We are on FM Pro Advanced v13. I use Advanced because I need the additional scripting utilities and the custom menus. I know about Media Browser but never thought of using it. Maybe I should describe the project.
I'm preparing a reference book on plant material for zones 10+ (Tropicals), and in the course of this work over the past few years have been collecting photographs (with the iPhone more and more, as it turns out). The photo collection is nowhere near complete; I am adding perhaps 50 images a week and will be doing so for another year or so– have to catch the plants flowering.
The editorial portion of the research is managed in Scrivener (that's where I write my weekly column so I'm used to it). FMP isnt really suitable as a text editor, although I do use it in my practice for memos and proposal. And believe it or not, I track citations in TextEdit.
Back to FMP: as the research progresses we have mocked up pages, thinking how they might look. I also use the database in my normal practice as a landscape architect. Both of these uses require photos, but the photos are in Aperture.
The workflow in Aperture involved assigning stars to images and uploading them to Flickr for my co-author to review.
To get the images over to FMP, I just drag them from Aperture to FMP container fields. And THAT is why I have the previews so big.
This is very far from ideal mostly because there is no linked relationship. In the end, I always imagined I would delte all photos from FMP and start over, dragging images to the appropriate record. This actually makes some sense because sometimes there are a dozen photos of each plant but only 6 container fields in each record. I could add more but realistically getting a dozen into print will be a miracle. More, even less so.
That's my story and suggestions are very welcome. It's clunky as ****.
