LR5 to LR3 import issues

I outsourced some editing and when I tried to import the files from a LR5 program to my LR3 it said "DSC file not found or missing". I have tried deleting it all, creating a new catalog, adding scripts, finding missing files- all to no avail. The person that did the editing insists that the files come in jpeg but when I hover over everything it says lrcat. I am at a loss as to solving this problem so that I can do a few more minor edits and send the images to clients. Any help would be appreciated!

The only way to send photos to an earlier version of Lightroom is to export the photos from Lightroom 5, then transfer them to the second person, and then import the photos into LR3.
There is also the option, of changing the images within the LR5 catalog, to an earlier process version which will be compatible with LR3 - or for images that are already in that earlier process version, for example older ones which remain as originally imported in terms of their PV, this is not necessary.
Then by writing LR metadata to the file for these images, LR3-compatible editing information (as well as other kinds of metadata) are available to be adopted, when the same images (or copies thereof) are then imported into a LR3 Catalog.
Caveats: any XMP sidecar files made by writing the metadata out to the files concerned, need to be included when these are transferred to the other person;
and, any such technique (other than "Export as Catalog", which, unfortunately does not allow for back-saving LR versions) will not reflect virtual copies; or transfer Collections membership and some other flags etc that have meaning only inside a Catalog; or transfer the full editing History.
RP
[PS: it is available to you to download LR5, install that as a free trial, and that can open a LR5 Catalog file directly. A newer vresion of LR can be installed in parallel with an earlier LR version on the same computer; both continue ot be able to run independently. From there you can use LR5 to write out the edit data to file as described above (or export to converted TIFF, or to DNG packaged with editing metadata, or just make those additional edits during the 30-day trial period, or whatever you need]
[PPS: this of course assumes that you have GOT original image files as well as LR editing info; data AND metadata]

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I have two issues with the "improved" import procedure of LR3. Can anyone point out my oversights or give me workarounds?
1) I accumulate many days work on a memory card, downloading only the current day's shots at the end of the day. In LR2 the import process gave me the dates represented on the card first, letting me uncheck all and check only "today" before downloading thumbnails for me to review. In LR3 all thumbnails on the card are loaded before I can narrow down to the "today's" shots I want. And then selecting for todays date is not a one check process. On the average, this is a MUCH slower process for my workflow.
2) I shoot RAW+jpg without flash, jpg only with flash. When the RAW file exists I don't want to spend time weeding out the jpg from the import process (by downloading thumbnails and unchecking boxes). In LR2 there is a setting which tells the import process to ignore jpgs paired with RAW files and they disappear automatically. I can't find this in LR2.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

You are right that if the option to "Treat JPEG files next to RAW files as separate photos" is unchecked, the JPEGs will not be imported into a LR3 catalog as separate photos. However, they arecopied to the hard drive as separate .jpg files and are treated as a sidecar files in the LR3 catalog. One sign of this is the ".dng+JPEG" extension which shows in the catalog filename. So with the box checked I must weed extra JPEGs out by unchecking their thumbnail in the Content area of the Import screen. With the box unchecked I must delete the unwanted JPEG sidecar files after importing. Either way is inconvenient compared with LR2 where I could edict that the JPEGs just be ignored altogether.
To anticipate someone's suggestion that I stop the extra jpgs from being recorded by my cameras, there are enough occasions when having a camera-processed jpg as an immediate and temporary product is useful that I don't want to do that. Still once I've begun importing in LR, the jpegs are superfluous.

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Cheers
Sarah

sure did. All permissions are admin & I'm it. I haven't tried DL via image capture - LR4 gets me to the same end goal, tis just rather onerous to have to muck around with this twice. Appreciate your taking the time on this

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Strange import issue.
I use LR-2.6 everyday but have only played around with the LR-3 for a limited amount of time so the other day I decided check it out and tried to import a handful of RAW(canon) files on a SDxc-8g card via a USB card reader. I set it up to copy and convert to DNG, apply a few keywords and Metadata but when I tried it acted like it imported the first image and then froze. Card reader lights stopped blinking and just stayed on, program task bar doesn’t show any progress, not even for the first image. I then went to the folder that I was going to have the images copies to and it contained a file of the first image, but there is no indication that LR-3 even created it and it doesn’t show up in the catalog. When I tried to close out LR-3 is popped up the “in the middle of a task warning” so I just closed the program and tried it a couple more times to no avail.
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Hi
Can be so much.
Often Camera has to be connected to Charger/mains during Capture.
An majority is a faulthy - badly connected FW-Cable (USB don't work at all)
My list on this
*NO CAMERA or A/D-box*
Cable
• Sure that You use the FireWire - USB will not work for miniDV tape Cameras
FireWire - Sure not using the accompany USB-Cable but bought a 4-pin to 6-pin FW one ?
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Camera
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• Some Cameras has a Menu where You must select DV-out to get it to work
• Camera connected to "charger" (mains adaptor) - not just on battery
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(Hard to find out - else than import/export to another Mac ceased to work
everything else is OK eg recording and playback to TV)
Connections
• Daisy Chaining most often doesn’t work (some unique cases - it’s the only way that work (some Canon Cameras ?))
Try to avoid connecting Camera <--> external HD <--> Mac but import directly to the Mac then move
the Movie project to dedicated external hard disk.
Mac
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? Please specify the amount of free space.
(Other hard disks don't count)
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after material is imported and edited.
SoftWare
• Delete iMovie pref file may help sometimes. I rather start a new account, log into this and have a re-try.
• Any strange Plug-ins into QuickTime as Perian etc ? Remove and try again.
• FileVault is off ? (hopefully)
Using WHAT versions ? .
• Mac OS - X.5.4 ?
• QuickTime version ? (This is the heart in both iMovie and FinalCut)
• iMovie 8 (7.1.?) ?
• iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4/3) ?
*Other ways to import Your miniDV tape*
• Use another Camera. There where tape play-back stations from SONY
but they costed about 2-4 times a normal miniDV Camera.
• If Your Camera works on another Mac. Make an iMovie movie project here and move it
over to Your Mac via an external hard disk.
(HAS TO BE Mac OS Extended formatted - USB/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO)
(Should be a FireWire one - USB/USB2 performs badly)
from LKN 1935.
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos) to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before. Thank you. LKN 1935
from Karsten.
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check.
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About../More..
under Firewire.. what do you read..?
More
• FileVault - Secure that it’s turned off
• Network storage - DOESN’T WORK
• Where did You store/capture/import Your project ?
External USB hard disk = Bad Choise / FireWire = Good
If so it has to be Mac OS Extended formatted
----> UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange is NOT Working for VIDEO !
mbolander
Thanks for all your suggestions. What I learned is that I had a software problem. I had something called "Nikon Transfer" on my Mac that was recognizing my Canon camcorder as a still camera and was preventing iMovie from working properly. After uninstalling Nikon Transfer and doing a reboot, everything worked great.
I never liked the Nikon Transfer software anyway--I guess I'll get a cheap card reader and use that to transfer photos in the future.
*No Camera or bad import*
• USB hard disk
• Network storage
• File Vault is on
jiggaman15dg wrote
if you have adobe cs3 or 4 and have the adobe bridge on close that
or no firewire will work
see if that halps
DJ1249 wrote
The problem was the external backup hard drive that is connected, you need to disconect the external drive before the mac can see the video camera.
Yours Bengt W

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I have a couple of Premiere Pro project files with multiple sequences in each. In each of the project files I have the same source video files imported as the some of the sequences in each of the project files reference the same source video file.
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Hi Adobe4,
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use the search luke.
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I reformatted the card in my camera prior to shooting so I don't think the files are damaged, especially since they appear to work in Bridge/Photoshop just fine; however, when I attempt to import via my SDHC card & USB reader I get one of two errors: Could not copy a file to requested location, or the following files were not imported because they could not be read.
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Restarting my computer
Quitting LR3 and restarting
Optimizing my LR3 catalog
Creating a brand-new catalog and trying to import photos there with the hope of combining catalogs later (received the same error message)
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