[Shotwell] Meta data and batch operations

[Simon Spannagel]

Hej Jonathon,

we have (at least a part of) that discussion here:
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2622

Greetings,
Simon


Am 18.01.2011 17:40, schrieb 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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