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Has anyone else experienced this ?

I'm trying to do a mass convert of .crw files to tiff files (although I would prefer to go straight to jpg - that doesn't seem to be an option ?)

I select all the crw files to be converted (about 40 of then) and then select open, I adjust settings and then slect the directory I want the output to go to. RawConverter starts processing - everything looks good. But here's the problem - it always processes only 16 files (a convenient computer number). No matter what, always 16 files only. Can someone else try this and see if they have the same problem.

Also, I believe Canon screwed up big time with what was an attempt to solve a big hole they had left with crw processing. Here are my gripes (or requested enhancement I guess) with Rawconverter

1) The bug described above !

2) The way it renames files - when doing multiple files as descibed above it appends a sequential number onto one of the files names - hardly flexible.

e.g converting

crw_2601.crw and
crw_2602.crw

yields crw_2601.0001.tif and
crw_2601.0001.tif

Hardly useful for those of use who keep the source files in one directory and processing images in a different one (but with the same file name for easy cross refenence)

The option to leave the file name the same except with the tif suffix would be fine.

3) The option to save or delete the source file (ie the original crw file)

4) make it work with Win 95 (for my company laptop)

5) More save options (e.g as jpg with sharpening etc etc)

I could go on but you get my point. I guess we will still have to rely on the third party tools that are coming out rather than Canon

Paul

PS I love my G1 and just got a Canon S800 printer - awesome
 
Is this 'bug' just me or have others experienced it ?
Forbidden Fruit said:
Has anyone else experienced this ?

I'm trying to do a mass convert of .crw files to tiff files
(although I would prefer to go straight to jpg - that doesn't seem
to be an option ?)

I select all the crw files to be converted (about 40 of then) and
then select open, I adjust settings and then slect the directory I
want the output to go to. RawConverter starts processing -
everything looks good. But here's the problem - it always
processes only 16 files (a convenient computer number). No matter
what, always 16 files only. Can someone else try this and see if
they have the same problem.

Also, I believe Canon screwed up big time with what was an attempt
to solve a big hole they had left with crw processing. Here are my
gripes (or requested enhancement I guess) with Rawconverter

1) The bug described above !
2) The way it renames files - when doing multiple files as
descibed above it appends a sequential number onto one of the files
names - hardly flexible.

e.g converting

crw_2601.crw and
crw_2602.crw

yields crw_2601.0001.tif and
crw_2601.0001.tif

Hardly useful for those of use who keep the source files in one
directory and processing images in a different one (but with the
same file name for easy cross refenence)

The option to leave the file name the same except with the tif
suffix would be fine.

3) The option to save or delete the source file (ie the original
crw file)

4) make it work with Win 95 (for my company laptop)

5) More save options (e.g as jpg with sharpening etc etc)

I could go on but you get my point. I guess we will still have to
rely on the third party tools that are coming out rather than Canon

Paul

PS I love my G1 and just got a Canon S800 printer - awesome
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I experienced that when I didn't have enough space on the hard drive to hold the converted files. As I racall, when this happend the program hung and didn't even save the first converted files. It appearently saves them in some sort of temporary file until all of them have been batch converted, then write out the individual files. Anyway, that many tiffs will take up alot of space, so make sure you have room.
Brian
Forbidden Fruit said:
Forbidden Fruit said:
Has anyone else experienced this ?

I'm trying to do a mass convert of .crw files to tiff files
(although I would prefer to go straight to jpg - that doesn't seem
to be an option ?)

I select all the crw files to be converted (about 40 of then) and
then select open, I adjust settings and then slect the directory I
want the output to go to. RawConverter starts processing -
everything looks good. But here's the problem - it always
processes only 16 files (a convenient computer number). No matter
what, always 16 files only. Can someone else try this and see if
they have the same problem.

Also, I believe Canon screwed up big time with what was an attempt
to solve a big hole they had left with crw processing. Here are my
gripes (or requested enhancement I guess) with Rawconverter

1) The bug described above !
2) The way it renames files - when doing multiple files as
descibed above it appends a sequential number onto one of the files
names - hardly flexible.

e.g converting

crw_2601.crw and
crw_2602.crw

yields crw_2601.0001.tif and
crw_2601.0001.tif

Hardly useful for those of use who keep the source files in one
directory and processing images in a different one (but with the
same file name for easy cross refenence)

The option to leave the file name the same except with the tif
suffix would be fine.

3) The option to save or delete the source file (ie the original
crw file)

4) make it work with Win 95 (for my company laptop)

5) More save options (e.g as jpg with sharpening etc etc)

I could go on but you get my point. I guess we will still have to
rely on the third party tools that are coming out rather than Canon

Paul

PS I love my G1 and just got a Canon S800 printer - awesome
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I have 30gb of hard drive space and have 256gb of RAM - I would think this would be enough !!
Brian said:
Forbidden Fruit said:
Forbidden Fruit said:
Has anyone else experienced this ?

I'm trying to do a mass convert of .crw files to tiff files
(although I would prefer to go straight to jpg - that doesn't seem
to be an option ?)

I select all the crw files to be converted (about 40 of then) and
then select open, I adjust settings and then slect the directory I
want the output to go to. RawConverter starts processing -
everything looks good. But here's the problem - it always
processes only 16 files (a convenient computer number). No matter
what, always 16 files only. Can someone else try this and see if
they have the same problem.

Also, I believe Canon screwed up big time with what was an attempt
to solve a big hole they had left with crw processing. Here are my
gripes (or requested enhancement I guess) with Rawconverter

1) The bug described above !
2) The way it renames files - when doing multiple files as
descibed above it appends a sequential number onto one of the files
names - hardly flexible.

e.g converting

crw_2601.crw and
crw_2602.crw

yields crw_2601.0001.tif and
crw_2601.0001.tif

Hardly useful for those of use who keep the source files in one
directory and processing images in a different one (but with the
same file name for easy cross refenence)

The option to leave the file name the same except with the tif
suffix would be fine.

3) The option to save or delete the source file (ie the original
crw file)

4) make it work with Win 95 (for my company laptop)

5) More save options (e.g as jpg with sharpening etc etc)

I could go on but you get my point. I guess we will still have to
rely on the third party tools that are coming out rather than Canon

Paul

PS I love my G1 and just got a Canon S800 printer - awesome
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I have noticed this as well. I have a massive hard drive and 256 Mb Ram. I figured that was all my Ram would allow (even though acquiring through PSP allows me to do 25 Raw files), but maybe it is a program flaw.

Another thing I have noticed is that my clock (the clock in the taskbar) stops while the converter is running, and that it doesn't fix itself once the raw converter is finished. Each time I travel back in time. This may be a program glitch as well, since I never had this problem when acquiring 25 files through PSP using the twain driver.
Forbidden Fruit said:
Brian said:
Forbidden Fruit said:
Forbidden Fruit said:
Has anyone else experienced this ?

I'm trying to do a mass convert of .crw files to tiff files
(although I would prefer to go straight to jpg - that doesn't seem
to be an option ?)

I select all the crw files to be converted (about 40 of then) and
then select open, I adjust settings and then slect the directory I
want the output to go to. RawConverter starts processing -
everything looks good. But here's the problem - it always
processes only 16 files (a convenient computer number). No matter
what, always 16 files only. Can someone else try this and see if
they have the same problem.

Also, I believe Canon screwed up big time with what was an attempt
to solve a big hole they had left with crw processing. Here are my
gripes (or requested enhancement I guess) with Rawconverter

1) The bug described above !
2) The way it renames files - when doing multiple files as
descibed above it appends a sequential number onto one of the files
names - hardly flexible.

e.g converting

crw_2601.crw and
crw_2602.crw

yields crw_2601.0001.tif and
crw_2601.0001.tif

Hardly useful for those of use who keep the source files in one
directory and processing images in a different one (but with the
same file name for easy cross refenence)

The option to leave the file name the same except with the tif
suffix would be fine.

3) The option to save or delete the source file (ie the original
crw file)

4) make it work with Win 95 (for my company laptop)

5) More save options (e.g as jpg with sharpening etc etc)

I could go on but you get my point. I guess we will still have to
rely on the third party tools that are coming out rather than Canon

Paul

PS I love my G1 and just got a Canon S800 printer - awesome
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Forbidden Fruit said:
2) The way it renames files - when doing multiple files as
descibed above it appends a sequential number onto one of the files
names - hardly flexible.
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I never noticed the 16-file bug because as soon as I saw the file numbering scheme I knew it was useless for bulk conversions.

Have you looked into YARC for batch conversions? http://www.roava.net/~henderbc/yarc.htm
 
This is pretty funny. I had noticed that my PC clock was off somewhat but hadn't attributed it to Canon's crack programming team !!

"Another thing I have noticed is that my clock (the clock in the
Kodiak Jackson said:
taskbar) stops while the converter is running, and that it doesn't
fix itself once the raw converter is finished."
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Kodiak said:
Another thing I have noticed is that my clock (the clock in the
taskbar) stops while the converter is running, and that it doesn't
fix itself once the raw converter is finished. Each time I travel
back in time. This may be a program glitch as well, since I never
had this problem when acquiring 25 files through PSP using the
twain driver.
Forbidden Fruit said:
Brian said:
Forbidden Fruit said:
Forbidden Fruit said:
Has anyone else experienced this ?

I'm trying to do a mass convert of .crw files to tiff files
(although I would prefer to go straight to jpg - that doesn't seem
to be an option ?)

I select all the crw files to be converted (about 40 of then) and
then select open, I adjust settings and then slect the directory I
want the output to go to. RawConverter starts processing -
everything looks good. But here's the problem - it always
processes only 16 files (a convenient computer number). No matter
what, always 16 files only. Can someone else try this and see if
they have the same problem.

Also, I believe Canon screwed up big time with what was an attempt
to solve a big hole they had left with crw processing. Here are my
gripes (or requested enhancement I guess) with Rawconverter

1) The bug described above !
2) The way it renames files - when doing multiple files as
descibed above it appends a sequential number onto one of the files
names - hardly flexible.

e.g converting

crw_2601.crw and
crw_2602.crw

yields crw_2601.0001.tif and
crw_2601.0001.tif

Hardly useful for those of use who keep the source files in one
directory and processing images in a different one (but with the
same file name for easy cross refenence)

The option to leave the file name the same except with the tif
suffix would be fine.

3) The option to save or delete the source file (ie the original
crw file)

4) make it work with Win 95 (for my company laptop)

5) More save options (e.g as jpg with sharpening etc etc)

I could go on but you get my point. I guess we will still have to
rely on the third party tools that are coming out rather than Canon

Paul

PS I love my G1 and just got a Canon S800 printer - awesome
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I haven't had a chance to use this program, but it looks very good. Previously (and for those who don't like command line (DOS) programs) I've used IrfanView. It does a nice job and has plenty of options.

One look at ZoomBrowser and I knew that Canon should outsource their software.

ms
eg said:
Forbidden Fruit said:
2) The way it renames files - when doing multiple files as
descibed above it appends a sequential number onto one of the files
names - hardly flexible.
Click to expand...
I never noticed the 16-file bug because as soon as I saw the file
numbering scheme I knew it was useless for bulk conversions.

Have you looked into YARC for batch conversions?
http://www.roava.net/~henderbc/yarc.htm
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Yeah, but how do you set the custom white point? Does it have a GUI for doing that? And is command line for everythign else?

Mike
Mike Siesel said:
One look at ZoomBrowser and I knew that Canon should outsource
their software.

ms
eg said:
Forbidden Fruit said:
2) The way it renames files - when doing multiple files as
descibed above it appends a sequential number onto one of the files
names - hardly flexible.
Click to expand...
I never noticed the 16-file bug because as soon as I saw the file
numbering scheme I knew it was useless for bulk conversions.

Have you looked into YARC for batch conversions?
http://www.roava.net/~henderbc/yarc.htm
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