Pixmantec Migration Tool is unusable

Question

First of all, I am very happy with the LR. In comparison to the RSP, the slow performance is compensated with a much better control of colors. (even if all cameras need to be calibrated for correct (red) colors?!?)
Because I really archive all my pictures as raw data with the appropriate develop settings, it is very important for me to take over the RSP settings. Maybe latest with a next PC-generation, RSP will not run any longer. Therefore, I would like to migrate them into LR. So I appreciated the migration tool. It is clear, that the tool cannot migrate all settings of RSP, but it is still far away from similar settings planned. Probably, Michael Johnson was not involved in development, because the actual tool cannot be used in the expected way.
Some examples:
Cropping:
* correct conversion in some pictures
* in many pictures no conversion
* in some pictures wrong conversion (too low, in the middle of the face instead above).
For the not converted pictures, the problem is probably lying in the LR. I assume, it happens in pictures, where the right cropping rectangle (correct RSP) is outside of the picture rectangle.(RSP brings some more pixel.) This should be tested and corrected. (reduction of the cropping rectangle about the necessary pixel).
The white balance is not converted satisfactorily. For example, a manual white balance of the WhiBal card is converted from RSP 5000/-2 into LR as 4500/-2. The correct and therefore visually corresponding manual white balance in LR would be 5200/+4! It seems that the tint setting is just been taken over, which results in a greenish tint. In all my pictures (Canon 20D) the correct tint value (manual setting with a WhiBal card) of LR is always about 4 to 6 values higher than in the RSP.
The RSP vibrance setting should be multiplied by factor 3 to 5 for a visually equivalent LR setting.
There should be a flag for the Color Engine. Because the Color Engine, that is used by most of the people, delivers more saturated colors, the saturation (and vibrance) settings should be converted with a higher factor.
A negative value for RSP "Highlight contrast" should be migrated as LR Recovery setting.
The LR contrast remains wheter on the default setting or is set to 0. I really cannot understand why the contrast has to be set to 0 (very strange).
The very important RSP setting "Shadow contrast" is not taken into account at all! Consequently, there are many pictures in RSP with a high contrast, which after migration into LR have a lower or no contrast. They look totally different (dull)! It should be possible to map the RSP shadow contrast to the LR settings Darks and Shadows of the tone curve to get similar pictures.
The RSP tone curve and the level settings remains unrecognized.
In my opinion, it should be no problem to migrate a typical tone curve nearest:
The maximum and minimum values of the zones (highlights, lights, dark and shadows) could be analyzed and migrated into the appropriate LR parameter values. With that satisfactorily results could be reached for typical (positive and negative) s-curves.
RSP level settings could be converted as additional exposure and blacks corrections in order to produce similar pictures.
Overall, the migration tool is insufficient and unprofessional. It provides the impression, that it was developed facile only to deliver something as promised.
Finally, I would like to point out that it was not in my mind to only criticize your work. I really hope you can use my ideas to improve the tool.

Answer 1

I think this issue is a dead horse. A promise provided to late to be of any useful help.
I am a RSP user and while I am not a pro and do not have tens of thousands of pics, I do not think this would be of any use to me.
I believe it was a nice offer from Adobe to have this done but this offer was made about one year ago. Surely if one were using LR since then other alternatives would have been used to reprocess files if required. LR has advanced with at least one upgrade and surely another in the making very shortly.
If RSP supports your camera and works for you, continue to enjoy, if you wish to to use LR "smell the new brew of coffee" and move on.
Two years ago ACR imo was no match for RSE/RSP or other raw conversion software for that matter. Since then ACR v 4.1 and LR is a substantial improvement and can now hold their own against other third party raw converters.
Raw conversion software is advancing rapidly and RSP should be left to r.i.p, since there will be no future upgrades/camera support/enhancements and ones efforts would be best used elsewhere.
The LR team would be better employed in resolving the existing bugs and providing support for new camera models. jmho.