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Ramigrafx
Ramigrafx
Inspiring
January 28, 2017
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Merge to HDR from within Adobe Camera Raw has slowed

  • January 28, 2017
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Three weeks ago I did a complete reinstallation of Windows 10 and Photoshop cc, Bridge and Lightroom. All the latest versions. I also installed a new graphics card Nvidea Quadro M4000. I am very familiar with using ACR to merge to hdr and like it because I can apply my custom camera profiles and when I have finished processing my image in ACR i can then go on to import it into Photoshop as a smart object.  I have an 8 core processor, 16GB ram and a dedicated ssd for my scratch disk.

Never used to have any problems and the process used to be rapid. Now the process can take several minutes and looking in task manager the processor in Adobe Bridge is working at about 95%. Which is strange because I have the graphics card enabled to do some of the processing. Everything for the graphics card is enabled and advanced selected, and it never crashes out.

Thought the problem was the graphics card and was online to Adobe engineer last night for well over 1 1/2 hours who could offer no advice. I was going to change my graphics card back to a Radeon one (which was changed because of compatibility problems with Photoshop) when I thought that I would try another test.

In the same feature of  merge to hdr in ACR is merge to Panorama. I tried this with 3 images (82MB each) and it was completed totally in about 50 seconds.

So can anyone explain why merge to hdr takes about 5 minutes and merge to panorama takes 50 seconds on the same pc.  Must be a bug in the latest ACR.

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Correct answer Ramigrafx

Hi, fortunately my pc copies my c drive every day, so I checked back  7 weeks and found an image of my c drive which was working perfect. I am now using this one and all of my problems are gone. Still no idea what went wrong though my suspicion is on some cleanup software which I used which cleaned up too much.

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Ramigrafx
RamigrafxAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
February 24, 2017

Hi, fortunately my pc copies my c drive every day, so I checked back  7 weeks and found an image of my c drive which was working perfect. I am now using this one and all of my problems are gone. Still no idea what went wrong though my suspicion is on some cleanup software which I used which cleaned up too much.

jbm007
Community Expert
jbm007Community Expert
Community Expert
January 28, 2017

You have a fast machine and the Quadro 4000 is a really good card.

Are you loading any presets?

Does it do the something if you load the images from LR?

I agree 5 minutes is way to long.

I have a nvidia 6000 and most HDR images don't take longer then 45 seconds

    Ramigrafx
    RamigrafxAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 28, 2017

    Hi, No presets are loaded.

    If I use merge to hdr pro from Lightroom  or from Bridge then the process takes a few seconds. I then select tone in camera raw, and again it takes only a few seconds. However this version of ACR (is it ACR as a smart filter?) does not allow me to output to Photoshop as a smart object nor does it have the option to apply my own camera profiles, which is what I require

    Benjamin Root
    Benjamin Root
    Legend
    January 28, 2017

    Did you make sure you have the latest drivers for your Quadro? If you suspect Camera Raw, you might roll back to an older version: Camera Raw installer for Adobe Photoshop CC and CS6

    Ramigrafx
    RamigrafxAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 28, 2017

    I have the latest drivers for the Quadro M4000

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