Downloading the standalone Adobe DNG converter.

asamuel

Having read the DAM book I am commiting to DNG conversion. However , The book Talks of a converter that can batch convert folders full of RAW images. THis is just called the DNG converter.

I have looked on the ADOBE site, its a free download. But i am unable to find it. I can only find the Plug in converter for RAW but this does not have the capacity to convert folders.

Does anyone have the link?

:bow

arodney

asamuel wrote:

Its is just called the DNG converter.

That's it. You can do it in Camera Raw too. I do it all now using Lightroom on import or soon after.

arodney

http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/

asamuel

arodney > that looks great. I've downloaded it, now just have to fit it into the system:D

arodney

asamuel wrote:

arodney > that looks great. I've downloaded it, now just have to fit it into the system:D

I like to convert as step one whenever possible because the conversion process verifies the integrity of the Raw file. IF there's a problem, you'll know about it before you format the card.

Rhuarc

arodney wrote:

I like to convert as step one whenever possible because the conversion process verifies the integrity of the Raw file. IF there's a problem, you'll know about it before you format the card.

This is what I did at first as well, but then I realized I was having a real speed difference using Lightroom between DNG and CR2. Someone explained it to me, that when you use CR2 (or other RAW file) it just writes the changes to the LR database, not to any sidecar files. Then when you want you just use the command in LR to save metadata changes to file. When I used DNG it wrote every little change I made to the DNG files right away. This slowed down the responsiveness of the system significantly.

This may have just been my experience though. I now import CR2 files into LR, do my changes, save metadata changes to xmp sidecar files, then run the DNG Converter on them. Since I don't use LR for cataloging after I have them converted I just remove the CR2s from the LR library, then import the DNG files into IDImager.

Anyway, just my .00000002 cents!!

arodney

You can update the internal preview (JPEG) but that's a manual process (available first in CR, now in LR 1.1.). In a way, its a good idea to allow users to do this when they want to otherwise, there's all this automatic updating which slows everything down (like the preference in LR to update XMP, which by default is off).

This is even a bigger issue when using CR or LR for doing metadata editing on rendered images. Say you have a JPEG. You bring it into CR and apply and edit. The XMP is embedded but if you hand the file to someone else who doesn't have CR, they see the WRONG preview which was based on the image prior to the metadata edit.