Filter out files you don’t want and say goodbye to photo duplicates.

Everything in it’s place

This is perfect for when you want to connect all your devices, one-click the sifter to organize the files, and then walk away.

If you disconnect a device, it will remember the folder structure, file renaming, and filters for that device and use them the next time you connect it.

Silent Sifter will detect which of the inputs are available (i.e. cameras, network share drives) and sift all of the photos/videos from each of them.

That means you can add all the iPhones, iPads, SD Cards, Cameras, Photo Booth, iPhoto, Dropbox, Google Drive or folders you want.

You can tell Silent Sifter to look for photos and videos in as many locations as you want.

Silent Sifter has been tested extensively with iPhoto within iLife ‘11 (9.2.3), and should be backwards compatible with iPhoto within iLife ‘09 (8.0), and even iPhoto within iLife ’08 (7.x).

The way this works is the files are copied to iPhoto, and the next time you launch iPhoto and open the appropriate Library file, iPhoto will import the files into your library.

You can also have Silent Sifter output files into iPhoto if you would like. You can use as many iPhoto Library files as you would like, as either inputs or outputs. This allows you to use Silent Sifter’s features, such as renaming, filtering, duplicate prevention and collision prevention prior to files being imported to iPhoto.

Silent Sifter can import photos from both iPhoto and Photo Booth, and centralize them with the rest of your files.

If you are using a Mac, you probably have used one or both of iPhoto and Photo Booth.

Note that a valid Dropbox/Google Drive account and Mac client software are pre-requisites for using them with Silent Sifter.

Or you might do both, in which case you can take disorganized files from one folder on Dropbox, let Silent Sifter organize them, and copy them into a photo collection folder on Dropbox.

On the other hand, if you keep your entire collection on Dropbox for backup reasons, then you can configure Dropbox as an output from Silent Sifter.

For example, if you use Dropbox to store photos from your iPhone, but then later clean those photos off Dropbox to your harddrive, then you can configure Dropbox as an input.

You can configure root folders or subfolders as either inputs or outputs from Silent Sifter.

Dropbox and Google Drive are popular tools for storing photos from smartphones, and backing up photos.

Features

One click organization of your files, the way you want them

Choose your folder structure, and your files will be filed automatically

Choose how to name your files, and they will all be named accordingly

Find photos and videos in as many locations as you want

Write photos and videos to as many locations as you want.

Connect your phone, press sift, and all your files are organized. Silent Sifter remembers where you files are coming from, where they are going to, and how you want them. When you connect your camera, it will recognize that, remember that you want files from that camera copied to Folder X and organized by Year/Month/Day and PNG files to be ignored. It works the same way for any photo source: a folder, an SD card, a camera, a smartphone, dropbox, and so on. And it does it for all of them at the same time. There is only one click between you and organization.



Silent Sifter detects and prevents copying of duplicate photos and videos into your photo collection. Instead of removing duplicates from your collection, why not avoid adding them in the first place? How does it do this? SS analyzes your input files, compares them to each other as well as all of your output files, identifies duplicates, and skips copying them. This means you can sift the same files over and over, and only the new files will get copied. For example, if you plug in your smartphone, and sift all your files, only the new files will be added, exactly once for each output. You have full control over the tradeoff between speed and quality of duplicate prevention; you can choose ‘best quality’, which used MD5 checksums, which will take more time, or you can choose ‘medium quality’ which does a great job, and is much faster, but is not perfect.



Silent Sifter will group your photos/videos into folders based on your preferences. Default Behavior

Out of the box, Silent Sifter separates Photos and Videos, and then suborganizes them by Year and Month. For example, a photo might be in the folder /Photos/2012/03 – March/ Presets

Of course, you can change this structure to whatever you like. Silent Sifter has 20+ presets to let you organize however you choose. Customization

If none of the presets work for you, then you can build your own structure, based on any combination of: Date (y/m/d/h/m/s in your choice of format)

Original Filename

Camera Make

Camera Model

Resolution

File type

File extension

Video duration

Original parent folder

Custom Text

Any other photo metadata (Exif, ExifAux, TIFF, IPTC, MakerNikon, MakerCanon) i.e. Aperture, ISO, Keywords, Category, SupplementalCategory, Caption, Subject…and so on.

Any OSX Spotlight metadata (CreateDate, ModifyDate, Tags, etc) Best of all, if you want to have different structures for different output folders, you can customize them separately. For example, if you want to organize PNGs by Month and parent folder, but want your JPGs to be organized by Y/M/D, that’s easy to do.

Silent Sifter will rename your photos/videos (or not) based on your preferences. Default Behavior

Out of the box, Silent Sifter will rename your photos by adding a timestamp for when the photo or video was taken to the front of the file. For example, a photo named IMG_1234.JPG might be renamed to 201203121155_IMG_1234.JPG Presets

Of course, you can disable or change the renaming setting to whatever you like. Silent Sifter has 20+ presets to let you rename your files however you choose. Customization

If none of the presets work for you, then you can build your own renaming rules, based on any combination of: Date (y/m/d/h/m/s in your choice of format)

Original Filename

Camera Make

Camera Model

Resolution

File type

File extension

Video duration

Original parent folder

Custom Text

Any other photo metadata (Exif, ExifAux, TIFF, IPTC, MakerNikon, MakerCanon) i.e. Aperture, ISO, Keywords, Category, SupplementalCategory, Caption, Subject…and so on.

Any OSX Spotlight metadata (CreateDate, ModifyDate, Tags, etc) Best of all, if you want to have different renaming rules for different output folders, you can customize them separately. For example, if you want to rename PNGs to include resolution, but want your JPGs to be renamed the same way Aperture does, that’s easy to do.



Silent Sifter supports both photos and videos in many formats. Some formats have full support and others are limited to basic support. Below is a list, but if a file type is not listed, that just means we have not tested it. If you want to know if a file type will work, send us an example, and we will test it for you. Photo Formats Supported:

JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, AI, PSD, JPEG2000, XCF, BMP, ICNS, CR2, CRW, ERF, RAF, 3FR, DCR, RAW, DNG, MRW, NRW, ORF, RW2, PEF, MOS, ARW, SR2, X3F*, KDC*, PPM*, ARI*, SRF*, BAY*, CAP*, IIQ*, EIP*, DCS*, DRF*, K25*, FFF*, PTX*, R3D*, RWL*, RWZ*, SRW* and more. Video Formats Supported:

MOV, AVI, MPG, MP4, MTS*, MKV*, VOB*, M2TS* and more. Basic support is noted by an asterisk*, and varies from full support in the ability to read metadata about the file (i.e. basic supported files cannot detect camera model, for example).

You can tell Silent Sifter to look for photos and videos in as many locations as you want. That means you can add all the iPhones, iPads, SD Cards, Cameras, Photo Booth, iPhoto, Dropbox, Google Drive or folders you want. Silent Sifter will detect which of the inputs are available (i.e. cameras, network share drives) and sift all of the photos/videos from each of them. If you disconnect a device, it will remember the folder structure, file renaming, and filters for that device and use them the next time you connect it. This is perfect for when you want to connect all your devices, one-click the sifter to organize the files, and then walk away.

You can configure as many outputs from Silent Sifter as you want, and they are each customizable with filters, folder structure, and file renaming. Why? You can have Silent Sifter copy all your files to two locations, for backup reasons. Maybe one of those outputs is on Dropbox or Google Drive.

You can have Silent Sifter copy all of your files to one location, and just the photos to iPhoto.

You can have Silent Sifter copy all of you JPGs to one folder, and organize by Y/M/D, and copy all of your RAW files to another folder, and organize them by Camera/Y/M/D. The possibilities are infinite.