Can Lightroom 3 edits be transferred to Bibble 5 for NEF raw files?
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I edited about 700 Nikon NEF raw files in Lightroom 3 and want to move to Bibble 5 on Windows/Linux. Since Lightroom editing is non-destructive, the original raw files are unchanged. Is there any way to migrate the photos and keep the visual adjustments, or would I need to redo the edits? Keywords and folder structure are not a priority; preserving the edits is the main concern.
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Unfortunately there's currently no 'painless/seamless/automated' way to make the switch and you will not be able to pull your files over with edits intact. Your best bet will be to export anything you've made adjustments to as a 16 bit TIFF and then import them into your new chosen application. By keywording the files (with the keywords Adjusted, or Modified, perhaps) and generating sidecar files you will at least be able to sort them by keyword once you've got them out of Lightroom.
Obviously there's no way to know what products will be released in the future that have the potential to make the transition more seamless, but speaking as someone who spent a number of years in the software industry 'in another life,' my personal opinion is that I wouldn't hold my breath waiting, 'cause you will likely never see this transition be made any easier by Adobe... It's just not in the companies best interest or bottom line to make it easy to shift to a competing product, so there's just no real incentive to spend a lot of development time there...
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There isn’t a reliable, seamless way to transfer Lightroom 3 raw adjustments into Bibble 5 with full fidelity. Non-destructive edits are usually stored as application-specific metadata, and different raw editors often interpret that data differently or not at all.
One possible partial route is XMP: Bibble 5 supports XMP, and if Lightroom is set to write changes to XMP sidecar files, some metadata may transfer. However, you should not expect all Lightroom visual edits to appear correctly in Bibble.
If you need to preserve the exact look of already-edited images, the safest option is to export those edited photos from Lightroom as high-quality files, such as 16-bit TIFFs, and then import those into Bibble. That keeps the rendered appearance, though you lose raw-edit flexibility for those exported versions.
So in practice:
- try XMP sidecars if you want to test limited metadata transfer
- export important edited images as 16-bit TIFF to preserve their appearance
- expect to redo most raw edits if you want to keep working from the original NEFs in Bibble
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