ACDSee Pro

I have installed ACDSee Pro but the program takes quite a long time to open
up and also a long time to show pics? I have lots of raw files.

Is this normal? With the prevoius version (5) ilt was very quick!

Any suggestion apart from using another program?

Thanks

ppp

 

What do you mean by a long time. I open a RAW file in about five seconds.
www.alldigital.fotopic.net

 

It does take it a bit of time to generate the thumbnails for the RAW files.
Especially if you have hundreds or thousands of them. Opening to edit should
be much faster, but thumbnail generation is a lot slower.

ljc

 

When you first install ACDSee, it is spending a great deal of processor
power creating a cache of thumbnails for the thumbnail database it creates.
It only does this once for each photo, but RAW files take considerably more
processing to build thumbs from. So...it is likely simultaneously
processing the thumb creation WHILE also opening the RAW file (which
requires a degree of either conversion or extraction), which can lead to
initial slowness.

To test this, return to a folder of RAW files AFTER it has created all
thumbnail images for each photo in that folder. You should see significant
improvement.

 

One more thought:

Keep in mind that even Canon's own RAW conversion takes longer than that to
convert a single image.
ACDSee has to essentially convert the file in order for you to view it.

 

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thanks