.JPG Speed

Ok, as I know a lot of you pros out there have mentioned that Aperture is slow. My question is, why is it so slow with .JPG. I've only shot with RAW a few times, so the average file on my system is about 500k in size. While I have a lot of images (approx. 8,000), I have broken them down into more manageable groups.
I have a Dual 1.8GHz G5 with 4GB RAM and the nVidia GeForce 6800 GT. Currently its powering one 30" ACD at full resolution and a 15" Samsung SyncMaster at 1024x768. The speed did not seem to be affected by the second display, as unplugging it or having it in use hasn't affected the speed. I can't imagine why this system would run so slow. Just tagging files and renaming is a dog. And god-forbid should I accidently click on one of the main project windows, it'll sit for a minute or three just trying to display all the images.
I love Aperture, and it really does do exactly what I wanted, but its so slow. I'm rebuilding the library now to see if that fixes it, but anyone else have any reccomendation on how to speed it up, or any other people using mainly JPG that also have huge lag issues?

Browsing speed seems to vary enormously from machine to machine. If I click on a project containing a couple of thousand JPEGs, raw files and TIFFs, the thumbnails show up and can be scrolled through in a matter of seconds - this is on a very similar spec machine - 2x2GHz G5, 4GB RAM, but a wimpy ATI 9600 64MB graphics card.
Loaded the same Library onto a previous generation 1.67GHz PowerBook and it showed thumbnails after 10-20 seconds, although loading individual images was quite a bit slower.
Haven't done much tagging, so can't comment on this.
Ian

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both cores ... 60%
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How does indexing an 3D array which wires to the while-loop affect the speed of the loop iteration? I found that large dimension of sub-arrays in the 3D array slows down the iteration speed by comparing to indexing the same size of sub-array from smaller-sized sub-arrays of the 3D array to perform signal processing inside the while-loop. Why? Is there any other way of designing LabView Program to improve speed of iteration?
attachment:

Thank you all for your prompt replies and your interests. I am sorry about my attachment. But, I have now attached a jpg format image file as you suggested.
I had read the few papers on large data handling such as "LabVIEW Performance and Memory Management". Thus, I had already tried to avoid making unnecessary copies of data and growing arrays in my while-loop. I am not an expert on LabView, so I am not sure if the issues I have are just LabView fundamental limitations or there are any other ways to improve the iteration speed without reducing the input file size and DAQ output rate.
As you request, I also attach my top-level vi showing essential sections such as while-loop and its indexing. The attached file is as an image jpg format because the actual vi including Sub-VIs are as big as 3MB in total. I hope my attachment would be useful for anyone who would like to reply my question. If anyone would like to see my whole vi & llb files, I would be interesting to send it to you by an e-mail privately and thus please provide your e-mail address.
The dimension of my 3D array is N x 7 x M (Page x Row x Column), where N represents number of pages in 3D array, and M represents the size of 1D array. The file I am currently using forms 3D array of N = 28, & M = 10,731. Refering to the top-level vi picture I attached, my while-loop indexes each page per iteration and wrap-around. The sub-VI called "channel" inside the while-loop will further index its input (2D array) into seven of 1D arrays for other signal processsing. The output from that "channel" sub-VI is the superposition of those seven arrays. I hope my explaination is clear.
Attachement: 3Darray.jpg and MyVi.jpg
Kind Regards,
Shein
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Why does error 200279 occur at high speeds only?

I am using a VI very much like the one attached here, and as my motor speeds up and the period value decreases, the vi fails, and error 200279 shows up as displayed in the attached 2 jpg images. This VI is reading the period value of an encoder by rising edges. The error does not show up at low speeds, only high speeds. Hardware is wired through USB ports on PC. Using Labview 2012 and Windows 7.
Do I need to specify the samples per channel for the READ in the case structure to eliminate this error? The error only occurs when the period gets quite short, e.g. 9ms or so. At higher period values (slower motor speeds) the error does not appear. I am using the counters built into the cDAQ9174 chassis and the NI 9401 module to read the period values of my encoder. What is happening at high speeds to cause this error? I thought that the setting on the DAQ Timing VI required that 16 periods are read every iteration, so, why is it saying that it is trying to read samples that are no longer available?
Also, is the "Append Array" building up a large array that is being carried in the SHIFT REGISTER and causing things to slow down? There are a huge number of periods occuring with an encoder at 120 ticks/revolution. should I try to keep this array truncated or something to reduce the size of the data being handled for each iteration? Can this large array be causing the 200279 error?
Thanks,
Dave
Attachments:
forum JUly 18.vi ‏26 KB
error July 18.jpg ‏45 KB
error July 18 part 2.jpg ‏49 KB

I think there's a combination of things that could be contributing. I don't have time for a full explanation right now, here's some quick mods I did to the code you posted. Essential changes are:
- made separate loop for collecting data into a big array. (Maybe you can consider dumping to file instead of growing an array in memory?)
- used a queue to transfer data between loops
- increased the buffer size dramatically while still calculating average of only the most recent periods
- reduced the acquisition loop rate -- expect to retrieve more data points per iteration
There are a couple other things I'd probably add or change with more time, but this minimal set of mods should help some.
-Kevin P

Verizon.net Email Speeds Do Not Match FIOS Line Speeds

In the past months since about September 2012, Verizon email servers are not moving data as fast as the line speeds customers are subscribing to. Such as, Fios 15/5 mbps line speed package, using a browser and going to a speed test website, the results are equal to or better than 15/5.
Except for when Verizon.net customers use the Verizon.net email accounts which come with the internet package. Those speeds have degraded, especially when moving from the old email servers to the new ones (incoming.verizon.net to pop3.verizon.net). The overall speed with their email, via browser or software (Outlook, Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, Thunderbird etc.) has dropped to as little as 1.0 mbps when obtaining email, especially those which have some payload such as a 6 MB .pdf, .jpg., .tiff, .zip, .rar and so forth.
What's fowl about this is, Verizon.net support folks have no access to the email network so they are unable to communicate to those running the email servers that customers are unhappy with the service. Mostly, those who are new to Verizon Fios just continue to use their Gmail or Live accounts which just happen to work satisfactorily, speeds in the area of the above example, 15/5 mbps.
What's really bad about this is, upgrade to the Quantum Fios packages and guess what? Email speeds don’t move an inch faster. This means, the email network/servers with Verizon.net are speed regulated outside of the customers line speed connection. Too bad, customers pay extra for more speed yet, email with Verizon remains at the slow pace. I have much issue with this since in the past, this had never been an issue. Now that Verizon has Fiber, it is? It would be nice if they published this alongside of the many features that come with a Fios ISP account however, it is nowhere to be seen.
This is obviously bait and switch service and features.

You don't go into the details as to why the account was suspended ... that background might be helpful since you're asking others for their opinion. In general it sounds like the account was "deleted" at which point all mail is bounced because the address no longer exists -- but Verizon holds the name in reserve for some period of time to prevent someone from re-registering it in case an error was made and for some level of security, I suppose.
Anyhow ... on your commentary about not using an @verizon.net address as your primary address ... I think you will have this with many providers. Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail all do this if you terminate the account (they do have a suspended account due to inactivity feature which operates differently, but pretty much do the same thing for deletions and such. I don't use the @verizon.net account as my primary for a different reason however -- my primary address is provider agnostic. I can move providers (although I'm quite happy with FiOS at the moment) -or- if at some point down the road I have to move out of Verizon territory, my email address will not need to change. I used this little fact to my advantage when I moved from Comcast to Verizon a few years ago -- no one knew I changed providers because my email address didn't change. Now .. I don't use one of the free services for email, I own my own domain name (about $10/year from the likes of GoDaddy) and have my domain hosted on the Google Apps tier (but even without that, GoDaddy will do basic forwarding for you of any email address to whatever mail account you're presently using). Something to think about.

Script - create .jpg - using various (visible) layers

Hello
I have trubble creating a script for Photoshop CS 5.
I have got a .PSD document with several layers, some of which are visible, some are invisible.
I want the script to make the selected layer visible (only one layer is selected). Than i want it to create a .jpg including all visible Layers. And I want the .jpg named after the name of the document with the addition of 01 (for example: Document named 123.psd, so create 12301.jpg)
After that i need the script to make the selected layer invisible. I than want to automatically select the next layer below (or above, doesn't matter), make that one visible and create a .jpg including all visible layers, like before. This .jpg file needs to add the suffix 02 (so create a file 12302.jpg).
Than make selected layer invisible, select the next layer and repeat.
I found a matching script from 6 years ago on the internet. It works, but painfully slow. I think it is because I am using Photoshop CS 5 and that script was written for a previous version.
Here is the script I am using right now:
var datRef = activeDocument;
var pfad = Folder.selectDialog("Waehle eine Zielordner");
exportOptionsSaveForWeb = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb();
exportOptionsSaveForWeb.quality = 60;
exportOptionsSaveForWeb.includeProfile = true;
exportOptionsSaveForWeb.optimised = true;
exportOptionsSaveForWeb.format = SaveDocumentType.JPEG;
for( var einEbene = 0; einEbene< datRef.artLayers.length; einEbene++) {
    for( var ebenTemp = 0; ebenTemp < datRef.artLayers.length; ebenTemp++) {
        if( datRef.artLayers[ebenTemp].name != "Hintergrund"){
            datRef.artLayers[ebenTemp].visible = false;}
    savedState = datRef.activeHistoryState;
    if( datRef.artLayers[einEbene].name != "Hintergrund"){
        datRef.artLayers[einEbene].visible = true;
        var saveFile = new File(pfad + "/" + datRef.artLayers[einEbene].name + ".jpg");
        datRef.exportDocument (saveFile, ExportType.SAVEFORWEB, exportOptionsSaveForWeb);}
    datRef.activeHistoryState = savedState;
If you can help me, run that script faster, or create a script that does what I described propperly, it'll be mutch appreceated.

I don't think it's because you have CS5. Scripts that work with layers like this can be slow. Sometimes very slow Depending on the number of layer in the document and the document size. Exporting the files using SaveForWeb may also be a speed problem with large documents.

PS CS4, refuses to save one file type .psd to another file type .jpg. How to resolve? Desperate!

I open a .psd file, make changes to eliminate layers and reduce the file size to then save as a smaller .jpg file. However, when the drop down window pops up to select what file extension I would choose, it immediately flashes closed with out time to make a selection .jpg or otherwise. No matter how many times I try to "beat" the window and make a selection, it's faster than me and it closes. It refuses to allow me to change the file type extension. This problem seems to have developed after downloading recent updates to the program. It's preventing me from doing my work. I need help fast. Can anyone help? I've already tried deleting the program from my system and reloading it, but the problem didn't go away.
Other minor glitch happened at the same time. Any file or group of files opened now fill the screen and are anchored together. I have to go to the menu every time and select 'Float all Windows', and if any other file is opened during the same work session, all previous files will become full screen images again and anchor themselves together again, so need to go to the menu and select 'Float all Windows' AGAIN. It's a real pain. I've tried looking in the preferences and didn't find a solution to the problem. Anyone have any suggestions? This problem is minor thought, compared to the first one listed which has crippled me moving forward in my work.
Thanks to anyone who can help....

Hi Noel,
Thanks for trying to assist me. Below is the system info you requested, but to my knowledge, I haven't consciously loaded anything other than a few fonts beyond the original program and any subsequent updates from Adobe. I did forget to list earlier that I'm working on WIN 7 OS. I hope this helps...
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Wrong embedded colour profile causes huge jpg files when published to .Mac

D'oh! i posted the following on the iDisk discussion my mistake. Here it is all again for iWebbites:
I've spent most of the day trying to optimise my new iWeb site on .Mac but the published jpg files are far too big.
Despite sizing to 800x600 px and jpegging at about 5 or 6 in Photoshop which resulted in a file size of about 100kb on my local disk, when uploaded to .Mac via iWeb the they have turned into 800 kb files.
Lots of trouble-shooting, including ensuring that they weren't converted to png, that they have no borders, reflections or drop-shadows yet they still got bloated on the upload. Especially the photos in the photo-gallery page.
I've isolated the problem but don't know what to do next:
Turns out, iWeb ignores the sRGB embedded colour profile and replaces it with the monitor profile of the originating computer.
I discovered this after I opened the file in Photoshop directly via iDisk in Finder. Converting or assigning the file to sRGB and saving it back down to iDisk immediately restored it to its intended file size of 100kb and this time with the correct sRGB colour profile.
Going now to the domain.sites on my local disk and opening the package shows all the photos doubled up. A 360 x 264 .jpeg file with the monitor profile embedded and bloated out to 800kb plus the original 800x600 image with sRGB and .jpg as the file type but still only 100kb
So what the heck is happening in iWeb to do this and to use the wrong file type associations with the wrong file when uploaded?
There is very little on the forum about colour (color) profiles and no mention of the bloat in file size, just a reference to colour and tone issues with the wrong profile so I'm wondering if its related to the 1.1.2 update. (I haven't really tried using iWeb until the last week or so).
Fixing the problem by post processing the photos on my site every time I publish would be impossible with the amount of photos I have and my intention of updating the web galleries regularly.
As you can find out if you go to a photo page on my site:
< <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://web.mac.com/adrian_malloch/iWeb/AdrianMallochPhotography/ Kabaddi.html > some pages take horrendously long to load. Check out some of the other Subculture pages. I haven't tested them all but Safari Activity viewer shows that most of the slow speed is related to opening jpeg files.
Any help and informed suggestions would be hugely appreciated.

This is doing my head in.
My last two comments "posted" half way through writing, before I had a chance to edit completely.
Here's how it should have read :
Using sRGB as a monitor profile, in itself, doesn't make a lot of sense.
A monitor profile is custom made specifically for the monitor to compensate for its display characteristics.
A "good enough" monitor profile is to use the software calibration built into the Displays preferences. Go to System Preferences/Displays/Color/Calibrate and follow the prompts. Hint: squint as you try to judge the colour and tone differences. The idea is to make the detail so fuzzy you don't notice it.
It's not very accurate, especially with LCD screens, but it's better than nothing and certainly better than using a universal colour space like sRGB, etc.
The accurate option is to get hold of a hardware calibrator like the Spyder, or Gretag-McBeth iOne Display (which I use). It costs a bit but is vital for accurate repeatable colour.
The whole point is that when the profile is made up and is set as the default profile, then you will get a WYSIWYG screen.
So, the same images will look the same on different monitors providing they each have accurate monitor profiles made specifically for them.
If you use sRGB as your monitor profile then you cannot expect the image to look the same on any one else's machine, whether they use sRGB, a monitor profile or any other profile. Worse still, if you change an image to "look right" on your screen, chances are that the image will look horrible on another screen.
Hence, why I will only switch to sRGB monitor profile as a workaround for uploading in iWeb. Nothing else!!

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