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How to update File:Comment from a text file #437

Closed ahorn-lk closed 1 week ago

ahorn-lk commented 1 week ago

Hello all, I use a tool to "develop" Panasonic RW2 files to JPG format. Using this tool on JPGs, it removes comments added to it. I'm now searching how to

Is there a way to make use of the previously exported Metadata in the TXT-file. ? (probably reducing the long file and filter "File:File name" and "File:Comment" only).

Thanks for your ideas

FrankBijnen commented 1 week ago

First of all. You could also post your question in the ExifTool Forum. If you know the ExiFtool command to use, I may be able to tell how that can be done in GUI.

I think your idea is not bad. But I would probably first export to .XMP. Then use the function you mention and use the exported .XMP as input. Tip: You can create a .PS PowerShell and adapt that to suit your needs.

Note that the function below 'Copy metadata into ALL JPG or TIF files' has a bug. I will fix that. The difference is that that function does not use the selected files, but processes all files in the directory.

See the screenshots. export xmp_created import1 import2 import3 import4 powershell

FrankBijnen commented 1 week ago

Did some more investigation.

1) File:Comment is not written to .XMP files, or any of the other export formats. So I think you need to save your data to .JPG files.

2) It may be a good option to use 'ExifTool Direct'. Suppose your saved JPG's are saved in a subdir called 'SAVE'. Then you could use this Command:

-TagsFromFile SAVE\%f.jpg -File:Comment

Tip: Save it as a predefined command.

ET Direct

ahorn-lk commented 1 week ago

Hello Frank,

thank you for your investigation and replies.

So I was quite close to your recommended steps.

Regarding: “File:Comment is not written to .XMP files”

                        Is that intended or rather a bug ?

and: “-TagsFromFile SAVE\%f.jpg -File:Comment” 

                        searches for ALL selected files

a corresponding (original) file in the SAVE directory

and replaces File:Comment in the related selected file – right?

I will check that right now 😊.

Thanks again and best regards

Lutz

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Did some more investigation.

  1. File:Comment is not written to .XMP files, or any of the other export formats. So I think you need to save your data to .JPG files.
  2. It may be a good option to use 'ExifTool Direct'. Suppose your saved JPG's are saved in a subdir called 'SAVE'. Then you could use this Command:

-TagsFromFile SAVE\%f.jpg -File:Comment

Tip: Save it as a predefined command.

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FrankBijnen commented 1 week ago

Is that intended or rather a bug ?

First of all. Gui doesn't write tags. It leaves that to ExifTool. So the definitive answer should come from ExifTool. But here's my try:

Generally speaking. Not all tags are applicable to all filetypes. Apparently File:comment is no valid tag to write for XMP. I know that it is possible to add custom tags to XMP using the ExifTool Config file, but that would be overkill here. I think.

For a complete listing of tagnames per filetype refer to: https://exiftool.org/TagNames/

and replaces File:Comment in the related selected file – right?

Correct.

ahorn-lk commented 1 week ago

Hello Frank,

I created a preferred command, made it my default command and tested it: It works perfectly and will save me a lot of checking comments and Copy&Paste 😊.

Thank you very much for your help !

Gruß Lutz

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Is that intended or rather a bug ?

First of all. Gui doesn't write tags. It leaves that to ExifTool. So the definitive answer should come from ExifTool. But here's my try:

Generally speaking. Not all tags are applicable to all filetypes. Apparently File:comment is no valid tag to write for XMP. I know that it is possible to add custom tags to XMP using the ExifTool Config file, but that would be overkill here. I think.

For a complete listing of tagnames per filetype refer to: https://exiftool.org/TagNames/

and replaces File:Comment in the related selected file – right?

Correct.

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FrankBijnen commented 1 week ago

You're welcome. Will close the issue