The Right Way to Set Up Your Lightroom Catalog For The New Year
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2024
- This is just a friendly reminder that if you create a new Lightroom catalog for each working year (and I recommend that you do) then it's probably a good day to do that. I can't tell you how many years I had the new year's shoots imported in the previous year's catalog simply because I forgot to make a new one. Enjoy!
Chapters
00:00
Setting up a New Lightroom Catalog
01:26
Using a Master Epic Catalog
02:19
Optimizing Performance in Lightroom
03:47
Configuring Preferences and Settings
05:06
Catalog Settings for File Handling
06:00
Metadata and Backup Options
07:09
Customizing the Lightroom Interface
08:03
Importing and Renaming Files
09:24
Organizing Images with Keywords
10:19
Exporting and Backing Up Files
11:46
Using the PickTime Plugin
12:39
Working in the Library and Develop Modules
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Been considering this since my current catalog contains almost 10 years of photos....so great timing to post this along with a bunch of performance tips. Off to create my 2024 catalog before I need to import anything. Thanks Sam!
Wow some great tips here! Will re-watch and make some adjustments. Thanks Sam!
Glad it was helpful!
Rad. Thanks for the tips.
hope it helps!
Just the video I needed. Thank you!
glad it helped!
Un gros Merci
Happy New Year Sam!
Happy new year!
Great video Sam !
Thanks!
Great video. My photos are stored on an ext. drive in specified folders. How do I integrate them with Lightroom?
thank you very much. I don't need to copy my sessions as I have them already on an external hard-drive, mostly because my mac is rather old and the disk is just 2 tb. Do you have any other video explaining how to use the "Smart" stuff (catalogs etc) ? Thanks again and best wishes from Uruguay.
Sam you are the best! Thank you for this information. Can you tell me why, when importing, you chose to COPY rather than ADD option? what would be the difference? I had mine set to ADD, so thinking that I may have missed some important options available. Happy New Year!
because I want a new copy from my memory cards and into my destination folder. I believe add just imports your images at their currently location. for me, that current location is usually my memory card so that's not helpful after I eject and format the card!
ok, wait, let me buy a 8 tb macbook pro M3 max first, then i come back here to see the rest of the video. See you soon! ;)
haha, the 8tb option was actually some of the best money i’ve spent in years. WAY over priced, but to not have to ever shuffle stuff from internet to external all year is a huge relief
I am officially confused as hell over this catalog business. I have heard people say they create a catalog for every project, or one for the year or just 6 main catalogs covering various projects. I have no idea who to listen to and what to do. if you have a catalog for every year, then why do you merge that into another one for the new year?? PLEAE EXPLAIN. THANK YOU
Hi Sam! Do you also gonna do review about new godox Lux cadet with Nikon cameras DSLR and Mirror less ? Just came up on mind thou 🙏🏼 cheers
maybe! i’m aware of the product but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet
What is the size of the catalog file for an average year and what is the size of your epic catalog, thanks
Will definitely do that. I have concern. your RAW file is in your local hard drive, the smart preview has been created but does the preview in LR significantly faster? I mean, when doing smart preview, the RAW should be in external hdd, right? Pls correct me if im wrong, that is my understanding about smart preview
doesn't matter where the raw files are, if smart previews are rendered then Lightroom will perform faster - just make sure "use smart preview instead of RAW" is enabled in your Lightroom performance preferences
Cool I’m curious how this works when using Imagen can you select the dates folder within Imagen? Definitely interested in making a singular calendar for this year.
yes, you can see the entire directory tree of your lightroom catalog within the imagen app and select from there!
@@SamHurdPhoto awesome!!! As a new Imagen Ambassador this is great news haha thanks Sam.
I just use Lightroom to cull and edit photos, when im fine with edits im just exporting and then removing the session from LR
Could you xplain how smart previews make postprocess faster? I stopped generating them because I heard that they only help to work on files without having ssd with working-files connected and I did not see any change in speed when I’m not using them
they’re about half the size of the full res raw so when you’re working in the develop module you should notice a performance boost both switching between images, and more computationally complex edits
Now since you have double cat (EPIC & 2023), on which one you do the edits? And how you update the other on then, or is ir then outdated?
good questions. so, the master catalog (epic) in theory is done with edits because its previous years work, but that’s also the one i have sync’d to lightroom cloud, so i can access those images (and edit) anytime. the current year’s catalog (now 2024) i use and edit separately until the end of the year when ill merge it with Epic. hope that makes sense!
I’m curious when importing new images from other weddings do you put them in folders? Within the catalog?
yes! they go to a dated folder that Lightroom creates on import that set up in the destination tab of the import dialog box
Do collections and collection sets span multiple catalogs, or need I set up new ones for the new catalog? Thanks.
unless you’re importing from a previous catalog I’m pretty sure you’d have to set up new collections with every new catalog
Im really curious how you deal with the file naming when you have such large amount of files? I have the issue that for every 10k photos the file naming is reset to the same, and thus I cant just keep on adding to the same folder, but have ended up instead basically making 10k 1 folder, 10k2 and so forth. I am guessing I am missing something really important? Any tips for me?
yeah, that’s a good question! I rename every photo to be the year month date our minute second that it was taken. I can’t tell you how important and critical this is and i highly recommend it
Whats the thing on the top.of your macbook?
magsafe mount for iphone
New Catalog really recommended for speed?
mostly for organizing and optimized cloud backup - i keep a giant catalog with millions of photos for all my previous years work and that gets synced to adobe’s cloud for quick access over lightroom app etx
also great for gathering data on your most used lenses of the year!
100000%@@BrianPhoto
3 million photos, i hove 60.000 and i allready think it is a lot.
since 2012 or so
Adobe highly recommends for the vast majority of users to only use 1 catalog. The speed issues have been fixed over the years. th-cam.com/video/-YwPj1uxxTg/w-d-xo.html
that’s great! it would be impossible for me to use literally one catalog as i don’t have enough internal storage to deal with it, but if you don’t shoot 250k images a year then it’s probably a fine idea!! multiple catalogs is a nightmare for all kinds of reasons