breeze browser pro and Raw Shooter premium

Folks

I have been using Breeze browser pro and downloader since moving into
digital in a big way. I also downloaded the free version of Raw Shooter and
was pretty impressed with a number of features particularly the batch
processing. I have now purchased Raw Shooter Premium and am still impressed
but slightly prefer the output of breezbrowser and definitely the look and
feel over RSP. However, my raw conversion times in breeze are about 115
secs per image while in RSP its about 15 secs. The Breeze time seems like
an eternity when I have 5 or 6 HUNDRED shots which I regularly have to
convert. Does anyone one else have similar experience. I don't think its
hardware as the machine is not bad and anyway, look at the RSP times. I
wish to continue with Breeze but not if I cannot fix up the time issue. As
you can imagine I have to leave the machine running and converting overnight
for Breeze (say, 600 file at 115 secs per file, roughly 19 hours!!!)

 

feel over RSP. However, my raw conversion times in breeze are about 115

Hi Don - my conversion times in Breezebrowser Pro are about 12 sec to
convert to 8-bit JPEG and 15 sec to convert to 16-bit TIF. Are you running
any post-processing RAW conversion options in Breezebrowser (i.e. barrel
distortion correction, levelling, image resizing, etc.)? Perhaps something
here is slowing down your conversions. Try converting with everything in
default mode (no post-processing, no noise reduction, settings "as shot" by
camera) and see if that makes a difference. My originals are Canon 20D CR2
files on a 2 year-old computer.

Ken

 

Ken, thanks for your comments. I think I have everything set to vanilla and
as I indicated in the post, using RSP its about 12 to 15 seconds as your
getting with your breezebrowser. Will go back and check the settings.

regards

Don