Hi
I've been using Geosetter and following this forum for many years and I've been able to satisfy my simple needs to edit the metadata of my pictures. I do as much as possible with geosetter, because, as I'm not a SW guy, for someone without experience like me is easier, but for certain things, and reading in this forum, I've created a few commands to complete the rest of the tasks.
Although I've tried everything I could think of, with no success, the problem I have is that after cleaning, sorting, editing and completing the metadata of my pictures, I want to move a subset to my iPhone. The problem is that the sorting in the iPhone was weird ... until I discovered that iPhone uses the field ObjectName as the name for sorting.
What I do now is rename the filename with the pattern I want for the iPhone (don't want many fields, just Year.Mont.Day from TakenDate, a counter (to sort all images from same day), a Headline (I put the city), Caption (my comment), Artist and Source (I put a code to classify the images I like the most).
Then I use this command to copy this filename to the ObjectName field, removing the 4 characters of the file extension :
exiftool -m -q -q -charset Latin -overwrite_original "-IPTC:ObjectName<${filename;$_=substr($_,0,-4)}" "C:\Users\usuario\Pictures\2023.02.27. Australia. Todo Junto"
The problem is that not always work for all images (not for RAF, not always for MP4) and if I write it once and later add or delete an image (modifying the counter number), in many cases it does not overwrite the field and I have to do it manually.
My dream solution would be kind of reusing the rename Image files option of Geosetter (or the exiftool commands behind, which I don't know) for the ObjectName field.
This is the Pattern I use for Filename : {TakenDate:yyyy.mm.dd_hh.mm.ss}. {Counter:1:4}. {Source}. {Artist}. {Headline}. {Caption}. {SpecialInstructions}
This is the Pattern for Objectname : {TakenDate:yyyy.mm.dd}. {Counter:1:4}. {Headline}. {Caption}. {Artist}. {Source}
Any help/hint would be very appreciated !!
Thanks a lot ... from a non SW guy
Quote from: Trapi on January 09, 2025, 07:08:08 AMThe problem is that not always work for all images (not for RAF, not always for MP4) and if I write it once and later add or delete an image (modifying the counter number), in many cases it does not overwrite the field and I have to do it manually.
It shouldn't work at all for an MP4 because you can't put IPTC data into a video. You might try using
Title or
XMP:Title instead, as that is the corresponding location in XMP. Using simply
Title in a video will write the
Quicktime:Title tag in addition to the XMP one.
Hi again ... Thanks for your clarifications. Really helpful !!
One last question. Which would be the command to write TakenDate:yyyy.mm.dd. Counter:1:4. Headline. Caption. Artist. Source into the Objectname field ?
Thanks