When extracting metadata from media files that also use sidecar files (e.g., .MXF files in VIDEO folder and XMP/XML files in CLIP folder) is it sufficient to only specify the image file and depend upo EXIF to locate and extract from sidecar. Or, should I also explicitly extract from sidecar files?
Thank you,
Bill
Hi Bill,
ExifTool extracts information from the file you tell it. There is no sidecar logic built in. This page (https://exiftool.org/metafiles.html) may provide some useful information.
- Phil
Thank you, Phil. I have modified my metadata extraction program to first extract from the media file and then extract from sidecar file(s). I skip metadata in sidecar files that exists in media file. I use the complete tag to look for matches.
Thanks, again.
Bill