Bjørn K Nilssen
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Hi - this is my first post here. I have been using AcDSee for many years, as well as Photoshop and many other programs for 20+ years.
As I now have a more powerful laptop, as well as CC photography subscription I found it was time to move over to LightRoom, as I now have two useable PCs.
I find that there are both pros and cons using LightRoom rather than AcDSee. There are advantages to LR not touching the original files, but then you always need to go through LR and export any files that you want to use. Not very useful in many situations - like for texture files, of which I have around 25000 files which I use mostly for texturing 3D models. Some of them are in formats which LR cannot read/view too, like .hdr and .exr 32-bit HDR images used for lighting 3D scenes. AcDSee keeps the originals too, but i stores a new version with all the developed adjustments, which can be used directly by other programs - while you still have all the originals.
After a few tests, and a lot of viewing LR tuts on youtube etc, I decided to put it all into one big Master catalog, on a 2TB external USB3 drive. It is actually faster than my internal drives, except for the SSD main drive - and it works like a charm swapping between the two PC's.
The catalog now contains around 60k images (and a few videos), in sizes from 16x16 icon to large 100Mpx+ panoramas etc. IMHO LR uses a very bad system for storing previews, where it looks like almost every single image file gets at least one folder + some files. Very inefficient, and takes ages to backup (if you want to). It was also probably the main reason why importing my main digital photos folder took almost 24 hours!!!
I will most likely remove all the textures, and access/view them from AcDSee, 3DBrowser or XNView.
I will probably also remove 12500+ circular fisheye images, and eventually keep them in a different catalog. Not really images I use a lot, as they were shot for creating spherical panoramas, often shot as HDR.
Problems
What does not work so well now is that LR gets very sluggish at times.
Sometimes it helps to Optimize catalog..., but sometimes it is lagging so much behind that I can't even get to access the menu. Nothing at all works, and I often have to kill LR to get rid of the problem.
I have 16GB RAM, running Win 10, and while LR sometimes uses 2-3GB of it, when this sluggishness happens the RAM usage is decreasing more and more, as LR gets more and more sluggish. It can get down to less than 50MB!!
What exactly is going on here?
Is this common knowledge (a program limitation)?
Or is it a bug (that the developers are not aware of)?
It is very annoying, anyway...
As I now have a more powerful laptop, as well as CC photography subscription I found it was time to move over to LightRoom, as I now have two useable PCs.
I find that there are both pros and cons using LightRoom rather than AcDSee. There are advantages to LR not touching the original files, but then you always need to go through LR and export any files that you want to use. Not very useful in many situations - like for texture files, of which I have around 25000 files which I use mostly for texturing 3D models. Some of them are in formats which LR cannot read/view too, like .hdr and .exr 32-bit HDR images used for lighting 3D scenes. AcDSee keeps the originals too, but i stores a new version with all the developed adjustments, which can be used directly by other programs - while you still have all the originals.
After a few tests, and a lot of viewing LR tuts on youtube etc, I decided to put it all into one big Master catalog, on a 2TB external USB3 drive. It is actually faster than my internal drives, except for the SSD main drive - and it works like a charm swapping between the two PC's.
The catalog now contains around 60k images (and a few videos), in sizes from 16x16 icon to large 100Mpx+ panoramas etc. IMHO LR uses a very bad system for storing previews, where it looks like almost every single image file gets at least one folder + some files. Very inefficient, and takes ages to backup (if you want to). It was also probably the main reason why importing my main digital photos folder took almost 24 hours!!!
I will most likely remove all the textures, and access/view them from AcDSee, 3DBrowser or XNView.
I will probably also remove 12500+ circular fisheye images, and eventually keep them in a different catalog. Not really images I use a lot, as they were shot for creating spherical panoramas, often shot as HDR.
Problems
What does not work so well now is that LR gets very sluggish at times.
Sometimes it helps to Optimize catalog..., but sometimes it is lagging so much behind that I can't even get to access the menu. Nothing at all works, and I often have to kill LR to get rid of the problem.
I have 16GB RAM, running Win 10, and while LR sometimes uses 2-3GB of it, when this sluggishness happens the RAM usage is decreasing more and more, as LR gets more and more sluggish. It can get down to less than 50MB!!
What exactly is going on here?
Is this common knowledge (a program limitation)?
Or is it a bug (that the developers are not aware of)?
It is very annoying, anyway...