Sporadic failure of DNG conversion using Bridge

For the past 2 years I have been happily using the Adobe DNG (stand-alone) software to convert the NEF files from my D200. I routinely do this at "ingestion" as recommended in an article by Bruce Fraser. I have never encountered a single problem with this procedure. Recently I made a small change to my routine: In Adobe Bridge I chose File>Get Images From Camera. I specified the file type as DNG. After the transfer was completed a notice appeared to inform me that conversion to DNG had failed in xx images. This generally amounted to about 10% of the files in the folder, and in an apparently random manner. These files were copied over to my hard drive, but remained as NEF files.
Can anyone tell me why this may be happening? Is there a cure, or should I simply go back to my original method?
Thanks/Mike

Ramon,
Thanks for your reply and the information. The stand-alone dng converter is installed on my computer, but certainly not in the Adobe-prescribed default location. (Can you tell me where it belongs on a PC system running XT-home?) Presently it is not even on the same disc as the Adobe applications. Which makes it all the more puzzling why using Bridge to get images from camera results in converting most, but not all of the images to dng. I am running Bridge 2.1.1.9
What I find even more curious is that the coders of the software were thoughtful enough to present one with an information screen which appears after the transfer and tells you how many images failed to convert to dng. Suggesting that they anticipated this type of error but providing no explanation of why it occurs.
Thanks/Mike

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Does the convert to DNG through bridge get updated when a new version of Camera Raw and DNG Converter are released.

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I thought the previous poster said that DNG Converter wasn't the "active ingredient" here?
I think the previous poster said that the ability to create DNG files is built in to Bridge, and the ability to open the raw files is taken from the installed version of Camera Raw (much like the ability to display thumbnails/previews).
Isn't DNG basically an XML wrapper for the sensor data? As long as Bridge can read the raw files, it can convert them to DNG.
Yes, that is what the previous poster stated and what I think is the case. However, Ian Lyons' post seems to indcate otherwise and needs clarification. It would appear that just as ACR is used to build the thumbnails used by Bridge, it can also be used behind the scene to produce the DNG even though the raw files are not overtly opened in ACR. The practical significance of all this is that the OP does not need to install the updated DNG converter if he is converting to DNG when importing the files. Perhaps this is what Ian was stating, and I did not understand.

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Did my NEF to DNG conversion work properly?

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.
The image quality seems to be okay when looking at the DNG files in Lightroom.
Thanks,
Jay

I scanned at the full resolution (4000dpi, I think) of the LS-5000. The DNGs all appear to have their full original resolution, 5782x3946. This was one of the first things I thought about, too, but the resolution doesn't appear to have been changed any.
Jeff, upon re-opening the Convert Photo to DNG dialog box, I see that I did check "Use Lossy Compression." I spaced. I belived I was telling it to use lossless compression (I was assuming that no compression would have been used otherwise). So the conversion makes them into a high-quality JPEG, basically (but still 16-bit)? If I don't check that, will the DNG conversion use lossless compression, or no compression at all?
These slides are from a few decades to several decades old, all shot by my dad. I'm wondering if I would even see any degradation from using the lossy compression option. 135MB per image seems WAY beyond what is necessary to maintain the quality of these slides, so I would like SOME compression, but don't want to see any clearly visible signs of quality loss. Any words of wisdom welcome.

Sporadic failure dng conversion

I've recently upgraded from Windows XP (SP3) to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. At the same time I upgraded from 2 gb of RAM to 4 gb. Since the upgrade I've been experiencing random errors in DNG conversion. I usually convert to DNG inside Lightroom 2.5 by selecting the files to be converted and then use the command Library...convert to DNG. This process randomly freezes/hangs. I've tried using the standalone DNG converter from Adobe (5.5), but this results in random errors of DNG conversion (about 10 % of files fail conversion). The RAW files I'm trying to convert are from a canon eos 350 d. I've never had an issue using Windows XP. I've tested the RAM with Windows Memory Diagnostic - no errors are reported. I'm not experiencing other issues.
I would appreciate feedback. Has anybody experienced similar issues? Any ideas as to what could be causing the problem?

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DNG conversion fails sporadically with Get Photos From Camera

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Importing my files to Bridge using the Get Photos from Camera (GPFC) option results in sporadic DNG conversion failure. There's no pattern, just a lump of files that don't get converted at the end of the process. It's very frustrating because I have to manually go back and find the files that failed and use GPFC option again. Even then sometimes it fails again!
I'm attached to using the GPFC option instead of the standalone DNG converter because GPFC lets me automatically make a backup file to another disk and adds a template. But even when I use DNG Converter to import the files off my card, DNG fails for some of the files. Purging the cache only works half the time and for some of the files.
Is there any solution to the GPFC problem? I've seen people have similar problems, but with no real conclusions...
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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.
My "DNG Conversion Settings," accessed through the Get Photos From Camera dialogue, is set to:
Jpeg Preview: Medium Size
Compressed (Checked)
Preserve Raw Image (Checked)
Embed Original Raw File (UN CHECKED)
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.
Thanks

Cannot open DNG files via Bridge or Lightroom in Photoshop?

I have a problem that has popped up since I installed the 5.6 RAW upgrade to my CS4/Lightroom 2.2 package. Hopefully someone would be kind enough to help me diagnose it, as it affects only about 85,000 raw files currently in my Lightroom Catalogue.
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I would appreciate any help at all.
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I know it does help find a solution, but I have run across some older DNG's that will open in LR 2 but will not open in Bridge/CSR 4. (These are DNG's created by Scott Kelby for his LR 2 book - I have attached on to this post.) I can open them first in LR and then tell LR to edit the image in Photoshop and it will open. I have not yet had the issue of LR not being able to open the DNG correctly. However, I may not have done a DNG conversion since I installed the 5.6 upgrade. When I get a chance I will go convert some CR2 files and see what happens.
Mike
I have uploaded one of Kelby's dng's that will not open in my desktop nor laptop Bridge/CSR 4 w/all updates. DNG 5.6 is unable to process them as well. It will import into LR. Other than that I cannot cause DNG's not to load into Bridge/CSR.
Opps the file is too big. You can download it from here. Kelby's Technical Copy Editor told me she did not have the same problem. Weird. I hope you solve your problem.

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I dusted off an old Toshiba laptop that has a copy of CS4 Photoshop and the newest DNG Conversion software (v8.8). Pointed the DNG at a folder of RAW files (Olympus ORF), converted them, opened them in ACR and saved the files that are now .dng files in Bridge...but CS4 won't open them, says it doesn't support this file type. How can Adobe Photoshop not open an Adobe file type? I thought DNG made all RAW files backward compatible for Photoshop going back to the beginning of time. Any ideas, suggestions, solutions?

I got a couple of sample raws and converted them on the mac side using the 8.8 dng converter and they seem to open on both photoshop cs4 on mac and windows xp
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DNG Conversion Fails in Camera Download

I've been using Photoshop CS4, Bridge and ACR for about a year. I was sold on the Adobe rationale for converting to DNG and have been doing so using the convenient check box on the Photodownloader screen. It has worked fine the entire time - until now. Suddenly that no longer works: although the DNG conversion box is checked Bridge only downloads the raw NEF files and reports at the end that it the DNG conversion failed on all of the photos that were downloaded.
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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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DNG conversion fail and Photoshop will not open my NEF files (Newbie question)

Two part question. First, I just recently installed photoshop CS4 to my (windows vista) computer and I go to upload NEF photos to bridge and I check the box that says "Convert to DNG" and when it finishs uploading it says "Files successfully copied, However, DNG conversion failed." It says it everytime and I don't know what to do about that.
Second part: I try to open my NEF files in photoshop it says "Could not complete your request because it is not the right type of document." I am using a Nikon D90 and I don't know if that has anything to do with this. I apologize if this question is in the wrong forum, I am new to this and I thought maybe camera raw had something to do with this at least.
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Question about DNG converter in Bridge CS4

Hello,
I just installed Photoshop CS4, When I updated, it downloaded a hefty update (199 megs), so my setup now is:
Win XP pro
Bridge 3.0.0.464
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Photoshop CS4 11.0.2
My Camera is a Panasonic Lumix FZ150 ( 2011 vintage)
I have downloaded the Adobe DNG converter 6.6.0.261
Every thing seems to be working fine so far, except:
In Bridge when I "get Photos from Camera" the DNG conversion doesn't work. When I use the standalone converter it works fine.
From reading past material on this forum I am assuming this is due to the fact that Bridge is older than my camera, and doesn't recognize the format.
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1. Does Bridge have its own built in DNG converter that is not upgradeable separately?
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3. Since Bridge is not doing the conversion, but only importing the files, does the "Apply metadata" section of that window actually do anything? Should I bother to fill in any of those boxes?
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AFAIK there's no way to point Bridge to a standalone DNG converter.
I suggested an updateable DNG converter plugin for Bridge, don't know why nobody listened...I thought it was an excellent idea
As for the metadata, you just have to try. I don't know if it can write metadata when it can't read the file.

"There was not enough memory" error, DNG conversion.

I have CS4 and I like to convert my files to dng, however, I can't seem to do it on multiple raw files, because after fifty or so, I get the message, Incomplete because 'There was not enough memory.'
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I track my actual memory usage and adobe dng converter has never used more than 6MB of memory.
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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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DNG conversion failed

system: Vista Ultimate x64 version 6 SP2, 8gb. ram, Video ATI Radeon HD 3600.
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When trying down load files from D7100 with Adobe photo down loader, I get this message " files successfully copied. However DNG conversion failed" Last week the "blend if" from a layer in PS would not work and gave me this "could not complete request because of system error". I tried many things to resolve issue including uninstall & reinstall (CS6) using my disc. Finally deleted custom brush set that I'd got off the web and that solved the problem. I think I need a minimum of camera raw 7.4 to work with a D7100 and a maximum camera raw 8.3 to work with Vista. Adobe appication manager has been updated and says everything is updated. Photo help menu says it running 7.0. I tried removing the content of C;\users\appdata\local\adobe\aam updater\1.0 I tried to down load directly from Adobe down load list Camera Raw (7.4 then 8.3) no change. Tried another uninstall and reinstall, still the same. I seems like I lost something in the first reinstall.

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(read the whole page)
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I have the new Olympus E5. I can't use the Photo Downloader in Bridge for RAW files. It doesn't convert the ORF ( RAW ) files to dng.

No, in the last several versions of PSE for mac prior to PSE 9, Adobe Bridge was included for keywording and such. The version of bridge that ships with the big Creative Suite programs includes the full Adobe Raw Converter, the one you get with full Photoshop. Elements has always had a somewhat cut down version of the Adobe raw converter--same basic plug-in, but doesn't have all the features enabled.
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In PSE 9, Adobe has stopped shipping any version of bridge, and now includes a version of the Organizer that windows PSE users have been getting. But you can still use bridge if you have it from PSE 8, only you can't update it anymore. You can still update the raw converter in PSE itself.

I have reinstalled cs4 student edition afther a deactivation by adobe but can not veiw ORF or DNG files in bridge i am runing windows 7

I have reinstalled cs4 student edition afther a deactivation by adobe but can not veiw ORF or DNG files in bridge i am runing windows 7

Keep in mind that if your camera is newer than the last released version of Camera Raw (5.7) for Photoshop CS4, Adobe does provide a free solution for compatibility, as Curt has mentioned, through the use of the free DNG Converter application.
The way that works is this:
1. You get your raw images from your new camera into a folder on your computer.
2. You run the latest DNG Converter application and choose the folder.
3. It converts the entire folder full of images to .DNG files.
4. You open a DNG file as you would an older raw file, with your old version of Photoshop.
While the DNG Converter provides you a way to continue to use your older Photoshop software with a new camera, keep in mind that there are significant improvements in the raw converter in the latest version of Photoshop that may allow you to make better images out of your raw files if you do choose to upgrade Photoshop.
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