iTosaf Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Hi Everyone, I have a lot of "7 image exposure bracketing Raw" Canon 1dx mark 2 files. The problem is that it takes a lot of time to process each photo. I have a macbook pro 15" 2018 i9 32gb 560x gpu. The questions are: 1. Are there any settings i need to change in order to speed up the process, because it looks like metal gpu acceleration is off (my current settings screenshot attached)? 2. Is there an option to create a batch job for all of my 7 part HDR Merge photos, so ill be able to leave it processing and come back in an hour instead of clicking every few minutes each time? Thanx a lot in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Have you tried the OpenGL option instead of Metal Quote iMac 27" 2019 Ventura 13.6, iMac 27" Late 2013 running Catalina 10.15.7 - Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iTosaf Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 Yes, i tried OpenGL and Metal. It takes 1min 10sec to HDR Merge 7 photos into 1 using either one of the settings. The problem is that i have hundreds of bracketed photos, so without an HDR Merge batch option, i will need to sit in front of my mac for few hours and click every minute. I would prefer a way of automating this process.. Isn't there an HDR Merge Batch option in Affinity Photo? Is there a way to create a macro that will do it for me? Can i automate such a job using 3rd party tool if there is no such an option in affinity photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Why do you think you need to click every minute? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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iTosaf Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 Exactly, Owenr. It takes 1min 10sec to load each HDR Merge, then i can create a macro for the visual changes, but i still need to manually add every time new 7 photos to a new HDR Merge. So, instead of working only 1 time on the first HDR Merge, then batch automating the same process to the rest of the photos and coming back after 2 hours to find all the processed HDR photos in Jpg format, i need to sit in front of my mac all day long and click the same clicks. Is there an option for that in affinity photo or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Todd_Atl Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 I have had this same question and still looking to see if it is possible. Any progress with this feature in updates since the OP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted September 25, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 25, 2019 Hi @Todd_Atl, Welcome to the forums. I'm afraid we don't have anything build in to automate batch hdr merge, sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whizzrd Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 HI @Gabe, can we put in a feature request for automation ? While Macro's might seem like the area where this should be implemented it might be simpler (and more better to my situation) to implement command line arguments to Affinity Photo e.g. "/Applications/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Photo" --hdrmerge filename1 filename2 ... "/Applications/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Photo" --panorama filename1 filename2 ... "/Applications/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Photo" --stack filename1 filename2 ... "/Applications/Affinity Photo.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Photo" --focusmerge filename1 filename2 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted December 2, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 2, 2019 Feel free to create a new post here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/55-feedback-for-affinity-photo-on-desktop/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
345242356 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 are we still waiting on this? batch processing is a pretty common feature these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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