Cover Flow: Render All Previews (Permanently!) Command?

Hi.
I take a ton of photos. Sometimes, I don't have time to weed through and get rid of the bad ones on the camera, so I just transfer them all and get rid of the bad stuff later. When I do that, I usually use Cover Flow. Unfortunately, the photos are in RAW (.cr2) format. That means that, at 15 MB per image, the previews take a while to render. And here's the worst part: Cover Flow, in it's brilliance, only renders the previews that should be currently visible. So, then, when I scroll, it has to stop and render the new previews. And here's the other worst part: suppose I scroll all the way to one end, then all the way back to the beginning. It has to rerender those AGAIN. Is there any way around this?
Thanks in advance.

nate12345 wrote:
Hi.
I take a ton of photos. Sometimes, I don't have time to weed through and get rid of the bad ones on the camera, so I just transfer them all and get rid of the bad stuff later. When I do that, I usually use Cover Flow. Unfortunately, the photos are in RAW (.cr2) format. That means that, at 15 MB per image, the previews take a while to render. And here's the worst part: Cover Flow, in it's brilliance, only renders the previews that should be currently visible. So, then, when I scroll, it has to stop and render the new previews. And here's the other worst part: suppose I scroll all the way to one end, then all the way back to the beginning. It has to rerender those AGAIN. Is there any way around this?
no, there isn't. things like this are hard coded into Finder and you can't change them. I would also say that the current coverflow behavior makes perfect sense. doing it the way you want would consume a lot more resources and could easily overwhelm the system if you have a larger number of large images like yours to render. ever tried putting a lot of images on the desktop? even with small jpeg images if you put, say, a thousand of them on the desktop, Finder will crumble trying to render them even on a fastest Mac. with large images like yours it will likely take much less than a thousand to get the same result.
Thanks in advance.

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