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Nikon Z9 HE (high efficiency) compressed NEF direct reading in C1 needed

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I am adding a new topic. Dear C1 folks - you will miss the momentum of taking hundreds of subscribers if you do not act fast… most photographers use the HE NEF compressed images for the z9 simply because the size of these files are comparable to the size of a 24mpx NEF file (z6)…. But why we cannot enjoy this magic if the postprocessing software does not support? In my opinion if you shoot 20fps RAW (which we as action photographers do) you will end up minimum a thousand image after 3-4 hours of shooting. For culling we use PM6, but still we end up with significantly more pictures (due to less bad focuses!) and we need a quicker post processing than what LR/LRC (photoshop is out if question) can provide. This can be C1 - but this depends on you, developers!!!!
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  • Permanently deleted user
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    We need yet another thread on this like we need a hole in the head:

    https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4415914839441-Nikon-Z9-RAW-NEF-High-Efficiency?page=4#community_comment_5131570190877

    https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4415336961553-Nikon-Z9-support?page=1#community_comment_5145302172445

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Honestly…. Had a much better recent discussion about this topic on FB in the ‘C1 pro group by photographers’. I understood the complexity of this question. Still I believe the customers (your customers) would need to see some plans and clear communication. There is a market opportunity for you here, please keep tour customers excited and let them know how to handle the transition period. You may blame intopix for some time for sure. But here is a chance for you to Capture the LR customers, as that SW is equally bad for those HE and HE* raw files (but at least it works somehow)…

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  • Permanently deleted user
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    But here is a chance for you to Capture the LR customers, as that SW is equally bad for those HE and HE* raw files (but at least it works somehow)…

    They're all bad at it - entirely because of Nikon's choices:

    https://www.nikoncafe.com/threads/nikon-z9-raw-photo-nraw-video-support.331229/#post-4211259

    See that? Nobody supports HE/HE* properly - and mostly not at all - because it's a closed, proprietary format.

    So take it up with Nikon. 

    Since the format that's used for the "high efficiency" Z9 files is 3rd party proprietary I wonder if the various software companies are hung up negotiating licensing agreements?

    Ka-ching...

    https://www.nikoncafe.com/threads/nikon-z9-raw-photo-nraw-video-support.331229/post-4238811

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  • Reginald Brown

    Of course it's not that cut and dry, Keith. I would be interested to see the breakdown of ARM vs x86 COne users, I would expect that the large majority of us are on x86, though due to Apple's move to Apple Silicon I am sure that the ARM percentage is increasing. But I suspect it's largely a way to kick the can on support, after all, a product manager is dealing with limited development resources, so if they can point to someone else as the "cause" of their not prioritizing something, they of course will. But you can't just say it's Nikon's fault, that just isn't true. There is an SDK that COne could use, the support on some percentage of the machines running COne would be limited, but for many of us it would be perfectly fine.

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  • Reginald Brown
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    Walter, perhaps I wasn't clear? I understand that they don't have an ARM SDK. They do have an x86 SDK, which you're referring to as "Intel." I suspect the majority of COne users are on x86. I did mention it would be interesting to see that breakdown and concede that AS will cause a shift towards ARM in terms of market share, but that's a bit of a red herring. It's not like they would drop x86 support the moment they add ARM support. They could support x86 right now.

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