HDR Pro Crashing

Question

Using Canon 5d MkII Raw files on new Macbook Pro 13" -  HDR Pro crashes and the operation disappears within Photoshop CS5 about 3/4 through the hdr conversion.  HDR Pro works fine with converted TIFF files.  Any ideas what this may occur or perhaps this may be a bug?   Appreciate suggestions...

Answer 1

Chris:
We've been in contact before about my problem with HDR crashing as well as Photomerge and Load into Photoshop Layers.  What I haven't mentioned since I only recently discovered this, is that these problems are intermittent.  Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.  When they work, they work like a champ. For HDR I can load 10 raw files (NEF) and it works beautifully.  I've successfully loaded as many as 30 files into Photoshop layers. Then it just stops working for the very same files.  I've tried Restart on my computer to "clear the decks" and again sometimes this works and sometimes not.  In another vein I have reported that I have a different problem, in that when I duplicate a Background layer and apply a rotation to the copy, both it AND the Background rotate.  This problem is also sporadic.
Unlike some of others who have weighed in about the HDR problem, it doesn't seem to matter what camera (I have had both the Nikon D200 & 300) or the file type.  I have tried TIFF, JPEG and NEF files.
I should mention that since I've had this problem, I make sure that nothing else is operating at the same time to maximize RAM.  I don't know that me telling you that these problems come and go helps a diagnosis but since I am no computer expert, I thought I would mention it anyway.
Herman R.