Preview size question
What size should I be having CO make previews? Is the logic to pick a size that is at least the same size or larger than my preview window? If it is smaller than the preview window, will CO start remaking previews automatically? I ask because I feel like 2560 should cover all my computers but sometimes I open a session captured on one computer on a different computer and then CO spirals out of control making new previews for every capture. Is there any harm of picking 3840 or 5120 for my preview size? That would definitely cover all my bases. I'm asking all of this because I am sick of CO creating new previews which basically makes the session unusable until it's done making the previews.
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So, no one else knows the answer to this either? Do I have to open a support case for this? 0 -
Sorry, didn't notice this originally.
You're right that the logic is that you want the preview size to be at least as large as your preview window. The main drawback to having previews too large, as I understand it, would be the storage space of the larger file sizes.
Are you saying that sometimes you are using the sessions on a computer where the preview window would be larger than 2560 px?
Also are you on Windows or Mac? It seems from what I have seen on the forum that on Windows, Capture One has a habit of regenerating previews when you'd think it wasn't needed.
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[quote="Ian3" wrote:
Sorry, didn't notice this originally.
You're right that the logic is that you want the preview size to be at least as large as your preview window. The main drawback to having previews too large, as I understand it, would be the storage space of the larger file sizes.
Are you saying that sometimes you are using the sessions on a computer where the preview window would be larger than 2560 px?
Also are you on Windows or Mac? It seems from what I have seen on the forum that on Windows, Capture One has a habit of regenerating previews when you'd think it wasn't needed.
Ian
On a Mac. I have a feeling it has nothing to do with the preview size window setting as I have it set at 2880 and the 2nd machine preview is much smaller than that. But what is happening is whenever I open a session from one computer to the next, there is some kind of redraw or rerending that is happening that makes every image preview pixelated until whatever the process is it is doing is finished. With 500 images, this makes the session completely unusable for a couple minutes while it runs through this process. I have even gone as far as to copy the preference files from one computer to another in hopes that everything will be identical and this process will not happen but it always happens. It's been like this for years with every machine we use.0 -
[quote="Dana21" wrote:
[quote="Ian3" wrote:
Sorry, didn't notice this originally.
You're right that the logic is that you want the preview size to be at least as large as your preview window. The main drawback to having previews too large, as I understand it, would be the storage space of the larger file sizes.
Are you saying that sometimes you are using the sessions on a computer where the preview window would be larger than 2560 px?
Also are you on Windows or Mac? It seems from what I have seen on the forum that on Windows, Capture One has a habit of regenerating previews when you'd think it wasn't needed.
Ian
On a Mac. I have a feeling it has nothing to do with the preview size window setting as I have it set at 2880 and the 2nd machine preview is much smaller than that. But what is happening is whenever I open a session from one computer to the next, there is some kind of redraw or rerending that is happening that makes every image preview pixelated until whatever the process is it is doing is finished. With 500 images, this makes the session completely unusable for a couple minutes while it runs through this process. I have even gone as far as to copy the preference files from one computer to another in hopes that everything will be identical and this process will not happen but it always happens. It's been like this for years with every machine we use.
So if you let it spend its couple of minutes running through that process, then close the session, then open it again on the same machine, does it do the re-rendering again?
Also I have an idea that I saw a video the other day in which David Grover explained something about Capture One loading the previews into memory so that you can move fairly seamlessly from one to another when that has been done.
Ian0 -
[quote="Ian3" wrote:
[quote="Dana21" wrote:
[quote="Ian3" wrote:
Sorry, didn't notice this originally.
You're right that the logic is that you want the preview size to be at least as large as your preview window. The main drawback to having previews too large, as I understand it, would be the storage space of the larger file sizes.
Are you saying that sometimes you are using the sessions on a computer where the preview window would be larger than 2560 px?
Also are you on Windows or Mac? It seems from what I have seen on the forum that on Windows, Capture One has a habit of regenerating previews when you'd think it wasn't needed.
Ian
On a Mac. I have a feeling it has nothing to do with the preview size window setting as I have it set at 2880 and the 2nd machine preview is much smaller than that. But what is happening is whenever I open a session from one computer to the next, there is some kind of redraw or rerending that is happening that makes every image preview pixelated until whatever the process is it is doing is finished. With 500 images, this makes the session completely unusable for a couple minutes while it runs through this process. I have even gone as far as to copy the preference files from one computer to another in hopes that everything will be identical and this process will not happen but it always happens. It's been like this for years with every machine we use.
So if you let it spend its couple of minutes running through that process, then close the session, then open it again on the same machine, does it do the re-rendering again?
Also I have an idea that I saw a video the other day in which David Grover explained something about Capture One loading the previews into memory so that you can move fairly seamlessly from one to another when that has been done.
Ian
No, reopening the session on the same computer does not trigger the process.
Re the preview thing, if that's the case it's a pretty self-defeating feature.0
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