Liga MX is the league where the caption breaks before the photo does. Club names and player names both carry accents that do not always survive the trip to a caption field, and the season splits into two tournaments a year. SnapCaption builds the squad file in about a minute with names already folded to clean ASCII, for Photo Mechanic and GalleryID Desktop.
Free. No account required to build and download a file.
Every sport breaks a roster file in its own way. These are the ones that bite in Liga MX.
Club and player names alike carry characters that can arrive at the desk garbled. Exported names are folded to US-ASCII so what lands in the caption is what you expected.
Apertura and Clausura each bring squad movement. A file from the last tournament is not the squad you are shooting now.
When Liga MX clubs meet MLS clubs, you need both leagues in reach. They are separate selections, and the tournament squads are separate again.
The export is not locked to one program. The same Liga MX roster file loads into Photo Mechanic and into GalleryID Desktop, with identical shortcodes either way.
Edit > Settings > Set Code Replacements > Load, then pick the file. The shortcodes are live in the caption fields immediately.
Code Replacement is the name Camera Bits, Inc. gives the feature in Photo Mechanic's own documentation, which is why this file is often called a code replacement roster file.
Attach the same file as a roster and the identical shortcodes expand while you caption. Nothing about the export changes.
GalleryID Desktop goes further than shortcodes — it identifies athletes by facial recognition and writes the names into the photo, so there is no code to type at all. See GalleryID Desktop
The h is the prefix you assigned the home club, 9 the shirt number. Give the visitors their own prefix and both squads live in one file.
You choose the columns. The export is a tab-separated file, so anything that reads a tab-delimited roster can use it.
18 teams, kept current from in-season sources. Pick any two and build one file for the whole game.
In Photo Mechanic, go to Edit > Settings > Set Code Replacements, click Load, and select the file. GalleryID Desktop attaches the same file as a roster with no change to the export.
Names are folded to US-ASCII on export so they survive Photo Mechanic and the wires without turning into replacement characters.
Yes. Leagues Cup is its own selection built from the official registered tournament rosters rather than league squads, so it reflects who is actually eligible.
Yes, MLS is available as its own league selection, which matters when you are shooting clubs from both.
Pick your teams, set your codes, download the file. Free, and no account required.
Open the roster builder