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23 Comments on Convert Raw to DNG Automator Action

Adam on Fri, 11th Jan 2008 11:47 am


Thanks for getting this working in Leopard! It works great.

- Adam

Thomas on Wed, 16th Jan 2008 2:17 am


Can not get it to work with .nef or .orf files… The action seems to always try and find .cr2 files…

Claudette on Sun, 20th Jan 2008 12:40 am


Hi,

This does not work for me either Leopard and Nikon raw files.

A message pops up: “find (…) “.cr2″ – maybe that helps?

C

anthony on Sun, 20th Jan 2008 7:17 pm


ditto on .nef – does not work

Ben Long on Sat, 26th Jan 2008 9:48 pm


Sorry guys, it now works for all file formats. Download the new version and you should be good. Unfortunately, there was also a bug in the “Check for Updates” mechanism, so it’s not working in the version you have. That’s fixed now, too.

Thomas on Mon, 28th Jan 2008 5:44 pm


Thank you! The new version does the trick

Thomas

Tea Vui Huang on Wed, 13th Feb 2008 6:55 am


DNG now supported on Google Mobile Phone (gPhone)
http://teavuihuang.com/dng

Tea Vui Huang’s “DNGwriter” is a Google Android library that allows gPhone (Google Android Handset) camera images to be saved straight to the Adobe Digital Negative (DNG) Raw image format. This product includes DNG technology under license by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Sample DNG photo is available on the above website.

Cannot add this action... on Sat, 16th Feb 2008 1:17 am


Hi

Downloaded this action. Installed it with double click to automator. The action refuses to participate in any workflow (does not move to the workflow window when creating the workflow).

I can create any other kind of workflows, but raw dng converter will not want to participate.

Running 10.5.2.

Fintan on Sat, 16th Feb 2008 6:06 am


Hi

Same problem. Cannot add this action. The action refuses to participate in a workflow. Any ideas?

John Scherer on Thu, 13th Mar 2008 5:45 pm


Maybe a stupid question but is there any way I can have the Convert Raw to DNG action put the created DNG files into a subdirectory of the original directory without having to specify it at run time

Mike on Mon, 17th Mar 2008 7:55 pm


Like number 8 & 9 I can’t get this action to work after installing.

Justin Kent on Fri, 21st Mar 2008 10:06 am


Thanks a lot! I used it to convert a batch of Sony .ARW files and it worked perfectly.

Marco on Tue, 24th Jun 2008 1:08 pm


Thanx a lot!
I’ve got 1 little problem though (besides my english), maybe someone can help me out.
In automator i created a hotfolder so when i shoot a raw file (tethered) the dng converter automaticly kicks in. Though with every new file I have to set up the settings of the dng converter… Since I’m new to automator mayb somebody can help me out to make a sort of default setting..

Marco on Wed, 25th Jun 2008 11:19 am


ah, nevermind, found it, DONT show action when run, like I said; new to automator….

glenn on Sat, 20th Sep 2008 4:25 am


I’ve downloaded this action, but couldn’t find any option to convert .ARW files. I’ve tried using all Sony and Minolta RAW format but as soon as I import them to Aperture, the exposure and white balance shift is so great it makes the photo look bright and pink. I tried converting manually and importing them to aperture manually and everything is fine. Is there any way this can be fixed?

Aaron Smale on Sun, 28th Sep 2008 5:11 am


Is there any way this could be made into a plug-in for Aperture so that it works in the same way as the DNG converter built into LR? This has the option of converting to DNG on import or after.

rw2-bestand,photoshop,cs4 on Thu, 3rd Jun 2010 8:21 pm


[...] kan eens proberen door je RAW bestanden om te zetten naar DNG met deze converter. [...]

Dimitri on Tue, 15th Jun 2010 7:13 pm


This action is exactly what I was looking for…
But I have Samsung DSLR that uses uncompressed DNG format, so I usually use DNG Converter to convert DNG to DNG just to compress it (reduces the size in half, no loss of quality). Unfortunately, DNG is not one of the supported input formats.
Is there anything that can be done?

Ben Long on Mon, 5th Jul 2010 10:04 am


Interesting point. I’ll see what I can come up with.

Sef on Thu, 26th Aug 2010 9:54 pm


Love Automator, love your work on this too! When I get paid, maybe I’ll send some your way!

You may have another way round this, but I realized that passing a to will only convert the FIRST raw file if the folder has JPEGS in it as well. Apparently doesn’t ignore them, but stops. Also, passing has same result.

I fixed this by placing a in between whichever & your

You might consider (if this is possible) allowing your action to ignore all other file formats (JPEGs etc.) to make this more user friendly, and have less hand-holding with Automator.

Great work, thanks so much.
Sef.

Sef on Thu, 26th Aug 2010 9:56 pm


Ooh. Ben, can you delete my last post? I used Left and Right Arrow Brackets (like html) and they were interpreted… probably as html, and deleted. That post now makes no sense at all.

Will post the corrected version next.

Sef on Thu, 26th Aug 2010 9:59 pm


Love Automator, love your work on this too! When I get paid, maybe I’ll send some your way!

You may have another way round this, but I realized that passing a to [Convert Raw to DNG] will only convert the FIRST raw file if the folder has JPEGS in it as well. Apparently [Convert RAW...] doesn’t ignore them, but stops. Also, passing [Selected Item in Finder] has same result.

I fixed this by placing a [Sort Finder Items, by kind in ascending] in between whichever [Finder action] & your [Convert RAW...] action.

You might consider, if this is possible, allowing your [Convert RAW...] action to ignore all other file formats, JPEGs etc., to make this more user friendly, and have less hand-holding with Automator.

Great work, thanks so much.
Sef.

Ben Long on Sun, 29th Aug 2010 10:04 am


Thanks for the feedback, Sef. I’m hoping to re-tool this action soon, but it’s just hard to get it into the schedule. That’s a great suggestion, though.

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