Importing RAW with metadata

Is it possible to import RAW files from a hard drive that has all of the meta attached via XMP files? Is a workaround via .dng converted RAW files?
Thanks.

Oh! I forgot. There IS an automator action that will sync iView annotations (and iView can read Bridge annotations) with Aperture. It's an extra step that I find irritating, but it's doable. Let me find the link...
http://www.tow.com/annoture/
Haven't tried it personally, but I've heard good things.

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Exporting raw, with metadata settings

is it possible to export a raw image from aperture with the settings applied in aperture (either as dng, if imported as such, or with xmp sidecar file)? i only see export options for a version (tiff, jpg, etc) or original (as shot or originally imported). but what if i decide i don't like aperture and want to go over to lightroom or back to bridge ACR or any other system?
aperture isn't what i want it be yet, and although i have hopes that it will be soon, i don't like the idea of spending a lot of time applying settings that i will lose if i decide later to move to a different program (lightroom, etc) later.
powerbook 1.67 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

that really is a big commitment then... for something that is in my mind severely flawed and only a work in progress. and incredibly slow not to mention. i spent a lot of time on some vacation photos recently, not even a job, and now i feel those photos are going to be forever stuck in there if i later decide to abandon aperture.
i think it's going to be a duke out between lightroom and aperture, but at least a migration from my current workflow - bridge/acr - will be a two way street with lightroom. (actually, currently lightroom is unalbe to write to dng files, which is amazing since it is an adobe creation, right? but at least they are aware of the issue and have rightfully called their program a beta version).

Exporting Raw with metadata ***?

When is Apple going to figure out that MOST publications require raw files or DNG's with META-DATA embeded? How the heck are we supposed to export our raw files with META-DATA????????/
It seems to me that Aperture does most other things well, but this is a serious flaw.

If you want to embed IPTC caption info into your RAW file, you might want to consider Camera Bits, "Photo Mechanic."
It can be used to write IPTC caption and other fields directly to the RAW photo. It can also be used to do the same to jpeg photos without adding a generation of jpeg to the photo. You can make all the changes to the IPTC text you want as many times as you want without opening the photo.
The program is a favorite among photojournalist and I still use it with Aperture.
Apple claims that Aperture's inability to save IPTC info to the file is a feature when it is one of its biggest drawbacks.
Aperture's mission statement of "Aperture never touches the original file" needs to change to "Aperture never touches the original PHOTO"
I WANT to save my caption and copyright info into the the original file, not a separate sidecar that can be lost and editors don't know what to do with.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

My canon 7D won,t import raws.

My canon 70D,i have now changed to the 7D,i was able to import raws with the 70D,but i can,t seem to be able to import raws with the canon 7D,LR does not show them in the import,i have everything ticked that should be the same as i had it before.
I am using Win 8.1,LR 5.6,IT ONLY SEES JPEGS,HELP!!!!

You may probably have to download the update for the Camera Codec Pack for Win 8.1 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40309 as support or the CR2 files should be there.
It shouldn't make a difference if the Codec isn't installed as the CR2 files should still show in the browser as it will in the OS but no thumbnails.
In Preferences General, if you select "Treat JPEG Files next to RAW files as separate photos" you will then see all the CR2/JPG files, if it isn't selected you will only see the CR2 (but without the CODEC no thumbnails) but it will import both the CR2 and JPEG files.
I use both 5D Mk III and 7D and have no issues except the fact that the thumbnails were not displayed until I installed the CODEC pack.

Importing RAW files with keywords from Bridge

Hi everyone,
I downloaded the trial version of Aperture and have now imported RAW files (Canon 20D) with keywords and IPTC data applied via Bridge.
The import of the RAW files was no problem however the files lacked the keywords and IPTC data, which I applied in Bridge.
I also tried to import JEPG files and here Aperture could show me keywords and IPTC data.
Why does this not work for RAW files? What do I have to do in order to get it to work?
Thanks in advance for your advise
/David

When you add metadata (keywords etc.) to most proprietary raw formats (including Canon .CR2 files), Bridge doesn’t know how to embed that data in to the file—Canon and other manufacturers haven’t told Adobe (or anyone else) what the structure of these raw files is and how metadata can be stored within the file itself. Therefore, Bridge creates a ‘sidecar’ file to go with the raw file: the sidecar file sits alongside the raw file, with the same filename and a .xmp extension. This sidecar file contains any metadata you may have applied, as well as adjustments you have made in Adobe Camera Raw.
Unfortunately, Aperture doesn’t read these sidecar files when importing raw files, so you lose any adjustments from ACR (not surprising, since Aperture is obviously a different raw converter to ACR so the adjustments would be different anwyay), but also you lose any metadata you may carefully have applied.
There may be an answer, however. But it’ll cost. That would be to use iView Media Pro (which has recently been bought by Microsoft, but a Mac version still exists). There is a 21-day free trial for iVMP—since my suggestion is to use it as a temporary conduit for importing all your existing raw files into Aperture, you won’t necessarily have to pay the £129 GBP asking price for iVMP (others can debate the morality of that statement, however; fortunately I already owned iVMP and so didn’t have to worry about such things). I believe iVMP can read the XMP sidecar files created by Bridge. Create a new iVMP catalogue with all your raw files which you want to move into Aperture. It should bring all your existing metadata into the iVMP catalogue as well.
Then, import all the raw files into Aperture. As you have found, they’ll be without any metadata. As long as the filenames are the same in both the iVMP catalogue and the Aperture library, you can use Adam Tow’s application Annoture to transfer metadata from the iVMP catalogue into the Aperture library.
Sort of circuitous, but possible. If only Aperture read the metadata from those sidecar files, eh? If I’m wrong in thinking that iVMP imports the XMP metadata, then what you can do is get Bridge to convert all your .CR2 raw files into .DNG files. If you don’t know about DNG, read about it at Adobe. But briefly, Bridge is able to embed its metadata into the DNG files and iVMP is able to read that embedded metadata when importing DNG files into the catalogue. I know that for certain: I used iVMP and DNG files (from my own 20D) before using Aperture; when I started using Aperture (which I love, now) I used Annoture to transfer all my metadata from iVMP into Aperture.
Perhaps someone else will explain this better than I.

Importing RAW's with META

Is it possible yet to import RAW files that have attached .xmp sidecar files with complete meta data including keywords into Aperture without first converting them to .dng's? I have 30k of photos shot with a Canon 1Ds, 1DsM2 & 5DM2 and have input meta with Bridge or Lightroom, don't want to do it all again if I were to switch to Aperture.
Thanks.

Well I learn something new every day. I have previously imported NEFs edited in View NX and the metadata was imported okay. I've also put metadata into psd files and that imported fine too. But not metadata written to separate sidecar files!
I never noticed that previously, mainly because my workflow has not previously created sidecars pre coverting to Aperture.
Regards,
Calx
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I have a new Mac. I installed my Bridge CS4 that I ran on my old mac. When I import RAW photos from my Nikon d90 they come in with an .NEF extension. I need to install a converter but cannot find one.

I have a new mac. I installed my Bridge CS4 and Photoshop CS4 that I ran on my old mac. When I import RAW pics from my Nikon D90 they come in with the extension of .NEF. Apparently this is not a readable form for Bridge as the picture does not appear. I believe I need a converter to convert .NEF to .dng but I can't find one. Any ideas?

You do not need to convert to DNG.
The NEFs from your camera model have been supported since ACR 4.6 and 5.1.
What you need to do is update your ACR plug-in to version 5.7, the latest and last version for CS4. Right now, you are probably on ACR 5.0, the version supplied with the original release of Photoshop CS4.
Be aware that the Adobe updater is extremely unreliable when it comes to CS5, so that you must do the update manually. There are detailed instructions on the ACR 5.7 plug-in download page. You MUST follow those instructions to the letter.
Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Macintosh : Camera Raw 5.7 update

Raw files imported distorted with Lightroom 3

Hey,
In the last months I started experiencing an issue with Lightroom 3 (is the software that came with my camera) that didn't have at the beginning and AFAIK nothing has changed after I isntalled the lastest version of lightroom 3 and the camera raw plugin.
Recently pretty much every picture I import comes with shifted bands. I know the raw files are ok because other computers load the file correctly. You can see in the car wheel the kind of shifting I am suffering.
Exporting the file to a different format will save the file with the distortion, so it is not just visual.
In all honesty, I don't know how to tackle this, I tried to install any possible updates for camera raw which didn't work and I fear that reinstalling the software might not work or just do temporally till it breaks again. Any tips will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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When you compare the files on other computers and they are ok, are you reading them onto the second computer from the camera memory card in a card-reader or USB-cable attached to the camera, or from some other step further along in the transfer process, such as from one computer’s hard-drive to another?
Anything that happens after the last shared step is suspect.
If you are reading them from the memory card again and they are ok on the second computer, then what happens if you copy the photos, again, onto the first computer? Do the same ones have the same faults in the same locations or are the faults different? If the latter, then something in the transfer process (USB drivers/cable) or the computer, itself (memory, hard-drive), is bad.
If you remove and re-import the files do they still have the same faults in the same locations? If you purge your camera-raw cache and re-develop do the same faults show up? If not then perhaps wherever your raw cache is, is corrupted.
If you want you can try posting one of the files that has been imported into LR and is bad, here, and others can try it on their systems, to make sure the data in the file is bad.
By “posting one of the files” I mean upload it to a large-file-hosting service like www.dropbox.com and then post the public download link, here.

Any way to NOT import JPEGs with RAWs?

When I import RAW files from my camera, Aperture imports the JPEG images as well but keeps it hidden from view. I dug into the Aperture Vault to check out what was going on, and it stores the 4-5 MB JPEG alongisde each RAW file. I can't see the reason for this. I'm not interested in these crappy JPEGs and they are just taking up room on my hard drive. Is there any way to get Aperture to not import the JPEGs when importing RAW files?

step 1 ... stop shooting RAW+JPG ...
ok, i got that out of the way ... do you import directly from the camera ??? or directly from card reader into aperture ???
me, i NEVER import directly from card to program ... EVER ...
last week i needed to shoot RAW+JPG, only because i needed quick access to some JPGs and didn't have aperture handy ...
when i returned i copied my card contents to a desktop folder (like i always do) and used the search box and entered JPG ... then i deleted every one - they had served their purpose ... then i dupped the folder of RAW files and then imported into aperture ... no JPGs imported ...
seriously the only way to not have aperture import the JPG with the RAW is to weed out the JPGs (or not shoot RAW+JPG - but i already covered that)

Why is it suddenly impossible to import raw files from my canon 1ds mark III? I work with a mac 5. Nothing has been changed in the settings...

I've been working for 2 years with Lightroom and importing pictures from my canon 1ds mark III
Suddenly it doesn't work. Can somebody explain this or help me to change something
so I can import my photos???

import raw file default wrote:
When Im trying to import photos Lightroom says it not all import results are possible.
As DJ suggests, that's probably not the exact wording. Can we have that, please?
Still need your OS and Lightroom version too.

Hi cannot import RAW photos from my canon eos 5d mark 3 to iphoto 9.6 with iOS X Yosemite. Fotos are black. Did you have a solution for that?

hi cannot import RAW photos from my canon eos 5d mark 3 to iphoto 9.6 with iOS X Yosemite. Fotos are black. Did you have a solution for that?

Thanks. Once ImageCapture had accessed the photos, THEN iPhoto began to pick up the data, so I was ultimately able to do both. It only worked with the cable, though, not the card readers. Weird.
And I really appreciate the ImageCapture tip. Any idea why it worked?

Problem with importing RAW files from camera

LR 1.3 refuses to import raw files from my camera. Only JPEG's are imported. Got a Canon 350D/Rebel XT. Once I copied the raw files to disk (using Camera Window) Import from disk works fine and converts the CR2 to DNG without a problem. The preference "Treat JPEG files next to..." makes no difference. Anybody a clue what's wrong?
Thanks, Edwin

Yeah this is a known bug with Canon cameras in general (not just using Lightroom!). If you use the camera to download your images anyway, I believe the trick is to set the camera to mass storage mode and you'll also get the RAWs. Lightroom's import from camera is very buggy though, hence it is a better idea to use a reader, or to manually copy the files to your harddisk first and import from there.

RAW import problem with 2.1.1 and d200

I just noticed this problem, so I'm assuming it's a 2.1.1 issue since this used to work fine...
The issue is that when I import RAW images into Aperture, the images do not preview in the import window. They appear as blank dashed line outlined squares and when I highlight them, they give the proper file name and size in mb, but not in pixels. They are listed as 128 x128 which I'm assuming is the preview size.
I can still import the images and they appear as they should once imported. This issue is really only a problem if i want to select a few images to import. My workaround for that is to use Image Capture since they preview fine there.

First read page 107 in the manual for the D200, and make sure everything is set correctly for direct connection.
Yes, I use a card reader, but have used direct to camera. This setting is a bit odd, and I ran across the difference this past weekend when I found my D300 set differently than my D200 has apparently always been. But since I was only connected to my iBook, and was not using Aperture at that moment, I did not see the full consequence that might result from some settings for the USB connection. All reports are that it may have a different impact on RAW than with JPEG.
Ernie

Importing Raw Jpeg Pairs with Jpeg as Master

I give....I imported raw and jpeg as pairs since aperture updated for the D7000. I see the J on the badge. I assume they are stacked. I see where i can change the master to the raw file by right clicking. However, can't i just navigate to the raw file for adjustments or do I have to switch the master? I have looked at the manual. I have a book on aperture, I searched the board. I gotta be missing something really basic! Please help this stupid newbie. Is it better to import both as masters in the future? What do people prefer? tx
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Hi Sheryl,
No, you aren't missing anything really basic. The RAW and JPG aren't really stacked. They are associated together in a different way that is only applicable for pulling JPG and RAW versions of the same photo out of your camera together.
If you can answer the following question, it might help the other users (and mybe you) help you.
Why is it a problem to have your RAW be the master?
With your hesitation to switch the master to the RAW, you imply to me that you would like Aperture to work with your JPG files, but at the same time it your question implies that you would like you want to work on your RAW file.
In my own preference, I struggled with what to start out with, RAW or JPG. I came to the conclusion that I didn't want to spend the time comparing RAW and JPG from my camera and deciding what to do. I no longer capture RAW+JPG in my camera.
Basically, post-processing the RAW file through Aperture gives you lots more information to work with, as the creation of a JPG in your camera throws out lots of colors and pixels. So, I had to balance things, why would I choose to take a "throwaway snapshot" with RAW if I knew it probably wouldn't be worth post-processing? For instance, all the pictures of my niece at the dinnertable in really bad light. I can't do anything worthwhile in post-processing with the sharp shadows, and the 5 different and ugly light sources, and the fact that she only looked at the camera once. Yeah, I can make it a little better, but not enough that it's worth post-processing to me. So, for those pictures, I just let my camera do the work and use the most basic, point-and-shoot settings most of the time. My camera produces JPG-only in the basic settings.
On the other hand, for those sunsets, gardens, forests, streams, vistas, etc, I probably would like to do a little post-processing if my exposure wasn't right to begin with. I decided that I would just let Aperture decode the RAW file for me and forget about the JPGs entirely. When I'm using my camera in manual mode (or one of the quasi-manual modes) I shoot in RAW only. Yes, my camera will do a better job rendering a JPG than Aperture will, but Aperture's very good and I figure I wouldn't be looking at the JPG from the camera if I'm doing other post-processing in Aperture.
That being said, there are many other opinions and othe reasons to choose one way or the other.
Hope that eas clear enough. I had lots of ideas to write about.
hope this helps,
nathan

Help! Troubles with updating Lightroom 3.2 to 3.6 in order to import RAW files.

I am trying to import RAW files into Lightroom 3 from my Nikon D7000. I read that I need to update my Lightroom, so I downloaded the 3.6 version. I restarted my computer and reopened Lightroom and it is still showing the 3.2 version. How do I get Lightroom to update after the new version has been downloaded? Once this problem is fixed, then will I be able to import my .NEF files from my camera into Lightroom?

After downloading you have to install it. Did you?
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