Is this passive-aggressive Mac behavior toward Windows or what?
The wonderful aspect of digital (if you like your art director) is that you can look at the shot as you’re shooting it, on the laptop, and decide what works. And give them the take, right then and there.
I set my camera on RAW+jpg capture (so that I wouldn’t have to run a long conversion action in Photoshop), renamed the files to my convention (date_subject_sequence), and burned a CD of the jpgs. The art director had the results of the shoot within minutes. She’d pick out the best one, and I’d deliver a final file from the RAW capture.
But her Mac renamed all the files when she copied my CD. Why? Out of spite? We spent many emails and phone calls trying to figure out which photo was which. Can anyone explain to me how 050822_GHC_74.jpg turned into 050_0042.jpg?
Dear Doug,
Fear not, there is a fairly simple solution to this problem. The art director didn't save your PC derived files in AppleDouble format, which maintains the naming conventions across multiple platforms.
Here is a link that you can pass on if she wants the complete low down on how it works:
http://www.lazerware.com/formats/Specs/AppleSingle_AppleDouble.pdf
Also, she should check to see that her email is set to AppleDouble format as well, because if not, her email can be only read by other Macs.
Sincerely,
Chris
Posted by: Chris Junker | August 26, 2005 at 07:42 AM
Dear Doug,
I am correcting my earlier post about the mysterious renaming caused by the art director's Mac. It does not have anything to do with AppleDouble format, that is only for sending files and emails that can be read by different platforms other than Mac. When she burned a CD of your images, she didn't use Mac OS Extended and PC (Hybrid) formatting in order to maintain the integrity of the original file names. In other words, the truncated names were generated by the 8 character Mac file convention format.
If she burns another copy of your originals in the Mac/PC Hybrid format, they should stay intact.
Sorry about the initial "bird walk", I wasn't thinking it through all the way.
Sincerely,
Chris Junker
Posted by: Chris Junker | August 26, 2005 at 01:04 PM
I concur with Chris Junker's second post about the Hybrid format.
Poor Katie! Give her my best. (Nice picture of Scott.)
Karen
Posted by: Karen | August 27, 2005 at 06:12 PM