Sidecar files

[billscully@me.com]

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

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Bill,

ExifTool extracts information from the file you tell it.  There is no sidecar logic built in.  This page may provide some useful information.

- Phil

[billscully@me.com]

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