DarkBridge

Bridge Nikon sidecars to Darktable, seamlessly.

DarkBridge is a utility that converts Nikon NX Studio .nksc sidecar files into sidecar files compatible with Darktable.It helps photographers migrate adjustment data from Nikon’s workflow to Darktable without manually recreating edits. Furthermore, DarkBridge displays the sidecar content in a 'human-readable' way, and allows to search a metadata or image adjustment by name in a file tree structure.

NX Studio (and the previous software as View-NX2, ViewNX-i, Capture NX-D) may save image adjustments to "sidecar" files in an NKSC_PARAM folder within the same folder as the original image. In this case, any changes to pictures will be saved in image adjustment (sidecar) files (extension .nksc) separate from the original image data. Because changes are not applied directly to the original image data, pictures can be edited repeatedly with no loss in quality. Sidecar files are also used to store labels, ratings, XMP/IPTC metadata, and other data in addition to image adjustments.

Warning: Image adjustments may be saved in the original image file, this script do not support this mode. If an image file has not a sidecar file, the script will ignore it. Same for orphan sidecar files.

See also

• NX Studio Help
• Nikon Software