Hi Sasha,

I have started using Zenfolio.com. Their support for IPTC is ok and they are planning on expanding it soon. It is quite a bit less expensive than Photo shelter.

Another posibility is Smugmug.com.

If you are using Lightroom Jeffery Freidl  has an excellent plug-in supporting export and the new Publish for both of these  sites.

-louie

Hi Paul,

Oops, I don't know why I assumed that you converted to dng. Maybe because I used to do so that was the first thing that popped into my head.

I now have a similar process to you but with Canon CR2 files going to LR3b2. Import  and rename with IIP from my CF cards to a folder structure created by IIP, applying bulk metadata but not at this time any develop presets. I then import the folders into Lightroom. Without applying develop presets all my images imported this way show up as process version 2010 in Lightroom.

My next guess is that there may be some setting in your develop preset that is specific to PV 2003. I did notice that any of my CR2 files that had develop settings applied before I started using LR3 b3 all showed up as PV2003.

Maybe recreate the preset using ACR 6.1 and try importing with newly created preset and see if that works.

-louie

Hi

Are you sure that you are using the latest dng converter application. I usually have to go and download it separately or check your IIP setup and make sure you are pointing to the correct dng converter application there.

-louie

Hi Ryan,

I just finished a similar upgrade and here is what I did.

From Other World Computing I purchased a NewerTech MaxPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 Controller with 2 eSATA ports. This is a plug and play controller that works with the AHCI standard interface. No additional driver needed. This card does not support port multiplexing so I can only have 2 drives online at a time which is all I required. This was about $50. If you need more drives online than they also sell a Sonnent 2 port card for about the same price that will do port multiplexing so up to 5 per conection.

Also from OWC I have been buying Hitachi DeskstarTM 7K1000.C  drives. The 7K100 drives are very quiet and fast. The "B" version had 3 platters and the new "C" version has only 2 platters and run fast and quiet.

OWC is a great company to work with. A year ago I purchased a pair Seagate drives and both of them had enough vibration to make my Mac Pro hum when it was running. They first dropped shipped my a replacement and then when that one also had the same problem the exchanged the Seagates for Hitachis with out any hesitation.

For an external case I purchased a 2 drive case with trayless slots from Mac Gurus. This one does not have a port multiplexor but they also have cases with 4 to 8 slots if you need them. I love the trayless design as you can just slip in a bare sata drive in and out of slot. No extra "proprietary" trays to purchase for each new drive. The only down side is this case has 3 fans and it is at least to my sensibilities quite noisy. But since I run it only for back up operations it is not a big problem. I searched all over and these are the best price cases I could find.

To store my bare drives I purchased some of the Wiebetech static boxes that Peter shows in his book.

Finally I also purchased a WD VelociRaptor 600GB drive as my new system disk. This is the fasted HD you can buy today and it has made a huge improvement with my system responsiveness. It just takes a fraction of the time to boot and load applications than it use to. Lightroom used to take 20 seconds to load not it is less than 5 seconds. This is a new drive and I finally found one at newegg. They were limited to 1 per customer last week.

-louie

Here are sources:

OWC Hitachi 1TB drive
NewerTech Controller
MacGurus
Weibtech Case
NewEgg

Hi Lauren,

What you suggest should work just fine. Are you sure that you are using the latest version of ImageIngester Pro? There was a bug a while back with the merge metadata for JPG files that caused a problem like you are seeing. Here is the discussion thread IPTC metadata particularly "Rating" confused after IIP. Marc fixed it so I am hoping that it has not reappeared. 

FYI:

Bridge it self is not licensed at least for CS4 and I presume it is the same for CS5. So you can install a trial for Photoshop and even after the trial license expires you can still use  Bridge. I think the Bridge has the easiest  and most complete access to metadata of any application out there. There is one thing to be careful of if you end up using it for bulk metadata. I have found that you have to be sure to wait until the spinning update wheel to stop and every file has been updated before you try to make additional changes. I have found that if you don't you can interrupt the update process and not all your metadata will be updated.

-louie

Well how about that. It makes one wonder exactly what MS wanted with iView in the first place. I agree that this is good news for the photographers especially those of who purchased iView way back when..

You scooped dpreview.com! You must be well connected ;-)

-louie

Hi Filip,

The new keyword hierarchy will be added to the catalog when you import to your master catalog. So if you have the following in your master catalog

John > Friends > People

and this in your working catalog

John > Clients

After the import your master catalog will have both instances listed. Lightroom treats these as separate keywords.

You can test this by creating a library template based on your master catalog. Peter describes this procedure in the latest book in the Lightroom Workflow chapter page 332. Basically you create a new catalog, open in and import from your master catalog but be sure to turn on  the option "Don't Import New Photos". This copies all the settings, Keywords and collections into a new empty catalog.

-louie

Hi Brian,

Glad to hear that your problem is solved. But your story is of interest to me since I am considering getting  a Burly multi drive case with the Sonnet E4P controller.

I have a couple of questions about your configuration.

1. What version of MacOS are you running?

2. Are you using port multiplexing?

3. What is the version of the Sonnet driver that is now working?

tks, louie

Here is some follow up information now that the CS5 announcements have been made.

• Photoshop CS5 will ship with ACR 6.0 using the same raw processing engine that is in LR3b2.
  
• ACR 6.0 will not work with PS-CS4, however, ACR 5.7 apparently will be able to process the new develop settings but will not have the ability to edit them. This is unofficial information given by Victoria Bampton in her post in Beta2/ACR 6  on the Lightroom 2 discussion forum.
• Buried in the LR3b2 release notes under "Primary know issues:  is the following tidbit:
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  The Lightroom 3 beta 2 will expire after Lightroom 3.0 is available
  Since the beta expires on June 30 it seems to say that the final release of LR3 will be before then.
  
• Finally, while reiterating the warning about using beta software  Lightroom 3 Beta 2 and My Plugins Jeffery Friedl states that he in now using LR3b2 for all his new work and has stopped using LR2 comletely.
  

-louie

Hi Erik,

Believe the only way you can get a EM2 license is to purchase an upgrade for $99 from Amazon at this link Expression Media 2 Upgrade.

MS has stopped selling EM from their web site. So you can no longer just get a key via email.

I hope that this helps.

-louie

FYI

 I don't have Lightroom now and I wanted to know if I purchased LR2 what was the upgrade policies to LR3. I called Adobe sales and they informed me that  Adobe's standard policy is if you purchase a product and there is a release in 90 days you get a no cost upgrade to the new release. Beyond that you pay the standard upgrade fee.  Since there is no release date it would be a roll of the dice to try for a free upgrade today.

They did indicate that there may be further information in the upcoming CS5 release announcement on April 12. I didn't pursue the question if the 90 day grace period applied to the "announced" release date or the "actual" release date.

-louie

Thanks John,

Some one has worked come magic in the backgound and response time is very snappy! I hope it sticks this time and there are no more late nights for you. ;-)

-louie

Robert, 

I think that only Camera Raw would need to be updated then you could still use Photoshop CS4. However, I suspect that Adobe marketing may force us all to also upgrade to CS5 also.

-louie

Is it just me or have others been experiencing the slow response and timeouts as well? I'm not seeing any delays with any other sites.

Yesterday morning was very quick but yesterday afternoon was so bad that I couldn't hardly browse much less reply to topics. This morning response is back to normal.

This is my favorite go to site with the most considerate members and best quality of information on the digital workflow. It is frustrating when it is unusable.

-louie

Hi Chris,

From your initial description it seemed to me that Lightroom was the likely culprit messing up the printing of the profile targets. So my thinking is that the simple approach (if anything about color management can be considered simple) is to remove LR from the mix. If selecting "Managed by Printer" in the print job is not working that indicates to me that LR is doing a color conversion somewhere else.  The beta 2 does not provide me any more clues.

It might be instructive to print the profile target files with both Lightroom and Photoshop as I suggested and see if there you can see a difference. If there is then that would be a strong indication that LR is doing color conversion on your target somewhere else in the pipeline.

If your goal is to get printer profiles then I still suggest that your best approach is to try printing with another application where you can be sure that it no color conversions are happening. However, if your goal is to test/debug LR then all the power to you. I do think it seems reasonable that one should be able to override any color management to correctly print profile targets from within LR.

-louie