26 May, 2005
DNG Workflow Part II
Jeff Schewe has posted the second part of his DNG Workflow series: DNG Workflow Part II.
In this article, he describes a process for using Adobe DNG Converter to handle the actual transfer of images from your CF card to your computer (the “image ingestion” step). DNG Converter will find all the RAW files in all the subfolders on your CF card, and can process them all into DNG files in a single folder on your disk. It also has a variety of options for renaming the files as it goes, and can verify the integrity of each file.
Using DNG Converter for image ingestion is slower than simply copying them, but if you add in the time required to get the files out of subfolders and into a single folder and rename them, there probably isn’t much difference. Besides the philosophical advantages of using DNG, you’ll also likely gain a 20% saving on disk space compared to using proprietary RAW files.
Filed under: RAW Files,Workflow
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