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Offbeat Bryce Productions
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November 12, 2017
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lightroom CC and DNG questions

  • November 12, 2017
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Hello,

I am going to get the 1TB cloud storage plan and was curious how many DNG photos plus jpgs it would take till I reached 1 TB?

If I'm going to run out of space quickly is it possible I can take photos using the new Lightroom App on my iphone and sync them to lightroom CC classic only and then edit and export as JPG and send to Lightroom CC for the cloud? Also Is there a way I can convert my 1080p video to 720p or even SD to save space? If the originals will be saved to my hard drive anyway I don't need the highest quality on my phone or in the cloud.

thanks,

Byce

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JP Hess
JP Hess
Inspiring
November 12, 2017

It depends on how big the DNG files are and how big the JPEG files are. You'll just have to do the math to figure out how many it would take to use up 1 TB. If you don't need the full-sized images in the cloud, just do your main work in Lightroom Classic and create collections to share in the cloud. Those collections don't count against your 1 TB. Save that space for when you do need full-sized images in the cloud.

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Offbeat Bryce ProductionsAuthor
Inspiring
November 12, 2017

but I wanted the lightroom CC app to store photos so I could use it as an alternative to apple photos. I want almost every single image tagged etc. I don't want full quality images in the cloud.

How do I sync collections from Lightroom Classic CC to the Lightroom CC app without using storage?

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 12, 2017

To sync collections all you need to do is set the collection to sync ( right or control click it). it will upload smart previews that don’t count against your storage. That said be aware that keywords do not sync to adobe’s cloud from classic And that hierarchical keywords are not supported on the cloud.

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 12, 2017

Depends on your camera resolution. A 12 MP camera like the iPhone typically will yield DNG files of about 12 MB. So that is over 100k images for a terabyte. Plenty for most people. If you shoot a modern DSLR however, the files are much bigger and you'll get there in no time as you'll create many more images and the images are bigger.

You can't easily convert movies to a lower resolution without downloading them to a computer and transcoding.

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