Karen Biddle
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| 24-04-2007 12:05 PM |
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Our photography department are new EMu users and one of the first things they've asked about is whether or not several multimedia records can be selected, then the attached image(or other) files saved onto disk in one go. Is this functionality available?
-Karen Biddle, Powerhouse Museum.
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Bernard Marshall
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| 29-04-2007 10:27 PM |
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Hello Karen,
EMu does not provide the ability to select a number of multimedia records and have the attached media saved to the local disk. One of the reasons is that the current record based "save" facility allows you to choose any of the image resolutions for saving. If a batch of records was to be saved some mechanism would need to be added to allow people to specify what size resolutions should be used.
Such a facility would also need to take into account the restrictions on a given user in terms of the maximum size image they can save (as specified by the "Maximum Viewer" registry entry). I suspect that institutions may also want to limit who is allowed to "batch" save media as this could provide an easy way for someone to download a large set of images (e.g. a student or research person) when such access may not be desirable.
Regards
bern.
Posted By Karen Biddle on 24-04-2007 12:05 PM
Our photography department are new EMu users and one of the first things they've asked about is whether or not several multimedia records can be selected, then the attached image(or other) files saved onto disk in one go. Is this functionality available?
-Karen Biddle, Powerhouse Museum.
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Bernard Marshall
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Karen Biddle
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| 10-12-2007 4:33 PM |
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Hi there Bern,
It's a long time since I asked this question.. but today it came up again. We need one of our photographers to edit more than 200 jpeg images to reduce file size to within a standard... it would be great if there was an option to export the main resource file for all selected records out to disk!
I'm sure lots of people would use it!
As for permissions, it could perhaps just be an Admin Tool?
cheers
-Karen
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Bernard Marshall
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| 10-12-2007 11:05 PM |
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Hello Karen,
It is possible to create a report for type "Export CSV" in the Multimedia module and select the "Multimedia" field as the field in the report.
When you run the report an CSV file will be created containing a list of path names to the master images. These images will have been copie to your machine. It is then possible to move the image directory to the required location.
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Bernard Marshall
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Karen Biddle
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| 11-12-2007 9:23 AM |
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Hi Bern,
I tried this and unfortunately, there are 2 problems:
(1) The exported multimedia files are not the full resource files.. they are only very small ones, so I presume only the thumbnail has been exported. I need a bunch of full size files for a photographer to edit, then return to me for re-import.
(2) The exported image files are placed into many different sub folders in the KESoftware Cache subdirectory, so it's a bit of a pain dragging them all together somewhere!
I will just continue manually exporting the files to the desired location.
Let me know if there is something I am missing!
cheers
-Karen
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Nestor Perez-Moliere
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| 12-12-2007 2:34 AM |
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Greetings Karen!
I’m not sure why you’re having the problem in #1, but #2 can be easily fixed. If you’re handy with Photoshop and you know how to work Photoshop Actions, you can create a simple one to dump all your files into a single folder. Record an Action with a step of “save as” to a specific folder (c:\temp) and then another step closing the image. When you run the action, be sure to tick the “include all subfolders” option. Run the Action on the “Cache” folder and it shall work!
Good luck!
N
Néstor D. Pérez-Molière
Bioinformatics Manager - Imaging Coordinator
Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY 10458-5126
nperez-moliere@nybg.org
http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/VirtualHerbarium.asp
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Thomas Trombone
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| 12-12-2007 2:56 AM |
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Karen, you should also be able to solve your second problem just by using Windows Explorer. After running the report, do a search on the Cache folder (including subfolders) for all jpeg files, and sort the result list by date (using "Date Created", not "Date Modified".) All the images you just exported should be grouped together at the most recent end of the sorted list. You can now select them all at once and move or copy them to a single folder. (If you have any images with duplicate names, you'll run into trouble aggregating them into a single folder. You can fix these duplicate names right in the search window.)
You might want to empty your local Cache folder before performing the above operation to make things simpler; I don't *think* that will cause any problems...
Tom
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Thomas J. Trombone
American Museum of Natural History
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Karen Biddle
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| 12-12-2007 10:10 AM |
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Thanks Néstor! Yes, I thought of this, however I don't have a full version of Photoshop saved on my PC and although I'd like it, I don't really need it in the scheme of things here. Unfortunately, because of the problem at (1), it would be pointless to set up actions on files that are not what I need anyway.
Many thanks for your reply!
-Karen
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Karen Biddle
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| 12-12-2007 10:14 AM |
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Hi Tom,
Your suggestion is what I would be doing if the files were the ones I wanted. Unfortunately, the Export Report is not copying out the version of the files that I want... so it isn't useful to me.
(The end result of all of this is that I want to give these very large files to a photographer for editing.) The reason why I'm not doing the editing myself is that the files were generated by our Photography Department, so any editing on the EMu copies is done by them.
Many thanks for your reply!
-Karen
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Karen Biddle
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| 12-12-2007 10:34 AM |
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ATTENTION EVERYONE!
Simon at NMA kindly suggested that I make sure "All images" was selected before I generated the export report (of course!)... and it is now exporting the full size images".
I am now able to sort the cached images by size and pick out the ones I want to copy.
Many thanks everyone!
cheers,
-Karen
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Ben Sullivan
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| 12-12-2007 8:27 PM |
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Hello Karen,
As you have found out from Simon, if you are having trouble exporting the full resource files then you need to check your settings on the Multimedia tab of the Report Properties dialogue box.
Right click on your newly created export csv report and select Properties.
If you have chosen the Multimedia field in the fields list then a new Multimedia properties tab will appear. (http://downloads.man.kesoftware.com/ben/multimedia-report.png)
You can then choose to show first image, all images, etc. You can also stipulate the resolution of the image that you want to export.
Each image in EMu can have multiple resolutions. When a resolution is specified on this tab of the Report Properties box, the version of an image closest in size (equal to or greater than the resolution specified) will be displayed.
If no resolution is specified, the master image is displayed (the first image listed in the Resolutions table on the Resolutions tab of the Multimedia module).
Kind regards,
Ben Sullivan
KE Software (UK)
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Linda Ward
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| 13-12-2007 1:58 AM |
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Karen,
Your question is one many of us have had and now after the discussion on the list we all know how to get at our images!
I've been playing around with the options on the Multimedia tab Ben mentioned and I was getting more files showing up in the cache than were in my list for my export report. I couldn't figure out if the problem had to do with checking "all images" versus "first image" but for some records I was getting anywhere from 2 to 3 images instead of the one 250x250 resolution image I was asking for. I would purge the cache and rerun the report and again I got at least 1 extra image (always for the first record). I finally figured out that if you are in Detail view of a multimedia record and have your EMu set to automatically load multimedia images those images are getting thrown into the cache along with the ones from your report. Oops, I should have known that! So if you want to have just the images from your report in the cache make sure you are either in list view or have turned off the option to automatically load multimedia images before you purge your cache and run your report.
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Karen Biddle
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| 13-12-2007 9:23 AM |
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Thanks Bern, Néstor, Tom, Simon, Ben and Linda!
It's good to finally know how to do this (after thinking it MUST be possible for so long)!
I didn't use the Resolution entry field (as I wanted the resource files), but it's good to know that for future exports.
cheers,
-Karen
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