Adding words at the start of IPTC fields for Title and Description

Started by brokeiptc, May 18, 2020, 11:55:14 PM

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brokeiptc

I have keyworded a bunch of files in Adobe Bridge, but forgot to put a few (identical) words at the start of each file in the IPTC Core fields "Description" and "Title. I believe those are the same as ObjectName and Caption-Abstract and XMP "Description" and "Title".

So if the files have the fields "blue banana on pink background", I want to change the fields to "yummy delicious blue banana on pink background". Essentially, just add "yummy delicious" at the start.

How would I go about doing this?

StarGeek

If the words might be different, you could do this
exiftool "-Description<yummy delicious $Description" "-Title<Tasty $Title" /path/to/files

If you are adding the same words to both, then you could use
exiftool -api "Filter=s/^/yummy delicious/" -TagsFromFile @ -Description -Title /path/to/files

If you want to add in the IPTC IIM tags, just add in Caption-Abstract and ObjectName the same way.
"It didn't work" isn't helpful. What was the exact command used and the output.
Read FAQ #3 and use that cmd
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