Comments on: Jeffrey’s “Video-Asset Management” Lightroom Plugin

By: michelle cunningham

michelle cunningham — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:02:46 +0000

hey jeffrey! one guy mentioned it and i want to second that vote for support for 3gp
type files. videos from phones are getting pretty good.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:02:57 +0000

Hey Jeffrey. Great plug-in, just having an issue that someone raised a couple of places above. I am getting

“An internal error has occurred: AgImportSession.addOnePhotoToLibrary: failed to import photo”

This is while importing photos from photomatix to lightroom using fusion. Worked great for a very short while and am getting this error now. Uninstalled Photomatix and cleaned registry, then re-installed but no luck. I am using LR3 and Photomatix 3.2.9 with Windows 7 Ultimate on 64 bit.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Mike

Lightroom doesn’t give the plugin much insight into why a photo can’t load, but you can try sending a log after the next failure. —Jeffrey

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:08:22 +0000

Why would we want to abandon it – its way better than Adobes

Video is a huge headache (one I didn’t realize when I started the plugin), and so the advantage of Adobe’s support over mine is that they maintain it, not me. Am I the only one who sees this as an advantage? —Jeffrey

By: Rick Brown

Rick Brown — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:35:59 +0000

Ludger explains the problem with LR3 video support in a nutshell. If you want to have your photos and videos together, in chronological order, LR3 native video support can’t do it (at least not with D90 videos). Even if you just want your videos to appear in some sort of chronological order, LR3 can’t do it. Hopefully Adobe will fix their video metadata support someday, but until then the Jeffrey Friedl Video Asset Management plugin (not deprecated!) is the best solution.

By: Ludger

Ludger — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:16:19 +0000

But how do you get your photos and videos in chronologic order with Adobes native support? I’d like to see mine in chronologic order but Adobe assigns a not changeable phantasy date. As long as there is no solution also I go on using your plugin.
A combination would be the best: Adobe thumbs in the grid with the quality of metadata of your plugin.

By: Rick Brown

Rick Brown — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:09:13 +0000

On a related note, I did notice that the “Plugin Extras” menu item for “Play Video” seems to be missing in this version (0625). This isn’t a major problem for me, but it was a nice convenience to be able to play a video item without having to go to the file manager.

Rick

I guess I thought that everyone would want to abandon this plugin in Lr3. (I know I certainly do.) I just pushed a new version with that menu item restored. —Jeffrey

By: Rick Brown

Rick Brown — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:46:52 +0000

I finally had a chance to revisit this today and now the plugin seems to be working correctly. I didn’t change anything and the problem seems to have fixed itself. Thanks for your response earlier and thanks especially for keeping this plugin alive.

Rick

By: Rick Brown

Rick Brown — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:04:43 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for continuing to work on this plugin for LR3. The video import functionality in LR3 leaves a lot to be desired (my main issue is that it doesn’t properly determine capture date) and I would prefer to keep using your plugin as part of my workflow.

I downloaded the latest build of your video assets plugin for LR3 and, unfortunately, I am having a problem. I get an error “AgImportSession.addOnePhotoToLibrary: failed to import photo”. The plugin installed correctly (I think, I’m getting a green light in the plugin manager) but I have yet to import any videos correctly.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give on this.

Rick

It’s likely that the plugin simply can’t handle the video, but if you can send it along (maybe a version cut down to a 1-second duration) I can check it out. —Jeffrey

By: Loric

Loric — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:36:55 +0000

I also hope you continue to work on this plugin since my camera produces AVCHD-lite videos and Lightroom 3 does not import these. I was really hoping to be able to manage both my photos and videos in this latest version but alas. I wish they would just allow the app to make a thumbnail and add cataloguing data for my *.mts files.

By: ewlung

ewlung — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:01:38 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,

The Adobe Lightroom 3 native video support is not really useful. Today, I found it does not play my MJPG video created using Canon G9.

And I believe it does not support the popular AVCHD video.

Probably, a plugin for LR3 to replace the video viewer would be nice !

Or a plugin to force LR3 to use “external” video viewer? Like VLC for example.

Thanks.