People formula inspired by Caption Pro

[pjs]

I am currently in the free trial phase of "Caption Pro", and I’m really impressed by the facial recognition and automatic captioning features. Very reliable, very fast, and really well done. Also, the singular/plural formula (for example, competes/compete) is very well executed. But that’s not even my main point here.

Another feature that’s been implemented exceptionally well is the "people formula". When a person is added to the caption, their name is automatically filled into the other desired fields (for example, "Person Shown"). This would be a huge help if something similar were possible in Photo Mechanic through Code Replacement. At the moment, I have to manually add the names to each additional field via copy/paste or Code Replacement.

Ideally, this feature could even be combined with "Multiple Code Replacements" (#2, #3, …).

Code: [Select]

Caption
=people

Person Shown
=people#2

cr7 Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo

[alexmacnaughton]

Hi, you can do this in PM by using a custom metadata field to trigger a Hot Code File. See screenshot.

[pjs]

Thank you for your feedback and the screenshot. That works with a single player in action.

But how do you handle it when there are two or three people in the picture instead of just one, like in
"Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal takes a free kick"?

For example: "Cristiano Ronaldo and Ruben Dias celebrate victory"?

Caption Pro doesn’t mind whether one or several people are shown. The formula simply adds the names, and you can easily choose the delimiter yourself – for example, a comma or "and" between the last two names.

In addition, besides the regular code replacement, you also have to create all the hot codes for both teams in advance, which does take a bit of time and effort.

[alexmacnaughton]

If you need to add another player to a caption, enter their name in the Player 2 field. Screenshots are attached.

In my example using the Metadata Template, I have three custom fields for players, but you could add more.

Yes, you need to create Hot Code files, but much of this could be managed with formulas in Excel.