Am I right in thinking that the thumbnail panel is re-built in a different way in version 2018?

Mike taught me how to do multiple RAW edits by calling up seven images and leaving my eighth core available for the GUI. What I seem to remember doing was to work on seven and then look for another seven more whilst the RAW caches were being rebuilt.

Now, when I call up several RAWs and alter them the thumbnail box goes black and I cannot get to the next images until the thumbnails of the images have worked on are all rebuilt.

This is what my thumbnails look like before I do a multiple RAW refine.



Once I have done a multiple RAW refine my thumbnail screen looks like this:



Or this




I am sure the thumbnails were still visible when the altered ones were being rebuilt before we moved to 2018.

Am I imagining things?

Tony

I'm not able to get anything that looks similar.  When I apply a setting to multiple raws, the thumbs build and I have control instantly.  Check the options on the attached screenshot  (Edit, Preferences, Raw Format Options) and make sure you have the thumb building option set to the selection circled in red.

Regards,
Mike

I've sent Mike a .mov file from my camera showing what happens when I do a multiple RAW refine.

This is the link:-
https://we.tl/0ox37oGVP2

I am sorry but the file is 480 mb. I downloaded OBS which is a bespoke screen capture program but struggled to find out how it worked - so decided to resort to my Oly camera. If more screen videos are needed I will try to master OBS.

There are seven RAW images and it takes almost two and a half minutes to be in a position where the thumbnail screen is useable again.

Presumably there is something amiss in the way my PC is configured to handle QU. This is the machine. I would have thought it was powerful enough :-


All suggestions welcome.

Tony

I was playing with the link. It appears to be a WE TRANSFER link, but inside the browser tab, I get a we're Sorry, not on line. at the moment.
Just have to wait.
Fred

Tony,
It appears we have almost the same processor, but you have a K after yours... (whatever that means) and I am running with 16.0 ram and W 10 Pro. Marilyn's machine is W 7 Home Premium 32 bit, and builds almost as fast as mine.
Two more things to look at..while we wait for the video and Mike.

Fred

Both links produce the same result.

Need to wait for later, or do you have a G drive, perhaps.?

Fred

WET is still having troubles so I have put a video file on my own server.

http://www.tonygamble.uk/QimageThumbnails/20170704-164501_0_4.mp4

I apologise for the rubbish sound. I have not fully worked out how this USB mike works but if you turn the volume up you can hear a bit of what I am saying.

Another one here. Slightly better sound. I will master it !!

http://www.tonygamble.uk/QimageThumbnails/20170704-172110_1_3.mp4

Maybe this takes us a bit forward as to my problem?

Tony

Could you take a screen snap of the QU splash screen that appears momentarily on startup: the one that tells you your operating system, number of cores, etc. and post that?  In your video, I don't think it's coincidence that control is regained when the status says building raw cache... 5/7.  My guess is that you have 4 cores and control isn't coming back until it gets down to 3 threads remaining: so one is freed up for you (and the UI).  But that is not normal!  Even if you have 4 cores and 4 threads are running, Windows is supposed to still give some CPU time to foreground threads (the QU interface).  It does for me.  I have 8 cores and set #cores to 8 and rebuilt 8 raw thumbs, and the refine window goes away instantly, the thumbs show, and I have control even when all 8 cores are busy.

So for some reason, it looks like your system is getting "locked down" and won't respond if it is using all CPU cores.  Not sure why that would happen... unless you are running an old OS or something.

Regards,
Mike