10 Replies Latest reply: Jun 22, 2009 6:38 AM by SG... RSS

    Bridge Stacks

    Mark A Goodwin Community Member

      What am I doing wrong?

       

      If I click on a stack to view - with the frame rate at it's lowest 23 - the frame just whizz through I can't see them as they are too fast. Am incorrect in thinking that I should be able to click on the stack and view watch frame as if it was a mini slideshow?

       

      Regards

      Mark

        • 1. Re: Bridge Stacks
          Omke Oudeman Community Member

           

          What am I doing wrong?

           

          If I click on a stack to view - with the frame rate at it's lowest 23 - the

          frame just whizz through I can't see them as they are too fast. Am incorrect

          in thinking that I should be able to click on the stack and view watch frame

          as if it was a mini slideshow?

           

           

          Nothing, it does not work AFAIK. You can try to use the slider but I agree

          that this is not accurate

           

          If you want to see the content just click on the top file or on the icon

          with the number of files that are in it. This expands the stack as well as

          clicking on it does collapse them (or use the shortcut that shows under the

          Stack menu)

           

          Use the space bar or the Cmd B option to view them at full screen or in a

          carousel.

           

          Just use stacks for organizing the content panel, don't trust them to much

          because for some unknown reason they can ungroup themselves at once. You are

          not able to use filtering when in stacks etc etc.

          • 2. Re: Bridge Stacks
            Mark A Goodwin Community Member

            Many thanks for the reply Omke,

             

            I still can't figure why Adobe should include such a feature if it is basically just a 'grouping' feature and nothing else. I think Bridge an excellent piece of kit and I am looking forward to upgrading to CS4 in the neat future.

             

            However, I am having a number of problems with it not performing as required recently. In many cases if after flipping out of to do something else, when I go back it does not respond to the mouse click, or the keyboard! I am seriously thinking about re-installing, but I am not that technical, and I don't want to screw up anything or loose any pictures etc.

             

            I just feel it is not as good now as when I first installed. It's not a memory thing as I have 6 Gig, but there definitely some bugs in there.

             

            Regards

             

            Mark

            • 3. Re: Bridge Stacks
              Omke Oudeman Community Member

               

              I just feel it is not as good now as when I first installed. It's not a memory thing as I have 6 Gig, but there definitely some bugs in there.

               

               

              That sounds familiar for Bridge CS3.

               

              Here is what I did every now and then (in fact about every 6 weeks ):

               

              For a real fresh start (meaning you loose all the cached previews before and also need to read all the previous saved cache to folder files)

              Quit Bridge,

               

              from the user library cache folder delete the Bridge Cache (cache / Adobe / Bridge CS3) and inhere move both files to the trash - they will refresh themselves with a new empty file after restart Bridge.

               

              Also in the same user library preferences folder delete the AdobeBridge plist file (com.adobe.bridge2.plist)

              Restart Bridge holding down option key and choose refresh preferences.

               

              Reset preferences and workspace to your wishes and you have a very fresh start as if it was newly installed (but depending on the amount of files and folders you will need some time to recache the files)

               

              I think Bridge an excellent piece of kit and I am looking forward to upgrading to CS4 in the neat future.

               

               

              Well, I still would not call it 'excellent' for as it is now but I agree that it is a very nice application for use as a digital lighttable. I use it every day and am a big fan of it, CS4 is a much better version so you really should consider to upgrade. But the programmers for Bridge have still a lot of of work to do before we can call it Excellent....

              • 4. Re: Bridge Stacks
                Mark A Goodwin Community Member

                Omke,

                 

                Once again, many thanks for your input, I will certainly try what you have suggested.

                 

                Regards

                 

                Mark

                • 5. Re: Bridge Stacks
                  SG... Employee Hosts

                  Hi Mark,

                   

                  The frame rate for Stacks is not intended for use as a slideshow. It is there to playback sequence images. If you want a slideshow for just the stacked files, you have a couple of options. You can manually scrub thru the images by click dragging the circle to the right of the play icon. Or you can select the complete stack (click the offset frame or the number icon) and then use the View> Slideshow command (cmd + L).

                   

                  Hopefully that helps you out.

                   

                  thx,

                  steve

                  • 6. Re: Bridge Stacks
                    Mark A Goodwin Community Member

                    Thanks Steve,

                     

                    Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough.

                     

                    It's not that I want to use the stack as a slide show. It's just that I couldn't work out what the feature was supposed to be doing. No matter how many or few pics I have in the stack, there is nothing I can get from clicking the little 'doobry' at the top of the stack, other than the quick fly past!

                     

                    Cheers

                     

                    Mark

                    Sunny Wales -UK

                    • 7. Re: Bridge Stacks
                      SG... Employee Hosts

                      Hi Mark,

                       

                      In your OP you mentioned frame rates and mini-slideshow, which is why I took the slideshow tack.

                       

                      The Stacks feature can provide a few things, and the playback 'scrubber' element is not meant to be all encompassing. It is really just a sub-element to allow our DVA customers a way to preview collections of frames in an image sequence.

                       

                      Stacks in a still image/graphic workflow can be used to collect mulitple images for HDR, or panorama stitching in Ps without having to store them in a nested folder. Or a way to organize similar burst shots and only display the hero selection. Or a quick way to isolate subsets of images in a folder for batch metadata processing. Or a way to isolate a range of photos from sorting on the folder sort criteria.

                       

                      Stacks is really just a UI treatment for content viewing in Bridge, and does have some fragility which makes it less useful in some workflows. It works well if the stacks stay in the folder where they are created, or elements of the stack are moved between folders. it doesn't work to move whole stacks between folders though.

                       

                      CS4 has an Auto-Stack feature which will use camera data to collect images which are appropriate for HDR or panoramic stitching and stack them together for further processing in Ps.

                       

                      http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Bridge/3.0/WS3B0804D4-9DB7-441d-983D-0F863872F6E6.html

                       

                      Cheers,

                      steve

                      • 8. Re: Bridge Stacks
                        Ramón G Castañeda Community Member

                        SG... wrote:

                         

                        …our DVA customers a way to preview collections of frames in an image sequence.

                         

                        Steve, I'm baffled and curious.  What's "DVA"?

                         

                         

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                        • 9. Re: Bridge Stacks
                          Mark A Goodwin Community Member

                          Steve,

                           

                          Thanks that does make a lot of sense. One thing I have been also doing, is swopping stacks in between folders, so that would obviously confuse things as well.

                           

                          Thanks again

                           

                          Mark

                          • 10. Re: Bridge Stacks
                            SG... Employee Hosts

                            Sorry Ramón,

                             

                            I've been meaning to come back here. You clicked the wrong Google link ;-)

                             

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