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PixAl612 New Member • Posts: 1
Canon DPP.

Hi, glad to be part of the community.

I have a question. I use a Chromebook for uploading and editing usually using LR but I want to utilise the raw burst mode image extraction on my R7 using C.P.P. but there is no software available for the Crome OS. Please bear in mind I am a technology dinosaur so would need any Ideas/suggestions explaining in a 'using CPP for idiots' kinda way if you get me, lol. Thanks, Al.

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JustUs7 Senior Member • Posts: 4,327
Re: Canon DPP.

Canon has help resources on their website, including a downloadable manual. Also plenty of YouTube walkthroughs. All are better resources than any forum reply is going to be.

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MarshallG Veteran Member • Posts: 8,951
Re: Canon DPP.

PixAl612 wrote:

Hi, glad to be part of the community.

I have a question. I use a Chromebook for uploading and editing usually using LR but I want to utilise the raw burst mode image extraction on my R7 using C.P.P. but there is no software available for the Crome OS. Please bear in mind I am a technology dinosaur so would need any Ideas/suggestions explaining in a 'using CPP for idiots' kinda way if you get me, lol. Thanks, Al.

I don’t think they make a DPP for Chrome OS, so without a different laptop, you’re out of luck.

DPP is a RAW editor made by Canon. It has all of the color science and lens correction technologies of Canon’s Digic processors.  You can use it to edit your RAW files, then you can export them as TIFF or JPEG. I export as JPEG and do final edits in Photoshop.  But it performs very very poorly on the new M1 and M2 Mac computers, so I use it very little now.

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BobKnDP Senior Member • Posts: 3,140
Re: Canon DPP.

JustUs7 wrote:

Canon has help resources on their website, including a downloadable manual. Also plenty of YouTube walkthroughs. All are better resources than any forum reply is going to be.

Do you think Canon's resources will enable "PixAl612" to use DPP on a Chromebook?

Just for fun (I'm not a Chromebook user), I checked: The 5 Best Chromebook Photo Editors of 2023 (lifewire.com)

Maybe Photoshop Express, if "PixAl612" can live with its limitations. Wouldn't shock me if it was as slow as molasses in January on Pluto.

Ray Chen Veteran Member • Posts: 9,651
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Windows might be your better bet to keep the cost down. If you are into high end Macs, keep in mind that Canon had never rewritten DPP for Apple Silicon, so you'd be wasting money on the M1 or M2 variants. My M1 Max MacBook Pro is only 5% faster than the i9 MacBook Pro I've traded in with Rosetta for RAW conversions.  Worse yet, it is incredibly slow for newer CR3 files.  I know my newer computer is way faster than that if Canon would put some efforts in their software for the new hardware.

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MarshallG Veteran Member • Posts: 8,951
Re: Buy a Mac or Windows Computer

Ray Chen wrote:

Windows might be your better bet to keep the cost down. If you are into high end Macs, keep in mind that Canon had never rewritten DPP for Apple Silicon, so you'd be wasting money on the M1 or M2 variants. My M1 Max MacBook Pro is only 5% faster than the i9 MacBook Pro I've traded in with Rosetta for RAW conversions. Worse yet, it is incredibly slow for newer CR3 files. I know my newer computer is way faster than that if Canon would put some efforts in their software for the new hardware.

True. DPP is not usable on new Macs, especially with R5 files in cRAW.

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John Photo Senior Member • Posts: 1,371
Re: Canon DPP.

Since you were using Chromebooks, I assume you are looking for something that gets the job done, but not a speed demon. So, a windows pc with an i5 (or equivalent) processor would be adequate; you can probably find new for $450-500.

Steve-P
Steve-P Senior Member • Posts: 1,344
Re: Canon DPP.

If you don't want to purchase a relatively cheap Windows machine you do have the option of extracting the CR3 images from the RAW burst file in advance on the camera side, and then importing them to your Chrome machine.  You can then continue using Lightroom to edit your CR3 files.

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Le Kilt Senior Member • Posts: 2,527
Possible in R7 camera

PixAl612 wrote:

Hi, glad to be part of the community.

I have a question. I use a Chromebook for uploading and editing usually using LR but I want to utilise the raw burst mode image extraction on my R7 using C.P.P. but there is no software available for the Crome OS. Please bear in mind I am a technology dinosaur so would need any Ideas/suggestions explaining in a 'using CPP for idiots' kinda way if you get me, lol. Thanks, Al.

As others have said, you need a Windows or Mac computer to extract on a computer with DPP.  Other software options may become available, but not necessarily in a Chromebook.

The one thing you can do is extract directly any shot directly in the R7 whilst viewing the file with the raw burst.
You have the option of scanning through image by image, and extracting and saving any as jpg or raw in a separate file.

Otherwise, at the moment, you do need a computer running DPP!

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