Photo Mechanic--Aperture 2...culling/organizing

[edt]

While I'm asking questions...just moved from pc to mac pro this week. On the pc I was liked DownloaderPro and Breezebrowzer for ingesting raw files, then selecting/deleting/renaming/creating folders/copying to folders etc...easy to maneuver in BBrowser, then go to C1 to process AFTER doing all the editing in BB.

My question--for those of you who have tried Aperture 2--would a mac user still prefer to use Photo Mechanic to ingest/sort/delete/organize folders? I assume it still does all that better than Aperture 2, or Lightroom or C4, for that matter?

I'm still setting up applications on the new machine and need to get my workflow settled in and efficient.....

thx, Ed

[Ken Bennett]

Well, speaking for myself only, yes, I do prefer to use Photo Mechanic for the initial edit, metadata application, etc. PM is very quick once you learn the keyboard shortcuts and set up your various Ingest and IPTC templates.

[macgyver]

Well, speaking for myself only, yes, I do prefer to use Photo Mechanic for the initial edit, metadata application, etc. PM is very quick once you learn the keyboard shortcuts and set up your various Ingest and IPTC templates.
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I'll second that. I can't say I've used Ap2, but I do own lightroom. PM is much faster (and far more stable) than bridge and much faster that LR too. The ingest workflow is great and very useful. PM is what Bridge should be.

I'll also second the part about learning the keyboard shortcuts. I can run through huge numbers of photos very quickly because I've familiarized myself with the keyboard shortcuts. And, I know there's much more in the app I havent figured out yet.

[jjj]

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Be aware that when copying files, that the Mac behaves quite differently to a PC with regard to folders of the same name. A Mac will simply replace the entire folder, whereas a PC will add anything not in destination folder or replace files with same name [if you want it to].
Not realising this could lose you a lot of data!  

[edt]

Be aware that when copying files, that the Mac behaves quite differently to a PC with regard to folders of the same name. A Mac will simply replace the entire folder, whereas a PC will add anything not in destination folder or replace files with same name [if you want it to].
Not realising this could lose you a lot of data! 
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Well...I just read the entire User's Manual for Photo Mechanic. It's pretty clear to me now that Photo Mechanic IS what I want to use to downloading from the card, select/delete/sort/copy to folder etc...