IngestBurst stacks keep one capture sequence together. Recorded identifiers and supported Sony sequence counters take priority. When that information is unavailable, Ingest uses a conservative maximum gap between consecutive frames from an identifiable camera, including its serial number. The default gap is two seconds, adjustable in Settings. Missing or uncertain evidence leaves photos separate. Framing changes do not split a recorded burst, and bursts have no 30-frame limit.
Open Browse by for a compact Sections checklist and Stacks options. Check Day, Camera, Lens, ISO, or Location to create sections; leave all unchecked for a continuous grid. Choose Exposure Brackets, Bursts, or Similar Frames under Stacks. Workspaces can save these viewing choices. Double-click a burst for its whole-frame Survey; C keeps the two-pane Select/Candidate comparison. Previous/Next Burst controls appear while inspecting a burst.
For a burst, P adds the current frame as a keeper without removing existing keepers. Keep Only This Frame is a separate command. Photo Suggestions shows each burst or set of similar shots as its own section, the suggested photo marked and the reason in the header, and leaves out photos with nothing to compare; ↑ and ↓ move between sets, and nothing is tagged until you choose Tag. It never treats exposure brackets as competing candidates. Sort by Visual appeal orders a folder by the on-device appeal estimate, most appealing first, with photos not yet analyzed last; it is an order to look through, not a rating.
A three or five shot bracket is one picture taken several times. Ingest recognizes those sets and shows them as a single cell with a badge, so a card of a hundred brackets looks like twenty pictures instead of a hundred frames.
S expands or collapses the set you are on, ⌥S does all of them. A mark on a collapsed set applies to every frame in it, so tagging the bracket keeps the whole bracket.
Sets are found two ways. Sony writes a flag saying the frames were an auto bracket, which is definitive. Fujifilm does not, so Ingest looks for frames taken a fraction of a second apart with the same aperture and ISO and a clean spread of shutter speeds. Sets of three, five, seven, and nine are recognized, and an incomplete set is still stacked and marked as incomplete rather than quietly hidden.
If it gets one wrong, fix it. Select frames and combine them into a stack, or uncombine one. Your corrections are remembered for that folder. Exposure stacking can be turned off per folder with ⌥⌘K.
A RAW and JPEG / HEIF pair is handled separately: by default the two files show as one photograph, and marking or copying acts on both. ⌥⌘J turns that off for a folder when you want to see them apart.