Rendering Engine WIC vs P1 vs FPV
For a good workflow between CaptureOne (C1) and MediaPro (MP) it is recommended to use the PhaseOne (P1) rendering engine. Some good videos from PhaseOneDK describe this at: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xFcC53K7QfY
However this configuration seems to be not usable if you have various kind of media files in MP. During import of media files I experienced big problems with the preferred P1 rendering engine. A lot of previews (GIF, MOV, JPG, RAW, PNG, ...) were not generated, the CPU and RAM usage of my PC was heavily affecte by MP processes, the import of media files was very very slow and finally MP crashed quite often.
So I tried the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) rendering engine. The situation was only a little bit better. But after installing the 15 USD tool Fast Picture Viewer (FPW) http://fastpictureviewer.com/codecs, the experience was wonderful. Import of media files in MP is now very fast, very stable and all file previews are displayed correctly.
The remaining drawback is, that the previews of DNG files, which have been processed in C1, cannot be updated in MP. Apparently this does work only with the P1 rendering engine. Theoretically it is possible to switch the rendering engine always before rebuilding (Ctrl-B) items (e.g. WIC/FPV with RAW, PNG files and P1 for DNG, JPG files). But this switching is not very convenient and with "wrong" switching the stability of MP is under risk. The only solution could be a configurable rendering engine for every file extension. The enabling or disabling FPV v3.2.0.55 setting with "force use of embedded JPEG previews for Adobe DNG)" has no impact on MP preview.
May be a more flexible rendering engine has to be a very important feature for next update of MediaPro?
Regards from PhaseZero
However this configuration seems to be not usable if you have various kind of media files in MP. During import of media files I experienced big problems with the preferred P1 rendering engine. A lot of previews (GIF, MOV, JPG, RAW, PNG, ...) were not generated, the CPU and RAM usage of my PC was heavily affecte by MP processes, the import of media files was very very slow and finally MP crashed quite often.
So I tried the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) rendering engine. The situation was only a little bit better. But after installing the 15 USD tool Fast Picture Viewer (FPW) http://fastpictureviewer.com/codecs, the experience was wonderful. Import of media files in MP is now very fast, very stable and all file previews are displayed correctly.
The remaining drawback is, that the previews of DNG files, which have been processed in C1, cannot be updated in MP. Apparently this does work only with the P1 rendering engine. Theoretically it is possible to switch the rendering engine always before rebuilding (Ctrl-B) items (e.g. WIC/FPV with RAW, PNG files and P1 for DNG, JPG files). But this switching is not very convenient and with "wrong" switching the stability of MP is under risk. The only solution could be a configurable rendering engine for every file extension. The enabling or disabling FPV v3.2.0.55 setting with "force use of embedded JPEG previews for Adobe DNG)" has no impact on MP preview.
May be a more flexible rendering engine has to be a very important feature for next update of MediaPro?
Regards from PhaseZero
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What if you install this?
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/DNG_Codec0 -
Thank you Ulf for this tip. This codec is not for Vista, but only for Win7.
Meanwhile I detected a lot of other incompatiblities and bugs between MediaPro and CaptureOne.
After SyncAnnotations in MP it happens quite often, that the previews in C1 are messed up, that color labels are not identical and that temporary directories "__Temporary IO" are visible. A proper and fluent workflow with autosync between MP and C1 seems to be not possible. Therefor I changed my workflow methods and do not care about updated previews of DNGs in MP any longer.
Regards from P00 -
Sorry that Adobe does not provide a Vista version.
At least you can verify it on your Win7 machine.0 -
[quote="Ulf" wrote:
What if you install this? http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/DNG_Codec
Thanks Ulf,
I tried this DNG-Codec from Adobe and also the codec from Ardfry www.ardfry.com/dng-codec
However due to the fact, that I installed already FastPictureViewer (FPV) www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs
there are some difficulties in testing. For me it is not clear how to enable or disable these tools without deinstallation, installation and rebooting. Adding other DNG-codecs to the with FPV already embedded DNG-Codec looks risky for me. How to define which codec is used?
And finally MediaPro (MP) is useless for me without FPV. The highspeed import and display of various kind of media files in MP with FPV is really wonderful.
With RAW files I have choosen as WIC-FPV settings now to use the embedded preview (in WinFileManager and MediaPro) and not to generate the photo display from the raw file. This is much faster for MediaPro. As I reported already the drawback of using WIC is in any case, that modifications to DNG files with CaptureOne are not visible in MediaPro. I wonder how the preview (the previews?) could be modified correctly.
Best Regards from PhaseZero0
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