Comments on: A Sad, Sad Post Production Pye – Preliminary Thoughts on Lightroom 4

By: Matthew Saville

Matthew Saville — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:57:00 +0000

Indeed, Adobe has made it clear that until they release the final version, LR3 and LR4 LRCAT files will be totally incompatible. This is very important for anyone who is jumping the gun to get on board with a beta version. I was pleasantly surprised at how relatively smooth LR4 seemed to work for me, but I still wouldn’t use this beta for my day to day work. Especially for this reason, but also because it does feel a tiny bit laggy / buggy.

When going from ANY catalog system to another, it is important to remember the “save metadata to files” trick. I do this all the time so that I can read my Lightroom edits in Bridge CS5 for example. And going between LR4 and LR3 isn’t perfect using this method, since the basic panel is completely different, however it does get you in the ballpark because Adobe was smart enough to come up with some rough equivalency equations or something. :-)

=Matt=

By: Matthew Saville

Matthew Saville — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:52:00 +0000

That is not a problem if you simply tell Lightroom to do the rendering. It was an experiment, and before doing so I made sure that good ‘ol “save metadata to files” still got me in the ballpark if I needed to go back to LR3.

I will probably get LR4 as soon as it comes out, but ONLY for the purpose of review and the creation of presets. etc… From a business / hobbyist standpoint, I don’t find LR4 to be critical at all if someone already has LR3 and knows it well.

=Matt=

By: Chuckles59h

Chuckles59h — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:56:00 +0000

This also happens backwards from what i understand, anything edited in LR4, the catalogs won’t import back into 3.6. I want to TY for these tutorials, I have forwarded you’re site to several for them to watch, and I myself, have learned tons here, thanks again!

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:14:00 +0000

FWIW, I used the LR4 beta on some pictures and when I imported to PS5.1 for editing, the edits were lost due to differing Process Versions in PS5 and the LR4 beta being incompatible. So if you need to go PS for anything, you might want to rethink doing 4K shots in LR!

By: Mike7051

Mike7051 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:45:00 +0000

YYour opinion is gospel to me. Thanks for your comments lets hope lr5 is what we want