How to speed up the sluggish RAW conversion?

[karusel]

Yeah, I guess the title pretty much says it all. In addition, I'll provide you with some random information:
camera: 10D
CPU: AMD Athlon 1800+
RAM: 512 KB
conversion software: Breezebrowser 2.8
average conversion time: 30 seconds

I would not have a problem with this if I would just select all files and click convert all, go chase butterflies and return after an hour or two. But I want to individually convert one file after another to get the most of it, which is a total killer, waiting half a minute in a frozen program, which effectively prevents you from preparing the next image, and then another half a minute, and another and another... Why doesn't the camera itself need half a minute for an image, huh?

Is the only way to speed up this by buying a new CPU?

What is your average conversion time?

[Scottes]

I just recently tested this for another topic. CaptureOne takes 22 seconds on my P4 1.5GHz w/ 1Gig RAM - though another person who upgraded to the latest said the new version seems faster to him. PS CS takes about 5-6 seconds, though that doesn't count saving to disk.

It sounds like you're optimum for CaptureOne - You tweak a photo, set it to developing, and then it develops in the background while you go on to tweak another photo. Effective delop time is 0 seconds since you're working on others.

[karusel]

Dear god....

Thanx for the tip (Scottes, not God)!!!

[PacAce]

I just recently tested this for another topic. CaptureOne takes 22 seconds on my P4 1.5GHz w/ 1Gig RAM - though another person who upgraded to the latest said the new version seems faster to him. PS CS takes about 5-6 seconds, though that doesn't count saving to disk.

It sounds like you're optimum for CaptureOne - You tweak a photo, set it to developing, and then it develops in the background while you go on to tweak another photo. Effective delop time is 0 seconds since you're working on others.

EOS VIewer Utility will do it in less than 15 seconds (on my Dell 1.8 MHz with 512 MB RAM) and you can also work on some other image in PS while the conversion is going on in EVU. :)

[PhotosGuy]

EOS VIewer Utility: In case you missed it, you can set the processing parameters for each image, then shift-select them all, & process them all at once overnight.

[PacAce]

EOS VIewer Utility: In case you missed it, you can set the processing parameters for each image, then shift-select them all, & process them all at once overnight.

Never knew you could set them individually for batch processing. Cool. I'll be sure to try it out the next I need to batch convert a bunch of my RAWs. Thanks.

[PhotosGuy]

Just in case - you can CTRL select to add/subtract a file.
SHIFT select: Click on the first file, then Shift-click on the last one you want included. :wink:

[meow]

karusel, do you use noise reduction? Read this post.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/breezebrowser/message/10880