RAW NoiseNinja and HDR - what workflow ?

Here's what I want to do :
1. Open Nikon D300 NEF files
2. Remove chromatic aberration (in Camera RAW 5.5)
3. Remove noise using NoiseNinja PS plugin
4. Merge to HDR
My problem is between stages 3 and 4, as I can't save the files to RAW in order to move on.
Any ideas gratefully received
Thanks !

Victor Burgin wrote:
Thanks again. I'm further enlightened (and now understand the value of keeping the metadata as a separate file), but you earlier seemed to suggest that if I leave Noise Ninja out of the equation, and do both defringing and noise reduction in ACR, then I can use the resulting file (which I appreciate is no longer strictly a RAW file) in Merge to HDR – which I can, but only after being warned that I have lost valuable tonal data.
Who says you lose any tonal data at all when you convert (open) a raw file and save it as a PSD or TIFF file? If that were the case, there would be no purpose to shooting raw.
Or is your issue that you need raw files to convert to HDR? Forgive me for that over-simplistic question, but never having seen an HDR image that I have even remotely liked, I have not played with that feature much. When faced with a scene with extreme dynamic range, I combine multiple exposures (or multiple renditions of one or more raw files) in Photoshop, manually and judiciously as needed, and obtain infinitely better results than the HDR merge function can provide for me.
Victor Burgin wrote:
Summary : For optimum results, Merge to HDR will work only on an unaltered RAW file – but if "unaltered" by definition means that the file is marred by chromatic aberration and noise, then Merge to HDR is a completely useless component of CS4. Am I missing something ?
Again a misconception. Any Merge function (to HDR or as a panorama) cannot possibly work on a raw image. Instead the Merge function needs to call upon Camera Raw (in the background) to convert and cook the raw image data on the fly by opening it, and the conversion process will include any adjustments you have applied to its metadata, such as ACR Color Aberration correction, ACR Noise Reduction, spot adjustments, sharpening, vibrance, saturation, exposure, etc. That's why the metadata is there, to be applied during the conversion.
A raw file is a very, very dark grayscale image without anything that a human being can interpret as color, although there is color information to be used by the raw converter (in this case Adobe Camera Raw). That's why the raw file must be converted before it can processed in any way.
My apologies if my previous posts were unclear. I hope this one is better crafted.
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