Questions about raw formats and conversions

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@Wanderweger

another newbie post (sorry)

No apologies, that’s what this forum is for!

@Wanderweger

Am I correct that Photostructure just copies the CR2 images into the new library.

Yes.

@Wanderweger

is there a jpg image also created somewhere for the photostructure viewer (and if so where), or does it render on the fly?

The thumbnails and preview images are JPEGs that live in your PhotoStructure library. See https://photostructure.com/faq/library/#where-are-my-librarys-database-settings-and-preview-files

Rendering is all done at import time to make browsing fast.

@Wanderweger

Is there a list of formats that photostructure supports?

V0.9.1 uses dcraw, which supports many raw formats.

v1.0 (which I hope to have alpha releases ready in a week or two) switched to libraw, which supports many more recent raw formats. The only raw format that I’m aware of that it doesn’t support yet is cr3, which they say will be ready soon.

@Wanderweger

If there is an image in my original library that is not supported does auto file management just ignore it.

Currently, yes, but thinking about it more, it seems like it would be better to import it if possible: most raw images have fairly large embedded JPEG images that I can use for full-screen. I’ll think about this some more: thanks for bringing this to my attention!