For major conferences/events, I have a complicated workflow that involves pre-building folder structures for each session of the conference, using hot codes for photographers as well as hot codes for all the metadata fields for each session.
I use a portion of the known folder path to call the metadata (for example, {pfpt:0,47}) to grab enough of a unique key for looking up the rest of the metadata.
Our workflow is:
- Ingest to a master ingest folder by date sorted into photographer folders
- Find the images for each session and move or copy them using PM into the session folder (into a subfolder for each photographer)
- After the photos are in that folder, apply the metadata template that pulls all the fields for that session and writes them
Essentially, were there a destination path variable activated upon copy/move, it would be awesome to be able to save a step and call that variable during copy/move and have the metadata applied during that step!
