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Round Trip Editing - PD13 & Photodirector
Ed71 [Avatar]
Senior Member Location: Dorset, United Kingdom Joined: May 17, 2008 14:32 Messages: 207 Offline
[Post New] Nov 30, 2014 14:59
Has anyone experienced any issues with 'round trip editing' (between PD13 & Photodirector) having tried it on a project today it was so painfully slow that not worth doing!

Went to make a basic adjustment to a photo which was on the timeline; imported into Photodirector; made one minor adjustment (straightened photo) then went to return to PD13; got to 100% import then appeared to hang; (progress box went grey) Left it for a few minutes and then saved the project which appeared to clear the greyed out box, then carried on.

My understanding was that re-importing should be almost instant; equivalent to bringing in a photo into the media library?

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PlaySound
Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline
[Post New] Nov 30, 2014 16:27
Quote: Has anyone experienced any issues with 'round trip editing' (between PD13 & Photodirector) having tried it on a project today it was so painfully slow that not worth doing!

Went to make a basic adjustment to a photo which was on the timeline; imported into Photodirector; made one minor adjustment (straightened photo) then went to return to PD13; got to 100% import then appeared to hang; (progress box went grey) Left it for a few minutes and then saved the project which appeared to clear the greyed out box, then carried on.

My understanding was that re-importing should be almost instant; equivalent to bringing in a photo into the media library?

Currently using PD13 v 2319


I use PhotoDirector 3 to cut or improve photo, without closing PD13, add edited photos in PD13 have no problems.

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ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline
[Post New] Nov 30, 2014 16:37
Hi Ed71 -

It's only rarely that I use PhD in that way. My regular workflow is to do any necessary processing of photos in PhD before importing into a PDR project.

I have noticed (when round tripping) that the first time you send a photo in a session it's way slower than subsequent "sends".

Just did a quick round trip test (split times):
Open PhD 6 through PDR 13 - 6.44 seconds
Adjustment - 11.97 seconds
Back to PDR 13 - 15.66 seconds (that's total time for the round trip)

That was the second photo I sent. The first one took 17 seconds just to open PhD.

Cheers - Tony
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Ed71 [Avatar]
Senior Member Location: Dorset, United Kingdom Joined: May 17, 2008 14:32 Messages: 207 Offline
[Post New] Nov 30, 2014 16:43
OK, thanks, will experiment with repeat send / receives.

Like you; had done most of the photo editing separately but then realised image I wanted to use was a bit 'wonky' so thought would try the 'round trip' method.

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ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline
[Post New] Nov 30, 2014 17:00
Ed -

Attached is a real time screen capture un-doctored in any way.

Cheers - Tony
 Filename
PDR-PhD.wmv
[Disk]
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 Filesize
509 Kbytes
 Downloaded:
360 time(s)

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Ed71 [Avatar]
Senior Member Location: Dorset, United Kingdom Joined: May 17, 2008 14:32 Messages: 207 Offline
[Post New] Nov 30, 2014 17:29
Hi Tony

Possibly may be the amount of media in the project am working on; approx 1000 stills / video images

Tried is with small projects / standard PD samples and got the speed you achieved; works really well

Tried again in project had issues with; had exactly the same issue again (see attached)

Though was doing something (the altered image was back in PD) had to close project to get away from the 'greyed out' 100% progress bar
[Thumb - Test.jpg]
 Filename
Test.jpg
[Disk]
 Description
 Filesize
438 Kbytes
 Downloaded:
85 time(s)
Director Suite 365
AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250gb (OS)
Seagate 2TB SATA-III Hybrid 7200RPM Hard Drive (Data)
Toshiba 4TB SATA-III Hard drive (Archive)
24GB Memory
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2gb
Microsoft® Windows 10 (64-bit)
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