Can someone help me find if it is possible to embed nksc sidecar files into nef files directly?
For xmp I used exiftool "-xmp<=%d/%f.xmp" -ext nef .
For nksc I tried various variants like copying the nksc.config together with exiftool.exe to the C:\Windows directory and running something like: exiftool -config nksc.config "-nksc<=%d/%f.nksc" -ext %d/%f.nef .
Any help on 1) if this is possible and 2) how to do it would be greatly appreciated
If possible please bear in mind that the nksc files are by default put into a NKSC_PARAM directory and not into the same directory as the image files.
Many thanks in advance
Thomas
I use win10pro
You just need a place to put it. In general I wouldn't recommend trying to put something non-standard into a RAW file like NEF, but if you choose the right location it shouldn't cause any problems. Either a user-defined EXIF tag or some Baes64-encoded XMP tag may do.
- Phil
Is there any particular reason you want to do this? The resulting embedded data would not be readable by any program.
Quote from: StarGeek on July 13, 2020, 12:33:21 PM
Is there any particular reason you want to do this? The resulting embedded data would not be readable by any program.
I can see the logic behind this. It puts the editing back inside the photo file that you could retrieve later. There is always the danger that sidecar files could become dissasociated from the photo file.