How Import Images FAST into Adobe Lightroom Classic

In this How to Adobe Lightroom Classic Tutorial on how to import LOTS of images really fast. Using Lightroom Classic and Photo Mechanic to quickly cull images for your Lightroom Import. Beginners and Intermediate users of Lightroom Classic will love how to save only the images you want to keep, speeding the import process and saving hard drive space.

[kensamuelson]

Excellent demonstration for processing those shoots of wildlife at 20FPS. Taking thousands of images into LR directly is quite slow. Thanks for clear explanation for using both LR and PM together.

[followmetop]

Outstanding! Heading to Costa Rica next week and this was exactly what I needed. Thank you

[mickeyreyes]

Thank you, that was very helpful. You just got a new sub!

[sooshigirl]

Loved this. Thank you for helping me to manage baseball photography! This method is a huge win.

[NigeriaFunk]

Many thanks for taking the time to make and share this tutorial. Very much appreciated!

[keithmacdonald]

Great video, answers a lot of my issues, thanks very much for sharing.

[shotsbyscott]

Thanks Terry for sharing your methodology. I agree with you it is a waste of time and space to import 1000's after a bird shoot. I use a similar process except I use Fast Raw Viewer. I also use Nikon NX Studio. I like NX Studio better since is can show the focus point. However the program is very slow and crashes often when you have 1000's of photos in a single folder. So I often use a three step process for a large set of images: 1) Cull in Fast Raw Viewer, 2) 2nd pass in NX Studio mainly to remove duplicates and select the best, sharpest, etc.., 3) import into LR. I have really focused on selecting quickly in Fast Raw Viewer and not look back after this step.

[marclabro]

great tuto. what about using bridge instead of PM ?

[ppBizU]

This touching the topic I'm struggling with. It's like 1h photo session, then 2h for sorting and selecting the best one. Especially painful when I do widelife photos. "Compare" mode is a good improvement the flow.

[Misss.Aliceee]

Is Sandisk your preferred choice for external storage and how many do you have ? Thanks for the video !

[kuau]

personally for culling a large number of images lets say 2000 Nikon Z9 Nefs I just import my images in LRC using the minimal preview option and it maybe takes 60 seconds on my 14" MacBook Pro Max.

[tectoramia-szlu]

I do things a little differently. I import files from the card reader into a directory on my PC, then put the card back in my camera..
I then cull and rename files using a free programme called Faststone. I find it much easier and quicker than using LR.
Then I'm not importing a lot of junk files into Lightroom.

[andycoleman]

If you don't have special import settings in LR, why not just use Photo Mechanic to create the folder that LR looks at and "ingest selected"? Then in LR, you just synchronize the folder and they're all there.

[AR-vfvg]

BRIDGE (adobe) coukd at least have been mentioned, don't you think ? Probably already paid for together with Lightroom.

[MrIowahawks]

Where can I actually download Lighroom Classic on a mac, I dont see it as an option on the MacApp store

[MrIowahawks]

How to you properly eject the card reader from your Mac after you imported your photos ??

[christianyoung]

I enjoyed the small grp part but the main reason I came here is you said How Import Images FAST into Adobe Lightroom Classic in the title but, the main soluiton is to buy another program for 100s of dollars more. Umm.

[lapcevics]

Real question is why is Lightroom so slow while just browsing raw files.
It's only purpose is raw photos handling and it fails at simplest task, just browsing 🤨

[hitchhiker_]

Thanks for a 17 MINUTE+ video on how to import photos into Lightroom FAST. How about a 30 second video instead? Get to the point.

[hitchhiker_]

blah blah blah. get to the point. the irony of an endless freaking 17 minute video filled with extraneous nonsense titled "import images FAST." Look up "fast" in the dictionary.