Ben Rubinstein
Active member
Hi,
We will be shooting about 20tb worth of images per year and that's just the RAW files. I need a system where I can search these images based on metadata, swiftly. Now I know that LR can do this but it's pretty much a database only. Once I've found the images I can't copy a selection over to a couple of hard drives and burn a disk of them. I need not only to be able to find them but browser style organise, copy, move, etc the files. I'm on windows not mac.
Bridge is useless, taken 3 hours to index a 1tb drive and then when I do a simple metadata search it starts indexing them all over again. And again. And again. It has a powerful search interface but the search engine is a joke.
Lightroom is far better, supremely fast, easy, etc. But once I've found the files I can't do anything other than export them, I've no access to them.
There is a widget for Win 7 which allows the windows search engine to search metadata but it was made for music files, I haven't tried it on IPTC or EXIF data though I'm going to boot into the win 7 system now to try it out.
Any ideas for a fast metadata solution which allows me browser functionality over the found files?
I'm sure a lot of you people are using LR but there must be other systems out there for big studio's, stock shooters, etc who need more than that?
We will be shooting about 20tb worth of images per year and that's just the RAW files. I need a system where I can search these images based on metadata, swiftly. Now I know that LR can do this but it's pretty much a database only. Once I've found the images I can't copy a selection over to a couple of hard drives and burn a disk of them. I need not only to be able to find them but browser style organise, copy, move, etc the files. I'm on windows not mac.
Bridge is useless, taken 3 hours to index a 1tb drive and then when I do a simple metadata search it starts indexing them all over again. And again. And again. It has a powerful search interface but the search engine is a joke.
Lightroom is far better, supremely fast, easy, etc. But once I've found the files I can't do anything other than export them, I've no access to them.
There is a widget for Win 7 which allows the windows search engine to search metadata but it was made for music files, I haven't tried it on IPTC or EXIF data though I'm going to boot into the win 7 system now to try it out.
Any ideas for a fast metadata solution which allows me browser functionality over the found files?
I'm sure a lot of you people are using LR but there must be other systems out there for big studio's, stock shooters, etc who need more than that?