I spent about 4 hours last night going through every program I could put my hands on, and unfortunately either the software isn't ass good (or reliable), or there is a learning curve I couldn't beat...
To give you a background, I spent maybe 2 hours at work playing with the different softwares, and Switch was by far the best outcome. There is a slight learning curve with the menu system, but once you find settings that work, it's a breeze.
I used MlRawViewer in the past, and it's a good solution for converting, but it doesn't upscale and include the denoise and sharpening options
I used Mlv App last night and I tried about 5-6 different Sharpening and denoise options, but none of them kept the details, they just muddied the image up, and smoothed out edges. Needless to say, I couldn't get the results I got on Switch. In addition, it froze doing a batch at about 12%, so I consider that unreliable.
Switch essentially gave my 5dIII new life, because the 1080 RAW image that came out of it could be upscaled and could sit side by side with an actual 4K image out of a production camera. I'd really like to have the opportunity to work with those files or anything I shoot at home. Unfortunately all my processing power is the PC ecosystem.
The only other options I have is to try Linux, but I'm not at all familiar with that ecosystem, so I would have to get over a steep learning curve...
To give you a background, I spent maybe 2 hours at work playing with the different softwares, and Switch was by far the best outcome. There is a slight learning curve with the menu system, but once you find settings that work, it's a breeze.
I used MlRawViewer in the past, and it's a good solution for converting, but it doesn't upscale and include the denoise and sharpening options
I used Mlv App last night and I tried about 5-6 different Sharpening and denoise options, but none of them kept the details, they just muddied the image up, and smoothed out edges. Needless to say, I couldn't get the results I got on Switch. In addition, it froze doing a batch at about 12%, so I consider that unreliable.
Switch essentially gave my 5dIII new life, because the 1080 RAW image that came out of it could be upscaled and could sit side by side with an actual 4K image out of a production camera. I'd really like to have the opportunity to work with those files or anything I shoot at home. Unfortunately all my processing power is the PC ecosystem.
The only other options I have is to try Linux, but I'm not at all familiar with that ecosystem, so I would have to get over a steep learning curve...