Title: Canon DPP to Lightroom conversions
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:28 AM
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:28 AM
[Originally posted by redbaron on 2008-11-11 19:08:09-08]
I have been using DPP for 4 years and now converting to Lightroom. All of my edits for exposure, saturation, contrast, crops, and stamps have been done with DPP and saved in the CR2 RAW files. My hope is to create an XMP file from the CR2 that contains the recipes, and then import this into Lightroom, which will then apply all of these edits automatically.
I performed a test of a CR2 file edited with DPP, ran exiftool(-o %d%f.xmp).exe on the CR2 to create an XMP, then brought this into Lightroom. Seems like all of the edits were ignored. Am I SOL on this idea? Thanks for your help.
Doug.
I have been using DPP for 4 years and now converting to Lightroom. All of my edits for exposure, saturation, contrast, crops, and stamps have been done with DPP and saved in the CR2 RAW files. My hope is to create an XMP file from the CR2 that contains the recipes, and then import this into Lightroom, which will then apply all of these edits automatically.
I performed a test of a CR2 file edited with DPP, ran exiftool(-o %d%f.xmp).exe on the CR2 to create an XMP, then brought this into Lightroom. Seems like all of the edits were ignored. Am I SOL on this idea? Thanks for your help.
Doug.
Title: Re: Canon DPP to Lightroom conversions
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:28 AM
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:28 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-11-11 19:36:04-08]
Hi Doug,
This is an interesting idea, but implementing this properly would be very
tricky since there is a big difference between the way that DPP and
LR store the edit information. There is little chance that
a straight copy-by-name of the editing information (as you did)
would accomplish anything useful. It may be possible to do what
you want, but each editing feature would have to be investigated
individually to see how the Canon VRD information maps into
the LR edit history. Just looking at the crop settings for instance,
Canon and Adobe use different coordinate systems for these, so
the values would have to be scaled between the two information
types.
So I would say you are probably SOL unless you have a lot of time and
talent to apply to this problem. But I give you bonus points
for coming up with such a creative idea in the first place.
- Phil
Hi Doug,
This is an interesting idea, but implementing this properly would be very
tricky since there is a big difference between the way that DPP and
LR store the edit information. There is little chance that
a straight copy-by-name of the editing information (as you did)
would accomplish anything useful. It may be possible to do what
you want, but each editing feature would have to be investigated
individually to see how the Canon VRD information maps into
the LR edit history. Just looking at the crop settings for instance,
Canon and Adobe use different coordinate systems for these, so
the values would have to be scaled between the two information
types.
So I would say you are probably SOL unless you have a lot of time and
talent to apply to this problem. But I give you bonus points
for coming up with such a creative idea in the first place.
- Phil
Title: Re: Canon DPP to Lightroom conversions
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:28 AM
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:28 AM
[Originally posted by redbaron on 2008-11-11 22:17:53-08]
Thanks Phil, I was afraid of that. If there was a great demand for such a tool I would be happy to work on it, as I have about 10,000 images to reprocess. Seems like a universal standard for editing recipes would serve the industry well. I worked several years on developing XML schemas for e-catalogs and order entry for the office furniture industry, and it took a lot of effort to bring the industy together to agree on standards. If Adobe would document their XMP Sidecar data, it would at least solve half of the puzzle. Reverse-engineering the data files would indeed take a lot of time and patience...probably easier to just re-import my images
Thanks for all your great work on Exiftool.
Doug.
Thanks Phil, I was afraid of that. If there was a great demand for such a tool I would be happy to work on it, as I have about 10,000 images to reprocess. Seems like a universal standard for editing recipes would serve the industry well. I worked several years on developing XML schemas for e-catalogs and order entry for the office furniture industry, and it took a lot of effort to bring the industy together to agree on standards. If Adobe would document their XMP Sidecar data, it would at least solve half of the puzzle. Reverse-engineering the data files would indeed take a lot of time and patience...probably easier to just re-import my images
Thanks for all your great work on Exiftool.Doug.