Canon DPP & EOS Webcam utility on Apple Silicon (M1) Macs

[Parampreet Dhatt]

Has anybody tried using Canon DPP on a Mac with the M1 chip? If yes, can you please share your experiences.

I was waiting for Canon to release the native M1 versions before I installed them on my new MacBook Pro, but I couldn't see any update/roadmap from Canon regarding support for Apple Silicon Macs.

 

[JustUs7]

They work seamlessly via Rosetta, which basically translates programs optimized for other chips. It’s faster and better than my old iMac. But still DPP4 slow as usual. Compared to Affinity Photo, which is optimized for M1 and runs native - Affinity is just blazing fast now. I can do 25 image focus stacks in seconds on Affinity, vs seconds per image when stacking in DPP4. Regular raw processing is fine though.

 

[CoryS89]

They work seamlessly via Rosetta, which basically translates programs optimized for other chips. It’s faster and better than my old iMac. But still DPP4 slow as usual. Compared to Affinity Photo, which is optimized for M1 and runs native - Affinity is just blazing fast now. I can do 25 image focus stacks in seconds on Affinity, vs seconds per image when stacking in DPP4. Regular raw processing is fine though.

Hey, I've been trying to read as much as I can on this specific set up. I'm looking to buy an m1 Mac mini in the very near future, coming from a mid 2012 MacBook Pro and I use the Canon DPP4 software and I really enjoy it actually, except the speed is slow. Could you possibly share some times it takes to do certain things such as exporting from raw to jpg? I've become very picky when it comes to things for some reason and DPP4 ticks all of my boxes except for speed of export. I shoot with a Rebel T8i which is 24 megapixels and about the same in file size. I usually just do some basic editing to make the colors stand out a little more and some exposure correction. For some reason going to the spot removal tool in it takes a long time, and going to the crop/rotate tool takes a bit of time too. If you could please tell me roughly how long each of these take you would be my best friend forever.

Thank you so much for your time!

-Cory

 

[Ray Chen]

I did a test before I traded in a 2020 16" i9 MacBook Pro with the 16" MacBook Pro Max, and the new M1 chip was only about 5% faster when batch processing to 16-bit TIFFs from DPP. Hardware acceleration was enabled, but none of the 32 graphic cores were used. It is likely faster than your 2012 MBP, but I wouldn't expect anything significant until Canon writes proper native codes for DPP4 for the Apple Silicon.

 

[JustUs7]

Just so I could have a best friend, I batch processed four jpegs from a recent trip. I used the finest quality setting. It took 30 seconds. I have about five other open programs on the computer. Open but not active.

So 7.5 seconds per image? They were cropped a little so maybe 5-10 seconds per depending on settings and file size.

For me, livable, because it’s just vacations and The occasional event that I do much. And I can go empty the dishwasher or make the bed while they’re processing.

I try to use Affinity for things like HDR merges (DPP4 will only merge 3 even though Canon cameras will bracket 7 - go figure), focus stacking (although DPP4 will do a better job in some cases and it’s worth the wait), and panorama stitching (which DPP4 doesn’t do at all).

 

[CoryS89]

Just so I could have a best friend, I batch processed four jpegs from a recent trip. I used the finest quality setting. It took 30 seconds. I have about five other open programs on the computer. Open but not active.

So 7.5 seconds per image? They were cropped a little so maybe 5-10 seconds per depending on settings and file size.

For me, livable, because it’s just vacations and The occasional event that I do much. And I can go empty the dishwasher or make the bed while they’re processing.

I try to use Affinity for things like HDR merges (DPP4 will only merge 3 even though Canon cameras will bracket 7 - go figure), focus stacking (although DPP4 will do a better job in some cases and it’s worth the wait), and panorama stitching (which DPP4 doesn’t do at all).

Thank you so much for your time! If that is the case, that will be a ton faster than I'm doing now which is 20-30 seconds per image. It is absolutely brutal when I'm waiting for 50-100 images to batch process. I certainly don't mind a bit of a wait, especially if I'm not renting software or spending top dollar on another that can't display reds correctly. But 30 seconds an image times 300 images... but it takes even longer when I'm doing multiple batches. so I've been pulling my hair out waiting on photos.

It was over a minute per photos but then I read to turn off Digital Lens Optimizer in camera and off in software and that helped out a lot too but half a minute per photo is crazy.

I don't do anything other than the color and exposure adjustments really, I just haven't looked into the focus stacking yet. Maybe one day. But then if it is just a couple photos, like you said it'll be worth the wait I'm sure.

Thank you again for your time doing that and time to reply to my request, I joined the forum just to ask but I'm planning on sticking around because of my seemingly unusual circumstance with being so picky. Maybe this post will be what someone else sees that helps them out too.

-Cory

 

[CoryS89]

I did a test before I traded in a 2020 16" i9 MacBook Pro with the 16" MacBook Pro Max, and the new M1 chip was only about 5% faster when batch processing to 16-bit TIFFs from DPP. Hardware acceleration was enabled, but none of the 32 graphic cores were used. It is likely faster than your 2012 MBP, but I wouldn't expect anything significant until Canon writes proper native codes for DPP4 for the Apple Silicon.

That seems to be the case with a lot of it. It seems that it is much more processor based than graphics based. Thank you for your help, it is helping me make a solid decision.

The 2012 MBP is still holding its own very well with literally everything else I do, with the exception that Apple holds back certain apps because its stuck on Catalina instead of allowing it to go to Big Sur which means I can't download their Pages/Keynote/Numbers stuff. Oh well, doing it on the icloud website remains very easy to do.

-Cory