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okadrian
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October 8, 2017
Question

LRm sync workflow

  • October 8, 2017
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I'm struggling with the LR sync workflow. As such I'm wondering what sort of workflow adobe had in mind when they conceived the system as I can't quite get it working efficiently. Here's the back story. I went out to shoot an "editorial style" shoot for a client yesterday, and for the first time ever I left my laptop at home and took only my iPad pro. I've got a nice set up using a canon WFT to ftp RAW images to shuttersnitch over ethernet. SS adds some metadata and saves the image with a new filename then exports the image to the camera roll. LRm then auto ingests these RAW images and I then impress my clients with my robust on-location workflow, showing them refined images quickly without the need for laptops and digi assistants. The shoot went well and I set off home on a 5 hour train ride with images on 2 sets of cards and also on the iPad. Pretty robust backup thing going on there too. On the way I decided I'd use the travel time to rate and do some adjustments on LRm to further test the workflow. This is where it goes bad. I spend maybe 3 hours going through the images and tweaking a bunch of them but when I get home I've got many GBs of data on my iPad that needs to be uploaded to the Adobe cloud before it can be synced to my laptop for editing. The alternative is of course to ingest from card to the laptop but this means I'm losing the time that I spent rating and adjusting the images. It'd be good if I had an option to just sync the catalog related image data rather than the RAW image files if I have to use the cloud. Naturally I'd prefer to have lan sync as an option as this would be much much quicker. I've been waiting for some hours today for the sync to complete - 38 images left to go! Thankfully this has been a weekend so I've had the time to wait. After what I can only see as a workflow fail, I'm considering other options now such as to forget LRm and just rate in Shuttersnitch then ingest directly from there when back at the laptop. Shame to not be able to make use of LRm though seeing as it's getting to complete now. Does anyone have any other ideas that might allow LRm to fit into a workflow such as this?

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Jeff Oliver Photography
Participant
October 21, 2017

This has been on the request list for a long time. My ideal would be to send small/medium jpgs straight into LRM over WiFi, rate, basic edits, then sync that with RAW’s on my desktop. Perfect for the scenario you just had. For people doing commercial headshots etc it’s the ideal solution and I’m at a loss as to why Adobe haven’t incorporated it. I don’t believe it’s technically difficult as there used to be an app that did it perfectly, (can’t remember the name).

99jon
99jon
Legend
October 8, 2017

I think Adobe has peer to peer sync on the horizon although it will probably be several future releases away. It is certainly something some customers have been requesting.

By design the eco system syncs smart previews from nominated desktop collections or keeps originals backed up in the cloud where these have been captured on mobile phones/tablets or ingested via a camera connection kit or your wireless set up.

So there is a challenge with LAN sync but one I think that can be overcome in time.

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okadrianAuthor
Participant
October 8, 2017

Thanks for the response 99jon​. ​I hope it isn't too far away if it is indeed on the roadmap. I think the bottom line here for the time being is that the sync feature is not useful to people that generate more than a couple of GBs a day. Shuttersnitch it is I guess. I can still show clients something with reasonable ease by exporting to the camera roll and having lightroom pick it up..

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