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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: cdubea on January 21, 2023, 10:15:31 AM

Title: Copying metadata from raw sidecar files into like named jpg files
Post by: cdubea on January 21, 2023, 10:15:31 AM
Hi all,

I use Capture One for my post processing, which includes applying ratings, colors, etc.

Typically I make jpg/raw pairs with my camera.

For whatever reason, Capture One chooses to write jpg metadata into the sidecar files vice into the file itself.

Currently I use John Beardsworth's Syncomatic in LightRoom to write the metadata from the sidecars into the jpg's.

I'm trying to wean myself from LR, so is there a way to write the metadata in the sidecar into the jpg with Exiftool?

Thank you for all your assistance

chris
Title: Re: Copying metadata from raw sidecar files into like named jpg files
Post by: StarGeek on January 21, 2023, 10:33:14 AM
See Metadata Sidecar Files example #15 (https://exiftool.org/metafiles.html#EX15).  You can use the -ext (-extension) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#ext-EXT---ext-EXT--extension) to limit the file types to process
-ext jpg -ext NEF -ext CR2

or use it to process all files except for XMP, because you don't really want to waste time copying the XMP files back onto themselves
--ext XMP
Title: Re: Copying metadata from raw sidecar files into like named jpg files
Post by: cdubea on January 22, 2023, 11:53:57 AM
Thank you