iview media Pro v. slow for viewing RAW?!

I usually use jpegs but for my trip abroad decided to use RAW. I think there is something wrong because when I double click on the thumbnail, it takes so long to switch to media view. Worse still, when I want to run the slideshow it takes forever to changhe to next slide, so slow that I need to stop slide show. This can't be usual. Heard that Iview M Pro is very good for this sort of thing. Can anybody help please?

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Pol

Yes Iview is very very slow with raw images, and I do not use it for image viewing in RAW. I only use it to catalogue the raw images. To view the raw images I use photo mechanic. It is very very fast and it reads the embedded JPg thumbnail so you don't have to shoot RAW/JPg on the D70. I sort the keepers from the non keepers with photo mechanic, process in NC and
PS, save as JPG, and keep the original nef as the archive.

An extra $$ for the program, but still much much faster than ACR, CS2, or NC, or Iview media pro.

Cheers,

Wade
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Commodorefirst on the http://www
Nikon-D70(times two x2), CP5000(x2) CP31000(x2), Past owner-CP5700
http://homepage.mac.com/wadedowdy/Menu6.html

Go into iView preferences and select the Media tab.

On the Images drop-down, make sure that 'Use built-in thumbnails' is checked.

On the Camera Formats drop-down, make sure that 'Use embedded preview' is checked.

This will speed iView up on RAW images.

My iView goes through RAW images faster than it does JPG's.

Hope that helps.
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Mark Currier

For what it's worth, I've found Faststone's viewer to be quite quick with NEF files. Also Breeze Browser.
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Mens et Manus

Thanks. Might have to give Photo Mechanic a try. So you use Photo Mechanic, ACR, CS2 and then catalog using Iview media Pro? You say ACR is slow too? What about C1 Pro?
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Pol

Thanks! Never thought of that!
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Pol

If iView is acting slow on RAW files, then you have the preferences set incorrectly. See here to fix:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1014&message=15203999

Pol said:

Thanks. Might have to give Photo Mechanic a try. So you use Photo
Mechanic, ACR, CS2 and then catalog using Iview media Pro? You say
ACR is slow too? What about C1 Pro?
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Pol

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Mark Currier

Mark, FYI,

many of us have our ivew preferences set correctly, and are still dissapointed with the speed of iview in raw. Most of us are Nikon users. So please understand that it is not always incorrect preference settings. With photo mechanic I can view embeded images from my nikon raw files nearly as fast as i press the arrow key, easily one per second. On iview, or NC or ACR the speed is much much slower.

Cheers,

Wade
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Commodorefirst on the http://www
Nikon-D70(times two x2), CP5000(x2) CP31000(x2), Past owner-CP5700
http://homepage.mac.com/wadedowdy/Menu6.html

Thanks for the clarification Wade. My response was more in reference to the viewing speed of jpg's vs. raw files, not just the overall viewing of raw files alone, and certainly not specific to Nikon. I did not know that Nikon raw files were any slower to view than Canon raw files, but apparently so.

When viewing Canon files, the jpg's do go faster than the raw (at full size in media view, not in thumbnail view) •if• the preferences are set incorrectly. However, when the preferences are set correctly, the raw files are much faster than the jpg files (again in full size media view, not just thumbnails). Intuitively you would not think this to be the case.

Sorry for you Nikon fellows, I don't know what to tell you then.

Mark

Commodorefirst said:

Mark, FYI,

many of us have our ivew preferences set correctly, and are still
dissapointed with the speed of iview in raw. Most of us are Nikon
users. So please understand that it is not always incorrect
preference settings. With photo mechanic I can view embeded images
from my nikon raw files nearly as fast as i press the arrow key,
easily one per second. On iview, or NC or ACR the speed is much
much slower.

Cheers,

Wade
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Commodorefirst on the http://www
Nikon-D70(times two x2), CP5000(x2) CP31000(x2), Past owner-CP5700
http://homepage.mac.com/wadedowdy/Menu6.html

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Mark Currier

You didn't specify what versions of Iview MediaPro you're using, what version of Nikon View you have and also your system specs.

iView MediaPro displays the NEF files VERY FAST (almost faster than jpgs) on my system, so it's not the software.

My recommendations:
1)..Make sure you have the latest version of iView MediaPro.
2)..Make sure you have the latest version of Nikon View.
3)..Run defrag on your drives to aid disk writing efficiency.

4)..Upgrade your system if possible (make sure you have plenty of free disk space and are using 7200rpm drives (or higher).

Just my $0.02.

its your computer - program is fast for many thousands of other people

Mark,

I've changed the settings like you said and now have no problem with speed. Thanks a lot for that. However, now there is no exif data. Is sthis right, the embedded jpeg does not show exif data?!
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Pol