I use Lightroom Classic CC and often ask it to export hundreds of JPGs with my watermark and many processing steps that were accomplished in the develop module.
About six years ago, when I started using Lightroom, I built a fast PC based on an Intel I7-2600 (4 core) CPU, 16 G RAM and using an SSD for my OS and applications. I hoped it would last me three years and I kept it for six!
Exporting JPGs with Lightroom has always been a little slower than I'd like. I tried putting my recent Lightroom folders on an SSD to see if that would speed things up, but it didn't.
When I started using a 5D4 with ~30 megabyte files, Lightroom slowed down some more, to the point that it was annoying. So about a month ago, I built a new machine using the latest Intel I-7 8700K (6 core) CPU, liquid cooling, 32 G RAM, an SSD for the OS and apps, the latest motherboard and the latest 8 TB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Lightroom catalog.
It's my understanding that adding a compatible graphics card will speed up some activities in the Develop Module, but won't do anything for the export process, so I am currently using the on-board Intel graphics, which seem to work fine.
I was hoping that jumping forward six generations of the Intel CPU family would make a huge improvement in the file export process, but the improvement has been slight. I'm not sure what the limiting factor is. I would note that file imports from a USB-3 card reader seem pretty fast and the Develop Module is reasonably fast too. It's just that pesky export function in the Library module that won't get with the plan.
Has anyone else run into this situation? What did you do? I've read what Adobe has published about Lightroom performance and I don't see anything else I can do with either hardware or changing the settings within Lightroom.
About six years ago, when I started using Lightroom, I built a fast PC based on an Intel I7-2600 (4 core) CPU, 16 G RAM and using an SSD for my OS and applications. I hoped it would last me three years and I kept it for six!
Exporting JPGs with Lightroom has always been a little slower than I'd like. I tried putting my recent Lightroom folders on an SSD to see if that would speed things up, but it didn't.
When I started using a 5D4 with ~30 megabyte files, Lightroom slowed down some more, to the point that it was annoying. So about a month ago, I built a new machine using the latest Intel I-7 8700K (6 core) CPU, liquid cooling, 32 G RAM, an SSD for the OS and apps, the latest motherboard and the latest 8 TB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Lightroom catalog.
It's my understanding that adding a compatible graphics card will speed up some activities in the Develop Module, but won't do anything for the export process, so I am currently using the on-board Intel graphics, which seem to work fine.
I was hoping that jumping forward six generations of the Intel CPU family would make a huge improvement in the file export process, but the improvement has been slight. I'm not sure what the limiting factor is. I would note that file imports from a USB-3 card reader seem pretty fast and the Develop Module is reasonably fast too. It's just that pesky export function in the Library module that won't get with the plan.
Has anyone else run into this situation? What did you do? I've read what Adobe has published about Lightroom performance and I don't see anything else I can do with either hardware or changing the settings within Lightroom.