JPEG batch extracting from RAW

[arde]

Hi all,

Yesterday I received my 10D and I am more than happy with it.
It's a beast! It makes the G5 I had before look like a toy...

Hopefully Canon will work on the software to make it as good as the camera...
At this moment, as a RAW shooter, I find the Canon software very disappointing.

My idea was to shoot in RAW and JPEG simultaniously and to work on the JPEG in most cases. For the REAL good shots I had intended to use the RAW file.

But, as far as I can see now, the JPEG is embedded in the RAW file and there is no way to get this JPEG out rather than save the JPEG in the 'file viewer utility' shot per shot.

Very frustrating I would say...

Are there any methods to batch extract the JPEGS without spending nearly as much time than on converting the RAW file directly ?

Please say there is......for mac OS X....please :-)

Thanks,
Armand

[vpascal]

Yes there is. See

http://www.insflug.org/raw/software/download/

A Mac OS X Finder Contextual Menu plugin providing single click RAW file conversion, JPEG extraction, EXIF manipulation ad thumbnail generation. A dcraw only package is also provided.

The Contextual Menu plugin doesn't work for me right now, but there is info on the software components that do what you want.

Also, I highly recommend dcraw instead of the Canon RAW conversion in the FVU.
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[lziering]

I think you can select all the RAW files and perform a batch extract. Which is better than not being able to do a batch but I think you must be a born optimist if you think Canon will ever make good software.

[AJSJones]

Armand,
It goes something like this in OS9 and the OSX version is similar : In the browser window, select the .crw images whose jpegs you want to extract. Go to the File menu and select Raw Image Processing. Select them all again. Go to the File menu and select save/ extract jpegs. It'll ask you where you want to put them - same folder or new. Then it extracts them very quickly, and you can then browse them, and determine if there are any images that need better processing than the embedded jpeg.

I find that many of them are close enough to what I would get with raw processing (I use large/fine to embed, since I have enough CF storage) that final manipulations of the jpeg produce as good a result as the long-way-round crw-> 16 bit -> 8 bit. However, there are often aspects of the jpeg that are inadequate (either my fault -usually exposure, or the processing) that do warrant the long way round, and I do the crw conversion only on those. If you use something other than large/fine to embed, the losses are a lot more frequent and more crw processing will be needed. As a result, I have stopped shooting jpeg only and always shoot raw with lg/fine embedded, but don't always process the crw....

Andy

[CyberDyneSystems]

Armand,

Check out Breezebrowser from Breezesys...

It is a handy little file wiewer in it's right,. but it will also extract the jpegs from your raw files FAST in a batch. you select the entire folder full of files and in two click and no time at all they are all extracted.

It is also a good way to work with RAW files if you don't have the adobe RAW plugin.

[AJSJones]

Trouble is, BB is not for Macs ;-(

[arde]

Hi Andy,

This solution is much more easier than I thought it would be.
I also use the large/fine option to embed. The extra space this requires in the file is very acceptable and with a 1Gb CF card I can go a long way.

Meanwhile I have found a solution to easily convert the RAW files.

Bryan Chang's 'dcRAW-X' ($15) does a linear conversion to 16 bit PSD files (there are more options but this is what I have chosen) and Fred Miranda finishes the job with the '10D profiler' PS plugin package ( also $15).

I am still in the proces of learning which options in the FM plugin are 'the best' (I think this can take a long time....) but I start feeling that also for RAW conversion this is acceptable for me.

Together with your solution my weekend made a good start :-)

Regards,
Armand