is use the scrolling wheel.
Hey Martin, sorry for the delay in this response. The best I've been able to find for your question is using the Home and End keys to go to the beginning and end of the list, and then Page Up and Page Down keys to advance by the visible page.
@@BenRaddatz Thank you. I didn't know or think that those keys would work for some reason but they do.
Can this identify similar photos within a large number of photos?
I'm honestly not sure... I don't think I've heard of any software able to do this, but maybe another viewer could help out here.
Hi guys. I am wondering on how to make others can see our keywords too. Let say in file server, is it possible to make everyone can use my keywords?
I'm not sure as I don't have much experience using servers in this way, but I'd guess this would work since the keywords are in the Metadata of the files... Might be worth a try!
Do you know why in the hell bridge make all the photos darker?
I will appreciate any information, because is driving me crazy this problem now im having on bridge.
thanks!
I've never heard about this, or experienced it... if I find an answer to this, I'll update you here though... Weird!
@@BenRaddatz
thank you mate. i found a way to get id of this.
kind of strange and weird, but then after all works.
I have a huge library with thousands of photoshop, illustrator, png, vector, tiff, etc. My is due with Bridge is the amount of time it takes to generate thumbnail previews. Do you have any tips on how to speed up generating previews? Thanks
I don't I'm sorry, but maybe once you've taken the time to generate all the previews it stores them in a cache to come back to faster next time? Sorry I'm not really familiar with this
@@BenRaddatz that's exactly the problem: the cache management of of bridge is completely broken (it's rebuilding previews over and over) and Adobe is either ignoring the problem or they do not know how to fix it.
Now maybe I am wrong but the first part of the episode looks like all things you can do if you make the finder window just a little bit bigger. I am not saying that Bridge is not an incredibly powerful tool but if you just want it for that purpose and you use a mac unlike us unlucky windows explorer users it may not be neccesary
Does it keep files in place and recognize drives once you reconnect that drive and everything you did before show back up once reconnected to the drive?
I think so! Metadata is typically stored directly onto the file, so whenever you plug the drives back in, the edits you make should carry over!
@@BenRaddatz One problem I have run into is with Keywords. Bridge doesn't store them with the individual photos, so it doesn't automatically update these from one computer to the next. My computer crashed last fall and I bought a new one. When I installed Bridge on the new computer, all of my keywords (for thousands of photos) were gone! I'm now scrambling to find out if there is any way to recover them, but I think I'm hosed.
Nepean Raiders!
12:55 what program do you use to edit ur photos ?
I use lightroom for almost all my edits, and sometimes I add a bit of Photoshop if I need some extra touching up power 😁
How the hell did you take a sharp photo with a drone at 1/13? What am I missing?
spray and pray baby! I tried it out that day and surprisingly the wind wasn't strong enough to affect the shots so I kept going with it.
@1:10 😆😆😆
:D
adobe should have its own OS
ive been thinking about this comment for the last week and honestly I think they could do it and it could be really cool
Can’t get video file thumbnails to show. Like your last mp4 file. This has been a turnoff fir me.
Are you searching through a slower hard drive? You may need to wait a bit longer to let the software browse the files and build the thumbnails when you first open up a folder
Man I've had this on my cpu for a while and just haven't been using it cause it crashed a few times right when I installed it. Smh
Worst part is I googled what's the best app for viewing videos and photos, so this works on windows too?
yes this is on windows, i currently use windows now a while after this video.
as for your first comment, maybe try reinstalling it? I'm not sure what the issue is but adobe might have support for it too
that's what I was saying was that I was going to start using it and the only reason I didn't was because of a bad first 5 min
A professor used for use the actions created on photoshop, just took hundreds of photos and used automatically... I forgot how he did it.
Sounds interesting, let me know if you remember how it worked!
Did u remember I’m curious
@@Someone38482 Not exactly, but it’s work.
Go to Tool -> Photoshop -> Image Processor. Then at the bottom of that popup there is an option to Run Action. Should be step #4 under Preferences. From that dropdown, you should be able to choose from whatever actions you've created in Photoshop. Hope that helps!
i cant believe i know a celebrity
your flying around with the curser was driving me nuts, while your explaining things, found my eyes trying to follow it wheather it was on subject or not, looks like a good video tho
take your ritalin 😂
A fellow former Nepean Raider? Lmfao!!!
The 4 photo grid is good for scrapbooks or a six pack the police use lol..
Police use??? 😂
@@BenRaddatz yes for a witness trying to pic out a perp in a "six pack " a line up of mug shots LOL
MAREio
why are you going through photos in the preview only? There's a baked in solution that old heads in computing already known about. Hell young people are so reliant on it, they have no idea what a "my documents folder" is. You can search, number one. This requires at least 2 brain cells, because you have to have the intelligence to organize and name your stuff. Or you can just go to your folder and start typing the name and it'll jump down, which I find quicker. But, if you are a visual learner and or unorganized, you can always just make the preview a thumbnail and scroll through like 20 photos at a time, rather than 1. Best part is, I'm not supporting an absolute ass company. God do I hate adobe. I only stopped using vegas because somehow, vegas has become more unstable that premiere, the software that I'm convinced has bugs purposefully left in it to not give pirates a solid version to rest on. Well, beyond that, I also liked the ability to jump between programs a little quickly, though I rarely seem to use that, and it was good to learn as it's the industry standard. I don't plan to do video editing professionally, but it never hurts to have it for the ol' resume if you decide to do a side job. But as a company, I hope adobe burns and their software goes free. They don't actually do anything, let alone anything worth their cost. That's why I refuse to pay for it. Lucky me got a free license from uni, and I'll happily go back to pirating when done.
But, all my ranting aside, thank you for explaining to me what this software is.
To me it seems just like bridge is for people who are too lazy to get their files and projects organized - change my mind.
So why are you watching a video about it
@@BenRaddatz Maybe to learn what it is about? 😂 And the video gave me the answer
I mean bridge is primarily for people who work with photos, and normal file explorers don't always give previews of different photo files so you can be as organized as possible but still need to see previews of your files, which bridge helps with
@@BenRaddatz yea I learned that from your video, thanks for that! I thought it might be useful for film and video editors aswell and I heard something about working together with multiple editors in one cloud but in my case bridge wouldn't be very useful - for photographers it could be a thing I guess!
Maybe Media Bridge is what you heard about?
www.tiger-technology.com/tiger-technology-provides-ai-enhancements-for-adobe-creative-cloud-applications-through-integrated-cloud-workflow-solutions/