Adobe's first and possibly biggest mistake was using the word import. This is where most people get confused. Wrong term because images are not imported at all, the are catalogued. If they thought using import rather than catalogue would be more easily understood they were wrong. List would have been a simpler and more accurate alternative.
Having several catalogs (e.g. pro work, family shots, fine art) really works well for me because the way the photos in each domain are organized is totally different. By separating the catalogs, the keywords are much easier to manage because they apply only to one domain. Also, there is no need to index faces in pro work and fine art work, so the face index is limited in size (and effort to maintain).
Very interesting video, and very informative. Although it is slanted more towards the professional photographer, taking thousands of photos. Personally I use Lightroom (v.6, as I refuse to get the rental version) only to edit photos, I don't use LR to catalogue them. I shoot in RAW, edit in LR, then save as Jpegs in a seperate photo directory. Once the Jpegs are saved and backed up, the original RAW files are deleted. As far as a hard drive failing or being corrupted is concerned, this is more of an issue on with SSD drives than it is with SATA drives.
Found this video. Considering Lightroom after working with several other alternatives that dont use catalogs. Finding Adobe terminology frustrating. Importing images that dont move location is not importing. The cataloging process lacks comprehensive labels that would make it less confusing to those who have not received training. There is a huge functional difference between importing and adding an image to the catalog. No wonder people deleted all their images after import. In any other situation you would. Im wondering how many of these pitfalls I nee to know.
Trying to have a subject-oriented way of organizing your folders is madness because there's on a single view of the file system and no single metaphor works for all your work. That's why LR was invented! Use a date-based structure in your file system and keywords/smart collections in LR to present several views of your files.
At timestamp 29:00 minutes, he speaks of date stamp holders and that it does not work. I beg to differ, if you hover the mouse over a image while in any modules, it will show you that states that it was recorded.
Useful and very interesting, but equally exhausting. No waste of information, but too many repeated jokes (even if they were half amusing the first time). After the first hour it felt too long. Maybe shorter videos or shorter sessions.
