Raw+jpeg file management

[emilt52043447]

At the moment I am shooting in the raw+jpeg mode, as I often send the jpegs to friends that I was out shooting with on the same day, and then properly edit the raws later on. I was wondering if there's a way to delete both the raw and jpeg file pair if I take a poor shot, in order to speed up my workflow rather than going through and deleting both one by one. 

Many thanks in advance

[gary_sc · Accepted solution]

Hi Emit,

Short answer: no. They are separate files so there's no way for any computer to know what you want (and would you really want to trust a computer to know before you do? ;>)

But, how are you looking at them? If you look at them in the Content Panel sorted by file name or date corrected, they should be side-by-side. At that point you simply have to press the Shift key (because they are sequential at that point) or the Command key (on the Mac, forgive me but I do not remember at this moment what key you press on PCs for non-sequential items) as well to make them both active and then delete them both. So yes, an extra key tap but not horrendous.

BTW, I've never understood Bridge's default panel setup. I like my Content Panel on the left side with the Preview Panel in the middle taking up most of Bridge's screen space. (What good is preview if it's tiny?). By changing the size of the thumbnails and the width of the Content Panel you can change how many thumbnails you see which may also help see raw + jpg side by side.

I hope this makes sense, I hope even more if it helps!

[emilt52043447]

Hi Gary, thanks for the super fast reply! I suppose you're right and an extra key tap isn't too laborious... thanks for the tip, it should speed things up at least a little.

I see what you mean about the default panel setup, I've been using the filmstrip layout so far and it's been a little more useful than the default one.

Thanks again for the help!

[pali_radu]

You can't from Brdige but if you import the folder into Lightroom Classic there it will show you RAW+JPEG and when you delete it from there it will delete both the RAW and the JPEG. Hope this helps others who are looking for an answer to the above problem. I attached a screen grab of what the file looks like in Lightroom Classic. It says file name then .CR2+JPEG. If you are shooting on a different camera than Canon you RAW might have a different extention than CR2.

[Lumigraphics]

In Lightroom, you specify whther to treat RAW + JPEG as separate or not. Bridge doesn't have that option.

[pali_radu]

You are right but Bridge should also have this option as is very useful when you shoot Raw+JPEG.

This wasn't a problem when people used to shoot through a tether cable to computer as all the files would get transferred over to the PC regardless of the file size but since the Wi-Fi capabilities were introduced to DSLRs, this started to become an issue as the speed of file transfer is not fast enough to shoot RAW only (+ there are a million reasons why people shoot RAW+JPEG) so often (especially when cables become a hazard on a shoot due to shooting hand bland) people would shoot RAW+JPEG and transfer only the JPEG over Wi-Fi to the computer (at least that's what I do on Canon) and transfer the RAWs as well after the shoot.

Then there is another issue which would be also great if Adobe adressed it: If we star any pictures during the shoot these pictures would be JPEGs but then one needs to manually star the corresponding RAWs as well when the RAW files been downloaded onto the computer from the Card in the camera at the end of the shoot. It would be great if Adobe paid attention to this small detail and introduced an easy way to copy not just Camera Raw settings across but also sync stars from JPEGs to RAWs or vice versa.

[Lumigraphics]

Some of this can be handled by scripts. I always wary of overloading file names because that can bite you.

You wouldn't want Camera RAW settings copied, JPEG files use in-camera styles and settings while RAWs do not in ACR.