Rules/restrictions for uploading

[ulrik]

Hi,

A very specific request due to my situation.

I have several clients and Im always affraid to send wrong files.

So if there is a way to, for example, lock upload a certain FTP to only 2 starred photos, that would be great!

Thanks.

[Kirk Baker]

Ulrik,

Why not just use the Ratings filter in the toolbar to filter out the images you don't ever want uploaded?  They'll disappear from the contact sheet and it will be impossible to select them and send them.

HTH,

-Kirk

[ulrik]

Hi,

Thanks.

Because i have to send 0 star to one client and 1 start to another one. I do that but it would be nice to ensure it cant happen as it can be very costly. We can loose our jobs on it and it goes very fast in a half time of a game etc....

Another specific request for me, is to be able to connect who to upload to and the IPTC Template as it takes times to ensure the right template is used. But thats another one for me specifically and is connected to the above regarding making bad errors...

Thanks.

[Mick O (Camera Bits)]

Unfortunately, if you make the mistake in using the Star Ratings filter, it would be just as easy to make the same mistake when uploading.  The method Kirk describes means you could never send 0-star files when 1-star files are viewed. The only way you could make a mistake here is if a file was mistakenly tagged with the wrong number of stars... but then no upload filter would catch that mistake either.  It would seem to me that adding the necessity to check boxes on and off in the upload dialog would just add more clicks that you have to make when under pressure and another opportunity to make that crucial mistake. No?

Mick

[Robert Edwards Media]

Hi Ulrik, if it were me, I'd physically separate one-star and two-star images right before I transmit them:

1) Ingest, rate & caption all of your selects in "folder #1".
2) Using contact sheet filters, isolate the images that have a two-star rating. 
3) CTRL-A (select those filtered images), CTRL-Y (copy) them to "folder #2".  Make sure "Move photos (delete originals)" box is checked.

** At this point, your one-star selects are in folder #1, and your two-star selects are in folder #2. **
 
4) Reset folder #1 contact sheet filters to show the one-star images.
5) Upload the one-star images from folder #1.
6) Switch to your folder #2 contact sheet, and upload the two-star images from there.

This assumes that no images ever need to go to both clients.

[ulrik]

Thank you for suggestions.

I dont really have time for extra steps as it might be 10 minutes to send 50 photos at half time to two clients.

But having the possibility of adding a saved Metadata (IPTC) template as the only one you can add when uploading to a specific FTP address or the above, could save me from losing my source of income.

I add players and their action, when going through all of them. And then I sort based on stars and then upload with Metadata (IPTC) template added during upload. Iincredible fast but I then have to double check if the FTP I upload to and Metadata (IPTC) template is the same.

And with some kind of lock on it, I would be very happy  and relaxed as it goes so quickly and the consequences are so big...

Its like with a partner: I could think and think again but it would be nice at a certain excitement level, that I couldnt say anything as the consequences could be crazy...

Thanks.

[Kevin M. Cox]

But having the possibility of adding a saved Metadata (IPTC) template as the only one you can add when uploading to a specific FTP address or the above, could save me from losing my source of income.

I add players and their action, when going through all of them. And then I sort based on stars and then upload with Metadata (IPTC) template added during upload. Iincredible fast but I then have to double check if the FTP I upload to and Metadata (IPTC) template is the same.

This sounds exactly what I've been requesting for the past couple years:
https://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=15373.0

[Kirk Baker]

This has been implemented: https://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=16477.0
and: https://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=16478.0

[ulrik]

Fantastic.

Thank you very much.

[Jeff Vogan]

To provide a visal aid, after you have done your ratings, I would select all, Tools > Ratings > Ratings to Color Class. That way you will have a visual aid to show you the ratings of the images. I prefer working with 1-5 number ratings because that is more logical than colours, but then I remap so that I can easily see the colours.