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February 28, 2017
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Nikon ViewNX-i ratings not showing up in LR CC

  • February 28, 2017
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I recently upgraded to LR CC to get support for my Nikon D7200 and D500 NEF files. Previously I used Nikon ViewNX 2 to edit and assign ratings (stars) to the files before I imported them to LR CC and the ratings showed up OK. Now I've upgraded to Nikon ViewNX-i to resolve problems with lens distortion control issues and now when I import the files files to LR CC the ratings no longer show up. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks

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    Correct answer johnrellis

    I downloaded ViewNX-i and did a little Googling.  ViewNX-i saves edited metadata like ratings to proprietary sidecar files stored in the subfolder NKSC_PARAM.  As far as I can tell, the only way to get edited metadata out of the clutches of ViewNX-i is to export the photos as TIFFs or JPEGs, which will then contain the edited metadata in industry-standard fields.

    I found lots of complaints in various forums about this.  Don't know what Nikon was thinking here.  But there doesn't appear to be any easy way to change the ratings in ViewNX-i and then have them appear in other programs like LR, Bridge, Photoshop, etc.

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    johnrellis
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    March 2, 2017

    I downloaded ViewNX-i and did a little Googling.  ViewNX-i saves edited metadata like ratings to proprietary sidecar files stored in the subfolder NKSC_PARAM.  As far as I can tell, the only way to get edited metadata out of the clutches of ViewNX-i is to export the photos as TIFFs or JPEGs, which will then contain the edited metadata in industry-standard fields.

    I found lots of complaints in various forums about this.  Don't know what Nikon was thinking here.  But there doesn't appear to be any easy way to change the ratings in ViewNX-i and then have them appear in other programs like LR, Bridge, Photoshop, etc.

    larrym47958983
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    March 2, 2017

    Thanks. I looked at the list of NTSC files, which would be the ones that I

    had assigned ratings, and tried to print them so that I could then go into

    LR and duplicate the ratings. Unfortunately, the directory listing program

    that I have only sorts on the first 3 digits of the file names and

    rearranges them so that 1001 comes after 100, 1002 after 102 etc. Do you know of

    any way to print the contents of a directory so that this doesn't happen?

    It's still going to be a time consuming problem since I used ViewNX-i on three

    1500 photo files before I realized the problem! It's inconceivable to me

    that Nikon would not think that users also use Bridge, PS and LR and put the

    data into the metadata where it belongs.

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    forums_noreply@adobe.com writes:

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
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    March 2, 2017

    When you sort the photos in LR by filename, the order will be 100, 101, 102, 1000, 1001, 1002, etc.  in Library, do View > Sort > File Name.

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