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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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Participant
November 13, 2022

Agree, especially ow we have these huge files from camera.

would be great to queue all my panoramas, hdr, outputs, etc, then it does each one in order after I walk off for something else. media encoder has this! 
the more I have to do on a project the slower it gets, having a task queuing management would make me and the software more efficient, and worth the cost

IAH-1
Known Participant
October 4, 2021

Okay, honestly, that's shocking: I can see the request is 10 years old - which is a decade !!!!!!!!!

Any feedback from Adobe on this?

IAH-1
Known Participant
October 4, 2021

Something I have posted long time ago, this is still a crucial missing feature:

- Import of pictures needs a priority management and the ability to pause and to queue picture imports. Especially if we are talking about professionals dealing with hundreds of pictures under time pressure, who have maybe to work at the same time in Photoshop.

I can't use my computer, while Lightroom is importing, so I would need to pause this.

In CaptureOne this is implemented, and this is the reason why professionals choose capture, despite of its higher price, over Lightroom.

 

- The same with export: A MANAGABLE Render QUEUE is missing. I would like to prepare all my stuff, and when I choose, now it's time to render everything out, I start the render queue and not right after the first picture, and when I decide, I have to do something else on my computer, I can pause it.

I am adjusting pictures manually and send one by one to the export. But as soon as the export starts, the work is delayed and not anymore realtime.

 

- Finally I am missing, especially when rendering out look variations from one picture, that I can automatically add the preset name, in order to know later, with which preset it was generated.

I get only a numbering and the feature ist missing. Again, this makes it hardly usable for professionals, we need full control over what we are doing and a proper naming, that explains from which source with which preset the picture was generated.

This all is much more important to professionals than amateur stuff like a repair stamp. You can add as many features as you want, it makes Lightroom not better as long as the basic features are missing.

 

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Thread merged with similar request by Forum Modertor

DdeGannes
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2021

I agree this was a feature available in Rawshooter Premium which I used prior to the launch of Lightroom. It was an application developed by Pixmantec, the company was acquired by Adobe in mid 2006. It was very useful particularly in the export process. When you finished editing an image you could immediately add to an export queue which functioned in the background while you continued editing other images. That way by the time your editing is done the export function would finish shortly after.

 

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Participant
September 28, 2020

Same problem with HDR merge. No batch processing or queueing.  Have to do it one at a time.

 

Now I'm encountering an old problem, which is trying to export multiple folders overnight.

 

The job queue is long overdue for an update.  There needs to be a way to submit multiple jobs to be processed in series, not in parallel.

 

Each folder takes 1 hour.  I'm not going to wake up every hour to export the next folder.  I want to export all the folders at one time, each to their own separate folder.  But for example, if I try to export 4 folders, submitting one immediately after submitting the other, I get 4 export jobs running in parallel, processing 4x4  = 16 photos at the same time.  In the past, I didn't get any crashes.  But now with the latest Lightroom Classic, it always crashes if I try exporting more than 2 folders at the same time.  I have no choice but to wait until one folder is completely exported before submitting the next folder.

Inspiring
September 26, 2019
I'm also still waiting.
I have 20.000 photos a week. And it is absolutely horrible without this queue possibility.

In Premiere Pro there is such an possibility within the media encoder. Why is Adobe still waiting to publish this in LR?

Inspiring
May 6, 2019
8 YEARS!!!

And this has not been added. It is just so sad. It just as simple as putting it in Queue....

I wish to just keep putting exports of say 2k images per event and about 3 events every day and wish to export about 3 to 4 days event making it easily 12 to 15k images

I always have hard time multiple exports; before leaving for client meetings. As LR gets crazy slow after 3rd export in parallel. I wish that I set export in queue and when I leave work station for client meetings and know I would return in 8 hours or so; I will have all tasks done.

This is just such an important idea
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 ???