I just decided to start organising my professional shoots, using the DAM features within lightroom - E.g. Keywords, Collections, Metadata etc.
I do like some of the features, and although not always self-explanatory, they are reasonably easy to get to grips with, with a bit of trial and error.
What I find as a negative though is the terrible performance I get trying to apply/edit metadata - for example having an entire shoot selected, which has say 1' sets and approx 15''-2''' images, then editing the metadata on the right-hand panels in the Library module - it sometimes interrupts me during typing a tag and stops and pauses, then appears to hang, then it starts trying to collect metadata (seen by the the progress slider appearing at the top-left of the window), all for no apparent reason as I am still trying to edit the metadata, and havent yet hit the Enter key as I'm tabbing through data fields. This app is still a little unpredictable in v1.4.1 which I'm using - I only hope v2 improves on this usability/performance! Looking at my PC spec you'd think I would have no performance issues, but the app still pauses, so applying metadata is a stop-start affair and a little frustrating at times.
For further background info - I now have my library stored on a separate disk (a raptor 1'k drive) to my images, so library database access should be as fast as lightening. I do also have XMP switched on permanently though as most of my images were editied in ACR, as have only recently made the move to Lightroom - I'm guessing this may impede performance when writing metadata - any comments on this?
Anyone got any suggestions to improve performance here, or any tips to allow a more successful DAM process which isn't so frustrating?
Thanks, Paul
I do like some of the features, and although not always self-explanatory, they are reasonably easy to get to grips with, with a bit of trial and error.
What I find as a negative though is the terrible performance I get trying to apply/edit metadata - for example having an entire shoot selected, which has say 1' sets and approx 15''-2''' images, then editing the metadata on the right-hand panels in the Library module - it sometimes interrupts me during typing a tag and stops and pauses, then appears to hang, then it starts trying to collect metadata (seen by the the progress slider appearing at the top-left of the window), all for no apparent reason as I am still trying to edit the metadata, and havent yet hit the Enter key as I'm tabbing through data fields. This app is still a little unpredictable in v1.4.1 which I'm using - I only hope v2 improves on this usability/performance! Looking at my PC spec you'd think I would have no performance issues, but the app still pauses, so applying metadata is a stop-start affair and a little frustrating at times.
For further background info - I now have my library stored on a separate disk (a raptor 1'k drive) to my images, so library database access should be as fast as lightening. I do also have XMP switched on permanently though as most of my images were editied in ACR, as have only recently made the move to Lightroom - I'm guessing this may impede performance when writing metadata - any comments on this?
Anyone got any suggestions to improve performance here, or any tips to allow a more successful DAM process which isn't so frustrating?
Thanks, Paul
