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Yes, though if they all are going into LR anyway (just ranked) you may find it of much less use, as probably LR will still be building a lot of previews. Problem is, it can take 30 minutes to build previews for a single shoot. Then I am impatient and try to review the photos whilst building previews is still happening. This is to make reviewing quicker, once previews are built. Part of my problem is that I build Smart Previews and 1:1 previews at import stage. I think it's processor related though, not disk. I wonder if Photo Mechanic allows me to set star ratings as Yes GPU is ticked and the cache resides on my SSD. Generally, apart from the beginnings of shoots, around 70% of my shots are usable, but only 30% are good enough to present - but I don't want to cull that middle 40% if you see what I mean. I don't really like to cull, because there's always the small chance I'll misjudge (in my impatience.), or get to the end of the set of 1500 photos and realise I don't actually have quite enough so I need to expand the options. Thanks for the tip about Photo Mechanic for culling. Actually, I think I'm of average patience, but I constantly meet people who seem more so. Thanks for the comments all, my responses I think you hit the nail on the head. For context, the fastest CPU I could buy for a desktop, 5 SSD disks with everything spread around (including an U.2 variant for temp/scratch/cache/system) and not a spinning disk in sight, overclocked memory, new GPU (GTX970), high end motherboard (a workstation board). I find that made things MUCH worse, as lightroom will sit and be spending 20-40% of its CPU building the next 3 images that I have not gotten to, all the while the one I just flipped into on Develop mode won't let me touch the sliders or crop box yet. I will add, related somewhat to Cletus' post, that sometime back they introduced more advanced builds (though I thought it was only for develop mode). Any time I want to hit a button and it's not ready, I am irritated. I am convinced it is more about expectations than hardware or configuration - I simply never want to wait on the computer, period. For many people it is fine others like me complain continually even after spending big bucks on really fast hardware.
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It will show full size embedded previews from the raw images it is not a raw processor, and so does not render raw images at all, which is how it can run so fast.įor review on Lightroom, pre-building an appropriate size preview is the biggest help, but even with fast PC's Lightroom lags. I use Photo Mechanic - it keeps up with with any review speed, and I cull about 90% (or more) of my shots before they ever get to lightroom. Are you reviewing them prior to an initial culling, or after post processing? There are many of us who find Lightroom a poor tool for culling (due to performance issues).