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February 9, 2017

P: Messing up file ordering with panoramas

  • February 9, 2017
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This has happened a few times in a past, then went away in subsequent releases, now in last two Lightroom CC releases happened again.

Basically I am sorting out my photos by capture time (older to more recent) -
that works fine by itself. I also do a lot of file selection and panoramic stitching in Lightroom directly, which ends up creating panoramic raw files alongside the raw files. The created panorama raw files take the capture time from the last photo used and, when added to Lightroom, used to go after the last photo used for panoramic stitching. Not anymore - since last two Lightroom CC updates they annoyingly get inserted before the last photo in panoramic sequence which is quite annoying really especially when you order file groups by panoramic sequences. This makes it quite difficult to deal when processing the shoots with quite a few panoramic sequences.

I am guessing it has something to do with secondary ordering when the timestamps of the capture are the same - that secondary ordering is not available to user and it seems that software keeps changing it. I'd appreciate it if that could be fixed (making secondary ordering configurable?). I am using Lightroom CC latest version on MacOS (latest version of OS).

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alex.furer
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February 10, 2017
I completely agree. Fixing it should be a priority for Adobe.
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February 10, 2017
I used PtGUI for a while but I do not want to resort for third party tools all the time. I need a proper solution from Adobe. The history of this ordering changing to and from between releases shows me that somthing keep changing under the hood with ordering of the files so at the very least it means looking at what changed  in that area and fix it.

I would of course welcome a more flexible solution - ability to define secondary ordering (say by file name etc).
alex.furer
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February 9, 2017
I noticed this as well. I had to copy and rename the images and then it would finally accept the right order. That's why I mostly (still) use an external application like Panorama Studio to stitch panoramas. You have much more control this way as an added bonus. This particular one has an export preset that gets installed in LR. I export full blown TIFF.