Read settings in NEFs from Nikon Capture during import?

Question

Short version: during import, I would like Lightroom to detect and then approximate edits that I have made to NEFs with Nikon Capture.
Longer version: I have several thousand images that I've previously (individually) edited in Nikon Capture. Is there anyway to capture the gist of these edits *on an individual file basis* when importing into Lightroom, or am I limited to the Lightroom default and my own Lightroom presets? I don't expect Lightroom to *exactly* duplicate whatever I've done in Capture, but it would be nice if it pick up some of the information.
I've searched the forums for this, but didn't find anything relevant. My apologies if this is a duplicate post.
thanks,
Robert Jones

Answer 1

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 22:25:03 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>Is there anyway to capture the gist of these edits *on an individual file basis* when importing into Lightroom
From what I see here, LR simply ignores [or cannot see*] edits from
Capture [NX]; all my manipulated files come in as they were shot, not
as they are saved afterwards. In some cases - e.g. when you used the
brush tool, probably other tools, too - LR cannot even import the NEF.
Same holds for NEFs created with Capture.
*The problem has more to do with Nikon than Adobe, as N does not
disclose their NEF metadata structure. To the contrary, they not only
put loads of interesting information in the manufacturer's section -
thus hiding them in effect - they use encryption for some data (white
balance is the only known one but ...).
Dierk (sometimes known as Evo2Me)
[DH² Publishing]
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