thanks, works fine - I dont know what that file loading process was, but it seems to be irrelevant

I've been stacking in Photoshop, but just bought Helicon expecting a much easier life. I'm hoping I have something set up wrong, as when I load a stack of Nikon raw (NEF) files, it seems to take 20 secs or more to convert each one - and doesn't show a status. I seem to have to go through the stack ...