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Hi, I am new to Nitro so I hope the question is not stupid. My problem:
I am shooting sequences of pictures with high frequencies (20 or 50 images per second). When I have imported them in my Mac Photo library, they are often not in the right order (I don’t know why). The options for sorting are insufficient. Often only by date (seems not to take into account the split second differences between pictures), and the option to sort by name in the menu is greyed out. So I can’t find a way to sort my pictures in the chronological sequence that they were taken.Doesn’t seem like a Nitro issue to me, but the dysfunctionality of Apple Photos which only allow sorting via “Oldest / Newest” or Title. Unless you have titled the files, you’re stuck with your current issue. I want to sort by Filename, which I use “Finder Rename” to something meaningful before I do anything else. I had to buy Photos Workbench (Houdah Software – $29) which allows me to copy filename to Title, so I can THEN sort by title. This works for me, but annoying to buy another app to get it to work. I also use Finder Tags (Apples own system feature) when renaming files, but Apple Photos does not recognize Apple’s own finder Tags either (go figure!).
I would not use Apple Photos except for the convenience of iCloud on multiple devices. I use other software to manage a catalog of original (mostly RAW) files and do almost all my editing in other apps, then export to HEIC or JXL to finally import into Apple Photos.
Nitro can handle the edit / conversion to HEIC and export into Photos, but so far, the xmp sidecars are not useable in any other apps, which means that any work done in Nitro is hostage to only Nitro and things like ratings etc aren’t seen by other software… so that breaks its functionality for me….good luck…gary
Sorting options depend on how the images are stored. When the images are kept in the file system, the app can sort them using information that is immediately available, such as the file’s creation date. It does not sort by rating or EXIF data because that would require opening each file individually, and doing so again whenever the data changes.
In the Photo Library, sorting is limited to the options that the library itself provides, which are based on date (created, modified, or added).
Both approaches work this way because the underlying database — whether it’s the file system or the photo library — can sort far more efficiently than having the user interface manually scan through every image.
I could add additional sorting choices, but doing so would significantly slow the app when working with large collections. I learned this early on while developing Nitro, where I initially included more sorting features but eventually removed them due to performance issues, especially on iPhone and iPad.
Sorting is still more basic than in Windows. I used to sort by date and the time of the exposure was automatically included.
In IOS after renaming the pictures are in alphabetic order, in Windows they stay sorted according to date and time.
So renaming in IOS I use the following method: date – number – place and name of location / e.g. 260327 1 Kagoshima walk to …
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