Soccer captions live or die on getting the name right, and MLS squads are full of names that break when they pass through a caption field. SnapCaption builds the club roster file in about a minute with names already folded to clean ASCII, and the same file loads into 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 MLS.
A name typed with the accent intact can arrive at the desk garbled or truncated. Exported names are folded to US-ASCII so the character that reaches the caption field is the character you expected.
Transfer windows, loans and roster designations move players in and out during the year. Pull a current squad on match day rather than maintaining one by hand.
Leagues Cup eligibility is its own registered list, not the club roster. That tournament is built from the official registered squads, so the file matches who can actually take the field.
The export is not locked to one program. The same MLS 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, 10 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.
30 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 downloaded file. GalleryID Desktop attaches the same file as a roster and expands the identical shortcodes while you caption.
Names are folded to US-ASCII on export so they survive the trip through Photo Mechanic and out to the wires without turning into replacement characters.
Yes. Leagues Cup is a separate selection built from the official registered tournament rosters rather than league rosters, so the squad reflects who is actually eligible for the tournament.
Yes, Liga MX clubs are available as their own league selection, which matters for Leagues Cup where you are shooting clubs from both.
Pick your teams, set your codes, download the file. Free, and no account required.
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