[digiKam-users] Digikam

[Cécile Legrix]

Hello,

I have a question before using Digikam : I am working for an organisation, we are about 20 people.

- If using Digikam, is it possible to have a person (or 2) as administrator who manage Digikam, and a few other persons who can use and just download pictures? 

- Also, we have about 103 Go pictures to manage, is it ok for Digikam?

- Is it possible to manage also videos?

thank you for your informations,

Le 27/04/2021 à 16:05, Cécile Legrix a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I have a question before using Digikam : I am working for an
> organisation, we are about 20 people.
>
> - If using Digikam, is it possible to have a person (or 2) as
> administrator who manage Digikam, and a few other persons who can use
> and just download pictures?

digikam albums are only system folders, so yes

>
> - Also, we have about 103 Go pictures to manage, is it ok for Digikam?

many people have much more

>
> - Is it possible to manage also videos?
>

yes and no. You can't *edit* videos from digikam (use kdenlive or
avidemux instead - the workflow is different), but you can have some
video mixed with photos, although it's not optimal

jdd

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Le mer. 28 avr. 2021 à 22:56, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> a écrit :

Le 27/04/2021 à 16:05, Cécile Legrix a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I have a question before using Digikam : I am working for an
> organisation, we are about 20 people.
>
> - If using Digikam, is it possible to have a person (or 2) as
> administrator who manage Digikam, and a few other persons who can use
> and just download pictures?

digikam albums are only system folders, so yes

>
> - Also, we have about 103 Go pictures to manage, is it ok for Digikam?

many people have much more

>
> - Is it possible to manage also videos?
>

yes and no. You can't *edit* videos from digikam (use kdenlive or
avidemux instead - the workflow is different), but you can have some
video mixed with photos, although it's not optimal

But for the video support for management purposes, yes. We use ffmpeg in background (and in the future ExifTool) to extract video metadata and populate the database with important properties. So yes, searching video is well supported.

Thumbnails and preview of video work well, as ffmpeg is used in the background to render stream. Editing is delegated to extra applications.

 

Gilles Caulier