iView MediaPro will do the cataloging work for you easily. It's
available for Mac OS X and Windows systems. Not cheap, but good;
building your own database to do the work that iView does would take
a LOT of effort and time. I know, I've done it and discarded my
effort in favor of iView when I got to about one-third the
capabilities. iView MediaPro will catalog every multimedia file
format I've found to date.
Full information available from their website:
http://www.iview-multimedia.com
For Windows systems, there's also iMatch which has a good reputation.
Godfrey
On Apr 15, 2006, at 10:36 PM, Don Williams wrote:
Since starting to use the D last year I haven't taken one JPEG
picture. After
a week of shooting TIFF I changed over to RAW. This was after I
read posts
about RSE on the group. Since then I've been processing the RAW images
with RSE and Photoshop CS. The camera spends most of the time on a
microscope and I might take several hundred pictures during a session.
My immediate concern now is the setting up of a database. It's very
difficult to
find a file in a stack of CDs unless I know the number or date. If
anyone has a
useful database program* I'd be interested to hear from them. I
have to do something
soon -- before things get out of hand. I also have several thousand
video clips, also on
CDs, that need to be cataloged.
* I have MS Access installed in my PC and OpenInsight on the shelf.
