Within the Digital workflow, there are many processes that don’t focus on raw conversion or printing. Archiving, backups, and proofing are some that come to mind for me. With each of these, there is a need to have a tool that will display files quickly and in a format that is logical and easy to follow. For me the most important need is speed. Let me explain with a couple of examples.
For me an average day’s shoot will consist of approximately 7 GB of raw files. Most of these files will be used for stitching so I will have several series of segment files to contend with. The first thing I like to do while the files are still on the card is to quickly proof them and delete files that obviously will not work. I also like to group the files so that all the segments for one stitch will be together in a folder for work on later. The tool used for this needs to be able to load thumbnails of raw files quickly and accurately and have some basic ICC profile awareness. This tool should also have features that let you move, delete and copy, the raw files from the card to your PC.
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