Convert RAW and XMP to DNG after Developing - Maintain Changes

[patrickh27764550]

All:  I made a bit of a mistake earlier in my photo-hobby years - I developed my RAW files directly and did not convert them to DNG files, giving me the sidecar XMP file.

If I were to convert these RAW files to DNG using DNG converter, would my develop settings import into the DNG as well?

Thanks

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

Short answer to this: yes.

The xmp is read and that metadata written to the DNG file header.

If you're not certain you can just try a few files first.

[patrickh27764550]

Nice.  Works well.

Now, is there any way to imbed the original CR2 into a DNG that already exists without the embedded image?

In other words, I took mt Canon CR2s and converted them to DNG before editing them without imbedding the original.  I want to go back and imbed the original.  Unfortunately I don't have the sidecar XMP file to simply start from scratch with.  If I could access that, I'd be good.

[patrickh27764550]

Does anyone know how to do this?

[Rob_Cullen]

TBMK- No. Not possible. You cannot incorporate the original CR2 into the already created DNG file.

And would that be any different to saving both the original CR2 and the edited DNG as separate files? So I don't see a purpose to combine! The only benefit might be keeping both CR2 & DNG in one single large file.

File sizes on disk would be the same (or close)-  1) CR2 + DNG,  or-   2)  DNG with embedded CR2.

If need arose to use the CR2 once again it would need to be extracted first (an extra step) from the DNG with embedded CR2.