Looking for new photo ingesting software

[RacerReady]

Having used photo mechanics for ingesting photos for many years, a failed screen on my Mac has required me to look for a new laptop.

I have bought a new Mac but cannot remember the log in details for my photo mechanics account. I have contacted Camera Bits to try and sort this out bit am looking to see what other software is out that that can also do the ingesting bit of the workflow!

Any advice, recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

 

[myotis]

Having used photo mechanics for ingesting photos for many years, a failed screen on my Mac has required me to look for a new laptop.

I have bought a new Mac but cannot remember the log in details for my photo mechanics account. I have contacted Camera Bits to try and sort this out bit am looking to see what other software is out that that can also do the ingesting bit of the workflow!

Any advice, recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

What do you want to do in the ingesting part of your workflow?

I've been looking for an alternative to Photo Mechanic, as I can't afford the new subscription pricing, and so far haven't found anything that can fully replace PM.

I'm now using a combination of Fast Raw Viewer, Hazel, Keyboard Maestro and Lightroom to try and replace PM, but it's a lot clunkier, less secure, and involves more intenvention on my part . But I was using PMs automatic file renaming and saving tools as well as automating aspects of adding metadata. Some the features I was using just don't seem to be available outside PM.

For example PM would look at the file EXIF data and depending on the date automatically add Summer, Winter, Spring or Autumn as a keyword on ingest.

If you just want to get files from a card onto your Mac, then Fast Raw Viewer works very well, as I suspect would Adobe Bridge (which is free). But both Lightroom and Capture One have good ingest tools , which are very fast since they both started to copy PM and use the embedded Jpeg during the initial ingest and culling stage.