I am a long time photographer, and now a coin collector. I have been making GIF images to show off my coins. You can see them here: (weblink removed)
The first several images in that gallery show very 3-D coins rotating transparently against a fractal background. To make these images, I first make a 4K movie of the coin rotating in a Foldio 360 spherical light box. Then I import the movie to layers into a Photoshop PSD file. This file typically has 486 layers and is about 1800 x 1800 pixels.
Since I want to work on the layers with some of my Photoshop actions in batch mode, I must then convert these layers to files. That's where the problem comes in, because the built-in Photoshop script used to convert layers to files takes a whopping eight hours to complete.
You're probably thinking I'm using some old slow machine without much memory. That's not the case. I'm using a new 16" MacBook Pro M2 with 8 TB of SSD memory and 96 GB of SSD RAM.
I was a programmer, and then manager of programmers at Bell Labs for 32 years before I retired. I believe a proper implementation of this feature could do the job in under 10 minutes. And that's my proposed enhancement.
What do you think?, Comments most appreciated.