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Gunther Wegner
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December 22, 2014
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P: DNG Converter: Enable JPG conversion

  • December 22, 2014
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Lightroom is capable to convert JPGs into DNG. The DNG Converter unfortunately currently is not. Please add JPG support to the Adobe DNG Converter. Thank you very much for considering!

173 replies

Gunther Wegner
Known Participant
June 27, 2017
DNG Converter is the batch tool to convert files to DNG. Since it is already possible to wrap TIFF and JPG into DNG in ACR and LR (the GUI tools) it would only be a logic conclusion to have this same feature too in the DNG Converter, since it's the designated tool for batch conversions.
john beardsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 27, 2017
Why must it be done by DNG Converter? DNG Converter does have a very specific purpose, so I would be pretty surprised if Adobe changed it for this.
Gunther Wegner
Known Participant
June 27, 2017
Exactly, I've to trigger it seemlessly in background from my software.
john beardsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 26, 2017
You say "batch functionalities" but to you is the important thing that you want to automate DNG Converter? Because batches can be output by ACR and LR, and LR exports/imports can be scripted as you know.
Gunther Wegner
Known Participant
June 26, 2017
Let me explain again. For our time lapse purposes, it doesn't help that Lightroom can wrap jpgs into DNGs. ACR doesn't help either.
Our request is that we need this same feature in the Adobe DNG Converter in order to be able to use its batch functionalities.
TIFF and JPG support for the DNG converter would be really, really useful. It would allow us to use JPG and TIFF sequences exactly the same way as RAW files, when working on time lapse sequences with LRTimelapse. For the user the conversion to DNG would happen totally transparent in background.
@7730116 It would be really helpful, if you could find a way to put this on the agenda. I'm here to talk about further details at any time. Thank you in advance. You or someone from your team can reach me via info(at)lrtimelapse(dot)com too to discuss this.
john beardsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 26, 2017
And in ACR, there is a big Save button in the bottom left corner. DNG is one of the options.  LR can save DNGs from JPEGs via its Export function.
Inspiring
June 26, 2017
Adriana, the problem is to turn jpegs into DNG. Not the other way round...
Adobe Employee
June 26, 2017
You can open your DNG files in the ACR plug-in and/or Lightroom and convert the files to JPEG or other formats.
Inspiring
June 26, 2017
Hello Adobe? Please add this functionality to DNG Converter. Pleeease.
Inspiring
October 30, 2016
I support Gunther's request, so please add JPG support to the Adobe DNG Converter.