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

Can we please get a response from Adobe on this. Even a manual assignment to the queue and then press go to start it would be enough to start with. Come on adobe., when is it coming.

I Wisch to have Batch Processing to make HDR's in Lightroom. When does it comes? Shift cmd H ist Not the same....

User selects a range of images. Command HDR Batch. Walk away. LR starts with image[0] and looks at subsequent images for feature match. Doesn't have look too far around the image. Could check 4 regions at the perimeter and simple LMS. Add images to HDR queue and move to the next photo that didn't have a feature match. 

There absolutely needs to be a [HDR] tag visible on the DNG thumbnail and preview info overlay that's created. Same with [PANO].

I have already switched my workflow to use SNS-HDR which has batch processing and gives much better results than Lightroom's HDR merge because SNS-HDR has more control of specific parts of the exposure.  The highlight recovery slider really works well.  First you shoot your brackets in RAW.  Use lightroom to adjust the middle exposure to what it should look like, set white balance, set -50 highlight, +30 or +40 shadows, add your sharpening and NR, CA correction.  Vignette optional but recommended. Do not set clarity as this will add noise.  Copy settings and paste to all. Export to TIFF.  Bring 1 set of TIFF into SNS-HDR, make your adjustments.  Save to a profile.  Use batch tool to merge all sets using your saved profile.  Ghost removal is optional, but works very well.  Alignment optional if you did not use a tripod.  Although you are bringing the photos out of LR to another software, the result will look much better and everything is batched.  The amount of processing time will be about the same because LR HDRmerge and exporting the resulting DNG will be the same amount of time as Exporting the brackets to TIFF and using SNS-HDR to merge.

Time to do some negative reviews on https://www.amazon.com/Adobe-65237578-Photoshop-Lightroom-6/dp/B00VWCKJVA/

OK. We all agree that we need batch functionality. I think we can agree that this post hasn't gotten us anywhere. We need to get out on various software review sites and start lamenting the lack of batch option. Something along these lines, "I would love the recommend this software -- it does a fantastic job with the HDR merging, but without a batch function it is more or less useless to any serious HDR photographer. Perhaps here we could start a list of forums to help each other mount a serious campaign for this feature.

Same boat!

I'm in the same boat, I have 16,000 images from Nepal taken over 3 weeks. Everything is HDR (3 shots) and building them manually is costly, to massively understate it.

Batch process and sequential building (instead of parallel) would free up a lot of peoples lives.

Hi Eric, similar to Glenn Pearson I also work the field of estate & interior photography. Therefore, to deal with and overcome the limitation of the dynamic range most shots are bracketed. The new feature of 'photo-merging HDR' in Lr is working awesome. I prefer it over the merge-quality of the Enfuse-plugin. Yet the fact remains that although the merge feature in Lr  is a great addition, batch processing truly is a missing feature. I prefer not to work outside the UI of Lr (except for Ps) but feel the need for Enfuse because it simply handles the files better at the current development stage of Lr. Enfuse is capable to automatically find bracketed series within a watch folder and create HDR of the automatically created stacks, not simultaneously of course. But I can kickoff the process and return later and have all stacks merged into HDR's. I truly hope that this will become an added feature in an already stellar program.

bump for this!

Even just sequential processing instead of parallel instead would be a bloody godsend... then you can just smash through the selections and hitting Ctrl+Shift+H and it'll do them sequentially much faster.