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June 13, 2011
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P: Ability to set up a queue up and schedule several tasks at a time when not by your computer

  • June 13, 2011
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OK, I'm not sure I can describe this good. But sometimes LR is slow when you start a few tasks, like exporting images to jpgs, web galleries, etc, that you wish that those could be done at a time when you're not by your computer (say at a coffee break, lunch or even leaving the office for the day).

It would be cool with a feature where you could queue several tasks, that can be done when the computer is having "down time" or when you tell it to "start processing task queue" or similar.

Or a possibility for third party vendors to script something like this (or even yourself if you're fairly good as scripting).

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Inspiring
September 14, 2016
I'd like to see a scheduling box with times, etc. I'd like to be able to work on a few projects for the day, then schedule all my exports to be done after hours when I am not using my computer. I have a pretty beast computer, but it still is slowed down dramatically when exporting jpgs. 
knaphotographystudiollc
Participant
January 27, 2016


It would be beneficial to have the ability to string together commands or create menu command macros. For example each time I am finished with a client job I re-render 1:1 previews, Convert the images to DNG files, Publish to two publish services, Export the photos using a preset, and export the folder as a catalog.

It would be great if I could just create a preset for those actions and Lightroom could start running them one after another.
Inspiring
October 19, 2015
multi threading fail ???
johnrellis
Legend
October 19, 2015
See this related topic about how LR becomes unusable for many when there's an ongoing export: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
Inspiring
October 19, 2015


How about giving users control over the export queue? I want to be able to pause/unpause an export. See, I might have four or five exports of up to 1000 or more images per export job running. I want to be able pause all but one in order to accelerate the next stage of a workflow. How about it?
Sean H [Seattle branch]
Known Participant
October 19, 2015
Gotta chime in here: For the longest time, LR did a serial export. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... Many users noticed that you could queue up 3 exports to peg the CPU and in the newest version of LR2015 the programmers have built it in so that the it pegs the CPU. I like that but for those of you that want to queue up work but continue to do work in LR, there really needs to be a toggle switch somewhere to revert back to the serial export to maintain UI usability.

I would love to see that option in this proposed job queue. Batch up a bunch of jobs (export, 1:1 previews, etc), tell LR how much CPU you want to utilize (turn it up to 11!) or even pause all exports to regain UI responsiveness.

Those of you that are wondering "where the heck is this feature?" should take note that a queue has implications. Say, at 5PM, you batch up 10 exports for 10PM but thereafter delete a bunch of files or move them. LR has to keep track of that and block you from doing actions that alter your queue jobs. I imagine that's not an easy thing to program.

And, for the record, why is h e double hockey stick blocked on this site? A family forum? Not.
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Inspiring
October 19, 2015


Since i'm exporting my shoots in various ways with multiple export pre-sets it would be a great addition to schedule and/or queuing multiple exports in a row. (sort of Adobe Media Encoder / Actions)

In this way i can still work in Lightroom, and also will me save a lot of time with doing the export-thing.
Known Participant
October 19, 2015


I can't be stopped for hours! I need to work on other catalogs while LR exports my photos! : )
Other Adobe softwares have an external processing queue for rendering. It should be the same here.
Don't forget that a professional photographer usually exports thounsands of photos at once and in the meantime he could work on other catalogs, not losing precious time. Thank you.
Participant
October 19, 2015


EXPORT QUEUE !!!!!!
I was looking for a place where I could place a feature request and this is where it brought me. Sorry if I'm in the wrong place. But I would love it if Lightroom would have an Export Queue. This way I could work on my project, setup the queue, start my next project and then run the queue at the end of the day. When I come back all the exports have been taken care of. I don't like having to wait for an export and not be able to work on another Lightroom project until it is done. If anyone reads this please help me get this feature included into the program. Thank you.
Inspiring
October 19, 2015


Suggestions:

"Export to queue" - Users should be able work with photos in different folders, export photo to queue and when leave computer should start processing files in queue.

Option to import empty folder into catalog.

Thanks