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#51
Bug Reports / Feature Requests / Re: Use of uninitialized value...
Last post by sojournersonearth - July 02, 2025, 06:29:47 AMGreat, thanks! And thanks for the reminder about quoting in argfiles - I had forgot!
#52
Metadata / Re: Custom Photoshop XMP Info ...
Last post by aorta - July 02, 2025, 04:53:30 AMThanks for the reply. Yes I was asking how to add a panel. I thought I would post it a as general question in case anyone had an idea. I will post else where. Thanks again
#53
Bug Reports / Feature Requests / Re: Use of uninitialized value...
Last post by Phil Harvey - July 01, 2025, 07:47:46 PMOh, And the problem with the Output file is that you shouldn't be using quotes in an argfile. A file with the quotes in the name should have been created.
- Phil
- Phil
#54
Newbies / Re: Why is exiftool not able t...
Last post by Phil Harvey - July 01, 2025, 07:35:38 PMYou can ignore this minor error with a -m option, but you should check to be sure the image is OK afterwards because an error like this could potentially result in a corrupted image when the file is edited.
- Phil
- Phil
#55
Bug Reports / Feature Requests / Re: Adding QuickTime:Rotation ...
Last post by Phil Harvey - July 01, 2025, 07:33:39 PMExifTool can edit QuickTime:Rotation if it exists, but can't yet create it if it doesn't.
The reason is because of the overly-complex format of HEIC, and the associated difficulty adding this feature. But I'll add this to my to-do list, and maybe I'll find some time to look into it.
- Phil
The reason is because of the overly-complex format of HEIC, and the associated difficulty adding this feature. But I'll add this to my to-do list, and maybe I'll find some time to look into it.
- Phil
#56
Newbies / Re: Find and display files - C...
Last post by unstaybull - July 01, 2025, 05:51:08 PMGot it. Thanks Phil, StarGeek.
#57
Metadata / Re: Custom Photoshop XMP Info ...
Last post by StarGeek - July 01, 2025, 05:41:26 PMI'm trying to understand the question. I don't have Photoshop, but when I check Adobe Bridge, this Xinet panel doesn't appear. Is this something that shows up for your version of Photoshop? Or are you asking how to add the panel to Photoshop?
There's nothing exiftool can do to make Photoshop display metadata that it doesn't already display. You'd have to ask in a website that deals with Photoshop.
There's nothing exiftool can do to make Photoshop display metadata that it doesn't already display. You'd have to ask in a website that deals with Photoshop.
#58
Bug Reports / Feature Requests / Re: Use of uninitialized value...
Last post by Phil Harvey - July 01, 2025, 05:40:42 PMExcellent, thanks! I wasn't initializing a variable properly after -execute
This will be fixed in 13.32
- Phil
This will be fixed in 13.32
- Phil
#59
Bug Reports / Feature Requests / Re: Adding QuickTime:Rotation ...
Last post by golemus - July 01, 2025, 02:53:25 PMRotating HEIC files (and AVIF files which have same container) is still impossible with exiftool (at least couple of months ago when I last tested. Here are some of my related observations:
- majority of apps seem to decide HEIC/AVIF orientation from -quicktime:rotation tag.
- BUT there ARE some apps which read even the normal exif orientation tag from these files. I am not sure if there was even apps that read both and have some logic them which one to use?
- I was unable to modify rotation of AVIF file with exiftool. I might have been able to do that for some HEIC images but not for all orientations (if I don't remember incorrectly it was unable to set rotation to 180, but 90 and 270 were ok)
- the only app that I've been able to use reliably to modify rotation of AVIF/HEIC file is MS Photos. BUT it does NOT modify orientation so you can end up in situation where one apps shows landscape and another one portrait.
- application of orientation/rotation for AVIF files is still probably a minority thing but I use it. I batch convert large amount of HEIC/JPG to AVIF (or JXL). Sometimes I notice afterwards that there is wrong orientation and want to fix it without re-encoding. Application of orientation/rotation for HEIC files has large target audience as Apple forces HEIC pics and androids also have option to save as HEIC. I am not encouraging anybody to use HEIC format as app developers are avoiding it (due to potential licensing issues). But state of things is that there are a lot of HEICs out there and they must be rotated reliably.
Seems a bit pain that there are 2 orientation related tags. Not sure what is the best way to deal with this. Probably to convince major app developers (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc..) to use only one of them and smaller developers will follow suit. But while waiting for that the safest file has orientation both in orientation tag and quicktime:rotation tag. And this is what I would to with exiftool if it were able to modify rotation reliably.
- majority of apps seem to decide HEIC/AVIF orientation from -quicktime:rotation tag.
- BUT there ARE some apps which read even the normal exif orientation tag from these files. I am not sure if there was even apps that read both and have some logic them which one to use?
- I was unable to modify rotation of AVIF file with exiftool. I might have been able to do that for some HEIC images but not for all orientations (if I don't remember incorrectly it was unable to set rotation to 180, but 90 and 270 were ok)
- the only app that I've been able to use reliably to modify rotation of AVIF/HEIC file is MS Photos. BUT it does NOT modify orientation so you can end up in situation where one apps shows landscape and another one portrait.
- application of orientation/rotation for AVIF files is still probably a minority thing but I use it. I batch convert large amount of HEIC/JPG to AVIF (or JXL). Sometimes I notice afterwards that there is wrong orientation and want to fix it without re-encoding. Application of orientation/rotation for HEIC files has large target audience as Apple forces HEIC pics and androids also have option to save as HEIC. I am not encouraging anybody to use HEIC format as app developers are avoiding it (due to potential licensing issues). But state of things is that there are a lot of HEICs out there and they must be rotated reliably.
Seems a bit pain that there are 2 orientation related tags. Not sure what is the best way to deal with this. Probably to convince major app developers (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc..) to use only one of them and smaller developers will follow suit. But while waiting for that the safest file has orientation both in orientation tag and quicktime:rotation tag. And this is what I would to with exiftool if it were able to modify rotation reliably.
#60
Metadata / Custom Photoshop XMP Info Pane...
Last post by aorta - July 01, 2025, 02:34:04 PMHi all, is there a way of duplicating a "File Info" XMP category in Photoshop and tweaking it for a different schema (See attached rough)
