ViewNX2 Question
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donaldjledet
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Fred Kingston_RIP
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I'm not a ViewNX fan... but don't they separate the side-car files from the image itself, and you have to do something to combine them??????
It depends if you export the shots or not. If you apply anything to a shot in the soft, I writes the changes in a separate file stored inside another folder (nk..something with letters) it creates within the current folder. The original itself isn't changed.
You need to either apply the changes to the shot, or export a version. In previous versions it either applied changes to the shot afterwards or ditched them but the latest versions it writes those changes down in its own data-file. It's better since it took ages in the past.
You need to either apply the changes to the shot, or export a version. In previous versions it either applied changes to the shot afterwards or ditched them but the latest versions it writes those changes down in its own data-file. It's better since it took ages in the past.
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donaldjledet
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O.K. Thanks For the help, all this time I thought the changes where made to the original. @FredKingston [MENTION=31330]J-see[/MENTION]
sonicbuffalo_RIP
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I'm learning about that too....even though I don't use ViewNx. Still good to know.
Some versions ago it did edit the file which was a huge PITA. If you'd look at a shot and adjusted a value, then closed it, it prompted a "save changes or discard". That did took ages if you had a good deal of shots.
I'm now using Capture but it's very fast now. I go through my shots, make any changes I might need at that very moment and they are applied directly without adjusting the actual shot. Only when I want to use the shots with those changes, I export them.
It's actually identical to how LR works. There too you need to export before the changes are visible outside the editor.
I'm now using Capture but it's very fast now. I go through my shots, make any changes I might need at that very moment and they are applied directly without adjusting the actual shot. Only when I want to use the shots with those changes, I export them.
It's actually identical to how LR works. There too you need to export before the changes are visible outside the editor.
The current version of View NX saves the changes to RAW in a sidecar file (same as NX-D). For JPEG or TIFF the original file is over written with changes. View NX does provide an option for saving the original (JPEG or TIFF) file before over writing it.
If you are working with RAW file, then the changes are incorporated when you "Export" it to JPEG or TIFF.
On the whole I find that using RAW and NX-D is a much better option, as you can recover a lot more shadows and highlights compared to in camera JPEG, apart from a host of other controls provided.
If you are working with RAW file, then the changes are incorporated when you "Export" it to JPEG or TIFF.
On the whole I find that using RAW and NX-D is a much better option, as you can recover a lot more shadows and highlights compared to in camera JPEG, apart from a host of other controls provided.
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