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General => Other Discussion => Topic started by: jbionic on August 20, 2022, 04:20:45 AM

Title: Are there any GIF & Mp4 sharing services which would preserve the XMP tags?
Post by: jbionic on August 20, 2022, 04:20:45 AM
Hi there,

There is the whole bunch of GIF & Mp4 sharing services (like  gfycat.com or giphy.com), however since I have a number of files metatagged with XMP:Description, I'd like those tags not to be lost after uploading.  So I wonder if any of such sharing services preserve the tags untouched.

The other question is that some sharing services change the resolution of animations after uploading in order to reduce the size of files. Sometimes, however, I need to preserve the resolution. Are there any sharing services that allow to do that?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Are there any GIF & Mp4 sharing services which would preserve the XMP tags?
Post by: StarGeek on August 20, 2022, 05:12:17 PM
I don't believe there are except for services that are designed to share file, such as Dropbox and Google Drive.  I'm pretty sure that any site specifically designed for video is going to process uploaded videos to save space.

Though I haven't checked to see how Flickr handles gifs or videos.  It's been a while but I faintly recall when last I checked, the jpg or tiff that I uploaded was the same that I was able to download, but it has been a while since then.
Title: Re: Are there any GIF & Mp4 sharing services which would preserve the XMP tags?
Post by: jbionic on August 22, 2022, 12:25:38 PM
Thanks. Some hosting services, such as imgbb.com, allow to preserve the tags and dont contain ads, but unfortunately they don't allow to search the uploaded animation files by meta-tags and don't permit mp4 files either