automatically associate people with images

AnnaRSC

Hi,

Here's my situation:

We're planning several hot folders for our production artists to automatically send images to different locations - specifically, seven, one for each type of image they produce. The original plan was to make a different set of these hot folders for each production artist, so that embedded in the hot folders could be a metadata addition of that production artist's name. However, I realized this is going to be really labor intensive, especially when a change needs to be made to all the hot folders - instead of seven, 28 hot folders would need to be updated. Is there an easier automatic way to assign a production artist's name to an image, once that production artist has dropped the image into a given hot folder (which is how we determine that he is the production artist that processed that image)?

Also, I know that there is the history tab on each asset - however, since history data is not the same as metadata, I don't know if there's any way, like there is for metadata, for someone to come in and do a search like "show me all the images Joe Production Artist processed since July" - which is the reason we want the production artist's name attached to the asset at all.

I'm also open to other approaches - for example, if there was a way to do mass edits on sets of hot folders, that would of course make the updating of 28 hot folders more manageable.

Thank you so much!

msrinivas

You can do the production artist tagging fairly easily using a script. If each of them has a separate folder in MB then the script can tag that particular folder and all sub folders and assets on a nightly basis.

For "show me all the images Joe Production Artist processed since July" you can create a search and save it in MB. You can search by artist name and ingestion date (or any other custom metadata date that you choose). Refer to the asset server admin guide for more information.

HTH