At least LR does not lock in your edits; I'm fairly certain Capture One doesn't either. You can export either XMP sidecar files or DNGs with the edit history bundled in along with the RAW data. LR's centralized catalog is just an SQLite database, I believe, but I don't think the schema is documented publicly.
Genuine question, are those edits usable in another app though? I.e. even if the XMP notes that I used a range mask with some color filter, if capture one or DT aren't capable of this or aren't capable of reading the sidecar files, isn't this a de-facto lock-in?
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At least LR does not lock in your edits; I'm fairly certain Capture One doesn't either. You can export either XMP sidecar files or DNGs with the edit history bundled in along with the RAW data. LR's centralized catalog is just an SQLite database, I believe, but I don't think the schema is documented publicly.
Genuine question, are those edits usable in another app though? I.e. even if the XMP notes that I used a range mask with some color filter, if capture one or DT aren't capable of this or aren't capable of reading the sidecar files, isn't this a de-facto lock-in?