Fred Marstiller
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Metadata write back to files if working great. I am now able to write any CatDV user field back to the media file after logging in CatDV. It is automated by the CatDV Worker and ExifTool.
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That is good advice and I have set all this up using media that has been copied to a separate drive for testing. I have been able to get it to work after trying a few variations. For copying User field 9 (U9) to “dc:subject” I used “XMP:subject” . The command ended up being – ExifTool -XMP:subject=${U9} $b This wrote user field 9 (my tag words) to the media file and created a backup file. I have several other metadata fields that I need to use and I doubt they will be as easy as “xmp:subject” but hopefully I will be able to work it out. Thanks for your assistance.
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After testing I have a couple of questions. In your example, which worked for me, you use the command line exiftool -xmp:Notes=${NT}. You use (Notes) to write to the “album notes field” How did you determine this cross reference? I need to write to the dc:subject field from user field 9. I’m guessing I need to use a different field name such as (Notes) similar to your example but don’t know what that would be or where to find out.
Second – can I simply modify the metadata without making a copy of the media. With over 2.5 million images I can’t create duplicate images on the server. Using my example (dc:subject) what would the command line be.
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Dougal – you have made my day!! I read the instructions you pointed me to and this will do exactly what I want. I like that the entire process is automated by the worker and lets us use the existing Client field and pick lists. I downloaded ExifTool and started setting up the Worker and Client to do tests on some files copied from our server. I will work with copied files until I am confident of the process. After I have all refined and tested I will let you know how it works. Thanks for this great workflow tool and your assistance.
Fred
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Bryson, do you have a recommendation on one of the command line images tools that would be easily and effectively used for this. I would like to take a shot at doing this.
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This has been a big issue for us as well. When a photographer comes back from a shoot they log their images in CatDV. Later if they wish to deliver an image to a client, none of the metadata is with the image. This has caused the photographers to log everything in Adobe Bridge and then in CatDV. To import Bridge metadata you can map some of those fields so that when the worker imports the image it automatically populates CatDV user fields with Bridge metadata, but you loose the advantage of CatDV’s excellent shared/standardized pick lists that cab be centrally updated for all users. That is huge in a large asset management system. We have over 2.5 million photos and close to 200TB of video. Searching for media hinges on using standards for logging and CatDV does a great job at this. It’s a shame it can’t be exported with media. CatDV should be able to write to IPTC and EXIF metadata fields from specified user fields when publishing to the server. It should also be optional so you don’t have to write to files if you don’t want to.
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Thanks Rolf, that fixed it. Everything works great.
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I downloaded CatDV 10.0.1b and the NEF images still look the same. Very pixelated. Is this the right version or is there another version not out yet?
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Thanks Rolf, that will be a great help. I’ll watch for the new version.
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You can search and bring all the files up in a window to be edited. All clips in the window will now have the “/” to be changed and the window will permit you to edit the clips. Highlight (select) all clips and from the Tools menu choose “Search and Replace”. Select the field that needs to be edited, put / in the “Search” field and _ in the “Replace With” field. Use “Selection only” and it will replace all the / with _