3 Replies Latest reply: Feb 4, 2008 2:20 PM by Lee Jay-7OQGJF RSS

    LR 1.3 import speed

    hrh gracie Community Member
      Are there preferences or some other settings that can be adjusted to significantly improve the import speed?

      On a system with an e6700 processor, SATA mirror drives, and 4GB of memory running XP64 - I dump a dozen or so directories with around 9500 .dng files total, and LR takes forever to get them imported... This thing has been sitting here churning for over 2 hours and its still not done......

      Images, cache, swapfile, and product are all on separate spindles, so I presume there's got to be some setting (or settings) I have dreadfully wrong for things to be this slow... So, what do I change to speed this up 'cause this is only about 20% of what I'm organizing and I'd rather not have LR take a week to just import the images?
        • 1. Re: LR 1.3 import speed
          Lee Jay-7OQGJF Community Member
          Imports themselves should be pretty fast. Rendering the previews is what takes a long time. If you import with it set to standard or 1:1, it'll take a while to render all those previews. If you set it to minimal (IIRC), the import will be fast, but you won't have previews.
          • 2. Re: LR 1.3 import speed
            hrh gracie Community Member
            Since LR is STILL churning I can't look at the preferences, but I thought there was something that told it to just use whatever was in the imported image? If so, shouldn't this get rid of this insanely long process of rendering? Or is this just one of those things I'll have to start when I go to bed and hope its managed to do a few thousand images by morning?...

            Are ALL these tools this poor performing? I haven't tried this in iView or one of the others, but if they're significantly faster I can see dumping LR back on the shelf until something gets done to improve this.
            • 3. Re: LR 1.3 import speed
              Lee Jay-7OQGJF Community Member
              The import is controlled on the import screen. You had the option to alter it at that point. It's not on a preference screen somewhere.

              Edit: Importing a single image from my Canon 5D and rendering its standard preview takes around 3 seconds on my older machine. The 10 seconds I had before was for 1:1 previews. Sorry about that.