I found it was easier just go to the LR and click export again. I guess most people do this, as well as having a jpg/tif file of their best images anyway However, I agree that if I do re-process an old image I start from scratch as well. I think we all get better at image processing with time and fashions changeĪlso with digital imaging it is hard to keep up with new images let alone re-processing old images. In general I prefer the results from On1 over those from Lightroom, but my old images are history and I prefer to concentrate on new stuff. Presumably, if you have a result you like in LR, it's been exported and backed up so that you can compare it with the results from other developer software. I've reprocessed a few of my LR images in On1 and I start from zero settings. When I set up my On1 catalog, importing LR settings wasn't an option, although I seem to recall it kept star ratings and colour flags,įor me, why import another programs settings into On1? Surely the whole point of using a different program is so that you can start over with a new development process? If you imported the development settings how well did it do? Do most of the photos look very similar to the way they looked in Lightroom? When you imported your Lightroom catalog did you use the option to also import the Lightroom development settings? For about a year On1 gives that choice, but they say it is a lot slower than just importing the other catalog information. I have a few dislikes about On1 in general, but the speed of browsing in the catalog is not one of them. In my limited experience with ON1, I think it's a good software. Wait until it's done before evaluating it.
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My point was: do not to judge the software speed while it's doing a massive import and cataloging. As I said before, this is understandable to due the number of images.
I don't think I'll need to import 52k of photos again. It was probably opening and saving edits that made the process slow since the drives where heavily taxed. Ryzen 1600x stock with liquid cooling, 16 GB RAM,1 TB NVME M.2 SSD for OS and Software, 1 TB X2 WD Black RAID 0 for images only, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti I used to find that having to add your images to the LR catalog before you could work on them was one of the most frustrating and irritating things about Lightroom, and the "browser" approach of On1 is a much nicer way of doing things.
The great thing is that, unlike Lightroom, you can still access and edit your images whilst the On1 cataloging process is running. Now all my library is catalogged, image acess is instantaneous and when I load new images they are added to the catalog in the background. You either have a very slow computer or something is configured wrongly. I never had any problems editing an image whilst the cataloging process was taking place. Giving that the process is very disk intensive, it's understandable.Īgreed it can take some time to read all your new images into the On1 catalog, but at least it is done as a background task.
I had to wait until the catalog process completed. While it was still cataloging the photos, I tried using ON1 to edit a photo, but was too slow to be usable. Once that process was completed, everything was fine. However, when I first migrated the photos from Lightroom to ON1, it took a very long time to catalog them. I migrated around 52,000 photos to my ON1 catalog from Lightroom and it's actually is faster than Lightroom when browsing though photos. So you have around 26000 photos in a LR catalog? Or do you mean on your hard drive which you use On1 to browse?