Importing LR3 catalogs into LR4

What's the quickest way of creating new catalogs for LR4. I have over 30 active cats for each client.

Probably via File> Open Catalog in LR4 Brian. You'll be prompted to upgrade the catalog. This moves the LR3 Previews to LR4 too.

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Im having problems converting / importing my PSE 9 photos into LR4. I went through the "File / Upgrade PS..." without success. It seems to work...ie LR4 closes down and then creates a new catalog but then a box appears saying that the photos could not be imported because they are missing or damaged. I then thought that my PSE 9 catalog is not set up right BUT LR4 tell me that the 27023 photos could not be imported for the reason stated. In other words LR does see the PSE catalog because it give the correct amount of photo's. I then did a small test by dragging some photos from my PSE 9 into LR4 and that seems to work. All the keyword tags move across. Is there a problem or dont I understand the process?

If I remember properly, it will not be an onerous task. What Exiftool will do is transfer the notes to some other metadata field that LR uses ... and I believe it can be done as a batch job, thus one execution of Exiftool does this for your entire photo collection (assuming its all under one parent folder).
Here is the method (see post #12 in this thread): http://forums.adobe.com/message/2148552#2148552

Elements 10 catalog into LR4

I lose all "Notes" entries on importing an Elements 10 catalog into LR4. Can I retrieve them in LR4?

If I remember properly, it will not be an onerous task. What Exiftool will do is transfer the notes to some other metadata field that LR uses ... and I believe it can be done as a batch job, thus one execution of Exiftool does this for your entire photo collection (assuming its all under one parent folder).
Here is the method (see post #12 in this thread): http://forums.adobe.com/message/2148552#2148552

LR3 cataloques into LR4

I have a huge LR 3 cataloque, which was imported to a trial version of LR4. I was not quick enough to order LR4 upgrade before my trial period was over. I returned to LR 3 for some time before I got my own licence of LR 4. When I got it I removed the LR 4 trial and installed the LR 4 upgrade. The installation went OK, but importing the LR3 images that had been imported into LR3 after stopping the use of LR4 trial version was not asked during the installation process. Neither they were there. The LR4 cataloque was exactly the same as it was when I stopped using the trial version. How should I proceed to get the part of the LR3 cataloque, which I worked with in between the Trial LR 4 and the "proper" LR4 into LR4. I would not like to import the raw images again and start from the scracthes with each image.
yours Kari

Filter your post-4-trial LR 3 catalog by date.
Select all photos that occur after the date where you stopped using LR4 trial.
Take that selection and "Export as a Catalog" to a temporary catalog.
Open your LR4 catalog and import the temporary catalog using the Import from Another Catalog function.

Import Elements catalog into Lightroom

Hi everybody,
I used PSE on my notebook for a couple of years now. As i bougth a new pc recently I want to upgrade to Photoshop CC / Lightroom. So here is my question:
Is it possible to import my elements catalog into Lightroom including my tags?
I still have got my copy of Elements 11 installed on my notebook, I´ve got a trial copy of PSE 13 on my new pc and already imported my catalog. I also installed Lightroom 5.6 on the pc.
I already looked on the internet but I only found one video which shows the solution I need but on Lightroom 3 and the function used in the video isn´t avalible in 5.6 any more.
If you need any more information please feel free to ask.
Greatings from Germany
Sebastian

Roy, I am 99% certain that importing PSE 7 catalog to LR 2 is not possible at this time. The release cycles of the products did not coincide for that to happen. However you can import from PSE 6 I believe.
I feel sure that this will be addressed soon........... but don't know when.

How to import complete catalog into another existing catalog

Hi,
Lightroom 2.2
Win XP SP2
3GB RAM
I have LR 2.2 installed with about 10000 images on my computer at home. I've been on holiday at my parents' and have downloaded & installed an evaluation version of LR 2.2 on their computer on which I created a new catalog. In the meantime I've imported and processed about 350 images on their computer.
Before going home I'd like to export the catalog with all photos, metadata, keywords, etc. onto a jump drive. Then, when I get home, I'd like to import all of these images & data into my existing catalog.
I've researched this a bit, and it seems to be a straight-forward operation if only the images and a certain subset of the metadata is to be imported. However, I'd like _everything_ to be imported. Anybody have experience doing this?
Thanks,
Jens

This will work perfectly. Just select all the images you want to transfer and under the file menu, select export as catalog. Be sure to check the option to export the negative files. I'd export this catalog onto the computer its on, and then copy the exported catalog to your jump drive - depending on the size of your originals and preview, the catalog might be quite large.
When you get home, I'd transfer the catalog from your jump drive onto your computer. Then start LR and under the File menu select import from catalog. It will ask where you want to put the negative (original) files, and then it will import them without a hitch. I've done this several times with never a problam.

How do I Import PSE12 Catalog into Lightroom 4.4

New to Lightroom and I have version 4.4. I have Photoshop Elements 12 installed and I'm trying to import the catalog to Lightroom. I manage this quite easily with a trial version of Lightroom 5 but in 4.4 if I go to File/Import Photos and Videos or Import from another Catalog there is no option to import from the installed PSE12. So how do do it.

Albums will not transfer via this method of writing metadata to files, because album metadata is never written to files.
The only way to transfer albums is by converting them to keywords, as 99jon said, or by waiting until Adobe releases a new version of Lightroom that will properly convert PSE12 catalogs to Lightroom catalogs (and neither I nor anyone else here knows when that will be).
As a supplement to 99jon's advice, it is my opinion that you should organize via PSE tags (called keywords in Lightroom), and then you won't have this issue of transferring information from album names to keywords in PSE and then back to collection in Lightroom. Tags/keywords are written to the metadata when you inform PSE or Lightroom to do so, and so if you convert the PSE albums names to PSE tags you should just leave them as tags in the future, and leave the information as keywords in Lightroom in the future. In my opinion, there is zero benefit and considerable drawbacks (mainly your time) converting these to keywords to collections in Lightroom. And if you're going to leave these as keywords in Lightroom, then there's also zero benefit and considerable drawbacks to making the PSE tag name "Album New York", just make it "New York".

Problem importing a catalog into CQ5 from Hybris

Hello
I'd like to ask you guys for some help on CQ imports. CQ supports a number of different importers. The one I am dealing with is the Hybris Importer.
I already installed the Hybris embedded server and all relevant packages listed in the CQ docs (cq-5.5.0). I can log into Hybris and view/update the catalogs. However, when I attempt to import an existing catalog from a base Hybris site into CQ, the process fails:
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   1. When I import into the "outdoors" site in CQ, the process starts OK, but then appears to copy only four items:
A /etc/commerce/products/outdoors/outdoors/en
A /content/dam/geometrixx-outdoors/products/import/96392-Brazzaville
A /etc/commerce/products/outdoors/outdoors/en/equipment/swimming/96392/96392.1-S/image
A /content/dam/geometrixx-outdoors/products/import/96392-Brazzaville
A /etc/commerce/products/outdoors/outdoors/en/equipment/swimming/96392/96392.2-S/image Catalog imported successfully in 9785 milliseconds
   2. When I import into a new site that does not have the same structure as the Geometrixx Outdoors site, I get
A /etc/commerce/products/outdoors/outdoors/en
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/men E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/men/shirts E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/men/shorts
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/men/pants
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/men/coats
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/women
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/women/shirts_0
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/women/shorts_0
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/women/pants_0
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/women/coats_0
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/equipment
E Touching containing page failed: /content/Geo-4/en_US/equipment/hiking
   3. Looking at the /author/crx-quickstart/logs/error.log, I see:
.... POST /libs/commerce/content/import.html HTTP/1.1] com.adobe.cq.commerce.hybris.impl.HybrisConnectionImpl execute: received response from hybris in [25ms] with status [200]
.... POST /libs/commerce/content/import.html HTTP/1.1] com.adobe.cq.commerce.hybris.impl.HybrisConnectionImpl execute: sending command [GetProductCommand] to hybris: [https://localhost:9002/ws410/rest/catalogs/outdoors/catalogversions/Staged/products/94357. 1-XL?variantproduct_attributes=picture%2Csummary%2CvariantProduct%2CpriceRow%2CvariantAttribute%2Cdescription%2Cname%2CbaseProduct%2Ccode%2Ceurope1Prices]
.... POST /libs/commerce/content/import.html HTTP/1.1] com.adobe.cq.commerce.hybris.impl.HybrisConnectionImpl execute: received response from hybris in [24ms] with status [200]
.... POST /libs/commerce/content/import.html HTTP/1.1] com.adobe.cq.commerce.hybris.impl.HybrisConnectionImpl execute: sending command [GetProductCommand] to hybris: [https://localhost:9002/ws410/rest/catalogs/outdoors/catalogversions/Staged/products/94357. 1-XXL?variantproduct_attributes=picture%2Csummary%2CvariantProduct%2CpriceRow%2CvariantAtt ribute%2Cdescription%2Cname%2CbaseProduct%2Ccode%2Ceurope1Prices]
.... com.adobe.cq.commerce.hybris.internal.HybrisController.hybris ERROR [hybrisHTTP7] [DefaultWsUtilService] Attribute Selector API: Dynamically configured attribute: "variantProduct" is not recognized for node: "de.hybris.platform.variants.dto.VariantProductDTO" that was matched using qualifier: "variantProduct" at level: 0
.... com.adobe.cq.commerce.hybris.internal.HybrisController.hybris ERROR [hybrisHTTP7] [DefaultWsUtilService] Attribute Selector API: Dynamically configured attribute: "priceRow" is not recognizedfor node: "de.hybris.platform.variants.dto.VariantProductDTO" that was matched using qualifier: "variantProduct" at level: 0
.... com.adobe.cq.commerce.hybris.internal.HybrisController.hybris ERROR [hybrisHTTP7] [DefaultWsUtilService] Attribute Selector API: Dynamically configured attribute: "variantAttribute" is not recognized for node: "de.hybris.platform.variants.dto.VariantProductDTO" that was matched using qualifier: "variantProduct" at level: 0
... - the above messages repeat several times for variantProduct, priceRow, and variantAttribute
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So, the questions I have are:
   1. Do I need to configure anything before the import?
   2. Does the site in CQ we import to need to have a specific structure before we trigger the import? The Geometrixx Outdoors site has several chapters - men, women, equipment, etc.
   3. Any additional suggestions or pointers you may have regarding the import process.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Houston,
You have to tell LR what you want to do with photos already existing in your catalog:
Beat

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I'm using a Win7 x64 system, 3Ghz Xeon dual core, 8 GB ram system. After upgrading a LR3 catalog to LR4, it would not display all images in GRID VIEW in the upper level folders. i.e. D:/Photos/2011. It will display the images in the 2011 folder but not in the Photos folder. And yes I do have the "Show Photos in SubFolders" selected.
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Does LR3 catalog roll automatically into LR4 on installation?

I installed LR4 and now have LR3 and LR4 catalog in the path: Mac HD>Users>me>pictures>Lightroom. Do I need to keep the LR3 catalog. I'm not sure how to tell if it is redundant or not?
My question: Can I delete the LR3 Catalog? Is the LR3 catalog automatically brought into LR4 upon installation?
Thanks,
Rima

I would keep the Lr3 catalog for a while until you are sure that everything is OK in Lr4.
As long as Lr3 is not un-installed, you can use it to check things out as they were in the Lr3 catalog.
Lr3 cannot read the Lr4 catalog, so as long as you have the Lr3 catalog you can check things out in Lr3.
But refrain from doing any work in Lr3 because it would be saved in the Lr3 catalog while Lr4 works with the Lr4 catalog. So your Lr3 catalog should be "read only" - only for checking things.
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Why do I not have sound when I import a M2TS video file into LR4? ?

I have M2TS video files stored on my computer. When I import a file into LR4, I have no sound. I also tried importing files directly from my Sony camcorder, but still have no sound.

How many sound channels does your video have?
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http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/no_sound_audio_when_playing_mts_vide o

Importing into LR4

Hello, I have downloaded the LR4 trial. I'm not sure yet if it's the best way, but I have existing photo folders on the hard drive, so decided to import from there into LR4 using the 'add' methos, then convert to DNG afterwards. I wanted to keep the same file structure, and have the photo's just 'referenced' by LR4
In Martin Evening's book it states: 'The add option is the one I suggest you use mostly here. With an "add" option you are telling Lightroom to "reference" the files where they are located on the computer.'
When I saw the 'reference' word I thought that LR4 would not 'take over' my folder system. But after importing one folder, I realise that although I can view the folders I haven't yet imported into LR4 with the Nikon View NX software I have been using with Capture NX2, View NX will now not read the one folder that I have imported into LR4.
This suggests to me that LR4 has indeed taken over my file structure - can anyobe suggest what I should have done (I would like to keep my existing structure and open files from it in LR4 AND any other program I wish). Also, after I have imported all folders from my hard drive, it might be worth then importing direct from card. Can anyone give me the basic pointers to doing this and keep the same 'referenced file' structure.
I'm a bit of a novice, and although I'm sure Martin Evening's book is very good for experienced people, I find that it just doesn't make things easy to understand for those like myself - I have order Scott Kelby's book and hope that is easier for me
Thank you

Roy,
You're on the right track. When you import into LR using Add, all it does is put pointers to the imported files in its database. Absolutely nothing happens to the files on disk. They are still in their original folder, available to any other program that is able to open them. (Although if you're using LR to its full potential, you probably won't need to access any of your images directly.)
I don't know what your problem is with View NX. What is it telling you?
Ahh...Richard probably has it right. If you converted to DNG, of course your Nikon software won't be able to deal with the images.
Hal
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