The team at Camera Bits is happy to announce the long-awaited “Universal-Binary” build of Photo Mechanic and Photo Mechanic Plus for macOS is now available for download and general use. This is the rewritten build of Photo Mechanic that is so-called “Apple Silicon native” and does not require emulation to run on the speedy M1, M2, M3, etc. family of processors in newer Apple computers.
Photo Mechanic requires macOS Ventura or higher. If you are using a Mac with macOS Monterey or older, you will need to upgrade to macOS Ventura or higher to use Photo Mechanic. This version of Photo Mechanic is written for both Intel-based and Apple Silicon-based Mac computers.
This release is for current Monthly and Annual subscribers to Photo Mechanic or Photo Mechanic Plus, as well as those who purchased a perpetual license for either of those after 11 March, 2024.
macOS Ventura (or higher):
https://www.camerabits.com/download/PhotoMechanicR8173_21745c60.dmgVersion 2024.10 Build 8173 (October 30, 2024) First release
macOS:
• Added: Render Cache RAW preference options:
1) Always render RAW
2) Render RAW on demand
3) Only render RAW when embedded preview is small
Options 1 and 2 will allow you to toggle the RAW render/preview render on an image-by-image basis. For option 1, this allows you to see the embedded preview after having seen the RAW rendered image. For option 2 this allows you to force the RAW to be rendered and see the result. For option 1 and 2, the RAW quality can be toggled as much as you like.
Be sure to get the latest Adobe DNG Converter as it appears to have been updated to render RAW images much faster than it used to. It is fast enough to beat the Apple ImageIO renderer (which is Apple Silicon-tuned and uses the GPU) on some RAW image types. Try them both out and see what you think.
• Added: Uploader templates now have a local Metadata Template that is capable of being set per template or snapshot. Now you can be sure that when you choose a snapshot for a template that the local Metadata Template settings you’ll apply to your uploaded photos is correct.
• Added: Photo Mechanic now sets Mime-Type on S3 uploads.
• Added: Metadata dialogs now maintain a list of recent items in the popup menus on the right side of most metadata fields. This feature was previously only present in the Plus edition and is now present in the Standard edition.
• Added: PLUS Other Constraints field, useful with the PLUS Data Mining field.
• Added: When launching photos and the chosen editing application does not exist, an error message is displayed.
• Added: When launching photos and the chosen editing application does not exist, an error message is displayed.
• Fixed: Missing suggestions in Auto Complete from text file when a metadata field had similar matches.
• Fixed: Video thumbnails have wrong colors on MacOS 15 Sequoia.
• Fixed: Option-drag and drop from contact sheet to Finder folder does not copy.
• Fixed: Ingest stalling when ingesting from camera cards.
• Fixed: Disk Caching issue where cached file names were indeterminate.
• Fixed: Force check for license online when local license has expired. This should address the issue of some users having to re-enter their license keys when subscription payment has been made recently.
• Fixed: PLUS Data Mining field not appearing in Customize when already customized.
• Fixed: PLUS Data Mining menu missing item “Prohibited except for search engine indexing”.
• Fixed: PLUS Data Mining field not applied with Metadata Template when its apply checkbox is set.
• Fixed: Made selected set in Preview as similar as possible between the two platforms (macOS and Windows). The macOS version can now add and dismiss images to/from the selected set while single selection synchronization is active in the Preview preferences.
• Fixed: Option-drag and drop from contact sheet to Finder folder does not copy.
• Fixed: Missing suggestions in AutoComplete from text file when a metadata field had similar matches.
