Simple Way to Track Photos Between Multiple Macs?

Hello, everyone. I hope you are doing well.
My wife and I take photos and video with 2 different iPhones, a Nikon SLR, a Panasonic compact digital, and a Flip HD video recorder.
I put the photos I take on my Mac Pro. She puts the photos she takes on her iMac.
I was wondering if there was an AppleScript or some automated way for me to see which photos and videos that I have on my Mac Pro that aren't on her iMac.
I realize I can now Share my entire Library with her iMac, but I'm guessing the performance of streaming thousands of 5-7 meg photos and 30-100 meg movies isn't that great. However, to be honest, I haven't tried it yet.
But my guess is I need a way to identify the images/videos I have that she doesn't have and then copy them over to her iMac.
Any ideas?
Thank you so much!
Scot

How are your two Macs connected? Do you have a hard wired LAN? If so then the optimal way of sharing a library between the two Macs is to put a single library on an external FW hard drive connected to one of the Macs and have both of you use the same library, but not at the same time. If you go this route you can merge your two existing libraries into a new library with the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager and eliminate any duplicates in the process.
If you're connected wirelessly it's not recommended to run/share a library wirelessly as you will encounter occasional dropouts and that can corrupt the library. When that happens you're in a good position of losing all your organizational efforts. You'll not lose the photos/movies, just the organization and you may have to create a new library from the existing original files in the damaged one.
If you want to be able to keep both your libraries identical as to content you can use iPhotoSync
Here's how it works:
1 - it compares the databases and/or album.xml files of Libraries A and B.
2 - the files in A that are not in B are imported into B by copying the original files from A into B's Import folder.
3 - it then does the same for B.
4 - metadata is not copied.
5 - it can be password protected to prevent unauthorized use.
It can be used to just copy from A to B and not sync both ways if desired.
Any keywords, titles, places or faces added in one library will not be copied with the photos to the other library - just the photos get copied.

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