Switching from Nikon Capture to Lightroom

Hi,
This has probably been asked before but I couldn't find it by searching. I have been using Nikon Capture for years and now I want to start using Lightroom. I shoot in RAW and capture saves all the edits back into the NEF file. Lightroom, however, doesn't read any of these edits, at least that I can find.
Is there anyway to get Lightroom to read edits that were made in Nikon Capture and saved back into the NEF file?
Thanks,
Bryan

Unless you want to redo the NEFs in LR, the best you can do is save the NC upgraded NEFS as Tifs (uncompressed) and then open those in LR for any further, relatively moderate, changes--and those changes will be written to the TIFs by LR.
Otherwise, you are stuck with NC--I'll say a little prayer for your patience as you wait for NC to grind out things :)

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