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ExifTool => The Image::ExifTool API => Topic started by: Alan Clifford on December 23, 2016, 12:58:09 PM

Title: New exif tag: waterdepth
Post by: Alan Clifford on December 23, 2016, 12:58:09 PM
At the moment, I am using my own xmp uwdepth tag.  The logic I am using is:

- try to write uwdepth.
- if that write failed, try to write to an xmp sidecar file.

Following the same logic, would it be reasonable to:

- try to write to the exif tag
- if that write failed, say for a .mov file, just ignore the fail and carry on.

OK, a write might fail for another reason but this is just my own stuff and I can live with that.  It seems a tad pointless to try and identify all file types that might allow exif tags.

Title: Re: New exif tag: waterdepth
Post by: Phil Harvey on December 23, 2016, 09:30:46 PM
sounds like a 3 step process:

1. Try to write the EXIF tag

2. Try to write the XMP tag

3. write to a sidecar

- Phil