Cannot read DxO DNG files
I am trialling Capture One Pro and so far really like the software EXCEPT I cannot get it to import or open DNG files created by DxO PhotoLab. I've tried to convert DxO's DNG files using Adobe DNG Converter, still no dice. Any suggestions?
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It seems to me that Capture One can open and read dng files obtained from RAW camera files, but I am not sure that dng files coming from anything else than a C1 supported RAW camera files can be opened.
And I don't understand why you are interested in opening, in C1, files processed with DxO, as, anyway, you will not keep the settings applied with DxO (and with any other developing software). Translations, in terms of algorithms, and thereby cursor and function values, from a software to an other are irrelevant. Except between Phoshop and Lightroom for instance, because they can "speak" using xmp files.
I would suggest to create in DxO tiff files, rather than dng's. And then open these tiff with Capture One.0 -
PeI have noticed that when COP is asked to oipen RAW files, the success or failure is gated by Exif tags in the RAW file.
Currently RAW files with exif tag "G9" cannot be opened (unsupported camera) but if you edit the file to change the tags to "GH5" (supported camera) then the file does open.
I suspect a similar mechanism is at work here.
I started the when I edited GM1 files to be G5 using a hex editor like "010 editor" or "wxHexEditor", this OK to explore and do a small amount of images.
Recently someone in DP review suggested this (haven't tried it)
The easiest way to use a DC-G9 raw file in PS to convert it (actually just rename the camera model in the raw file) with exiftool:
exiftool -EXIF:Model=DMC-G7 *.rw2
This will convert all your rw2 files in the current folder.
This command is of couese used in "Terminal" and calls Phil Harvey's exiftool application
Perhps you can try the same approach with DNG files, change the exif tags to make the file seem like it comes from a supported source.0 -
[quote="AZBlue" wrote:
Hello,
I am trialling Capture One Pro and so far really like the software EXCEPT I cannot get it to import or open DNG files created by DxO PhotoLab. I've tried to convert DxO's DNG files using Adobe DNG Converter, still no dice. Any suggestions?
The DxO cannot open even own DNG files as is not a DNG converter. The exported DNGs are specialy prepared for Photoshop.
DxO will open DNG files only if are comming from a supported camera or generated by Adobe Lightroom and Adobe DNG Converter, but only in case that DxO has RAW implemented for the originating camera.0 -
[quote="VAD." wrote:
[quote="AZBlue" wrote:
Hello,
I am trialling Capture One Pro and so far really like the software EXCEPT I cannot get it to import or open DNG files created by DxO PhotoLab. I've tried to convert DxO's DNG files using Adobe DNG Converter, still no dice. Any suggestions?
The DxO cannot open even own DNG files as is not a DNG converter. The exported DNGs are specialy prepared for Photoshop.
DxO will open DNG files only if are comming from a supported camera or generated by Adobe Lightroom and Adobe DNG Converter, but only in case that DxO has RAW implemented for the originating camera.
Are you confusing BsO with Capture One?0 -
What camera was the original images from?
Like others have said, if PhaseOne does not know the camera, it will not allow the file to be opened. Using ExifTool is one way to get around the issue. (I know, PhaseOne should get their head out of their "B?tts" and just support any DNG file thrown at it, and say non-supported/tested file type and get on with their life.) I understand if they do not want to support some of the really strange DNG types (Linear).
For gusferliz -- What is BsO?
Robert0 -
[quote="PhaseoneUser55657" wrote:
What camera was the original images from?
Like others have said, if PhaseOne does not know the camera, it will not allow the file to be opened. Using ExifTool is one way to get around the issue. (I know, PhaseOne should get their head out of their "B?tts" and just support any DNG file thrown at it, and say non-supported/tested file type and get on with their life.) I understand if they do not want to support some of the really strange DNG types (Linear).
For gusferliz -- What is BsO?
Robert
I agree!
BsOMark is the 'Angry Photographer' way of saying DxOMark. Bs is for BS.0 -
[quote="PhaseoneUser55657" wrote:
What camera was the original images from?
Like others have said, if PhaseOne does not know the camera, it will not allow the file to be opened. Using ExifTool is one way to get around the issue. (I know, PhaseOne should get their head out of their "B?tts" and just support any DNG file thrown at it, and say non-supported/tested file type and get on with their life.) I understand if they do not want to support some of the really strange DNG types (Linear).
For gusferliz -- What is BsO?
Robert
CO does support both linear and non-linear DNG, from Supported and Unsupported cameras.
However, DNG’s are not generic as you might think. We have seen a lot of different flavors, versions and interpretations over the years. This I also why we recommend to simply keep the raw-file in their respective native formats.0 -
DxO handles the camera and lens combination, and for the most part does a better job of handling and correcting RAW camera files than any other software I've tried. I Don't see why C1 can't simply bypass this step and treat the import as a file instead of a specific camera RAW file? I have to use Topaz DeNoise or Sharpen to convert the DxO dng files to 16-bit Tiff files so that I can proceed in C1, an additional lengthly process.
DxO somethimes blows the highlights or messes the colour profile and this would be much easier to correct if C1 could edit the dng file.
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Alan,
C1's editing of a DNG file, if it is to be accurate, requires the same information as an out-of-camera RAW file - data about the "camera".
If that is not available, in much the same way as it would not be available for an unsupported camera, C1 has very limited scope for doing any successful processing.
For DNG files in some situations, a "generic" profile will give some results. Mobile phone files for example., but the potential is often somewhat limited almost to the point that one may as well use the phone's jpgs rather than waste its internal storage capacity. Thats' what 99.99% of phone users do anyway.
So to process a DxO "RAW" file C1 would need to be able to understand the internal "DxO RAW" profile used to create it. Assuming, of course, that the way DxO do things for their own internal purposes within their own software is standardized, consistent and something they are prepared to share commercially.
I have no idea if such an approach is viable or commercially realistic.
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I have found C1 to be fairly reliable at opening TIF files. I would try using DXO to export the DNG files in TIF format.
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