Friends: at your request we’ve loaded up a re-watch of last week’s episode of chasejarvisLIVE to my YouTube channel [subscribe here] for your review and perusal. If you’re at all interested in our digital photo & video workflow and backup, then this is worth your time. It’s a follow-up to our popular workflow video and post where we discussed and reviewed our entire digital strategy from capture through to delivery of final files to the client…even how we backup our daily work, our email preferences, and our music. You name it. The gear, the plans, the whole mess.
I’ve said it before, but it would be remiss not to mention it again: I think this topic is one of the most important fundamentals–not just for professional photographers and filmmakers like us–but for anyone with valuable digital content that’s worth backing up. In this episode, Scott, Dartanyon, Erik and yours truly took live questions from a worldwide twitter audience and addressed in depth earlier questions that we received from our recent post–about everything the basics of our strategy to the subtle and the scalable parts that make this worthwhile to almost anyone.
We’ll keep an eye out for the comment section below for this post and do our best to answer any other topics/questions we may have missed. Surely there’s plenty.
I liked both the original and follow-up. I was hoping that a continuation would be done. I didn’t quite follow the scenario explaining multi-day shoots however. Not that it would be relevant to me, but let’s say hypothetically you had a 2-day shoot on Oct 11-12 for acme widgets.
According to your explanation, the project name takes on the first day of the shoot. I interpret that to be 20101011_acme_widgets_day1. So I assume that embedded in the file name, you add day1 or day2 whatever the case may be depending on what day you’re on correct? So all the child folders would be day1 and day2. Within those child folders, you have the camera folders?
What happens to the naming convention on day 2? Do you change it to 20101012? Or does it remain the same but with the day2 added on?
Something like this?
2010
|__ 20101011_acme_widgets_day1
|__day1
| |___cam1
| | |__20101011_acme_widgets_day1_cam1_8387.nef
| |___cam2
| |__20101011_acme_widgets_day1_cam2_7217.nef
|
|__day2
|___cam1
| |__20101011_acme_widgets_day2_cam1_9436.nef
|___cam2
|__20101011_acme_widgets_day2_cam2_8871.nef
I also have a question about your folder system, but maybe someone else here can help me too.
How do you add day1 and cam1 using Aperture? I can tell Aperture to create a folder based on the date and also based on the project name, but how do you add information about the day and the cam?
My preset looks like this:
(YEAR)/(YEAR)(MONTH)(DAY)_(PROJECT_NAME)/(???)/(???)
So the first (???) supposed to be the day and the second the cam, but I don’t get it how to create that preset. I thought I can just add a custom field, for which I enter the info on each import IN the import dialog. All I’ve found was a custom field, but I have to enter the information in the preset settings.
Awesome! I was so bummed when I missed this live and I can’t wait to watch it! Thanks again for sharing!!!
Hello Chasejarvis,
Great vid, but i still don’t get the picture with the workflow Aperture+photoshop.
When i’m store my raw images on the server it creates a map with the pictures so far so good.
But how do you import the images, do you keep the images at there current location or store them in your Aperture Library?
I use keep at current location. So when I’m finished with the project, all metadata and editing the picture, I have to export the Aperture library as well to keep those settings on my pictures.
Within these aperture package there are several things;
Aperture.aplib
ApertureData.xml
Attachments
Database
Info.plist
Masks
Masters
Previews
Thumbnails
So the Raw image won’t be harmed at any time. But what now?? Do you export it again as a new library or what? Because when a client want the image from last year with the settings that you made to it how do you get it back on screen?
The process between RAW – APERTURE – OPEN THE EDITED PICTURES from last year? Do you open a Aperture Library or do you import the pictures, if so you don’t have all the metadata and settings.
Sorry if my English writing isn’t as good, I’m from the Netherlands.
Greetings, Levin den Boer.
Levin,
We’d store the aperture library and re-export the needed photos if we had to go back to particular photos.
hello Dartanyon,
saw the workflow video – great stuff and inspiration. But how do you copy the camerafiles from the Powerbook simultaneous to the G-Drive SSD ?? Do you use a program to mirrow them on the extern SSD ? Please let me know.
Cheers
Peter
A follow up question if that’s alright with you guys.
Do you organise stills and video (from the same project) within separate folder structures too?
For example:
‘20101005_CJLIVE_D3_ETC’
Within that goes folders:
‘20101005_CJLIVE_D3_VIDEO_2345.MOV’ and ‘20101005_CJLIVE_D3_STILLS_2346.NEF’
Thanks again!
Ben the video is just another camera, so those clips will fall into a subfolder just like when we switch cards.
20101005_cjLIVE_02_HVX_2345.mov
Ok great, thanks for the response Dartanyon!
Thanks again for this post Chase and Team and thanks for answering my question!