Pro 7.0.1 unstable and file navigation broken
Aside with Pro 7.0.1 simply failing to respond after trying to enable b&w to a previously edited file, I find it impossibly frustrating to work with files.
Someone in the s/w development section is in love with their catalogue function. If, as I do, organise my image files in a date-based directory structure and sometimes use Photoshop, etc, on files, the option of importing images into the catalogue is simply a bad joke. Making a catalogue that references the images and leaves them where they are would be fine (as with Pro 6) but it must have a fast and efficient discovery process so that new files and subdirectories are imported into the overall cataologue without end user intervention.
I love Pro 6 but Pro 7 is a dog.
Someone in the s/w development section is in love with their catalogue function. If, as I do, organise my image files in a date-based directory structure and sometimes use Photoshop, etc, on files, the option of importing images into the catalogue is simply a bad joke. Making a catalogue that references the images and leaves them where they are would be fine (as with Pro 6) but it must have a fast and efficient discovery process so that new files and subdirectories are imported into the overall cataologue without end user intervention.
I love Pro 6 but Pro 7 is a dog.
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Try the sessions. I am like you in how I have my files set up, and sessions work just fine. However, I do use Media Pro as a front end DAM, and am reasonably happy with it.
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I also do not need the benefits of DAM...I prefer my own file system, don't import via COne, prefer that deletes are deleted, and I archive finished files as jpegs rather than raws. We do keep the raws, but if I needed to go back to them, I'd reprocess in the current version of COne. In short, as long as you don't need the benefits of sessions/catalogs, it's nice to know that COne continues to offer the browser function for users like me.
Even though it's not touted as a feature, you can use COne with the browser as always. We will probably switch to it in the future because it gives added functionality by applying styles on import (AFAIK the only feature you loose, but probably the reason COne doesn't promote this workflow.)0 -
I have to agree with the first entry. Coming from LR4 - and clearly Pro 7 wants to be a competition to LR4 with the cataloge functionality - Pro 7 is simply not usable for me. Sorry to say, as the RAW engine seems to be really very good - but the usability of the program, esp. the catalog, is just not given at all.
I have a catalog of all my photos - I made it finally after several crashes while importing. Now one folder is showing me only a small number of the photos that are inside. When I try to import them I get an error message in the log telling me that the photos were not imported, as they are already in the catalog. Fine, then why are they not visible!?
Clicking on "all images" under "Catalog collections" is a 100% guarentee to freeze the application completely.
So, it seems like the catalog might be damaged - I COULD restart from scratch. But sorrry, no - not after the lot of effort I had to even get where I am now!
Sorry guys, although I still have some time left of my trial period - you will not get me as a client. Maybe I will get back later when a (much) revised version is released.
(btw: To get the advice to use the sessions instead is somehow funny... of course, this is coming from people that are used to it, and do not even thing about using the - for them new - catalog at all. But LR users you will get ONLY with that. LR is my complete workflow tool, where finding photos within seconds is one of the major benefits.)0 -
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(btw: To get the advice to use the sessions instead is somehow funny... of course, this is coming from people that are used to it, and do not even thing about using the - for them new - catalog at all. But LR users you will get ONLY with that. LR is my complete workflow tool, where finding photos within seconds is one of the major benefits.)
Not to argue with you, but I use Lightroom as well, so I understand their Catalog/Library function.
When I use CO, I also have Media Pro open at the same time. Think of Media Pro like the Library tab in LR. I can jump back and forth between MP and CO as quick as I do with LR in jumping between Library and Develop. I find a file I want in MP, then tell it to open it with CO in a session. This workflow works well for me, and I find it about equal to LR.0
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