I did not try this on my 16' MacBook Pro yet but it will be slower yet I am sure.īlending the stabilize results with layers is likely a good idea. I have never seen an editing action take anywhere near this much time. The stabilize is a power hog for sure, my iMac Pro with 64RAM and GPU on medium required 2.5 min to process an A9 file. Both programs allow this in the manual settings. This also reduces uneven denoise results that can occur with particularly higher ISO's. With the denoise or sharpen / stabilize, I like to add some grain back in to keep what I think is a more real fabric to the image without any plastic feel. These topaz products are wizard like, I am impressed. Have you bench marked Sharpen AI with the GPU on and off? I am surprised it does not get hot enough to fry pancakes. I took a look at the latest MBP and it has a nice GPU with separate video memory. Discreet GPU is not the same as a eGPU (of course eGPU is a discreet GPU also). My 15" rMBP (original 2012 version) has an integrated intel GPU and a discrete GPU. My iMac GPU is a discreet GPU (model noted in my post earlier). Last time I checked, Sharpen AI took about 1 minute for 30 MB file, Denoise AI is faster. Both Denoise AI and Sharpen AI Are fairly quick for me. IMacs and MBP’s DO have discrete GPU Chips (except for the very basic models.) They work quite well. I went back and forth testing with mine between the gaming driver vs the Photo processing driver and it really was incredible the difference on speed between the two. I would recommend checking for driver updates on your graphics cards. Not really too bad on the Denoise, but pretty slow on the Sharpen when it's large files. I updated my software on mine to a special driver that they released recently just for photo processing and it made a major difference. Mine has a separate graphics and even the software driver made a difference. For some reason Macs are not compatible with Nvidia GPUs. In order to get a discrete GPU you need a Thunderbolt 3 port and an eGPU (external GPU) box with an AMD GPU. I believe iMacs do not have a discrete GPU (or a discreet GPU), just the GPU chip in the Intel processor. GThe file then comes back to LR as a TIF file which can retain the layers if I wish. Regardless, because of the sharpening artifacts, I always use PS to run Topaz Sharpen AI on a separate layer and then mask out any artifacts. I did not spend a lot of time studying that effect so I can't offer an explanation for why that sometimes happened. I also found that using Topaz Sharpen AI as a plug-in for LR sometimes produced color artifacts that were not present if I move the file from LR to PS and then used Sharpen AI as a smart filters. When Stabilize works it can make some remarkable improvements. I rarely us Stabilize for that reason, although it is meant to be used in situations where there is motion blur. I have found that Topaz Sharpen AI can produce a lot of artifacts and the artifacts become more severe as you move from Sharpen, to Focus, and then to Stabilize mode. I found having the GPU on increased the speed a factor of 7-9X. Several months ago I benchmarked my Nvidia 1060 GPU for Topaz Sharpen AI on my Windows 10 Skylake system. Maybe that is for the Mac Pro? This is in the about section. Since my iMac does have a separate graphic card with 4GB, I set the setting to ON and we will see whether there is any improvement in the processing speed. With that setting, the selection to Enable Intel Open VINO is greyed out. On my iMac, the setting for the "Enable discreet GPU" is set already to NO. It seems to be way faster on my iMac if you put "Enable discreet GPU" to NO and Enable Intel OpenVINO to YES. There are some different GPU options that may make a difference one way or the other. See what you have selected under the Advanced options under the Preferences in both of the Topaz programs.
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