I'd like to save the filenames of images into their metadata tags with one exiftool run, any hint how to do this?
This doesn't seem to work: exiftool -comment=%f *.jpg (or on Windows exiftool -comment=%%f *.jpg)
Thanks for any hints!
Try this:
exiftool "-comment<filename" DIR
- Phil
As I also use Adobe products, such as Bridge which features a batch rename tool, I use the same tag as Adobe.
Add/Copy filename to Adobe Preserve Original Filename metadata entry (removing the file extension):
exiftool -r '-XMP-xmpMM:PreservedFileName<${filename;s/\.[^.]*$//}' 'DIR or FILE'
Add/Copy filename to Adobe Preserve Original Filename metadata entry (including file extension):
exiftool -r '-XMP-xmpMM:PreservedFileName<${filename}' 'DIR or FILE'
Rename files using their preserved filename metadata entry:
exiftool -r '-FileName<XMP-xmpMM:PreservedFileName' 'FILE or DIR'