very slow and poor performance of Media Pro
I am considering moving all I do to Media Pro (from Portfolio). So since some time back I am using it for a small subset of my media file, mainly moderate size jpegs and some mov files.
I am experiencing what I see as very serious performance issues.
Very frequently the program "hangs", with the title bar message "program not responding".
It can be when I switch folder, when I page down, or even when I just shift back to the application from another application. Very strange and very frustrating. this happens so frequently so it is virtually impractical to use the program.
Then I have to wait until it "unblocks", which can take 10-15-20 sec or even a minute. Or force a restart.
I am running it on a brand new computer that is fairly powerful, Dell M6700 mobile workstation, Win 7, 8 GB RAM etc, dual drives with the program on C: and the catalogue on D:.
If this is the normal performance for the program it will be impossible to use (which would be a pity since I want to move away from Portfolio).
I find it strange. Can a factor be that I have all the files on a networked file server? (The catalogue itself is resident on the computer.) Can it not handle network drives? Or is it something else?
I'd appreciate any suggestions!
I am experiencing what I see as very serious performance issues.
Very frequently the program "hangs", with the title bar message "program not responding".
It can be when I switch folder, when I page down, or even when I just shift back to the application from another application. Very strange and very frustrating. this happens so frequently so it is virtually impractical to use the program.
Then I have to wait until it "unblocks", which can take 10-15-20 sec or even a minute. Or force a restart.
I am running it on a brand new computer that is fairly powerful, Dell M6700 mobile workstation, Win 7, 8 GB RAM etc, dual drives with the program on C: and the catalogue on D:.
If this is the normal performance for the program it will be impossible to use (which would be a pity since I want to move away from Portfolio).
I find it strange. Can a factor be that I have all the files on a networked file server? (The catalogue itself is resident on the computer.) Can it not handle network drives? Or is it something else?
I'd appreciate any suggestions!
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Do you use CaptureOne or WIC rendering engine for thumbnails? This can be configured in the settings. I installed the seperate tool FastPictureViewerCodec for 20 USD and this resulted with WIC in a dramatically speed up of MediaPro imports. I found out that some raw and video files can make the import very unstable and lengthy with C1 rendering engine. Just try WIC. The drawback is, that with WIC the thumbnails of edited images in C1 are no longer updated. You can try FVPC before purchase. FVPC is not only very helpful for C1, but also for Windows File Manager and most other DAM and image software.
I do not recommend a network drive for media files. Try it on a local drive. In every case you have to make regular backups. And a backup from local harddisk to network is not very different than vice versa. I use three PCs with two networks. That is why I use one big and fast FW/USB/eSATA as master disk with my notebooks/desktops. On the local HDDs and on the two networks are only backups.
Regards, Joseph
WIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Imaging_Component
FPVC: http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/0 -
[quote="PhaseZero" wrote:
... I installed the seperate tool FastPictureViewer Codec for 20 USD and this resulted with WIC in a dramatically speed up of MediaPro imports. ...Just try WIC. The drawback is, that with WIC the thumbnails of edited images in C1 are no longer updated....
I do not recommend a network drive for media files. Try it on a local drive. In every case you have to make regular backups. ../
Excellent advice. I too use the FastPictureViewer Codec , something that solved a issue for me that service support could not solve. My imports are very quick when I set the rendering to WIC.
I later go back and rebuild the files that I process with CO with the CO engine; I can do this when I have "time to spare".0 -
Hi,
Thanks for the advice and suggestions. I am using the default, Windows Imaging Compontent in Media Rendering > Raw.
However, I am not talking about slow for import. Import is not an issue (at least not yet).
I am testing it on a small catalogue with JPEGs and MOV files. The JPEGs are no more than around 1 MB big. I have currently now raw files in it at all. Only some 2000 files (jpeg & mov) to test and learn how it works.
The poor performance is when I am just using Media Pro, browsing or doing other simple things with the software. Not importing. It still hangs totally or freezes temporarily very often. It even gave me [Program Not Responding] when I went in to settings to see what media rendering I used...
On network drives:
Why would you not recommend having the images on network file servers?
I have two main file libraries. Each contains well over 1 TB of files. I simply cannot have those on a local drive in the computer. I used to have them on USB attached drives but a) it became very complicated with backups and drive management, b) I found that USB was not very reliable.0 -
[quote="perkarlsson" wrote:
... Why would you not recommend having the images on network file servers? ...
Because MP is designed as a desktop DAM, not a network one. For that matter, your Portfolio system will do better.
Do you need all of your images online all the time? Otherwise you could keep the active ones on your system hard drive and move them to an archive catalog once done (and the files to the network drive).0
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