{"id":11400,"date":"2007-02-12T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/02\/why-adobe-doesnt-touch-proprietary-raw-files.html"},"modified":"2007-02-12T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T01:47:18","slug":"why_adobe_doesnt_touch_proprietary_raw_fil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/why_adobe_doesnt_touch_proprietary_raw_fil\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Adobe doesn&#039;t touch proprietary raw files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Touching the bits of raw image formats that aren&#8217;t publicly documented well (or at all) seems like a bad idea, bound to end in tears.  Microsoft is <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/927527\/en-us\">advising customers<\/a> not to edit metadata using Vista, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=389155AA-0F3C-4F72-B97E-058F854CD46D\">saying<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft has received reports of compatibility issues with Nikon NEF files after installing version 1.0 of Nikon&#8217;s raw codec posted in January. Tagging the raw files through Windows Vista or the Microsoft Photo Info tool after the codec is installed appears to cause these files to become unreadable in other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10805_3-6157801.html?part=rss&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-5&amp;subj=news\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the problem will get sorted out soon enough, but it does illustrate why Camera Raw and Lightroom insist on using sidecar data files for raw formats other than DNG. It&#8217;s less convenient, but we&#8217;ve seen far too many conflicts arise from touching metadata in these other formats. DNG was designed with flexible internal storage of metadata in mind, and now Lightroom and Bridge offer conversion to DNG as part of their photo-import processes. (For what it&#8217;s worth, on my MacBook Pro, converting an 8MP CR2 file to DNG takes roughly 1-1.5 seconds&#8211;not a bad price for portability &amp; reduced file size.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touching the bits of raw image formats that aren&#8217;t publicly documented well (or at all) seems like a bad idea, bound to end in tears. Microsoft is advising customers not to edit metadata using Vista, saying, Microsoft has received reports of compatibility issues with Nikon NEF files after installing version 1.0 of Nikon&#8217;s raw codec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}