Problem with Tone Map Persona on M1 Macs?

[Roland Rick]

Hi AP Team

Don't know if it's truly a bug, to me this path of reporting made most sense. If I chose wrong, please apologise.

Hi Affinity Photo team Hardware: MBA, 8 Core, 16 GB, 1 TB SSD

Detected by coincidence:

1. No problem, even super fast, are huge 360º panoramas using Live Projection, 27000 x 13500 = 364.5 megapixel
2. Huge problems on same machine with Tone Map of a smaller 240 megapixel ARQ file, from a Sony 7RM4, 16 images pixel shift multi shot, first stitched to ARQ with Sonys Image Edge Desktop, then the ARQ loaded to Affinity Photo, developed by APs raw engine, copy by Cmd+J, then tried to apply Tone Map, what ended in Force Quit of AP after 30 minutes.
3. Checking the Activity Monitor on the M1 during load into Tone Map Persona, there is a huge increase of system activity (the red dots) in the CPU history (press Cmd+3...) but almost none in GPU (...and Cmd+4 in Activity Monitor) history. 

The video begins with something completely different, concerning lens and chromatic aberration on Develop Persona.

If you want the ARQ (2 GB) for analysis, please send a upload link.

Have a nice weekend,
Roland

[Chris B]

Hey Roland,

Can you drop the image into this Dropbox folder - https://www.dropbox.com/request/r73al3R5ci8tIfoLPhSV

I've just done some general testing with the Tone Mapping Persona on my M1 but it's fine. I suspect it might have something to do with the size of yours but I'd like to give it a shot if you don't mind.

 

[Roland Rick]

Hi Chris, sorry for super late reply, totally forgot it. Mea culpa. Upload is running, my upload speed is slooooow. Starting now, it'll take two hrs at least. It's an almost 2 GB ARQ (16 images Pixel Shift Multi Shot of a 7RM4).

The M1 we had problems is an 8 Core MBA with 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD.

Keen on your test results. Please keep me updated, many thanks in advance.

 

On 4/19/2021 at 11:22 AM, Chris B said:

Hey Roland,

Can you drop the image into this Dropbox folder - https://www.dropbox.com/request/r73al3R5ci8tIfoLPhSV

I've just done some general testing with the Tone Mapping Persona on my M1 but it's fine. I suspect it might have something to do with the size of yours but I'd like to give it a shot if you don't mind.

 

[Roland Rick]

Hi Chris, right now uploading another one, tone map is taking forever on my iMac 5K (lated 2015, most beefy version available then) with 64 GB RAM, filename is DSC07979-20200215-194241-Pano-Mod.tif, will take about 2 hrs starting by now, sending this reply.

FYC: I often notice severe performance issues when working on tiff loaded directly into AP, generated by C1/Lr/whatever. No difference between uncompressed, LZW or ZIPped variants. Workaround: saving as .afphoto restarting AP loading the .afphoto solves the problem. But it looks like as long AP works in "has loaded a tiff" mode, something causes performance issues.

CU

 

On 4/19/2021 at 11:22 AM, Chris B said:

Hey Roland,

Can you drop the image into this Dropbox folder - https://www.dropbox.com/request/r73al3R5ci8tIfoLPhSV

I've just done some general testing with the Tone Mapping Persona on my M1 but it's fine. I suspect it might have something to do with the size of yours but I'd like to give it a shot if you don't mind.

 

[Roland Rick]

And, well, before I forget it, I know, it's a different task, but if I can talk directly to a moderator like you, I must exploit it: Please share the .afphoto, .afdesign and .afpub file format specs with the guys from Capture One. As long they don't integrate it into C1 natively, I can not cut of Adobe subscription. The .afphoto files are even not not shown C1 used as asset management tool and Affinity does yet have no product being a Lightroom Classic or Capture One replacement.

I am dreaming of a Affinity asset management tool having the speed of Photo Mechanic combined with the power RAW Developing Engine of Capture One and the power or Affinity Photos stacking tools (Pano, Stack, HDR, Focus, Astro) in RAW mode.

Non subscription. Purchase.

And a Developer Persona keeping the RAW data.

Cheers 🍺

On 4/19/2021 at 11:22 AM, Chris B said:

Hey Roland,

Can you drop the image into this Dropbox folder - https://www.dropbox.com/request/r73al3R5ci8tIfoLPhSV

I've just done some general testing with the Tone Mapping Persona on my M1 but it's fine. I suspect it might have something to do with the size of yours but I'd like to give it a shot if you don't mind.