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Best practices with TIFF files

zeno2358
After editing an image in PS and the resulting TIFF with layers is re-imported to C1, it seems that C1 crawls to a halt; spinning sometimes endlessly if I even touch the TIFF with layers. If I flatten the image before saving C1 seems to perform fine.

Is there something I can do to allow C1 to properly display multi-layer TIFF files without choking?
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Is it best practice to flatten TIFFs from PS prior to saving? (That would be tragic as I need to save many of my edit layers for subsequent edits...)

Thanks again!

OSX 10.11.6 / C1 10.0.0.193
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  • zeno2358
    For anyone interested, this is the courteous reply I received from Phase One support today:
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    Hello Clint, We are working to fix this delay in CO. It is an known issue. Bear in mind layered tiffs and tiffs saved with alpha channels are meant for viewing in CO only. Reprocessing them will ignore the layer and/or channel. But with that said the viewing should be possible. We are working on this issue.

    Best Regards,
    Phase One Support

    ----I replied ----

    Understood. I have no need or intent to edit multi-layered TIFFs in CO. Even just trying to scroll past them in a catalog brings the whole system to a halt at times when CO tries to render. The "Focusing viewer..." circle just goes and goes and...

    So, for now I'll just squirrel them away into another directory after they are exported. Somewhere CO can't try to include them.

    Looking forward to the magical update that will make my asset management scene almost perfect. I just want to be able to use "Edit in..." and not re-enter CO to find the catalog unusable.

    Thanks for your quick reply and have a Happy New Year!
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  • vpv
    Hi!

    Just for record and/or FYI... ☹️)

    When I finish editing in PS, I'm saving 2 version of the 16bit TIFF:
    (1) - as is - with all layers and smart object/filters
    (2) - flatten layers and save as <original_name>-RGB16.TIFF - final 16bit TIFF image in AdobeRGBB color space

    The (1) I keep few months after I complete the project - in case if the client requested any changes.
    The (2) I re-import into C1 - I can generate different outputs (if I need it) - for social media, for High- & Web-resolutions for the client... And save the copy of the (2) into Amazon Cloud storage

    just my 2 cents...

    Thanks,
    Pavel ~ http://www.instagram.com/torontointeriors.photography/
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