DeepPRIME CPU-only (no GPU) processing performance comparison between PL 6.11 and PL 7.1. I processed 5 D850 NEF files (45 MP) from the folder Nikon D850 Sample Images | Photography Blog
PL6 : 9m30 → 1m54 per file
PL7 : 8m20 → 1m40 per file (processing speed ^ 12,3%)
In both cases I measured with a stopwatch from click to finish. If you subtract about 10s for preprocessing, the results are a tad more spectacular.
Why is mine taking so long?
I don’t understand it.
Other processes on the same image take seconds but DeepPxd did not finish in an hour.
How many images in the folder?
Ref
Nvidia 2070 - 60Mp Sony file- DeepPrimeXD - 18sec
Which is why we hardly ever go to restaurants. This is the UK so cost of living / poverty is a serious issue here with fuel, food & housing prices having gone through the roof. As savings have to be made somewhere, $180 would be a lot of people’s monthly shopping bill.
Loads, about 100. But I’m only working on one. So it is processing everything in the folder?
So I need to put only images I want to process in a new folder?
This is not how PureRaw3 works.
PL does basic raw conversion to everything in a folder. Its a disaster to creat large folders, you really have to weed out unwanted imiges befor using PL.
That is no good for me, I have a 1000 images in some folders. How can it process everything in the folder, say I change the exposure, colours etc. local adjustments?
PureRaw works fine for me, just select the images, from the folder, then open in PureRaw, easy, choose which ones to batch process.
One way is to use another program that views the imiges and sends selected ones to PL for processing, eg an external DAM
Sounds like too much hassle.
I will set up a folder just with one image in it, see how that works.
Strange system.
Just done 1 image in a folder, DeepPrimexd took about 2 seconds, on a 50mp image. So why did a 100 20mp images, take over 1 hour?
That is far to long, somthing is wrong. I dont think PL uses the graphics processor in normal use, just deep prime. It might be woth trying support, sometimes they can be of help.
Export times don’t only depend on file/megapixel size, but also on a) what is done to them and b) how any can sensibly be processed in parallel. Pushing that slider to its max can be fairly counterproductive, on my Macs, the sweet spot of parallel processing is at 3 to 5 files. Leave that range and processing will take longer (with everything else kept unchanged) than necessary.
Megapixel/file size: Canon CR2 files get larger if the image contains lots of details or noise.
Note that on export, the preview images need to be produced too.
That was not even on export, just processing.
BF discounts end today (Cyber Monday, November 27th, 2023) and we might see normal pricing again soon - as well as the bundles like DPL7 Elite + DFP7, which sold in the US for the price of DPL7, which meant that DFP was free!
Note that offers/bundles can differ by country/currency.
Tomorrow around 12 noon, UK time.
Black Friday deals still seem available.
FP5 to FP7 was BF sale, not upgrade pricing because i didn’t have FP6
Last Black Fridays:
PL4 Elite to PL5 Elite (2021): €49.5 (50% discount)
PL5 Elite to PL6 Elite (2022): €69
PL6 Elite to PL7 Elite (2023): €89 (18,4% discount)
PL7 Elite to PL8 Elite (2024): €89.99 (17,4% discount from €109)
Last Black Fridays:
PL4 Elite to PL5 Elite (BF 21): €49.5 (50% discount)
PL5 Elite to PL6 Elite (BF 22): €69
PL6 Elite to PL7 Elite (BF 23): €89 (18,4% discount)
PL7 Elite to PL8 Elite (BF 24): €89.99 (17,4% discount from €109)
PL8 Elite to PL9 (BF 25): €99.99 (16,7% discount from €119.99)
It’s the same fault: “It is cheaper to retain an existing customer than to acquire a new one.”.
But maybe an existing customer would update more frequently if it would be more discount? - I’ll stay at 8.
I did upgrade my license, partly for the iPhone RAW (though I sold off all my iPhones this summer, partly because of the lack of PhotoLab RAW support!) and the scanned negative conversion, which doesn’t work in PhotoLab on macOS for now.
So real world experience. PhotoLab 9 is much slower and clunkier. I was delighted with PhotoLab 8 and have been very disappointed with PhotoLab 9. Masking and repair seems to slow PhotoLab 9 down to a crawl, much worse if one uses AI masking (don’t even enable AI masking, if it’s in the history of an image even disabled, all editing will turn to molasses).
Hopefully PhotoLab 9 will radically improve, there have been duff releases in the past when the repair tool was new. Based on what I’m seeing though it may not be until PhotoLab 10. If you can sit it out, you probably should.