I've just switched to darktable from rawtherapee, and have to say that I'm very pleased. It's very easy to create bundles of settings that work well, and the output quality is very good. I do have a lot more to learn, though!
But one part of my workflow, related to my penchant for creating panoramas, is causing problems. For reference, my workflow is: 1) Import images from my memory card(s) with a custom script that preserves the directory structure from the card. 2) Slurp them into KPhotoAlbum. 3) Select the images *and panorama sequences* that I want to keep. Each panorama sequence is symlinked into a separate directory; the singletons are symlinked into an additional directory. 4) In darktable, I process the "singleton" directory and each pano sequence as a separate collection. As I finish work on each directory, I export it and move on to the next. I then process all of the pano sequences with hugin. The problem here is that each time I export a collection darktable immediately starts work on it. I have darktable set to use 4 threads; it appears that when I export multiple collections, the actual number of threads used is 4 per collection (my system is a Core i7 first generation, with 16 GB RAM), which results in CPU overconsumption. Using a more or less up to date (within the past few weeks, at any rate) git repo, I can't find any setting to force proper queuing behavior, as hugin does (when I'm done building a panorama and click the Stitch button in hugin, it enqueues the job, processing them consecutively. Am I missing something, or does anyone have any better ideas how to do this? -- Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
