update iptc title and subject

Started by aruns911, May 04, 2015, 05:11:05 PM

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aruns911

I'm trying to update the iptc title and subject from the headline field. I cant seem to get the format quite right
exiftool.exe "-iptc:Title<Headline"  IMG_0253.JPG
Warning: Tag 'iptc:Title' does not exist - IMG_0253.JPG
Warning: No writable tags set from IMG_0253.JPG
    0 image files updated
    1 image files unchanged

Doing this works:
exiftool.exe "-Title<Headline"  IMG_0253.JPG

Many thanks.

Alan Clifford

Searching Phil's documentation, http://www.exiftool.org/TagNames/IPTC.html there is no iptc title.  There is an xmp title.


edit  ...

Same for subject.  There is an xmp subject.

Phil Harvey

This will be an ongoing source of confusion.

IPTC changed from the IIM format to XMP a while back.  ExifTool (unfortunately) called the IPTC IMM "IPTC", whereas now Adobe is writing IPTC in XMP format, and calling this "IPTC".

Confusing.

- Phil
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