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Offline vincentl

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PM 4.6.1 Slow to render CANON 5D MARK 2 RAW FILES
« on: August 26, 2009, 05:48:07 PM »
Hi,

i have a MACPRO tower with 6 GB of RAM 2 x 2.8 ghz QUAD Processors
Am finding PM 4.6.1 very slow to render when enlarge from thumbnail view. Also very slow to add tags or color class
i have CACHE set this way
DISK CACHE 1024
RESERVED 512
MEMORY CACHE 1024

Its diving me to ADOBE BRIDGE .. used to be faster with CANON 1D3 files (10mb) the 5D2 files are 21MB is that why?

any help appreciated

Vince

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Re: PM 4.6.1 Slow to render CANON 5D MARK 2 RAW FILES
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2009, 06:54:43 PM »
Vince,

i have a MACPRO tower with 6 GB of RAM 2 x 2.8 ghz QUAD Processors
Am finding PM 4.6.1 very slow to render when enlarge from thumbnail view. Also very slow to add tags or color class
i have CACHE set this way
DISK CACHE 1024
RESERVED 512
MEMORY CACHE 1024

Its diving me to ADOBE BRIDGE .. used to be faster with CANON 1D3 files (10mb) the 5D2 files are 21MB is that why?

First set your Memory cache to something lower like 700 MB.

Second, do you have RAW rendering turned on in the RAW tab of the Preferences dialog in Photo Mechanic?  If so, turn that off.  RAW rendering using ImageIO is painfully slow.

-Kirk

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Re: PM 4.6.1 Slow to render CANON 5D MARK 2 RAW FILES
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2009, 07:10:28 PM »
thanks, much better!
are these settings ok?
DISK CACHE 1024
RESERVED 512

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Re: PM 4.6.1 Slow to render CANON 5D MARK 2 RAW FILES
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2009, 08:22:25 PM »
thanks, much better!
are these settings ok?
DISK CACHE 1024
RESERVED 512

They're fine.  Did you have RAW rendering turned on after all?

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Re: PM 4.6.1 Slow to render CANON 5D MARK 2 RAW FILES
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2009, 09:40:06 PM »
yes had rendering on... oh doh

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Re: PM 4.6.1 Slow to render CANON 5D MARK 2 RAW FILES
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2009, 09:40:43 PM »
hey thanks again

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Re: PM 4.6.1 Slow to render CANON 5D MARK 2 RAW FILES
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2009, 11:53:24 AM »
I was having the same issues and this has really helped! thanks!