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Hi,
I'm experimenting with the LR export plugin to Autopano Giga 2.6.2, using LR 4.0 under Win 7x64.
In Lightroom, negatives selected for export to APG results in the generation of intermediate files (Jpg or Tiff, according to user's choice) being stored next to the original raw files, or more precisely in a subfolder within their arborescence. This behaviour is clearly suboptimal if one is to keep its digital negatives in good order : negatives are originals, temporary exports are temporary and should not reside with or next to originals!
I haven't found any way to tell either LR or APG to store these temporary, intermediate files (likely to be deleted after successful panorama rendition) where they belong, that is: NOT in the directory tree of original negatives. (Potential side effects: dramatic size increase of the negatives directory, due to large tiff files, which hurts backup strategies ; following automatic or user-triggered re-import/re-scan of directory, undesired stacking of temporary files with negatives).
Photomatix gets things right: temporary files are generated in a system-wide temporary folder.
If you consider this poor design choice a feature, please at least consider some option to place intermediate Jpg/Tiff files in a user-defined folder (e.g. D:\My large temporary files for Panoramas), or the system %temp% or whatever...
Last edited by Shoshot (2012-04-25 16:04:09)
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I'd like to second this feature request. I'm just getting started with APG, but its preference for storing intermediate files in the same directory tree as my RAW files is driving me crazy. I'm having to go back and delete files after every pano attempt.
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Issue 1408 opened
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i'd also second this ...
BUT it would be nice, to have an option, which automatically collects all files for a panorama in one directory, source-images and project file(s)
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mcapellari wrote:
i'd also second this ...
BUT it would be nice, to have an option, which automatically collects all files for a panorama in one directory, source-images and project file(s)
Have you tried Extended save as...?
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great andrew,
that's exactly what i meant! :-)
thanks for the hint
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Shoshot wrote:
Hi,
I haven't found any way to tell either LR or APG to store these temporary, intermediate files (likely to be deleted after successful panorama rendition) where they belong, that is: NOT in the directory tree of original negatives.
Found it. 
In Lightroom, select File -> Export. Once in the export dialog box, select the APG TIFF16 preset. Go to the very first drop-down list box, labeled "Export To", and select "Choose folder later (useful for presets)". You might have to create a new user-defined preset for this choice to stick (haven't tried it yet), but at least there is a way.
I'd still rather have a more elegant way to set this up; but at least now I know there is an easy workaround.
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solved in 2.6.4
http://www.kolor.com/blog-en/2012/08/22 … -software/
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Bug back in 3.0b2 : the export presets installed with the Lightroom plugin still default to creating subdirectories within the location of exported files. No way to specify a folder for all temporary files from within the Plugin Manager.
The only "workaround" (not fix obviously) is to first locate the export presets installed by AP3, delete these files, and recreate manually new export presets by specifying a sensible location for temporary files.
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When you directly choose one export plugin, presets are not displayed. But if you choose the general export action, all plugins are displayed with presets which you can change and save in your own preset ("add" button).
http://www.autopano.net/wiki-en/action/ … al_plugins
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