Any way to speed up RAW batch conversion?

[paulie_smith1]

<p>Came back from a basketball tournament shooting the crowd, four games and the crazy fans.<br>

Now have to do RAW to Jpeg conversions for sharpening, a bit of contrast tweak and exposure correction.<br>

Any way to speed this process up? With about 1400 photos it takes a lot of time.<br>

Did the quick edit for poor composition, out of focus and shots that weren't close enough or show faces and have the 1400 converting now. Would love to be able to speed it up a bit. Am using Breezebrowser pro do it which seems quicker than Canon Digital Photo Pro.<br>

Any info is appreciated.</p>

[howard_m]

<p>wow, this would be a perfect application for Lightroom</p>

[patricklavoie]

<p>i use Lightroom, all you do can be done very very quickly.. depend of your OS and computer also.. i can export images every 2sec. Imac Quad i7 16gig ram.</p>

[Guest]

<p>As others have already said, Lightroom makes this very easy. </p>

[mark_quarles]

<p>You might want to take a look at Bibble as well. Extremely fast conversion and, for me, an excellent match to workflow from sorting / culling to conversion.</p>

<p>You can find them at:<br>

www.bibblelabs.com</p>

<p> </p>

[eric merrill]

<p>I use Adobe Bridge and a custom action in Photoshop to process photos the way I like.</p>

<p>After that, it's all dependent on hardware. I'm happier now that I bought an AMD 6-core Phenom processor with 16 gig memory and an OCZ RevoDrive SSD that can do sustained writes of 550 mb/sec. :) Photoshop screams.</p>

<p>Eric</p>

[cabbiinc]

<p>Assuming you're on a PC the problem you're experiencing comes from DPP's base priority that it sets for itself. DPP sets itself to bellow normal, meaning just about any other program that asks the CPU for time gets it over DPP. The best thing you can do is to limit what you do on the computer. I know people are going to read that and go nuts saying how horrible of a program it must be, but it's honestly not as bad as it sounds.</p>

[garrison_k.]

<p>Hardware is important too. I just put 24 gigs into a friends 16 core MP and she's finally happy.</p>

 

<p>If you don't want to spend any more money on software, the free Picasa is amazingly fast and feature-loaded for it's price.</p>