AceCo55
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2012
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- South Australia
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I have been using a couple of nikon d300 - these have only one card slot, so my issue hasn't arisen before.
I have pre-ordered a d500 which has two card slots.
I would like to save RAW files to the xqd card and JPEG files to the SD card.
I would only use the RAW files if I couldn't get a decent result using the JPEG files.
I use Photoshop and Bridge CS6 - do not have Lightroom and not overly interested in getting it (grumpy old man comfortable with what I have!)
Now to my workflow problem.
At the moment I regularly take 2000+ photos (JPEG) on a shoot (sports).
At the end of the day, I would normally download them to my computer and then cull.
I usually keep 35%-45% of all the shots.
I would then place the keepers from each team or sport into their folders and rename them (date-sport-grade-file number). The JPEG keepers then get processed the next day and uploaded to various galleries on my website and select some for local newspapers.
ie I need to process the JPEG files quickly and I need to have them renamed before I start.
The problem is how do I efficiently also delete the unwanted RAW files to match the JPEG keepers?
I would rather not have the JPEG and RAW files in the same folder when going through the culling process - I often have to make a decision about which version in a sequence I', going to keep. Have both files of each image will maybe slow that process down quite a bit?
My clumsy plan at the moment is to have two Windows Explorer windows open - one showing the JPEG keepers and the other showing all of the RAW files.
Then go through and manually find the corresponding RAW file so that the JPEG files match the RAW files.
Then do batch renaming so that the JPEG files have the same name as the RAW files.
This is going to add a bit of extra time at the end of a long day.
Is there a simple way to get the RAW files to match the JPEG keeper files?
(I know when I'm in Bridge, I can rename the JPEG files I can choose the option to preserve the original file name - but I can't find an easy way to show a list of those original files names).
I don't need to do anything with the RAW files on the day after the shoot - they are there only as a backup in case of card failure or for when I need the extra editing capability. My present plan however necessitates that I have to do the culling and renaming of the RAW files at the same time as I do the JPEGs - and that is going to be at the end of a long tiring day.
Sorry for the long explanation.
Thank-you for reading and any insights into have to best restructure my workflow.
If I don't response quickly it may be because the time difference between you and me (Australia) - and I will be shooting all day tomorrow (leave home at 7am, start shooting at 9am, finish shooting at 5pm, get home 7pm)
I have pre-ordered a d500 which has two card slots.
I would like to save RAW files to the xqd card and JPEG files to the SD card.
I would only use the RAW files if I couldn't get a decent result using the JPEG files.
I use Photoshop and Bridge CS6 - do not have Lightroom and not overly interested in getting it (grumpy old man comfortable with what I have!)
Now to my workflow problem.
At the moment I regularly take 2000+ photos (JPEG) on a shoot (sports).
At the end of the day, I would normally download them to my computer and then cull.
I usually keep 35%-45% of all the shots.
I would then place the keepers from each team or sport into their folders and rename them (date-sport-grade-file number). The JPEG keepers then get processed the next day and uploaded to various galleries on my website and select some for local newspapers.
ie I need to process the JPEG files quickly and I need to have them renamed before I start.
The problem is how do I efficiently also delete the unwanted RAW files to match the JPEG keepers?
I would rather not have the JPEG and RAW files in the same folder when going through the culling process - I often have to make a decision about which version in a sequence I', going to keep. Have both files of each image will maybe slow that process down quite a bit?
My clumsy plan at the moment is to have two Windows Explorer windows open - one showing the JPEG keepers and the other showing all of the RAW files.
Then go through and manually find the corresponding RAW file so that the JPEG files match the RAW files.
Then do batch renaming so that the JPEG files have the same name as the RAW files.
This is going to add a bit of extra time at the end of a long day.
Is there a simple way to get the RAW files to match the JPEG keeper files?
(I know when I'm in Bridge, I can rename the JPEG files I can choose the option to preserve the original file name - but I can't find an easy way to show a list of those original files names).
I don't need to do anything with the RAW files on the day after the shoot - they are there only as a backup in case of card failure or for when I need the extra editing capability. My present plan however necessitates that I have to do the culling and renaming of the RAW files at the same time as I do the JPEGs - and that is going to be at the end of a long tiring day.
Sorry for the long explanation.
Thank-you for reading and any insights into have to best restructure my workflow.
If I don't response quickly it may be because the time difference between you and me (Australia) - and I will be shooting all day tomorrow (leave home at 7am, start shooting at 9am, finish shooting at 5pm, get home 7pm)