P: Ability to batch process Photo Merge (HDR and panorama)

I may be a little late to the (this) party, but I too would love to see batch HDR processing in LR so I can actually spend some time with the family rather than merging sets of 5 bracketed real estate shots one at a time.

Nicely done!

Exactly! I've been saying for years --> LR needs a job queue. Not a million jobs in parallel, but 1-3 jobs in parallel in a serial queue that you can reprioritize and set a start time, max-cpu usage, PAUSE, etc.

Well put Marty, exactly the same thoughts here!

when was the Camera RAW updated.
By the way, Photomatix Pro 5 recently put a new Bata update on their web sit, It's a significant improvement.
MUST TRY, quality in Fusion Natural is much better for real estate jobs

I don't know if it's just me ... but the recent Camera RAW update has sped up the one-by-one merge time drastically. Anyone else experienced this?

+1 indeed. Let us autostack by capture time, then process all (selected ) stacks!

+1 for the batch, every other app does it. I use EnfuseGUI or manually blend in PS but love the quality and ease of LR HDR. It makes the final edits so much easier because it gets everything right for the most part.

I now embark on manually merging (SHIFT+ALT+M) another 800 images after months of massive HDR photoshoots and no update. ACR/Lightroom adding such brilliant HDR has changed my photography for the better and I tried Photomatrix and agree with everyone here -- Adobe nailed it. And like others, it's costing me a huge amount of time.

+1 for LR HDR batch processing