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

Nice - but exteriors are washed out. I spend a massive amount of time making window views look as balanced as interiors. Makes for stunning architecture photography. Use LR paint tool for this. A rectangle paint tool option would be beneficial too.

I'm also desperate for batch HDR. Forget all this time capture stuff- just initiate with a dialog box asking how many shots are in each bracket, then automate by grabbing the first three (or 5, or whatever) then the next three, and the next three, etc.
All we'd have to do is make sure our source folder doesn't have any extra shots, and we'll be golden. 

I just did some basic math.

I do 3 brackets for all our real estate listings. Every merge in ACR (okay, not LR, I know, but I love ACR so much, and I can merge with a single keystroke) takes about 31 seconds. I'll need to do anywhere from 70-120 merges per listing, with a median around 90 merges.
So if we multiply it all out, it comes to a total of just over TWO STRAIGHT WEEKS of my life I've spent over the last year and half's 107 listings just sitting waiting for that sweet, sweet, .dng file. 

Could I get your autohotkey script please

Bulk HDR processing. There are times when I have a large series of landscape photos that I want to process as HDR. Doing them one set at a time is a drag.  There are times when I will have 50+, and then I want to turn some of the sets into panoramas.  Photomatix Pro has bulk processing but they end up as JPG or TIFF images, not DNGs.

Why does Adobe consistently ignore user requests for batch hdr (over 3 years in this forum alone) whilst at the same time implementing silly low use features.. the latest preset preview is a joke not being able to disable.. batch hdr is a fundamental workflow feature.. please Adobe.. heads up on this one

Lightrooms HDR is the best in the business, however it still remains a clunky and time consuming process to group effectively and execute in a time efficient fashion. For a long time now users have been asking for a way to Execute Multiple HDR groups in one go after firstly creating the bracket groups. Currently there are two ways to bulk batch HDR groups and both are frustrating and time inefficient. You either group your bracket shots followed by Shift+Cntrl+H each time you group. Or you go through an entire shoot grouping all the brackets together and then go back one by one and hit Shift+Cntrl+H on each group one by one. Either way is slow and clunky because the thumbnail bar at the bottom keeps annoyingly jumping each time you set off a hdr process. The only way to make this a time efficient and enjoyable process is to firstly create all your bracket groups and for each bracket group you tag for HDR Batch Execute much like rating a file. Once all your bracket groups are created and every shoot I often have 30 or more, the HDR Batch can be started for all groups that have been tagged for HDR Batch. At the end of the batch all HDR tags on grouped images would be cleared. Please seriously consider this function, it would save us a lot of time and frustration. Whilst the batch is in process, we can take a break and make coffee coming back to a job well done to continue editing the hdr's

It's also a question for camera manufacturers, who could add special EXIF tags for HDR (HDR frame X of Y) and continuous drive modes (frame XX of YY total captured) so processing software don't use any calculations based on time but simply uses EXIF data for stacking. Unfortunately camera developers are even slower than Adobe when adding some new features is required 🙂 I will try to discuss this with officials from Canon, Olympus and Sony in Russia, but it's hard to reach the Japanese guys who can really help. And even if they implement it may take ages for Adobe to support new features (like we see with Canon 5D Mark IV dualpixel and Sony A7R III highres)

They can skip the capture time and skip the "every 2" or "every 3" or whatever. They need to just run the photo set, ID features, look at the exposure values and then quickly identify and process the brackets. Then they can have an [HDR] stamp that I can see on the result in the Grid and Filmstrip. 

Exactly with the auto stack. Honestly, it would be easier if we could choose a stack by a set number of images like other programs. Allow us to select 3, 5, or 7 images and stack by number of images vs time as it can greatly change depending on environment. 

What Stanislav Vasiliev describes when it come to "Auto Stack by Capture Time" drives me crazy too. I agree that we need a way to stack things by >xxx seconds between shots. I too have to go back through hundreds of stacked photos and manually make sure they are stacked correctly. It is such a time wasting pain.