Capture NX-D

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A new editing software from Nikon, in beta stage so they're asking for feedback, it's free now and when out of beta will still be free..I'm giving it a go, settings take some getting used to and it seems a bit slow, but looks pretty good..anyone else giving it a try?

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I use LR so there's no point. I think that Nikon's purpose is that they just need something that they can bundle with their cameras, rather than develop a killer stand-alone app.
 
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If the NX-D is the successor of NX2 then I think there is a massive use for it. Albeit light room is great for cataloguing and preprocessing. But the NX 2 has some awesome features.
I will look into this NX-D. I basically want the NX-D to support the raw editing particularly the white balance adjustment and exposure adjustment in NX2 but with the slick management system of LR2 and batch export functionality with 64bit support.
 
NX-D is indeed destined to replace Capture NX2 (and View NX2) but that doesn't mean that it's a development of them. It's by a different author and lacks certain features. It seems too basic for anything serious and I think its purpose is as my previous post.
 
Just installed it and it lloks quite good - normally use view nx2 & capture nx2 but I'm trying to work out what NX-D does not have that the other softwares do have. I have never really used the "control point" features so would not really miss this if thats all thats missing.
 
Basically, NX-D is just a tweaked version of View NX2 that has a few more functions and stores edits in a sidecar file (unlike Capture NX2 & ViewNX2, which don't). The interface is horrible and there's a host of features that were present in Capture NX2 but missing in NX-D - link. Nikon have obviously ditched U-point Technology (developed by Nik Software and used in CNX2) because they'd have to pay Google to use it (Google bought Nik).

Capture NX2 will no longer be supported after the non-beta NX-D is released. That means CNX2 won't support new Nikon cameras or new Windows/Mac operating systems. It also means (probably) that CNX2 can't be installed on a new system because the product keys won't work if & when they switch the activation servers off.

CNX2 is a proper editor - NX-D isn't. What a shambles - Nikon have left loyal customers who paid for NX2 completely in the lurch.
 
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I'm wondering what people actually dislike about the interface
Ozei said:
Basically, NX-D is just a tweaked version of View NX2 that has a few more functions and stores edits in a sidecar file (unlike Capture NX2 & ViewNX2, which don't). The interface is horrible and there's a host of features that were present in Capture NX2 but missing in NX-D - link. Nikon have obviously ditched U-point Technology (developed by Nik Software and used in CNX2) because they'd have to pay Google to use it (Google bought Nik).

Capture NX2 will no longer be supported after the non-beta NX-D is released. That means CNX2 won't support new Nikon cameras or new Windows/Mac operating systems. It also means (probably) that CNX2 can't be installed on a new system because the product keys won't work if & when they switch the activation servers off.

CNX2 is a proper editor - NX-D isn't. What a shambles - Nikon have left loyal customers who paid for NX2 completely in the lurch.
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I'm thinking that sidecar files are not necessarily bad as it makes backing up faster - just the edits (a few kb) instead of a 30mb file. I guess for CNX2 users who used u-point then this might be missed but I don't tend to do that level of tweaking, mainly WB, exposure comp, leveling, resizing etc

I much prefer it to view NX - it reminds me in some ways of rawtherapee which I used to use when I had a ricoh gr
 
NX-D does not allow any local edits! So no masks, brushes, healing brush etc.
As others have said it is possibly an improvement on View NX2 but no replacement at all for Capture NX2. The only advantage over CNX2 is that it is faster, but being faster at doing less is not really an advantage!
 
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....... being faster at doing less is not really an advantage!
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And if you lose the sidecar file (or it gets separated from its NEF) NX-D loses the whole edit and you have to start again from scratch.
 
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