Author Topic: How to ingest Photos and Videos in dedicated folders? PM6 7285 (fb3e520) Mac26.5  (Read 45 times)

Offline CanonShooter42

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Hello

I would like to know how to ingest photos and videos into separate folders using Photo Mechanic 6, with the following requirements:
   •   Photos should be renamed during ingest, but videos should keep their original filenames.
   •   During an event, I will ingest multiple times (e.g., 20 ingest operations). All photos from these ingests should go in their “sequence” folder, while all videos should be placed together in one common Video folder (without renaming).

Could you please advise how to set this up in the Ingest dialog, or whether this requires a custom workflow or script?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards,
CanonShooter

ps im using PM6 7285 (fb3e520) on Mac OS 26.5.2

Offline alexmacnaughton

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Hi, It's quite straightforward to separate the photo files from the video files on ingest; all you need to do is select the destination as {datesort} Test Job/{type}. This will create subfolders based on file type, ie for Nikon, one folder called NEF and the other MOV.

As for renaming just the photos on ingest, I couldn't find a way to do it without also renaming the video file; maybe someone else will have a solution.

The workaround I came up with was to set the NEF folder as a watch folder, then have 'Live Ingest' running so that when photos are added to the NEF folder, they are renamed and moved to a new folder.

Note: When I ran this, everything worked fine, but the type variable named the folders, not as I expected. Instead of the photo folder being called NEF, it was called NNEF, and the video folder was called MooV rather than MOV. I've used what I think should be the correct folder names in this post to avoid confusion.