<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>I usually do step 2 ie. removing the obviously unusable ones before reading the files into KPA & generating thumbs. I ususally use Gwenview for this.<br><br>Robert, how about making steps 2 and 3 (ie. reading files into KPA and deleting the bad ones) in parallel? <br>After copying, start KPA to find new files and generate thumbs and at the same time use Gwenview to already start going through the bad ones?<br>Then in the end in KPA select 'view files not on disk' and remove those from KPA?<div><br></div><div>Just an idea.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Risto<br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Robert Krawitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rlk@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">rlk@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd like to find a way to streamline my workflow (and see if anyone<br>
else has a similar situation, which I'd think is quite common).<br>
<br>
I photograph a lot of basketball and (American) football games for the<br>
school I went to years ago. I also shoot the occasional wedding. I<br>
typically wind up with 1500-2000 frames per game. A couple of times<br>
I've had multiple events in one day and wind up with closer to 4000<br>
frames. So everything I can do to streamline the experience is<br>
welcome.<br>
<br>
My usual workflow is as follows:<br>
<br>
1) Download photos.<br>
<br>
2) Read them into kpa.<br>
<br>
3) Do an initial scan to knock out everything that's not potentially<br>
usable (out of focus, lighting bad, view blocked, whatever). This<br>
is usually 20-25% of everything.<br>
<br>
4) Do a second scan to find the images that I do want to use. For<br>
games, this is typically 250-500 frames (more for football, fewer<br>
for basketball). For weddings, this will usually be just about<br>
everything that's left.<br>
<br>
5) Copy them out of kpa.<br>
<br>
6) Post-process (crop if need be, shrink image size if they're going<br>
on the web).<br>
<br>
7) Upload to my web site or copy to a flash drive for distribution.<br>
<br>
How I<br>
<br>
1) Download photos. I have a script I've written to extract the shots<br>
from the memory card(s) and stick them in the appropriate<br>
directories. This can take a little while, but only in the sense<br>
that 10 GB of data doesn't transfer instantaneously, and there's<br>
probably very little I can do to optimize this.<br>
<br>
2) Fire up kpa, let it read in the new images and build thumbnails for<br>
them. This again is time consuming. It takes longer than<br>
downloading the photos. It takes longer because kpa has to read in<br>
the "bad" shots as well as the good ones, but I don't see an<br>
obvious way around that.<br>
<br>
At this point, I also apply a keyword (key phrase, really) for the<br>
event I'm cataloguing.<br>
<br>
3) This step is tedious. I do it by tokening each bad shot with "K"<br>
and afterwards deleting everything with that tag. This<br>
unfortunately means that for the shots I eliminate I have to use<br>
key strokes -- K and space -- which slows things down a bit. I've<br>
been thinking I'd like a way to apply a token and move on in one<br>
keystroke, but it occurred to me that I could simply hit the delete<br>
key in the viewer, which removes the image from the current image<br>
set. At the end, I could apply a token to all of the remaining<br>
images, and then select images with the keyword that don't have the<br>
token as the ones I want to get rid of.<br>
<br>
4) This step is also tedious; I do it the same way.<br>
<br>
5) The new-ish right click to copy images is very useful here.<br>
Everything else is done outside of kpa.<br>
<br>
I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on this...<br>
<br>
--<br>
Robert Krawitz <<a href="mailto:rlk@alum.mit.edu">rlk@alum.mit.edu</a>><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">| risto h. kurppa<br>| risto at kurppa dot fi<br>| <a href="http://risto.kurppa.fi">http://risto.kurppa.fi</a></div>
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