When cataloging raw image formats, your catalogs and Asset Handling Sets have to be prepared for this. The catalogs in which you want to manage your raw images must provide the corresponding record fields to store the special raw image information and the Asset Handling Sets you want to employ must have the Digital Camera Raw Filter activated. Its format entries must be in a certain sequence to achieve best results.

When cataloging, the Digital Camera Raw Filter can capture the following information from your raw images:

Of course the filter can only capture the information contained in the cataloged images. The captured information will be stored in Cumulus record fields. The corresponding record fields have to be included in the catalog to which you want to add the raw images.

Some of the fields above may not be available in the catalog to which you want to add the raw images. To include them in a catalog, you have to add the corresponding fields to the Record Fields in the Catalog Settings dialog before cataloging your documents or updating your records. (For details on how to add record field to a catalog, see “Adding Fields” .) Note that only the Cumulus Administrator or a user who has the appropriate permissions is allowed to change the settings of a catalog and add record fields.

The Digital Camera Raw Filter is the only Cumulus filter that can read raw images. However, the entry numbers of the formats supported by this filter are important. When cataloging, Cumulus starts searching for matching formats at the lowest entry number. It employs the formats according to their entry numbers (lowest entry number first). If you want the Digital Camera Raw Filter to be employed for assets, check the order of the format entries in the Asset Handling Set you use for cataloging.

In order to ensure the Digital Camera Raw Filter works ideally for cataloging assets, you have to move the entries for the formats supported by it up in the list, so that they are at least before the first format supported by the TIFF Filter. The Sinar DC Raw Image Format should have a lower entry number than the first format supported by the Photoshop Filter.

The Digital Camera Raw Filter allows you to define properties for the different formats supported by this filter.

These properties are important for cataloging and previewing. For cataloging they are important only if you have activated the option Entire Asset under Create Thumbnail from on the Thumbnail tab of the Asset Handling Set employed for cataloging. Then the values set for the color settings and the color interpolation are used for creating the thumbnail.

For the previewing of each of the formats, you can define the source for a preview (thumbnail or entire image). If the source for the thumbnail to be created or the preview to be shown is the entire asset, the color settings and the color interpolation can be set.