Szurkebarat,
Is it on Windows or Mac?
Would that make any difference? Live Ingest isn't suitable for disks that will come and go (like flash cards.)
-Kirk
(I'm on Mac.) While unorthodox, Live Ingest from a card reader is more convenient than reaching to hit the enter key on the laptop.
I can see the point to this all, but I never had any problem hitting the Enter key to start an Ingest.
I asked the OS because I supposed (may be a mistake) OSX cannot handle in a live ingest way a disk that comes and goes. I presumed (may be wrong as well) Win may do that as it has the drive letters that could be assigned as live ingest sources.
However finding a solution to this may interrest many photogs on the sidelines with tight deadlines. Set up your ingest dialog and tick an option to auto ingest new cards. The question is how can it be done and how can it be made user friendly and failsafe. Maybe adding a large colour countdown window (hard to miss it as not being the standard ingest window) telling auto ingest starts in x seconds press a given key to cancel (and cancelling would unset the autoingest completely so next card inserted wont autoingest unless chosen again in ingest dialog. And maybe the same color window on top if auto ingest started to have it as a signal of what is happening and the option to cancel it unless needed. But this still can confuse users especially those not needing and thus not knowing this feature well enough.
I guess I should have been more wordy when I brought this up.
Under normal working conditions, Ingest and the enter key is no problem. Last year I transmitted tennis from courtside. Laptop on a foldup one-step stool. I would ingest during breaks but that meant reaching down to the computer while holding onto a camera. (All of this takes place behind the advertising banners.)
This year, the plan is to velcro the reader to a higher point on the ad banner in front of me. Using Live Ingest, I can feed the card reader without reaching for the keyboard. I think Windows is hotswappable but Macs are not. Pull the card and an alert pops up... no biggie, it disappears after about a minute. Live Ingest works perfectly... just establish the path to the card at the start (save a snapshot for future use) and then pull your card. My snapshot has the path to the DCIM folder as well as another path for tethering so that I have the choice. Just remember to establish a path to an (empty) card, start Live Ingest, pull the card and go to work.
At the Bell Centre, we shoot from the seats and have to put our laptops on the other side of a glass barrier during game play. So, during breaks in the action, you have to lean over the glass barrier to hit the enter key. (Yes, we put the laptops on our laps during intermissions.) :-)
In both situations, I could tether the camera but it's a bit tight for space. At tennis, I could tether one camera and feed the card from the 2nd, less used camera... maybe. At hockey, I could let the tether hang over the glass barrier or run it along the glass barrier. Nothing really has to change to either ingest methods, just add an Unmount Disk option to Live Ingest and there's no need for any indicator by PM as to when the ingest is over as all readers have a light that flashes when in operation and the light is solid when complete.
All this for a stupid alert that usually disappears before I feed the next card. My apologies for beating this to death.
