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Image-ExifTool
Posted on 2009-03-20 00:10:30-07 by scalary
Automate copying of metadata

Hello,

I'm a privat photographer and I often shot DRI's or panoramas. While the developmet of these tif-files some of the exif informations get lost. Until now I use Exiftool-GUI to copy the exif informations from the original RAW to the developed TIF by hand. So far so good.


But now I want to automate these step, because my traditional way to do it costs to much time. Is it possible to do this?

The original files are named like "CRW_12345.dng" "CRW_12346.dng" "CRW_12347.dng" and so on ; the new TIF files should be named like "DRI_12345-12347.tif" or "PAN_12345-12360.tif" and should have the exif information from the first file in this line (in this case from the "CRW_12345.dng").

I hope that you can help me. Please describe it in an easy way, because I'm a newbie and a non-native englishspeaker...


Thx for your help...
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Posted on 2009-03-20 08:25:13-07 by bogdan in response to 10249
Re: Automate copying of metadata
Hi,

There might be catch I don't see, but your request sounds simple enough. As you already use GUI, there's a menu "Export/Import>Restore Metadata>Restore TIF metadata", which is supposed to do what you need.

1. Inside GUI, you select all TIF files you wish to populate with metadata,
2. Choose above menu and short explanation/guide will appear,
3. Now you select any of DNG files from which you wish to copy metadata,
-and that's it.
This way, of course, all metadata from DNG files (not exif only) is copied into TIF files. I say that, because DNG files usually contain a huge amount of (most Adobe's) XMP metadata. Thus, if needed, you can later delete (in batch again) all unwanted XMP medatada from TIF files (by using menu "Modify>Remove metadata".
I hope this was of some help for you.

Bogdan
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Posted on 2009-03-20 10:01:07-07 by scalary in response to 10250
Re: Automate copying of metadata
Hi,

thx for your response. Unfortunately it doesn't work like you described.

My Problem is, that I can't find the menu "Export/Import>Restore Metadata>Restore TIF metadata" - there is only

"Export/Import - Export metadata into... - Import metadata from single file - Import ICC/ICM file... - Import XMP metadate - Restore JPG metadata" ;

nothing like "Export/Import>Restore Metadata>Restore TIF metadata"

Wich version are you using?

Scalary
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Posted on 2009-03-20 12:47:14-07 by bogdan in response to 10251
Re: Automate copying of metadata
Hi,

It's v3.32 -can be downloaded from http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/ (btw. a lot has been added since then).

Bogdan
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Posted on 2009-03-25 01:44:05-07 by scalary in response to 10252
Re: Automate copying of metadata
Thx for your help...

The Problem is, that the tif files and the crw files doesn't have the eqal sourcefilename and soon the metadata is not copied.

Do I have to rename the tif fils in order to make it work this way?
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Posted on 2009-03-25 01:52:45-07 by scalary in response to 10302
Re: Automate copying of metadata
I've jut tested this... If the the tif file has the same name like the crw, then it's working... Otherwise not ;-(
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