Fantastic video Brian, thank you. I’ve been looking today at whether to spend a small fortune on a decent laptop for photo editing or whether I can do the whole thing on an iPad/iPhone and Lightroom & Photoshop for iPad; this video was very helpful thank you
It’s a shame that Apple held onto lightning for so long because the last few generations of iPhones have been especially powerful… yet hobbled by the ancient port. If you plan on doing a lot of this sort of backing up and importing using your iPhone, then it’d be a great upgrade.
Timely video, I'm just getting around to ordering the new iPhone 15. Been debating amount of storage to go with, this workflow could help keep that number down.
I had the 512 GB iPhone 14 Pro Max and traded it in for the same 512 GB iPhone 15 Pro Max. I don't do much in terms of video, so running out of space has never been a concern. Also, now that I can write video files directly to an external drive, I'm even less worried about that. Have fun with your new phone, btw! It's such a beast.
Brian, I assume that this is a good workaround when you do not have your MBP? In other words, importing directly from cards into LR on MBP would still be more efficient assuming your MBP is available correct?
I suppose it depends on how many photos you're importing (in terms of file size). If your iPhone 15 has the capacity to store your photos until they can get backed up to Adobe's cloud, then it isn't much different. Of course, the MBP has MUCH faster Thunderbolt ports, and if you connect a Thunderbolt drive, you'd get significantly faster data throughput. In that case, the MBP is the clear winner. Also, the MBP has an integrated SD card slot, which is nice.
It's nice to have USB-C 3.2 on the iPhone for both input and output. I downloaded a few ProRes 4K video files from 15PM and was pleasantly surprised at how quickly the process went. When transferring from my 14PM to the 15, I had four 4K ProRes files that hadn't synced to iCloud. So, I used the Lightning cable and Image Capture to copy them onto my MBP, which took a few hours. Good riddance to Lightning.@@brianmatiash
So you keep a copy of your photos in a folder on your SSD that matches an album you have in Lightroom (e.g., 20201101 - Hokkaido)? It’s cool you can do all this with just an iPhone and hub, but I’m interested in learning more about the workflow itself. Do you other videos on this topic?
Fantastic video Brian, thank you. I’ve been looking today at whether to spend a small fortune on a decent laptop for photo editing or whether I can do the whole thing on an iPad/iPhone and Lightroom & Photoshop for iPad; this video was very helpful thank you
Dang. I wasn’t going to get the new iPhone. Now I might have to. Great workflow. I use my 1tb iPhone 14 and Lr mobile for backup.
It’s a shame that Apple held onto lightning for so long because the last few generations of iPhones have been especially powerful… yet hobbled by the ancient port. If you plan on doing a lot of this sort of backing up and importing using your iPhone, then it’d be a great upgrade.
Timely video, I'm just getting around to ordering the new iPhone 15. Been debating amount of storage to go with, this workflow could help keep that number down.
I had the 512 GB iPhone 14 Pro Max and traded it in for the same 512 GB iPhone 15 Pro Max. I don't do much in terms of video, so running out of space has never been a concern. Also, now that I can write video files directly to an external drive, I'm even less worried about that. Have fun with your new phone, btw! It's such a beast.
Thank you Brian , very interesting . I wonder ..how many Tb of Adobe Cloud storage do have to enable your workflow please ? Thanks
You’re welcome! And this workflow will work with any Adobe plan. You just need to be mindful of how much available cloud storage you have.
Brian, I assume that this is a good workaround when you do not have your MBP? In other words, importing directly from cards into LR on MBP would still be more efficient assuming your MBP is available correct?
I suppose it depends on how many photos you're importing (in terms of file size). If your iPhone 15 has the capacity to store your photos until they can get backed up to Adobe's cloud, then it isn't much different. Of course, the MBP has MUCH faster Thunderbolt ports, and if you connect a Thunderbolt drive, you'd get significantly faster data throughput. In that case, the MBP is the clear winner. Also, the MBP has an integrated SD card slot, which is nice.
It's nice to have USB-C 3.2 on the iPhone for both input and output. I downloaded a few ProRes 4K video files from 15PM and was pleasantly surprised at how quickly the process went. When transferring from my 14PM to the 15, I had four 4K ProRes files that hadn't synced to iCloud. So, I used the Lightning cable and Image Capture to copy them onto my MBP, which took a few hours. Good riddance to Lightning.@@brianmatiash
So you keep a copy of your photos in a folder on your SSD that matches an album you have in Lightroom (e.g., 20201101 - Hokkaido)? It’s cool you can do all this with just an iPhone and hub, but I’m interested in learning more about the workflow itself. Do you other videos on this topic?
Hi Brian, when i open any raw max photo in my Lightroom app the brightness change or is it the HDR im not sure whats wrong if you can help ?
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I tested the IPhone 15 pro Max usbc cable and I was getting 70mbs…
Changed to a 40Gbs cable and it went to 2700 Mbs . Shame on Apple .