@dmilligan
It's true what you said. I'm permantently converting and dragging DNG. I tried all the converters under OSX, and the differences in quality from this to other are big. Not only in the size, I just tried to export with the same setting and color post processsiong one DNG from MLVS and one from other converter and the difference it's huge in color, in noise, even in death pixels from one to other.
The way to check and clean unusual shots in my case it's after copy DNG to my local disk, I open Resolve and see the take. I can leave or permanently delete with a tool in Resolve - with the other click of the mouse over the shot. I know lot of people use MLViewer to do this but I get repeat freeze from that software and lot of problems.
My question to compress is in the local disk. As I understood, DNG could be compress and the quality loss it's not percieve at all. Other sofware do this, but as I said, this is the more stable for me.
Thanks for your tme and sorry for my english, I talk italian or spanish.