Photo Mechanic - testing

[TimHughes]

Its something i would like to look into - one of my friends was learning python and wanted me to give it go - its that age old thing about too much to do too little time!

I might have a google around this weekend

Once you’re set up, Python is pretty straightforward to work with. The trickiest part is often dealing with different Python versions and managing environments, so if your friend can help you with that, it’ll make things smoother.

For what it’s worth, I use Visual Studio Code and find it works really well. Some projects require specific libraries or Python versions that can conflict with others, so using virtual environments helps keep everything organized and avoids those issues.

 

[A_S]

Back to photo mechanic - I set save meta data to xmp in lightroom, let it do my whole catelogue, now when i go into photo mechanic and load the lightroom folder as a contact sheet i still don't get the lightroom colour labeling? I have already set the menu option to match adobe colours, I wouldn't have thought that would matter anyway, as they would just end up as the wrong colour code. At the moment they have no colour code.

 

[myotis]

Back to photo mechanic - I set save meta data to xmp in lightroom, let it do my whole catelogue, now when i go into photo mechanic and load the lightroom folder as a contact sheet i still don't get the lightroom colour labeling? I have already set the menu option to match adobe colours, I wouldn't have thought that would matter anyway, as they would just end up as the wrong colour code. At the moment they have no colour code.

In the past, while doing this, the auto save to XMP in lightroom saves at random intervals Try a manual save to XMP in LR and see if that helps.

And, which may be indicative of how it works, with Capture One if the colour names don't match, it doesn't read any colour label information.

 

[A_S]

turning on xmp seemed to slow my catalogue to a crawl so i've reverted back and over the next few days I'll try the selective save which i think you can do with ctrl+s to save an xmp and see what happens

 

[myotis]

turning on xmp seemed to slow my catalogue to a crawl so i've reverted back and over the next few days I'll try the selective save which i think you can do with ctrl+s to save an xmp and see what happens

Did you give LR enough time to update the XMP files when you switched to autosave. It may take hours to update and temporarily slow things down, a lot.. However, I do believe that it is meant to slow things down a bit, when activated. I'm not sure noticed any difference.