So,
In the preceding months, I've transitioned my image ingest duties from LightRoom v6.14 on a Windows box to Rapid Photo Downloader (https://damonlynch.net/rapid/) on a Linux box.
RPD works well, but one of the things it doesn't do is any kind of IPTC metadata handling.
Typically, I will ingress to a folder thusly:
/photos/2025/0617-Wyatt
And rename the photos in the folder thusly:
20250617-Wyatt.001.jpg
I use Capture One for my post-processing, but unfortunately metadata handling in C1 is challenging. It's possible, but it's a cluge at best.
Would some kind soul please advise an ExifTool command to set the descriptor of the file (in this case Wyatt) to be the IPTC Caption for a folder full of images? Obviously, the descriptor would be different for different folders.
Thank you.
Hi Chris,
You want the file descriptor written to the IPTC Caption-Abstract? The first time I read your post I thought you wanted the descriptor to be set from Caption-Abstract, and I wrote out a whole response then figured you probably meant the other way around. So here goes again...
The command would be something like this:
exiftool "-iptc-caption<${filename;s/^(\d+-)//;s/\..*//}" DIR
The quoting is for Windows. But I wouldn't be surprised if you are talking about some tag other than IPTC:Caption-abstract because the old IPTC/NAA is becoming obsolete. Use exiftool -s on a file that already contains a caption to determine which tag you should be using.
- Phil
Alternatively, you could use the Basename tag.
exiftool "-iptc-caption<${Basename;s/^(\d+-)//}" DIR
What these commands are doing is stripping away any leading numbers followed by a dash from the filename. Hopefully, that is what you want done.
Thank you, I'll give them a try and report back
I don't think that Basename will do it because the base name given in the example would be "20250617-Wyatt.001", but I think we want the ".001" removed. I think my command will do that.
- Phil