For those of you familiar with sorting from multiple cameras in Adobe Bridge, this one's for you.
When sorting our wedding photos, I can't seem to get Bridge to sort the Date Created down to the second. It is sorting to the minute, and with two cameras firing at the same time, you can assume how out of whack that makes the pics. Then I have to manually sort, which adds so much time to my editing.
Here's a few things you should know:
Jenny and I sync our cameras up to the second before every wedding. She shoots a 50D and I have a 7D.
Also, I've tried batch renaming the files with the specifics of date time/date created/mmhhss and also millisecond and neither of those worked.
I am trying to sort the photos in order according to the time in which we shot them. Basically put her shots and mine together in the order of them being shot, down the second, not just down to the minute-which is all that Bridge will do for me right now.
When they are sorted to the minute, they are still out of order and need to be manually sorted, which adds time to my editing process. For example, her shots of the cake cutting will come first and right after her shot of the couple eating the cake will come my shot of them cutting it, thus resulting in me having to manually pull mine over into the appropriate area so it flows.
I am trying to find out how to get Bridge to actually sort our photos by the second in which they were taken. (It claims that it is capable, however, I cannot figure out how).
Ok, I just looked at the metadata in Bridge (CS5) and saw that my photo's metadata is showing as date created with the hour and minute displaying. The seconds aren't even showing. So of course it can't sort by the second, it's not even in the metadata. So...how do I make it show up on there?
Here's a screenshot of what I'm saying if this helps. The seconds are on the actual metadata to the left. But...when looking at the properties of the content to the right, it only shows minutes.
Hi Amy! I hate those sync troubles! Unfortunately I don't use Bridge anymore (haven't since Lightroom was released), but I do know that the seconds (even hundredths) are kept in the meta because they are displayed in Lightroom when you mouse-over a thumbnail.
As much as I don't want to say this, because there should be a way to fix it in Bridge, have you tried ordering them by time in Lightroom and then renaming the files, and setting the order in Bridge by file name instead?
Or, and you'll probably scold me for this, just do away with Bridge altogether and use only LR?
Since we are two photographers, there are always at least two camera bodies in use at a wedding. So this process is critical for us as well. The way that I combat this issue is to first time sync the cameras at the beginning of each shoot. This is easy - just set the clocks to the same time. :-)
The advantage to this software is that as the software imports the images, it automatically renames the files based on a string of code that you enter. Here is mine:
{t}_{o}_{c} = this stands for {time}_{original file name}_{camera serial number}
So this allows me to download all of the images into one folder, not have to worry about overlapping file names, and they all come out perfectly sorted in the order they were shot (since time is the first criteria). Then I just rename starting with 0001, and everything is perfect!
We had so many frustrating experiences trying to get Bridge to actually sort by time - it never seemed to work right for both sets of files. Perhaps this would work for you as well!
@jinximages that is AMAZING. Thank you for finding that. I was worried it was on the download too, and for this next wedding we're going to make sure to do this.
You know, I was wondering if I could just do away with Bridge and do it all in Lightroom, that would be so much easier since I edit in Lightroom for the base stuff now. (I would NEVER scold you jinx!! hehe)
I'm going to try Lightroom next, and if that doesn't do the trick, I'll use that downloader.
Wow, seriously thank you so much for finding that!! I searched all over and even contacted Adobe and no luck. This just may be the answer I needed. :) :)
You are awesome!
@jinximages great with Lightroom! The hang up I'm facing right now is trying to delete multiple photos at once...seems even when they are selected I can only knock out one at a time. But as far as the sorting, it did it spot on! Thank you for recommending that!! Jenny's also going to look up the downloader and we're going to consider doing that as well, so you were really a great help. Man, I appreciate it!
On the multiple delete thing - if you reject the photos (flag: reject - x key or button) and then I think alt-delete (it's one of the combos with the delete button) it will give you a dialog box asking if you want to delete all the rejected ones (remove from Lightroom or delete from disk). I don't use it very often, but it definitely does what you're after.
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When they are sorted to the minute, they are still out of order and need to be manually sorted, which adds time to my editing process. For example, her shots of the cake cutting will come first and right after her shot of the couple eating the cake will come my shot of them cutting it, thus resulting in me having to manually pull mine over into the appropriate area so it flows.
I am trying to find out how to get Bridge to actually sort our photos by the second in which they were taken. (It claims that it is capable, however, I cannot figure out how).
Does that make more sense?
As much as I don't want to say this, because there should be a way to fix it in Bridge, have you tried ordering them by time in Lightroom and then renaming the files, and setting the order in Bridge by file name instead?
Or, and you'll probably scold me for this, just do away with Bridge altogether and use only LR?
I did find this: at http://www.opensourcephoto.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=61839
"Hey Marina:
Since we are two photographers, there are always at least two camera bodies in use at a wedding. So this process is critical for us as well. The way that I combat this issue is to first time sync the cameras at the beginning of each shoot. This is easy - just set the clocks to the same time. :-)
Then the key step is the download - we use Breeze System's Downloader Pro = http://www.breezesys.com/Downloader/
The advantage to this software is that as the software imports the images, it automatically renames the files based on a string of code that you enter. Here is mine:
{t}_{o}_{c} = this stands for {time}_{original file name}_{camera serial number}
So this allows me to download all of the images into one folder, not have to worry about overlapping file names, and they all come out perfectly sorted in the order they were shot (since time is the first criteria). Then I just rename starting with 0001, and everything is perfect!
We had so many frustrating experiences trying to get Bridge to actually sort by time - it never seemed to work right for both sets of files. Perhaps this would work for you as well!
~ Charles "
You know, I was wondering if I could just do away with Bridge and do it all in Lightroom, that would be so much easier since I edit in Lightroom for the base stuff now. (I would NEVER scold you jinx!! hehe)
I'm going to try Lightroom next, and if that doesn't do the trick, I'll use that downloader.
Wow, seriously thank you so much for finding that!! I searched all over and even contacted Adobe and no luck. This just may be the answer I needed. :) :)
You are awesome!
On the multiple delete thing - if you reject the photos (flag: reject - x key or button) and then I think alt-delete (it's one of the combos with the delete button) it will give you a dialog box asking if you want to delete all the rejected ones (remove from Lightroom or delete from disk). I don't use it very often, but it definitely does what you're after.