Lightroom / PhotoMechanic Settings

[JAS Photo]

Kirk - Is there a definative post on fixing  LR/PM compatability issues? I found a ton in my search but only got the stars working so far.
I'm setting up LR & PM on a new Windows 7 machine & I have not used LR much previously.
I tried to match the settings on page 149 in the 4.6.3 manual. My windows preference box does not match the example very well.

[Kirk Baker]

Joe,

Kirk - Is there a definative post on fixing  LR/PM compatability issues? I found a ton in my search but only got the stars working so far.
I'm setting up LR & PM on a new Windows 7 machine & I have not used LR much previously.
I tried to match the settings on page 149 in the 4.6.3 manual. My windows preference box does not match the example very well.

You need to adopt an XMP sidecar only workflow for best results.  The easiest way of doing this is by turning off the "Allow RAW files (non DNG) to be modified for metadata and image preferences updates" checkbox in the Files tab of the Photo Mechanic Preferences dialog.   Then on the same (Files) tab, set the 'Add tag, color class, and rating to IPTC/XMP:' popup menu to 'For all photos'.  Lastly, you need to make sure that the color class labels in the General Preferences match the same labels you use in Lightroom.

HTH,

-Kirk

[Brendan]

hello!

I use this setup, its working in general but if I change in LR the star-rating to 0 , PM shows so changing!!
but if I change it from and value >= 0 to another value > 0, its working.
Same with color. Deleting/removing the color in LR is not shown in PM.
(even after using "saving metadata" in LR, of course)


edit: I guess is because I used before also "add embedded IPTC/XMP"
so, what about my thousands of already iptc-captioned files  (jpg, NEF) after switching to using sidecar-files?
If now for every of this image automatically a sidecarfile created.. by PM or LR ?

[JAS Photo]

I've adjusted my PM settings - what happens to all the old images that were coded in PM before I changed the settings?

[JAS Photo]

Any Windows / LR / PM user - feel like walking me thru my settings - I still can't get this to work. No stars, no colors.

[Kirk Baker]

I've adjusted my PM settings - what happens to all the old images that were coded in PM before I changed the settings?

In respect to which application(s)?

-Kirk

[JAS Photo]

I changed the "XMP sidecar only workflow" in PM but what happens to the images color coded & stared before that change - do the old one have a xmp sidecar - not that any of the colors or stars show up in LR either way or from LR to PM.
I'm just lost.

[Kirk Baker]

I changed the "XMP sidecar only workflow" in PM but what happens to the images color coded & stared before that change - do the old one have a xmp sidecar - not that any of the colors or stars show up in LR either way or from LR to PM.
I'm just lost.

What I think you should do first is just start with a fresh set of images to test with.  Take a few photos and Ingest them.  Then rate them.  Import them into LR.  Do the ratings show up?  If not, then get back to me and we'll check settings and perhaps have you send me some sample files so I can see what the metadata is like.

-Kirk