Would an xmp file be appropriate?

[Alan Clifford]

Can I ask for some advice?

I am writing an xmp:datetimeoriginal with time zone (seems to be XMP-exif).

But I can't do this for files like .mov, .wav.  So I thought I should write it in a file.  So I thought I could store other things such as Title, Subject, creator (these appear to be XMP-dc in stuff added by NikonView) and the gps stuff so that I could it pick up in the script that generates my web pages just like it does for the photos.  And I could copy it to be used with edited copies of movies.

I was thinking about a plain text file but started to read about xmp files and they would seem to be an appropriate and writeable.  Also, there are not a lot of files to process so adding stuff with the command line exiftool, before or after generating the date, would be OK.

Would this be the way to go?


Alan

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Alan,

Yes, this sounds like a perfect use for an XMP sidecar file.

- Phil

[Alan Clifford]

Whilst pondering my website generating scripts tonight, I thought that perhaps a directory.xmp file (actually called "directory" rather than the directory's name) would be useful for storing the title and keywords for the directory.  Then it would be accessible in a manner consistent with accessing data for the actual photos and movies.

Alan