After my recent workflow woes, I started looking around for a way to batch-import photos in my archives. I’ve mostly given up on culling at this point, and I’m focusing on archiving and redistribution.
Archiving is basically done with git-annex, which replicates copies of the files in a bunch of places and keeps checksums. Mostly out of scope of the discussion here.
My main problem is importing. Typically I would do that with RPD which allows me to select images one by one, but it’s maxing out a CPU and anyways I have such a backlog that I’ll never be able to realistically create the “rolls” I typically make (and that Darktable kind of expects).
So right now I’ve imported all my videos with this:
exiftool -fast -preserve -recurse -progress -dateFormat "$HOME/Videos/%Y/%m/%d/" '-directory<CreateDate' photos-phone/Camera/VID_*
I was originally using -directory<datetimeoriginal but that works only for photos, not videos. Anyway!
One tool I found that seems to do everything at once (photos and videos) and a little more intuitive than exiftool and possibly still allowing me to use a “roll” workflow (if I ever get back into that) is:
Has anyone ever tried it? Thoughts?
I also find it a little odd that the package is not published to PyPI, that “smells” a little , as it’s typically a sign of something that’s not exactly packaged right.