NIK U point plugins for PhotoMechanic?

[judophotos]

Kirk,

With Nikon removing the U point controls in Capture NX2 and downgrading it to Capture NX D, is there anyway that Camerabits could engineer PM5 to accept the NIK plugins?

I love CNX2 with the simplicity of its licenced U point technology and its speed and really do not want to move to Lightroom and its DNG image files adding more complexity in my work flow.

With all the frustration going on on the Nikonians website I think you would have the perfect converter for the NEF. Could it be considered?

David

[Kirk Baker]

David,

Some problems.  One is that our focus for the foreseeable future is on cataloging.  Two would be that what would happen when the plugins would have some sort of incompatibility with an OS revision?  The answer is that we would have no way to fix it since we wouldn't have access to the source code to make any needed patches.

Lastly, RAW conversion is no simple task and that would have to be accomplished before any plugins would have access to the image data.

-Kirk

[judophotos]

Thanks Kirk.

Obviously more complicated than I thought.

David

[RogueMD]

I use all the NIK "plug ins" directly from PM5, and Viveza does what U-Point does. I appreciate that it works on TIFF and JPEG's but you can't use raw files without first converting. You just need to run each plug in as a Program Editor. I loaded them all and pick and choose. Each one launches and saves just fine.

[Soizic]

After CNX2 I chose CaptureOne, no regrets !

I edit a RAW and ask C1 "edit with" Viveza which have U-points. Viveza open, and when I finish with it, I obtain  a tif near the Raw in C1.
Same with all Nik Collection.