I've been using DxO Optics Pro for raw image conversion for over 6 months now. It seems to do its job well, but at a completely unacceptable lack of speedup to 3 minutes per image. Recently Phase One have had a special offer on their Capture One software, so I thought I'd try it out.
Like most photo processing software, it seems, there's a free trialin this case, two months with unrestricted use. I wonder how many people just reinstall every two months. In any case, the installation went smoothly, and once again I was presented with a grey tiled environment. It's not intuitive; I managed to load some images (last week's 239 images, in fact). It insisted on reading them all in and doing some kind of preprocessing, which took over 20 minutes. I'm doing this with Samba and VirtualBox, which could be part of the lack of speed, but I wonder how much faster it would be on a native Microsoft box. It's difficult to say how fast the processing itself is, because I couldn't work out how to do it. Clearly a case for RTFM.