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Is there a reason you use PhotoSync rather than LRMobile to get the photos from the iPhones into LRCC, since LRMobile can be set to autosync photos from iPhones to Adobe Cloud (and thus onward to LRCC)?Hi,
It is unfortunate that Apple Photos is such a closed system. Also living in a family that is invested in the Apple eco-system I have not yet come up with a satisfactory solution. With my wife's and my own iPhones I periodically download all new images and movies to my main computer via PhotoSync. Then importing these into Lightroom. Then I share with the rest of my family usually through DropBox using Jeffery Friedl's Collection Publisher. If I want something from another family member then I can usually get them to post on DropBox as well.
I'd love to see examples of the workflows of people who use both lightroom classic AND their iphones a LOT. How do you all keep it manageable?
Simple. As @camner said, I have LRCC on mobile (phone and 2 tablets) set to auto-add new pictures taken with those devices to a specified album within the mobile app. Take a picture, start the mobile app, picture is automatically added and starts to sync to the Adobe cloud. Next time I start Classic on my desktop the picture automatically appears, in the appropriate dated folder (my Classic preferences are set to use the same dated folder system as my normal imports).
The only time I open the Photos app on my iDevices is to delete images from the Camera Roll after they've been synced to the Adobe cloud.
Hi Jim - once they are imported into your Lightroom classic desktop folders, how do you then remove those photos from lightroom on your iDevice to stop them taking up room?
Several ways. In LR Classic, I could simply remove them from the All Synced Photographs special collection, that deletes them from the cloud but keeps them in Classic. Or I could delete them using any of the LRCC apps (desktop, mobile or web), again that deletes from the cloud but in Classic they are simply removed from the ASP collection, but are retained in the catalog and drive folder.
Can't really help with your video questions, as I don't shoot video. Hopefully someone who does will be able to respond.
Is there a reason you use PhotoSync rather than LRMobile to get the photos from the iPhones into LRCC, since LRMobile can be set to autosync photos from iPhones to Adobe Cloud (and thus onward to LRCC)?
Video metadata is a pain in the {insert your region’s appropriate word here}! Since there is no standard (like EXIF) for video metadata, apps that deal with video metadata do whatever they want, which is rarely, I have found to my dismay, what I would want to have happen.How does lightroom handle videos metadata (inc location metadata) when imported this way?
This is the same method that I use. I have disabled the Apple Photos app on my computer and do not use iCloud for any photos from anywhere.Simple. As @camner said, I have LRCC on mobile (phone and 2 tablets) set to auto-add new pictures taken with those devices to a specified album within the mobile app. Take a picture, start the mobile app, picture is automatically added and starts to sync to the Adobe cloud ...
If you remove them from All Synced Photographs (or delete them from LRCC), they'll be removed from the cloud. But if you then add them into a synced collection in Classic, they'll get added back to the cloud again (and thus will re-appear in all the LRCC apps). If you know you want them in a synced collection, don't bother deleting them, just add them to the synced collection.
The only "advantage" of deleting from the cloud, then re-adding them by a synced collection in LR Classic is that the upload from Classic will be a Smart Preview only (thus lower resolution), but those smart previews don't count against your cloud storage allowance.