ARW to DNG & JPG: organizer versions/stacks?

I shot a bunch of photos raw only semi-inadvertantly. (Been looking for an excuse to figure out a raw workflow, guess I found it.)
So I've figured out how to use PSE Organizer 12/PSE 12 to batch the ARW to DNG then JPG or straight to JPG. Easy enough. (Though someow the first time through I ended up wioth two DNGs for each one. Still not sure exactly how I did that...)
But that path seems to be complely divorced from the Organizer. I'd like the ancilary products (DNG/JPG) to be saved as Version Sets or Stacks with the original raw files. No Joy. I tagged the ARW and did the whole face recognition thing with the raw files. I'd like that metadata to somehow pass forward to the DNG/JPG. No Joy.
Am I missing something? Just not supposed to batch this? (Given number of files, sigh.) Not supposed to tag anything at the raw stage? Just not suppsed to use Organizer? Expected to separately import the ancialary products into Organizer and stack them myself?

Dick W wrote:
I shot a bunch of photos raw only semi-inadvertantly. (Been looking for an excuse to figure out a raw workflow, guess I found it.)
So I've figured out how to use PSE Organizer 12/PSE 12 to batch the ARW to DNG then JPG or straight to JPG. Easy enough. (Though someow the first time through I ended up wioth two DNGs for each one. Still not sure exactly how I did that...)
Can you detail your steps to batch the ARW raw files ? The usual way in the organizer is the 'export' function, and in the editor it's the 'process multiple files' option in the file menu.
But that path seems to be complely divorced from the Organizer. I'd like the ancilary products (DNG/JPG) to be saved as Version Sets or Stacks with the original raw files. No Joy. I tagged the ARW and did the whole face recognition thing with the raw files. I'd like that metadata to somehow pass forward to the DNG/JPG. No Joy.
Am I missing something? Just not supposed to batch this? (Given number of files, sigh.) Not supposed to tag anything at the raw stage? Just not suppsed to use Organizer? Expected to separately import the ancialary products into Organizer and stack them myself?
One important thing about saving to DNG. There is no way to save in version sets with the original raw files. Why do you want to save as DNG ? I don't see a way to batch convert raw files to DNG from the Organizer. You can open several raw files in the ACR dialog of the editor and use the 'save' button to save all selected raw files to DNG. If you save to a 'watched' folder, you'll be prompted to add those DNGs to the catalog. Once in the organizer, you could stack them manually with the originals.
To batch convert raw files to DNG, I would use the free Adobe DNGconverter software; it's a standalone program which runs outside of Elements.

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