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The next step was to "Export Annotations". You just need to right-click at the root folder of the catalog folders and reset the path, informing the new disk. The first thing was to resync the MP catalog folders with the new disk. To play safe, I copied the files from their original hard disk to an empty one and did a backup of the original MP catalog, of course. I decided to test the migration with a smaller catalog, with "just" 30K images. Desirable to have a decent scripting language.Must be able to handle large collections.Must support hierarchical keywords correctly.Must not be subscription-based, aka SAAS (software as a service).Other important things to be evaluated were the user interface, how well it handles large collections, and the search engine. The main challenge was to test if PSU would import all my images and preserve the hierarchical keywords correctly, although with star and color ratings. The problem is that all my images were classified using hierarchical keywords and although MP was excellent at doing this, most of those other programs simply convert the hierarchical relations to a flat list of keywords, completely useless to me.Īfter a long and tedious series of tests with lots of DAM programs (Picasa, Photo Mechanic, Digikam, Corel AfterShot Pro, Adobe Bridge, Acdsee, and other ones) I thought it was a good opportunity to give Photo Supreme (PSU) a try. Note that I repeated this using a Windows Acer i7 2.7 GHz Quad-Core notebook with very close results, so clearly it was not a hardware or operating system issue.Īnd to complete, MP is a 32-bit application that will not run on OSX 10.15 and up. It's a 2.7 GHz i5-2500S Quad-Core iMac with 32 GB of memory and a 1 TB SSD. My computer is (was) not new but perfectly adequate for my work. Of course, being in a network server slows things a lot, at least 10-20 times slower than if it was stored on a local drive, even more, if this drive is an SSD. The MP catalogs were stored in the computer internal HD, an 1 TB Samsung EVO 850 SSD, and the images on an external USB-3 LaCie storage or on a CentOS Linux NFS server with a gigabit Ethernet connection capable of a high-speed transfer (about 100 MB/s sustained). I got corrupted catalogs more than once and I was saved by the backups I did periodically. I also noticed some instabilities with High Sierra. MP also is notorious for catalog corruption.Īt the migration time, my MP catalog had 140K images, it took almost 8 minutes to load the catalog. The problem is that Capture One is mainly a photo editor and raw converter with some DAM features and the once excellent user interface was changed to a form I don't like it.įor a long time, MP worked well with my image library, but it started to be very sluggish and slow to start when my catalog passed 75K images.
PHOTO MECHANIC FOR MAC VS WINDOWS PRO
The perpetual license of Capture One Pro 12 cost at this post date, 299 Euros, or if you're crazy enough, you can join the subscription plan for 20 Euros/month.
PHOTO MECHANIC FOR MAC VS WINDOWS FULL
Phase One sort of merged it with Capture One, but of course, if you want to still use it, you must pay for a full license of it and it's no cheap.
PHOTO MECHANIC FOR MAC VS WINDOWS UPDATE
This last update still works on OSX 10.13 High Sierra and I have no intention to test it on higher versions since Media pro was discontinued killed about one year ago. It worked very well with OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion and then an update was launched in late 2016 to address compatibility with OSX 10.12 Sierra and 10.13 El Capitan, but it was a PAID update that was offered for 39 Euro, a total absurd since it didn't offer any improvements. It was reasonably priced from 139 Euros in 2012 when I started to use it. Foreword For a considerable time, Phase One Media Pro was my favorite digital asset management program (DAM). All posts here reflect my personal impressions and experiences with products, programs, and equipment.
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