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Photomechanic plug in
Wendi Kaminski, Photographer, Assistant
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La Mirada | CA | USA | Posted: 12:29 PM on 10.31.07 |
| ->> I heard there was a plug in for Photomechanic that would import the names of Hockey players along with their numbers that would makes it easier to caption with the correct spelling of the names. Anyone know where to find this? |
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Allan Campbell, Photographer, Assistant
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Salem | OR | USA | Posted: 12:44 PM on 10.31.07 |
| ->> It is built in it is called code replacement. |
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Kevin Novak, Photographer, Assistant
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Bel Air (Baltimore) | MD | USA | Posted: 12:44 PM on 10.31.07 |
->> Wendi,
Mike Stone has graciously generated this very valuable script.
http://stopactionsports.com/extract.php
You can read the instructions in the release notes.
Once you generate the .txt file, save it to your hard drive, and point Photomechanic to it to generate the names, etc.
Kevin |
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Allan Campbell, Photographer, Assistant
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Bill Vaughn, Photographer
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Huntsville | Al | United States | Posted: 12:31 PM on 11.01.07 |
->> Kevin, or anyone else
Are you having any trouble getting the NFL extract to work? I've tried two different browsers on Mac and IE on a PC and I can't get anything but a file with each of the teams names in it. The file comes back looking like this:
t Tennessee Titans
c Carolina Panthers
Can get the extract to work on baseball, NCAA or NHL, but not NFL.
Thanks in advance
Bill |
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Kevin Novak, Photographer, Assistant
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Bill Vaughn, Photographer
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Huntsville | Al | United States | Posted: 1:34 PM on 11.01.07 |
| ->> Thanks, at least it's not just me. I abandoned that thread too soon. |
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Mike Stone, Photographer
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Dallas | TX | USA | Posted: 8:11 PM on 11.01.07 |
->> Hey Guys...and Gal,
You all are correct, there was a problem with the nfl script. I went in to detail on the other thread, but basically, I think it is working correctly now but always look the file over before using.
Mike |
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Steve King, Photographer
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Ann Arbor | MI | USA | Posted: 10:26 AM on 11.02.07 |
->> Mike,
There are some issues with the rosters on NCAA football too, since there are some players listed that were on squads last year, wrong positions, based upon last year too. Can you check on that too? |
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Dennis Wierzbicki, Photographer
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Plainfield | IL | USA | Posted: 10:37 AM on 11.02.07 |
->> Steve,
I've run into this a couple times also, but this is a function of the accuracy of ESPN's roster, not Mike's page-scraping routine. The file his Web page generates is only as good as ESPN's data.
As Mike said up-thread, "always look the file over before using". I normally use the roster on the school's site as being the correct one, and even then I check it against what is handed out before the game. If there are any discrepancies, I edit the TXT file and re-input it into Photo Mechanic.
From the Department of Redundancy Department, I also check my captions against the roster handed out at the game before I submit images.
Just to be sure... |
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Mike Stone, Photographer
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Dallas | TX | USA | Posted: 8:38 AM on 11.04.07 |
->> Dennis,
Well said!
Dennis,
Well said! Wait, I already said that.
FYI, just added NBA. The pages were so similar to the new NFL pages it was a relatively easy fix.
Thanks for all the kind comments. Glad the site is of benefit.
Mike |
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Jeff Kowalsky, Photographer
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West Bloomfield | MI | United States | Posted: 9:33 AM on 11.04.07 |
->> Mike,
I want to thank you for your effort. Your work has saved me a ton of time!
You are a valuable member of the SportShooter community.
Best regards,
Jeff |
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Steve King, Photographer
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Ann Arbor | MI | USA | Posted: 11:29 PM on 11.04.07 |
->> Mike,
You are right, your work has been impeccable, and the differences were what I found prior to each NCAA Football game vs. what ESPN posted and what the NCAA team had as their actual roster too. I think the teams need to get their updates to ESPN so what you are doing works better, IMHO!
Can you get all the NCAA sports included too? Since you added NBA can we get BB, Hockey, etc.? Sorry to ask for so much, NOT! Whatever you give us I'm happy to work with.
In your debt,
Steve |
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Mike Stone, Photographer
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Dallas | TX | USA | Posted: 1:34 PM on 11.05.07 |
->> Hey Steve,
You are worse then my wife. This weekend she wanted me to clean the home office and as soon as I did she asked when I would get to mowing the lawn. :)
As far as other sports, I have considered men's basketball but doing NCAA is very time consuming because I have to setup the tables of colleges and the numeric codes ESPN assigns to each...plus since I shoot so little college basketball and because the rosters are small and easy to create from scratch, it just hasnt seemed worth the effort.
As far as college hockey, are those rosters even online?
Mike |
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Dominick Reuter, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Boston | MA | USA | Posted: 2:01 PM on 11.05.07 |
->> CSTV.com hosts a variety of teams and divisions, with most rosters tabled out nicely. I'm not too savvy on the scripting of that, but it might help.
- DR |
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Wendi Kaminski, Photographer, Assistant
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La Mirada | CA | USA | Posted: 2:09 PM on 11.05.07 |
->> Thanks Mike for doing this and to all that helped point me in the right direction.
It is a time saver for sure. |
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Brian Westerholt, Photographer
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Kannapolis | NC | USA | Posted: 9:52 AM on 11.06.07 |
->> Mike,
You need to change the NBA drop down box to say Charlotte Bobcats, not Charlotte Hornets.
Thanks for making this script available to everyone - it is a HUGE time saver!
-Brian |
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Mike Stone, Photographer
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Dallas | TX | USA | Posted: 5:38 PM on 11.06.07 |
| ->> Nice catch Brian...now should I ahead and make the change for the Oklahoma City Supersonics??? |
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Richard Wolowicz, Photographer
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Brossard | QC | Canada | Posted: 9:05 PM on 11.06.07 |
| ->> Time saver is an under-statement ... Mike is the man. |
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Derick Hingle, Photographer
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Hammond | LA | USA | Posted: 1:06 AM on 04.02.08 |
| ->> I just learned about this and downloaded the NBA rosters, thanks for your work in doing this script. Code Replacement will be very helpful. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 2:06 AM on 04.02.08 |
| ->> basketball season is over for me. but I would like to publicly say jason watson changed my life and saved my paper a lot of money. his code replacement for the NCAA basketball teams was amazing. I actually relied on it so much I often never even checked to see if the names were correct (ooppps my bad. I hope none of my editors see this) jason IS the man. I owe you the drink of your choice. thanks...our job gets better and better...and easier!! |
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Steve King, Photographer
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Ann Arbor | MI | USA | Posted: 8:28 PM on 04.03.08 |
| ->> Has anyone had recent success with the MLB roster function on this site? Today all I get is a blank roster with only team names at the top. I've sent an email to Mike about this already this evening |
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David Richard, Photographer
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Sheffield Village/Cleve. | OH | USA | Posted: 7:37 PM on 04.08.08 |
->> Steve,
I tried the script for MLB rosters as well on a MacBookPro and also got just the team names. |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 7:56 PM on 04.08.08 |
->> What version Did code replacements start in? I have 4.4.3.3 and cannot seem to find it...
Am I missing something? |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 8:45 PM on 04.08.08 |
->> Woa. That was fast. Thanks to Kirk at Camera Bits!!
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Hello Patrick,
You said "What version Did code replacements start in? I have
4.4.3.3 and cannot seem to find it...
Am I missing something?"
Code Replacement is in version 4.4.3.3, but to access it you
need to open up the Preferences dialog, click on the IPTC/XMP
tab and then click on the "Code Replacements..." button. The
rest of the functionality is very similar to how it is done in 4.5.x.
HTH,
-Kirk
Kirk A. Baker
Senior Software Engineer
Camera Bits, Inc. |
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