You can’t use Lightroom Classic without the catalog.
And there is this:
Ok, let me say i throw away the catalogue every now and then because I don't use it really and it does not fit in the way i work. I like to freely move around my photos in the finder.
I use PSB files -as in between - my files are too large... they contain several raw files and i only save the result as a 16 bit tif...
but thanks for the help.
I think LR should make it possible to easely save the edits to the original raw - and not one by one
I shoot a thousand photos a day
PS
i just did a 500 copy paste metadata from enhanced DNG to NEF; much work!
AI masks are recalculated so takes more time.
The other way around: first developing the NEF with an AI-mask and then apply enhanced detail+ noise reduction copies automatically all the AI masks and seems not slower than without (?)
Can you copy an AI-generated mask as AS IS ; without recalculating?
That would be helpful in the many instances since the calculation differs always less or more from one image to the other - even if they are (almost) the same.