glenerrolrd
Workshop Member
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No one seems to be giving this issue the time of day ..so I thought I might be direct. LR alters your original DNGs even when referenced without moving.
My workflow is pretty conservative . I import to a folder structure under Mac OS and maintain backups of this folder structure. This is completely independent of LR or any other software.
When I import the folders to LR ...I specify reference the files without moving.
After a few days posting to both adobe and the usual forums....I understand that LR posts the sidecar information (normally contained in a .xmp file) directly into your original . There appears to be no doubt that it has altered your DNG that you assumed was safe. The recommendations I received indicated that to preserve the original out of the camera ..you have to back it up independent of LR. :wtf:
To make matters worse it appears that if you specified compressed DNG you just developed your original and baked in the profile . This kills taking the same file into C1 because it will not view it as an original raw and will not apply the camera profile. I have not done this .
The other issue for those of you using LR as your DAM system and exporting from LR the selects for reprocessing ..you will get the stuffed DNG . My tests show this works OK into C1 but others are stating on the LUF that the files are cooked.
Can this really be new information after more than 2 years of LR processing?
No one seems to be giving this issue the time of day ..so I thought I might be direct. LR alters your original DNGs even when referenced without moving.
My workflow is pretty conservative . I import to a folder structure under Mac OS and maintain backups of this folder structure. This is completely independent of LR or any other software.
When I import the folders to LR ...I specify reference the files without moving.
After a few days posting to both adobe and the usual forums....I understand that LR posts the sidecar information (normally contained in a .xmp file) directly into your original . There appears to be no doubt that it has altered your DNG that you assumed was safe. The recommendations I received indicated that to preserve the original out of the camera ..you have to back it up independent of LR. :wtf:
To make matters worse it appears that if you specified compressed DNG you just developed your original and baked in the profile . This kills taking the same file into C1 because it will not view it as an original raw and will not apply the camera profile. I have not done this .
The other issue for those of you using LR as your DAM system and exporting from LR the selects for reprocessing ..you will get the stuffed DNG . My tests show this works OK into C1 but others are stating on the LUF that the files are cooked.
Can this really be new information after more than 2 years of LR processing?