scott kirkpatrick
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From discussions on the old Pixmantec (RSP) forum, where the RSP users are all promised one paid-up-license to Lightroom 1.0, I discover that there is indeed no "insert" button in Lightroom, and from Michael Tapes' feedback, I conclude that Adobe doesn't think this is the right way to work. If you are familiar with C1, RSP or other common raw file development packages, "insert" is the button you push to move an image into the rendering queue, so that a JPG or TIFF output can be generated in the background while you move on to the next image of interest. It's a very natural way of working, preserving my focus on the image in front of me, and usually resulting in little delay in getting pictures out for local modifications in PS, for printing, for posting.
For the program developer at C1 or RSP, the tricky part of providing this background rendering capability was making sure that the parameters (output size, crops, color balance...) as set when the image is sent to the queue are preserved for use when the image gets its turn to be rendered at some later time. There have been bugs in this. Adobe seems to intend to finesse this problem by only rendering when the "develop" module has control. During that time one set of global settings are in effect (in addition to the image-specific meta controls), and nothing else can be done in Lightroom.
If anyone has been following this more closely than I have (I have only about an hour's experience with B4, gave up on B3), and can correct me, or add some insight, please do.
scott
For the program developer at C1 or RSP, the tricky part of providing this background rendering capability was making sure that the parameters (output size, crops, color balance...) as set when the image is sent to the queue are preserved for use when the image gets its turn to be rendered at some later time. There have been bugs in this. Adobe seems to intend to finesse this problem by only rendering when the "develop" module has control. During that time one set of global settings are in effect (in addition to the image-specific meta controls), and nothing else can be done in Lightroom.
If anyone has been following this more closely than I have (I have only about an hour's experience with B4, gave up on B3), and can correct me, or add some insight, please do.
scott