Bad DNG conversion

I have converted some files from my Nikon D300 NEF to DNG format with the latest version of DNG conert but the appearance is horrible colors too saturated and warm and very fuzzy.
Anyone can help me?
thanks

Without your giving us any details of how you are viewing the files, in what application, the exact versions of that application and your OS, details about your machine, graphics card, and how you calibrate your monitor, what exact camera model is generating the raw files you are converting to DNGs, etc., no one can even begin to venture a guess.
Please read this post by a forum host for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375816?tstart=0
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Film4Now wrote:
…version 5.7 of Camera Raw (just found out there is a 5.9)…
??? !!! Where?
Film4Now wrote:
… the version that displays on the Camera Raw preferences menu: 5.0.0.178…
That proves you did not install 5.7 correctly and you failed to remove the old 5.0 plug-in.
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I was aware that the numbers were relative and would likely be different, but in this case the images are visibly very different--I just gave the numbers to indicate what LR saw them as. When the difference is between 5600 (NEF) and 7100 (dng) one sees a big difference between the cool NEF and the warm dng on the screen. This difference is seen systematically in a batch of about 75 images. LR shows no metadata differences except the WB reading. Could this have resulted from a dng conversion in an older dng converter?

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Ramon,
No, I have tried purging/refreshing before and it doesn't help, because the un-converted CR2 files are just skipped over and put in the same destination folder as the successfully converted CR2 files (to DNG). I thought it might be a memory issue, but I never have any other applications open. As a test, I purposely opened some other applications to see if MORE CR2 files would be skipped, but the amount of files skipped was still random.
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Could some of my Edit>Preferences>Cache options be overloading things and causing skips? I use the default settings because I wasn't confident with messing around with the cache.
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Which version of the DNG converter did you use (the latest is 5.5)?
What camera produced the NEFs?
What NEF settings did you use, if any, compressed, uncompressed, 14-bit, etc.?
What DNG conversion settings did you use?
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I had read that when I convert to DNG in Lightroom (v4), the file sizes will drop by about 20% (I checked the check box for compression). I'm converting from a batch of 16-bit NEFs I created when scanning slides using the Nikon LS-5000 scanner. Those scans and files were created with Nikon Scan 4.0. After doing the conversion in Lightroom, the DNG file sizes are around 3MB-17MB. The original NEF files were about 135MB. Where in the world did all my data go? I'm concerned that the conversion to DNG threw away a ton of the original data. How is that much of a reduction possible? I'm hoping that there wasn't some catastrophic problem during the conversion, as I also checked the check box to delete the originals after the conversion is finished.
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1. what is the file size for large and medium?
2. What is the impact of NOT creating a preview? When I've tested NOT creating a file I can still open the file in my lightroom grid and loupe view. I can also view it in Windows vista Preview when right clicking on the image file on my hard drive.
3. Where do these "Previews" come into play?
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1. what is the file size for large and medium?
Medium is screen sized, the other option is full sized, not large.
2. What is the impact of NOT creating a preview? When I've tested NOT creating a file I can still open the file in my lightroom grid and loupe view. I can also view it in Windows vista Preview when right clicking on the image file on my hard drive.
Lightroom generates it's own preview. It's just handy for portability, so how the file looks is available to programs that can't understand the internal settings.
3. Where do these "Previews" come into play?
Lightroom will use them in Library intially. Like I said above, it's handy for other programs for managing and printing with the Lightroom settings, especially with a full sized preview.
4. Also, I have noticed that if I convert a JPEG file to DNG the file size is about 4x larger. Should I reserve DNG for only my raw files such as my .mrw and .cr2? Has anyone else observed an increase in file size after DNG conversion?
You should. The JPEG doesn't get converted to a Raw, it's just convenient to have all DNG. The increase happens because Lightroom removes the JPG compression AFAIK.
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Message was edited to add question about HDMI.

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system: Vista Ultimate x64 version 6 SP2, 8gb. ram, Video ATI Radeon HD 3600.
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Filter in adobe bridge to only select Raw files for DNG conversion

Here's my problem - I have a new DMC TZ70 camera and Lightroom 5.7 doesn't recognise the .RW2 files. I would need to buy LR6! Perhaps later.
So I thought I will import via bridge and convert to DNG.
So I open bridge and select the camera - fine - BUT there are files for the Raw images, the same number of JPEGs and some .bdm, .TDT etc files. (e.g. 3 raw + 7 others).
I can set up a filter to view only the Raw files when I see what files are there in the card folder in Bridge but when I select "get photos from camera" I can either select them all OR deselect and then I need to MANUALLY select the raw files. There doesn't seem to be a way of setting up a filter in the Downloader screen so that Bridge only selects the Raw files for conversion.
If I let it select all, Bridge converts the RW2 files to DNG but also brings in the jpgs and other files. I can delete these afterwards but this seems an inefficient way to do it.
Is there any way to manually select the raw files in the photo downloader screen?
Advice please, thanks, Mel

Not sure I follow completely, Mel, but Bridge allows you to View > Sort > Type... which would allow you, after sorting, to click on the first image with a specific extension, then hold down the Shift key to select the last in the series and handle them independent of the other files presented.

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