Processing lots of RAW files.......

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I shot an Aikido (martial art) event over last weekend and ended up shooting over a thousand pictures for it, all in RAW. My initial skim through brought that down to 634.

I had to get pictures approved by the visiting Sensei before releasing them and he isn't in this country for long so I had to process all the pictures over night (about 6-7 hours). All the pictures needed work doing to them as the lighting was pretty bad, uneven, I couldn't use flash and I had to keep a reasonably high shutter speed.

I ended up creating a number of macros to automate a lot of the work and got it done in time but the quality isn't as good as I would usually aim for due to the sheer number of pictures.

This had me thinking, how do other people handle this? I'm thinking wedding photographers in particular must face this problem on a regular basis.
 
In RAWShooter or Adobe Lightroom (which I swear by) you can apply all the changes you've made to one image or to a set of images. Then batch convert.

It must have taken ages if you did it in Photoshop one picture at a time, even with macros.
 
robertgilbert86 said:
In RAWShooter or Adobe Lightroom (which I swear by) you can apply all the changes you've made to one image or to a set of images. Then batch convert.

It must have taken ages if you did it in Photoshop one picture at a time, even with macros.
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I have tried RAWShooter in the past but I didn't get as good of results as I do from Photoshop so I've not revisited it, maybe I should.

Yes, took me a long time, which I didn't mind, but was also very boring, which I did mind!
 
Capture NX has that feature, you can make changes to one image, then save that change and apply to as many as you want.
Lightroom appears to be the best at this from what ive seen.

Ive done it once in NX, did a batch sharpen and convert from NEF to jpg. Not the quickest app, but did the job.
 
Similar situation to you over the weekend. Shot about 1000 RAW and processed in PS2. I've tried Lightroom and RSE but in a situation with variable lighting I just don't trust/like batch processing, too easy to include the wrong images. Took about six hours in total.
 
Lightroom here to. Do processing on one image, then apply the colour and exposure across all images, then do the cropping and fine processing in images as needed. Flaging, and colour tagging is very important if you working with a large number of images (so is keyworking).
 
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