Mildly surprised to see no previous mention of it here. http://www.fastrawviewer.com/ (http://www.fastrawviewer.com/),
FastRawViewer is designed to view raw files, meaning - the histogram is of raw, over- and underexposure warnings are from raw, focus peaking is also from raw. That is very different from viewers that rely on either embedded JPEGs or unknown and uncontrolled renditions.
One more thing is that FastRawViewer plays nicely with other viewers, generally assigning FRV to 'external editor' option of the other viewer - like with PhotoMechanic I use 'E' key to pass the file to FRV; having multiple instances of FRV switched off in Preferences. In that case FRV will reuse the window, no need to close it.
We are very open to suggestions and bug reports, and are willing to make our software useful.
Dear Alain,
In Preferences - Image Display, you can set ETTR-style automatic exposure correction, or you can set a fixed correction value. Additionally, on the same pane, you can uncheck 'Apply Adobe compatible hidden exposure correction'.
> The default settings also add some files (xmp) inside the folder, which doesn't seem good for default settings.
We would be much interested if you can elaborate on why those are not good as defaults.
> Adding some capture one settings...
Do you have any xmp files written by CaptureOne that you can send us to see what you mean?
Dear Alain,
You can switch off the xmp feature in Preferences - XMP: uncheck 'Use XMP for RAW files'.
You can drag and drop a folder onto the FastRawViewer icon, or into FRV's window; you can also use 'Open Folder' from the main menu.+1, this is exactly what I've been doing in my brief testing so far. :)
Well, it may be me, but IMHO a raw viewer should display at least the raw histogram, and not to apply some unknown processing. Should be instant, too. If I would find something I can use I can't imagine myself going "me too" route and replicate an existing product ;)
Is ACDSee getting the histogram from the enbedded thumb?.
Phil,
Three suggestions:
1 - use FRV before commenting on it
2 - read the previous thread
3 - and the manual
I don't have time to invest into everything new that comes along.
"Other viewers" is not inclusive to me.
Dear Manoli,
'Preferences' allows a good overview of FRV, but maybe we used a wrong word and folks just do not go there. Should it be 'Customize' instead?
Dear Manoli,
'Preferences' allows a good overview of FRV, but maybe we used a wrong word and folks just do not go there. Should it be 'Customize' instead?
I assume Bart is referring to the Preferences dialog box , as the bottom bar already has tool-tips ?
We will keep 'Preferences' in FRV for time being, but I'm afraid it is obvious FRV is presumed to be a 'one-trick pony' piece of soft while it is far from that. In FRV we tried to reflect on everyday needs of raw shooters, including our own ;)
A tool tip on XMP is rather complicated...
I just wanted to chime in that besides being a very useful program to me, Fast Raw Viewer's customer support is admirable.
Tom River
Excellent work, as always Iliah. Thank you for the heads up.
kirk
with files from an SSD that can deliver 10 RAW files per second if read in an optimum way.deliver where ?
deliver where ?
In other words, I don't think the SSD is the bottleneck.
...Sometimes I have to compare against an image that's 10-20 images back and then it's useful to be able to go as fast as possible.
then are you able to make a decision about your raw files @ speed of 10 raw files a second ? I don't... I envy your mental+vision capabilities and ability to work with keyboard or mouse that fast culling files or whatever ;)
Sometimes I have to compare against an image that's 10-20 images back and then it's useful to be able to go as fast as possible.may be a better option will be to selected a file to compare from some external image browser (that displays thumbnails only - as FRV does not have that functionality yet unfortunately) and then have an option for a key combo in FRV to display the previously (vs currently) viewed file... pressing such combo again and again will allow quickly switch back and forth between the 2 most recently viewed files in one FRV instance w/o speeding through many files back and forth in FRV... just $0.02.
Dear Alan,Hi Iliah
FastRawViewer is performing Bayer demosaicking to display the image. It is very computational-intensive operation (chain of operations, in fact).
Couple of things worth looking at.
First, you can disable internal JPEG support in Preferences: RAW+JPEG: Ignore internal JPEGs.
Second, you can try different image resampling and downsampling options in Preferences: GPU Processing. Depending on the video card, it may speed things up.
One more thing: bottom bar contains file navigation buttons, and if you click on the file number, it allows to use Shift-ArrowUp/ArrowDown to jump through 5 files.
Can you please give more details: OS version you are running, is it 32 or 64 bits, what is the RAM size, what video card model is in the system, how much memory does video card have?
Sometimes I have to compare against an image that's 10-20 images back and then it's useful to be able to go as fast as possible.
Better to simply open another instance of FRV and then you'll have the image (to be compared) on permanent display ..
After quite some time of beta testing we are releasing FastRawViewer Release Candidate. Trial period is reset. Downloads are at http://updates.fastrawviewer.com/data/110rc1/
Please excuse "What's new" not being yet translated.
As you can see, we added filmstrip, folder tree; and many other features.
Why no Mac version?I can see FastRawViewer-1.1.0.622-RC1.dmg available for download
Why no Mac version?
> it produces a more accurate histogramexactly as accurate as rawdigger ?
Not "more accurate", but simply accurate.
exactly as accurate as rawdigger ?
Why would looking at the out of camera JPEG not be a better starting point for triage?
Iliah, Will the RC overwrite 1.0.5 or will it install itself in a different folder?By default, it will install over 1.0.x
Release Candidate 4 is here: http://www.fastrawviewer.com/forum/fast-raw-viewer-110-RC4
What's new in Release Candidate 4 (compared to RC2):
- Filmstrip Off/On button on the right of status (bottom) bar.
- Filmstrip/Thumbnails performance tune: Preferences - Performance - Thumbnail cache - Thumbnail decoder thread count. You can raise the value for fast SSD drives (and ultra-fast flash cards, like CFast or UHS-II in fast readers), and decrease the value for slow HDD drives/slow flash cards/slow card readers.
as we may use one conversion method and one set of colour transforms while some other program (like ACR) will be using a different one.if you pick & use a dcp profile from the set available to Adobe (and apparently by FRV user intending to use ACR/LR later down the pipeline like bjanes) then you shall be able to match, no ? that is quite some code to write though, albeit it is documented by Adobe.
Unfortunately, picking a dcp profile is not enough, there are more components to that - like hard-coded baseline exposure compensation. There are also several versions of the "process", and several dcp profiles to choose. There is interpolation between 2800 and 6500; and extrapolation. Need to think about it. It is actually easier to repair false blow-out caused by white balance.
Dear Bill,
As I said, need to think about it. Mostly, it is a documentation challenge - how to make clear what we are doing, avoid misinterpretation and not to raise false expectations.
to be able to modify the IPTC/XMP description without having to enter a description, close, move to the next image, reopen the window, type in the new name.
It'd be awesome if I could just enter a name and then tab or arrow to the next image, without having to close the dialog box and reopen it, if that makes sense.
On sale for $15?! Bought without thought! It really is a no brainer.It is. The only area I HATE about this product is going back to Lightroom and seeing it's pathetic speed to preview images in Grid. I'm now so spoiled.
You can download this pre-relase from http://updates.fastrawviewer.com/data/111rc2/
FastRawViewer 1.1.1 is released now.
The main focus is on improving stability when working with network drives. Please test it, and report any bugs to support@fastrawviewer.com
I have bought and installed FRV. Arlen, on another thread mentioned that FRV can review and delete files. However, I do not see any feature that allows me to delete files. Is there one? Maybe the Rejected File? Have to do some reading. Thanks.
JR
Thanks for that. I was looking for a simple button like on the Windows viewer with an X, to indicate delete file. So I have to go to edit and click >edit >move file to rejected subfolder.
And then clear rejected folder when I want to delete for good. Is that right?
We crossed 1000 supported cameras milestone with this one. Changelog https://www.fastrawviewer.com/blog/FastRawViewer-1-4-4-releaseCongratulations; that’s got to be a lot of work.
We crossed 1000 supported cameras milestone with this one. Changelog https://www.fastrawviewer.com/blog/FastRawViewer-1-4-4-releaseThat's great work! I did notice, however, that both FastRawViewer and RawDigger aren't reporting any updates available, despite being on older releases than what you have on the website.
That's great work! I did notice, however, that both FastRawViewer and RawDigger aren't reporting any updates available, despite being on older releases than what you have on the website.
We delay update automatic notifications by a week to give anti-virus software enough time to include new versions into the whitelists. Dealing with thousands of users simultaneously asking why the update is quarantined on their computer is no fun.I can't argue with that logic!
I have been using this new version for a couple of days and it is really faster than the previous one (1.4.6)
I don't have measured figures, but it is working well and stable. Basically there is no wait between images while browsing 36Mpix images (Nikon D800).
I can run through the CPU - MIX - GPU and see how the usage of resources shift from CPU to GPU (Windows 10 task manager)
Anyway, I don't think I'm near those figures (14fps) you mention as my gpu is not as powerful as a GTX1080
just in case the hardware: HP Zstudio G4, i7-7700, Nvidia Quadro M1200, NMVe drive
Sure, mail sent!Thank you, mail received!
Just wanted to comment on this. I received feedback from the Fast Raw Viewer team on the log I sent. After implementing their recomendations the speed increase was notable. This on top of the performance that I was already considering as very good.
This new version is incredibly fast, especially considering that it is displaying the RAW files (36MP) and not a jpeg or a reduced version.
Highly recommended!