Lightroom Classic: Use embedded JPEG as a starting point for RAW conversion

Hi Johan, I am still post processing the picture, that's why I use RAW, because it gives me more flexibility without compromising the quality. But often I like the rendered JPEG as a good starting point for the desired look. That's why I think to have a feature, that does analyze your embedded / sidecar JPEG and applies whatever settings needed in lightroom to get close to the JPEG rendering. 

Hi Todd, thanks. This works, +/-. But, why this process cannot be performed automatically by lightroom by analyzing the JPEG?

Please read Andrew Rodney's post below. The raw file contains the in-camera proprietary settings, which are different for every camera model and make. Adobe would have to "reverse-engineer" each camera model to determine the required settings in LR to emulate ALL of those settings. This is a huge task that also probably violates camera  manufacturer's patents and copyrights. In short–It will never happen! What Adobe has done is to create Camera Profiles that closely emulate the camera manufacturer's picture styles with their "default settings." This should get you pretty close except for in-camera changes made to the picture style's color, sharpening, and tone settings.

Hi Harrison, thanks for reply. Unfortunately, that's not exactly the case. I use multiple picture styles, sometimes I also tweak them (mainly contrast) to suit my current situation. This is to achieve the best possible rendering in-camera. Why? Because then I do not have to spend so much time in post processing in computer. So the lightroom formula is not always the same and to achieve the original look - AS A STARTING POINT - it not always easy to achieve. Someone asked why I shoot in RAW, when I want JPEG look. Reason is, I want to be still flexible in my post processing, e.g. with fine color adjustments, highlight / shadow recovery and dodging and burning and still not compromise the picture quality as much as possible. And there Lightroom is a great tool. But I wonder if it is for the engineers such a hard task to take the embedded / sidecar JPEG, analyze it and derive the necessary settings and maybe even custom camera profile from it. That would be my feature request.

I've never used Canon's DPP image processor, but I seem to recall some do use it as the first processing step for one reason or another.  I vaguely recall reading that it will apply your in-camera settings to your RAW image.  That would be a significant extra step but still might be the work-around you are looking for.  I only skimmed this, but there might be other benefits to going through DPP before importing in LR.  Using DPP might be feasible if there is some automation in DPP to reduce the time spent there.  http://www.eos-magazine.com/articles/dpp/index.html

"But I wonder if it is for the engineers such a hard task to take the embedded / sidecar JPEG, analyze it and derive the necessary settings and maybe even custom camera profile from it. That would be my feature request."

They already did that. Camera profiles like 'Camera Landscape' and 'Camera Neutral' are based on picture styles in the camera, so on the embedded jpeg. And the new Auto Tone in Lightroom Classic is superb to get a good starting point for your edits.