Exporting videos as H.264

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This problem has been happening to me for years. I want to export about 150 videos, some with Lightroom edits, others just changing to the H.264 format in max quality. What happens is that invariably the first video exports ok, and then the programme spends hours doing basically nothing until it either times out or I get bored and cancel the operation. If I try the export again it flashes through the operation but nothing happens at all. The workaround is to close Lightroom, reopen it and repeat. However, doing this 150 times seems pretty inefficient! It seems to be a problem specific with the H.264 converter but what? and why does closing and reopening the programme allow me to export another one only? In case you are wondering,"export original" works fine but lets face it that's a useless setting, why would I want to export the video without any edits? I can just move it in such a case!

Jao vdL · Answer

I have had the same issue intermittently for years and just gave up on using Lightroom for storing video. The problem seems to be Adobe's dynamiclinkmediaserver background app that hangs up.

I disagree that the export original option is useless. You don't want to manually move files outside of Lightroom as it will lose the link to the files. So "original" is a quick way to make copies of your original files to use in other apps without affecting your Classic Library, especially if you need a bunch of files that are in separate subfolders on your hard disk. Then export original is much faster than trawling though a folder structure on your hard disk.

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