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Nik Bhatt
KeymasterWell, it depends on whether you are shooting RAW or JPEG. If you are shooting JPEG, then your camera’s noise reduction will be used. However, if you shoot RAW, then there will not be any noise reduction from the camera, so you will want to use what Nitro provides. You can test the difference by shooting RAW+JPEG with a high ISO and looking at the difference.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterThe reason you aren’t seeing file names is because of the Square thumbnail setting. When you use square, then it fills the entire cell. Switch to Aspect ratio thumbnails (in the toolbar) and you will see the file names.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterThe images were not included – perhaps they are local paths?
Yes, the path I provided is correct, and the one where you located the JPEGs is the same path – as I mentioned, there are two subdirectories: File System and Photo Library. And then subdirectories inside those.Deleting JPEG previews underneath Nitro can confuse it, but it’s up to you. Periodically, you can also use the Clear Cache feature.
The file names do appear in Comparison and N-Up modes. They are toward the bottom of the image in those modes.Nik Bhatt
KeymasterPreviews are located here: ‘~/Library/Containers/com.gentlemencoders.nitro/Data/Library/Caches’. There is a folder for the File System and one for the Photo Library (which is used only when the Photo Library cannot make its own previews). The ~ refers to your home directory.
Please do not make changes to this folder – it is for the app’s internal use.
The image’s name should appear when the app has finished indexing the directory. The only case I have seen when a file name doesn’t appear (other than indexing not being done) is for Shared Albums in the Photo Library. So if you have a case that doesn’t work, please email me so I can troubleshoot it.
The app only stores its previews on the startup disk. This is a limitation of the app. It might change with time, but I can’t promise it.
You can also clear the caches in Settings but it will build them again as it needs them.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterThe next update is in final test – should be out very soon.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterI don’t have any current plans, but I can look into it. Making simulations is extremely time consuming since Fujifilm does not document how they make them.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterPlease email support@gentlemencoders.com and I can help you. The forum isn’t the best place for debugging these kinds of problems.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterBeen working on an update. I have sent out some builds to beta testers.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterYes. RAW Power can only open the system library and only the system library *CAN* be synched to iCloud (but it doesn’t have to be).
This is how you can do it:
1. Open your 100GB library in Photos.
2. Go to preferences and pick “Use as System Photo Library”. Photos will warn you that it will turn off iCloud Synching. That’s good – you want it to do that.
3. You can then open that library in RAW Power.
4. When you’re done, you can open the other library in Photos, tell Photos to use it as the System Photo Library, but then ENABLE synching.I can imagine this might give you pause. In that case, I suggest you run a test by creating a tiny library with one or two unique images (ones not found in your iCloud Photo Library) and following the above steps. If the tiny library isn’t merged into your iCloud Photo library, then you know that these steps will work.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterNitro uses the Photo library, and the Photo library only offers an “estimated” count. So, I could show that, but it would not always be correct. It’s possible to get the actual count, but that would impact performance. I will make a note – perhaps it can be added as a preference (with a note about performance).
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterPhotos defaults to “JPEG on top” and has a feature in Edit to switch to the RAW on top. The file name Photos shows is always the JPEG, even when it’s showing the RAW.
Nitro defaults to the RAW, though it shows the JPEG image, since that is what Photos provides to it. In contrast, it always shows the RAW’s file name. It also has a feature to switch to the JPEG when editing.
So, both can edit either half of the pair. Photos is JPEG centric and Nitro is RAW centric.
If you want to switch in Nitro, the button is to the right of the “four way control” and right below the histogram. It only shows up if you have an R+J pair in Edit.Nik Bhatt
KeymasterI was able to get some more information about these files. They are indeed ProRAW files. The JPEGXL part is just the way they are compressed to save space. Yes, they also contain a JPEG as the preview.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterThese are weird files. They act like ProRAW images – my code shows the sliders for ProRAW (and regular RAW) and they seem to work too, so….hmm.
These files do NOT work on earlier OS versions (Ventura, for example is not supported).
This will no doubt cause a lot of havoc as people take shots with their new phones and cannot open them on their older Macs and devices.Nik Bhatt
KeymasterThanks, I’ll take a look.
Nik Bhatt
KeymasterIt’s not a RAW file, and it’s not a ProRAW file. It’s relatively new file format that is intended to replace JPEG. It seems that Apple is using the DNG format to hold the JPEGXL data (since DNG is a general purpose container and not a RAW-specific container). At this point I don’t have any tips – it should just work.
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