XSI RAW to Aperture via DNG

I have a question concerning the Adobe DNG Converter. I would like to use it as long as there is no Xsi support in Aperture.
In the Converter preferences there is an option to "embed original". Can I safely use it for imports into AP and delete the original RAW? If I extract it later on do I get the original RAW back? Do I lose anything?
I plan to get rid of DNGs as soon as Aperture supports Xsi and import original RAWs directly. So is it safe to keep them only once embedded in the DNG or should I keep them somewhere?
Thanks,
Tonden

I'd elect to not embed the original RAW files, and to instead just copy the original CR2 files somewhere for safekeeping for now.

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First off thanks for all your help. If you haven't figured I'm an amateur newbie who's trying to take the next step to being an advanced amateur with getting the XSI. I've been using Aperture for my jpegs on my P&S camera since I prefer it's organizational tools to those in iPhoto.
So now my "workflow" (I always think of that as a professional word and feel funny using it as an amateur) right now is to shoot in RAW and convert to DNG for including in Aperture and save the RAW files. If I later want to import the RAW files can I "overwrite" the DNGs with the corresponding RAW files and preserve whatever editing/touchups I did on the DNGs? Or will I have to reedit the RAW files again later?

Camera profiles in Aperture via free DNG 1.2 and profile editor

So last week Adobe announced LR2 and along with masses of new features, something that was not part of the marketing piece was the ability to get more accurate colour and this could possibly benefit Aperture users. Today I've just noticed an article on John Nack's blog about the new (free) DNG profile editor.
It allows for a base profile to be entered (just calibrate your camera with Color Eyes or Gretag's new color checker), then played with to suit. But basically, you'd just load your colour profile here, then NOT play with it. The profile is then used in the DNG converter, which can then be read by any RAW converter that supports DNG.
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1. Aperture supports DNG, but does it support DNG 1.2?
2. Does the fact that the 'Convert to linear image' option has to be turned off impact this opportunity?
3. Even if Aperture does read in the DNG, I assume that since it ignores the camera sensor information for things like auto noise compensation etc, it won't screw with the colour and assign its own colour (like it does with native RAW), but just use the embedded profile?
Does anyone with an in-depth experience with Aperture and DNG have any views on this? I'd love to calibrate my 1DS and 1DSII, then use the DNG converter to assign the profile and have Aperture read the files.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/08/thedng_profileeditor.html

It certainly looks interesting, and addresses a number of problems people (including myself) had with Adobe's existing profiles... namely that the whole yellow/orange/red part of the spectrum was awful.
Also note the whole profiles thing is still currently in beta.
As for Aperture... it doesn't support those profiles embedded in DNGs now. In fact, it doesn't support the "picture styles" info embedded in the RAW files by Nikon or Canon either (neither did Lightroom, and this is Adobe's answer). That said, I rather like Aperture's default conversions, and you could tweak the default RAW conversion subtly and apply the effect to images as part of your process.

Using Rebel XSi RAW + Aperture 2.1 problems with color/Canon profiles

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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7447533
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Does aperture handle dng files from a scan?

I'm scanning 35 mm slides via a Pacific Image 5000 through Vuescan. The advice the manual gives me (Vuescan) is to scan raw to a disc and then read the scan via Vuescan to do some basic clean-up. I 'd to send this processed image raw (.dng) to Aperture for final processing and saving without going through saving other formats .(pdf, tiff, etc) intil I 'm done with the image. Can this be done? Aperture says the dng file is not in a format it can read. How can that be if Aperture is supposed to handle raw?

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Apple - Aperture - Technical Specifications - RAW Support
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• I am amazed by the flexibility of the interface, and at the same time surprised by what has NOT been provided for.
—for example: in a dual monitor setup I can't dedicate one for full screen viewing of the selected image in every mode with all the normal panels for adjustments, metadata, projects, importing, thumbnails, etc on the second monitor. And what display customization is available is not sticky—it keeps reverting back to some default!
• Image display quality is superb, better than any of the Adobe products (including LightRoom) or any of the raw converters I have used (several). If print quality is as good it will be a significant advantage for Aperture.
• I am using OS 10.49 and A 1.53, yet I am still having problems with correct display of layered 16 bit photoshop files. Some do display correctly, but many are distorted and scrambled, and some display only an alpha channel.
• Last, and this will end my relationship with Aperture for now and probably forever, is a lack of universal support for DNG files (current support for DNG is restricted to proprietary RAW formats Aperture does support). What on earth is Apple thinking? The whole point of DNG is to remove the need for proprietary support by providing a universal open format. Aperture does not support my current camera. While that is not a surprise to me, the lack of universal support for DNG is.
I believe this must be a marketing decision, and a bad one at that. Apple needs to get a grip: Adobe owns this market. Aperture is a weak and marginal player. If Apple insists on playing this kind of game they will shoot themselves in the foot—and probably already have.
I am aware of some workarounds for specific cameras including mine, but the real issue is the lack of universal support for DNG. Without it Aperture, whatever its other virtues, is sunk. A pro would be a fool to make Aperture the center of their workflow if they were not confident of some universal means of working with raw files from whatever camera or back they might use in the future. Without this universal support Apple basically has veto power over what hardware I might choose in the future. This is a completely untenable position for me, and I would bet for most pros.
Too bad. Aperture shows much potential otherwise.
Mark Muse
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I know my DNG files themselves and the info they contain are fine. But they're not properly supported in Mavericks 10.9.4 and I don't plan on switching to Windows. A file that I converted to a DNG using Adobe software is now listed as an unrecognized file in OSX. No thumbnails, no iPhoto, no Aperture. Essentially, no support. And this is a problem. A quick search will show you people with various Sony cameras (A7, RX100 mkI and mkIII, at least) having the same problem.
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