P: LR4 extremely slow web module gallery building

Why can LR not work as fast as Bridge regarding webgallery building
(just local, no FPT) ?

As a comparison, I just did a Web Gallery export:

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• Win7 64-Bit
  
• Intel i7-980x (6 cores @ 3.33GHz)
  
• 24GB Memory
  
• Fast disks
  
• HTML gallery with 369 images
  
• All CR2's from Canon 5D MkII (21 MP)
  
• Detail image settings: 70% quality, 1024 px
  

The export of 369 images took 29 minutes, whereby LR used about 50-60% of my CPU.

Beat

Douglas, if you tell me how to do it, I'll be happy to add another voice to your suggestion.

I still have this problem, using the newest release. 150 pictures to a simple html-galery takes over 40 minutes. How can I improve the software?
Lightroom 4.1, MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB Memory, Lion.

OK will do

Douglas, I'm going to update this to fixed, because the bug itself is solved now.

Post it as a separate 'idea' though so that other people can vote on that feature being added too.

The new version 4.1 is better in many ways but the web module is still clumsy. My previews which have many adjustments and now look great are 1440 pixels wide, the website larger image is 450 pixels wide, so why not just resize the jpg to fit? LR4.1 goes back to the RAW file to generate that 450pixels image which is so inefficient and takes FOREVER. Websites arent designed to be colour critical applications or used for print - they will be viewed on a wide range of quality of monitors for image selection and review only.

If you make all the previews and then rename the folder of RAWs, LR then is forced to use the previews to make a website and does so in about 5 seconds.....

I found that LR 4.1 RC2 has solved the time problem with building the gallery, at least in the TTG stuff. You should make certain that you have downloaded and installed the latest version.

Web gallery build process is not only slow, but has another bug. I asked this question elsewhere, but maybe related to above issue. I ask for a medium size images but large size also built, adding to the time burden to generate the gallery, the time burden to ftp, and the space consumed at my web host. I've tried various sequences to get LR4 to pay attention to my 'medium' selection, but nothing works.

Hi Gary, I think most are agreed that the time between LR4RC and release of v4 was so short that little could have been done and tested thoroughly. This release has been my greatest disappointment from Adobe and I hope they think long and hard before rushing things out of the door in the future.