CameraRaw not showing in Bridge

[Mago111]

MAC Big Sur 11.7.3
Bridge 12.0.3.270
Photosho 23.3.2
CameraRaw 14.5

Using Bridge to export a batch of 4000 PNG Images to have the same CameraRaw settings applied to all at once. However CameraRaw doesnt show anywhere in bridge, It works fine in Photoshop.
Tried restarting CameRaw, Reinstalling it, and

Not sure what else to do, How to enable it?
Is this the best workflow to apply the same CameraRaw filter settings to a batch, or is there another way? Would this workflow export the images as PNGs?

 

[gary_sc]

Well, there's a catch, Camera Raw cannot open png files from Bridge. The reason why you can do this from Photoshop is that once you've opened an image up, at that point, it's just pixels. So, once you have it in pixels, there's no problem using the Filter of Camera Raw to make adjustments. 

Now, one thing you can do is to use the Image Processor and convert all 4000 images into JPG images. Then you can run them all through ACR. However, I do recommend saving the images with zero compression (set the quality to 10)*. Then, after processing all of the images, you can then resave the files back into png files.

Good luck,

* Not seeing what's in these images, I do not know how important this is but it will help protect against jpg degredation.

[Mago111]

Thanks Gary,
The only concern with all these steps is losing quality, Would switching back and forth ruin the quality.
Does it have to be JPG, cant be TIFF ? JPGs degrade color.  
"Then you can run them all through ACR" This is through Bridge right ?
and how would i resave a batch of 4000 JPG images to PNG? 🙂

So to break it down, Convert All PNG Files to JPG on PS,
Then add ACR setting to all Images on BR,
Then resave all as PNG (not sure how as a batch).

Thanks,

[Mago111]

Ok done, Bridge exported the JPGs as PNG.
Thank you for the help!

[gary_sc]

Hi, yes you could have saved them as TIF images but TIF images are arout 2-3 times the size of a JPG, even if the JPG is saved at the 10 setting. AND, at the 10 setting, the amount of JPG degredation would have extreemly limited, if at all. Since I do not know your system, I defaulted to give your computer a bit of a break with the JPGs. Otherwise, yes, you are correct that TIF would have been a better approach. 

[Mago111]

It worked good with JPG at the 12 settings. looks fine after exporting PNG at 8bit not 16, to have a smaller size