[Shotwell] Meta data and batch operations

[Jonathon Watney]

Thanks Jim. I missed that ticket it seems.

One more question related to metadata. In the documentation <http://yorba.org/shotwell/help/other-files.html> under "Writing metadata on the fly" it says:

"Shotwell stores this information in photo files in EXIF, IPTC and/or XMP format. Note that Shotwell can write only to photo files in JPEG and PNG format, not to RAW photos or to video files."

Is shotwell planning to write metadata to DNG files? Or what's the reason for supporting just JPEG and PNG?

Thanks again.

Jonathon.


On 11-01-17 10:09 AM, Jim Nelson wrote:
> Great to hear you're trying out Shotwell.  Regarding your questions, yes, we've thought about exposing more metadata in Shotwell.  One ticket about this is here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2400
> 
> About metadata editing, I've created a new ticket here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3103
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Jim
> 
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:41 AM, jwatney <jonathonwatney at gmail.com <mailto:jonathonwatney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Hello.
> 
>     I've just begun checking out Shotwell and it looked very promising as a
>     photo manager. After searching the bug tracker I have a few questions to
>     start regarding meta data and batch operations.
> 
>     1. Are metadata going to be exposed in an editing pane or dialog eventually?
> 
>     I currently see in version 0.8 that I can edit the title and tags but I
>     don't see anyway I can edit EXIF or IPTC metadata directly. I'm not so much
>     concerned about the EXIF metadata but I like to update the IPTC metadata
>     extensively. In a previous Windows setup I liked to keep as much metadata in
>     the images themselves rather than in a database of some sort.
> 
>     2. Are there plans to add batch operations for editing metadata?
> 
>     Setting my images metadata is a huge part of my management process, both on
>     import and after import. I already use an external RAW editor so I'd like to
>     keep the number of applications required for my workflow down to a minimum
>     and batch processing of metadata would be a big help.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Jonathon.
> 
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