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Edit, no tagging?

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  • AnthonyS
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    Hi, If I develop and edit a non RAW file, a D and an E appear in the thumbnail. OK

    If I develop a RAW file, a D appears, but if I subsequently edit this file, I will save it as JPG or else, and no E tag will then be visible, neither in the RAW, nor in the newly created JPG. So, I now remember that this RAW file ha also been edited, but, ... in a few months?

    Am I doing something wrong?

    Will I have to browse the Originals folder, or compare RAW and JPG to check if any editing process has been performed?

    Thanks

    Posted On October 21, 2009 - 01:06 PM (1 month ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • LV_Bill
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    Anthony -   You are right.  No E on edited output files created from Raw.  I tried both Jpegs and Pngs, same result.  You'll also find nothing in the [Originals] folder, which no doubt has something to do with no E.  Not sure what their reasoning was here.  It certainly seems inconsistent.  Anyone know if this was on purpose, and why?

    Posted On October 21, 2009 - 03:53 PM (1 month ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • AnthonyS
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    I suppose there are no originals because the RAW file is the original itself, but the point is I can't check if I did some (RAW) editing without visually comparing it with the saved JPG

    Posted On October 22, 2009 - 06:29 AM (1 month ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • John Radcliffe
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    because the RAW file is the original itself

    Exactly. Whenever you do a "Save As" (whether the original was Raw or Jpeg) you are in effect creating a new original, and Pro3 doesn't automatically relate the two versions. Of course you can do this via Exif date/time, or by using "versional" filenames (as I tend to do), but this is hardly ideal. That's why some of us still don't think Pro3's non-destructive editing and/or its Originals feature is a substitute for some form of "version control", and would like to see that in a future version of Pro. (Perhaps along with other things like Viewer sharpening that we've been half expecting for at least two releases now.)

    Posted On October 22, 2009 - 01:25 PM (4 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

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