Lightroom's search function will hit that crap and return the unwanted record just like PM+'s will. We can deal with that in PM+ (more on that later) But the thing to keep in mind here is that garbage, if left uncorrected, doesn't corrupt a PM+ dataset any more than it did originally in Lightroom. If such labels are present in the keywords, search in PM+ can hit them and return unwanted results. But those are useful only for texts much, much larger than we deal with.)Ī common Lightroom hack is to use keywords as labels to make Lightroom's hierarchical keywording interface more like Photo Mechanic's. There are tools that professional librarians can use that do care how many times a term appears in a text. Doesn't matter whether the string exists once or a hundred times, the search result remains the same. Kirk can't save us from all of them, but kudos to him for doing what he can.Īs for migrating from Lightroom to PM+, my previous comments that the ugliness caused by Lightroom's node strings in the keywords is harmless still applies. Unfortunately, with the advent of AI-based keywording there's nowadays a proliferation of non-standard keywords fields, each one a potential weapon of mass data destruction. Photo Mechanic's practice of copying the contents of into the industry-standard keywords fields is an effort to protect us from data loss in the sadly not-that-unlikely event that some developer writes data there that rightfully should be in the normal fields. The whole hierarchical construct is just a way of helping us drop the right terms in the bucket on input. Even in Lightroom-land, they're just terms and they just get searched. There is no such thing as a hierarchical keyword! Keywords are just a bucket of potential search terms. Camera Bits appears to be still joined too much at the hip with their traditional customers who do not give a rip about translating a large LR database with complex keyword sets that evolve over time.Įxactly. And/or, maybe Camera Bits can give some definitive guidelines telling LR users how to prep their LR keyword list to make this easier/better?Ĭamera Bits, there are millions of potential customers waiting to see if you hear their cry! Please try to help me/them more successfully cross this LR/PM+ bridge.įWIW, I sent this equivalent message to Camera Bits in a support email exchange, and have gotten no reply or comment. If you did a video with this toy LR database and showed the lightroom Keyword list, then the export to PM+, and its keyword list, this would lay down things firmly and end this discussion. What?!! Lots of possible why's I guess, but this stopped me in my tracks, even before this duplication mess PM+ creates.Ĭamera Bits, please find a way, perhaps even with destructive options, that "make it so" as the great Captain Kirk said. The keywords in LR that did not show up in PM+ ALL showed up in PS, Bridge, and XnviewMP. In LR I saved and saved and saved to the images. In my case, with my large LR database, many keywords (flat and in hierarchical in LR did not show up in PM+. If they do this with the current release, would the PM Keyword list look like the user's LR keyword list? No, not close. Maybe even change/add a keyword, then round trip it back to LR? > Proof of concept!! Say it loud on a video! Then take this to PM plus and see what he/she makes of it. Then, like LR users do, start adding some keywords that are meaningful, some flat and at least a few sets of Hierarchical key words. My suggestion/request would be for Kirk (or somebody at Camera Bits) to create a "toy" LR catalog with maybe 20-30 images. Kirk Baker seems intent on saying "you guys got no problem," and seems to have signed off. I (and perhaps millions of LR users) want to dump LR for PM plus.
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