I'm a hobbyist photographer using Apple photos and iCloud. With my photos and video over the year, I'm now over the 4 TB limit max on iCloud storage and looking to see what your workflow is? I have a 1TB SSD external HD and a Synology NAS with my MacBook Pro. I would love to find something that I can store on my NAS and then view the photos on Apple TV but outside of Plex, I haven't been very lucky in finding options. What do you do if you have a large collection of photos and videos? Appreciate any perspective.
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Hi, the eternal question - how best to avoid write once, view never. lol...
My basic setup as a hobbyist too is quite simple.
1. I have an Adobe CC subscription - Photo plan with the 1TB storage option.
2. My main editing machine is a M1 Mac Mini
3. My main archival storage solution is a pair of Synology NAS devices and a weekly Amazon Glacier backup of them both
4. For on the go edits I was using my iPad and a Macbook Pro
When I am out shooting near home, I siimply come home, load the memory card and import into my mac mini connected to the NAS's - this is my gold master if you like
When I go shooting when travelling further afield, I import onto ipad or macbook pro using Adobe LR and PS, and let Adobe sync it to the Adobe cloud.
I then cull the crap shots (lots and lots and lots of) then edit the one or two that survive the cull on those devices where I want to use them before I get home.
When I get home I fire up Lightroom Classic, let it sync the images from adobe cloud onto my mini, then I create library folders, move the images into their final resting place, then remove them from the sync folder and let it clean up the cloud - and subsequently the ipad and macbook pro libraries.
I only use Lightroom, not Lightroom classic on the macbook pro so that I don't have to faff about with the catalogue on multiple machines challenge. LR is enough for me when out and about and allows me to use NIK plugins.
For viewing, I share the photos folder on the NAS and then our smart TV can display them - I don't need apple TV as our TV can see the images anyway. Images that I want to "publish to the TV" I export to the photo folder on the NAS.
Note I do not have any need for making the images public across the internet - for that I use Flickr. Also, I am 99.9% still images. Movies are not my thing.
I hope this makes some sense.
My basic setup as a hobbyist too is quite simple.
1. I have an Adobe CC subscription - Photo plan with the 1TB storage option.
2. My main editing machine is a M1 Mac Mini
3. My main archival storage solution is a pair of Synology NAS devices and a weekly Amazon Glacier backup of them both
4. For on the go edits I was using my iPad and a Macbook Pro
When I am out shooting near home, I siimply come home, load the memory card and import into my mac mini connected to the NAS's - this is my gold master if you like
When I go shooting when travelling further afield, I import onto ipad or macbook pro using Adobe LR and PS, and let Adobe sync it to the Adobe cloud.
I then cull the crap shots (lots and lots and lots of) then edit the one or two that survive the cull on those devices where I want to use them before I get home.
When I get home I fire up Lightroom Classic, let it sync the images from adobe cloud onto my mini, then I create library folders, move the images into their final resting place, then remove them from the sync folder and let it clean up the cloud - and subsequently the ipad and macbook pro libraries.
I only use Lightroom, not Lightroom classic on the macbook pro so that I don't have to faff about with the catalogue on multiple machines challenge. LR is enough for me when out and about and allows me to use NIK plugins.
For viewing, I share the photos folder on the NAS and then our smart TV can display them - I don't need apple TV as our TV can see the images anyway. Images that I want to "publish to the TV" I export to the photo folder on the NAS.
Note I do not have any need for making the images public across the internet - for that I use Flickr. Also, I am 99.9% still images. Movies are not my thing.
I hope this makes some sense.
I am glad it helped.
On the Adobe CC I used to only use the 20GB storage plan and I was fine but I am finding that having more space is better for me - maybe I am just getting lazy.
Amazon Glacier is a great thing, I set them to backup to Glacier on a sunday morning and every few months I log in to the NAS and make sure the time hasn't drifted too far - this is the most common reason why Glacier stops working. I know I should set it to a better time server but it doesnt annoy me enough to actually look into it and do it you know?
Sorry for delay. It is 0.04 cents per GB per month. I pay maybe £11 a month for 2 TB ish - it is a pay as you grow thing so no up front trying to get a tier price correct.