Photomechanic-like shortcut captioning in Lightroom

[Tobers]

One thing that has annoyed me about using Lightroom for my pitch-side post processing is the inability of it to do text replacement like Photomechanic does when inputting captions. This is a shame as Lightroom is excellent for everything else. I have worked around it by putting the match details (date, location, teams) in the import metadata settings, but when it comes to putting in the player details it is a matter of typing it in which can be a bit laborious when you're also trying to follow the action.

In Photomechanic, you're able to set up shortcuts enabling you to type "m 10 p 15 ts" which expands to "England v France, Twickenham, 23rd March 2009: Toby Flood (10) of England passes to Delon Armitage (15) of England who runs over to score". Very fast and very useful.

So, with a bit of lateral thinking, I found "www.phraseexpress.com" which is a text replacement facility for Windows.

Now, I can set up my player name and other text shortcuts in Phrasexpress when I get the team sheet. When I enter the caption in Lightroom, I can do exactly the same as you would in Photomechanic and just use the shortcuts.

And its free. Major result!

Tobers

[motion_projekt]

One thing that has annoyed me about using Lightroom for my pitch-side post processing is the inability of it to do text replacement like Photomechanic does when inputting captions. This is a shame as Lightroom is excellent for everything else. I have worked around it by putting the match details (date, location, teams) in the import metadata settings, but when it comes to putting in the player details it is a matter of typing it in which can be a bit laborious when you're also trying to follow the action.

In Photomechanic, you're able to set up shortcuts enabling you to type "m 10 p 15 ts" which expands to "England v France, Twickenham, 23rd March 2009: Toby Flood (10) of England passes to Delon Armitage (15) of England who runs over to score". Very fast and very useful.

So, with a bit of lateral thinking, I found "www.phraseexpress.com" which is a text replacement facility for Windows.

Now, I can set up my player name and other text shortcuts in Phrasexpress when I get the team sheet. When I enter the caption in Lightroom, I can do exactly the same as you would in Photomechanic and just use the shortcuts.

And its free. Major result!

Tobers

this is in the wrong section, hope a mod sees it, but also PM isn;t free...I'm sure if Kirk were on here he'd correct that.

PM is $150USD you can get it from their online store.

it is a great app though. I use it to sort and ingest my photos.

[AdamLewis]

Did he say Photo Mechanic was free? I may have misread something...

Thats awesome news for LR users. Ill have to check this out later.

[Tobers]

I know Photo Mechanic isn't free. Phrase Express is free which is what I was referring to.

[Sauk]

I am sure this will be moved into the talking sports section.

But can you go into depth how you did it with LR? I am missing something (no not a brain lol)