<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>I would try it on the latest pre-release 5.8.0 appimage first. There were many bugs fixed since 5.5.0 </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: David Golden <vtdave88@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 2017-09-19 8:23 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Digikam won't read Video Sidecars? </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Greetings all! I am trying to move from manually managing my photos (both cell and DSLR) via bash scripts, folders, and exiftool, to using Digikam. However, one problem I am encountering is getting cell videos properly integrated.<br></div><div><br></div>Right now, when I dump from my cell to my hard drive, I use a bash script to add basic metadata. For photos it gets added directly to the file, but when I started Exiftool recommended not writing to videos, so I save the info in a sidecar with the same filename, but adding ".xmp" to the end (e.g. video.mp4.xmp). The tags are:<br><br>[XMP] CreatorCity : mycity<br>[XMP] CreatorCountry : USA<br>[XMP] CreatorAddress : myaddress<br>[XMP] CreatorPostalCode : 12345<br>[XMP] CreatorRegion : mystate<br>[XMP] CreatorWorkEmail : myemail<br>[XMP] Description : brief description<br>[XMP] Title : Video.mp4 | 2015-07-03 09:55:18 -0400<br>[XMP] Headline : folder title<br>[XMP] Source : myname<br>[XMP] CopyrightStatus : Protected<br>[XMP] ImageFileConstraints : Maintain Metadata<br>[XMP] Copyright : © 2015 by me, all rights reserved<br>[XMP] CreateDate : 2015:07:03 13:55:18<br><br><br>I have Digikam set to read from and write to sidecars.<br><br>When I move a new folder into the Pictures directory tree and load Digikam, it correctly reads the metadata from the picture. It does *not* read the metadata from the video sidecar. All the appropriate fields are blank within Digikam. However. if I edit the copyright info within the Information tab, it changes the copyright tag within the XMP, *and* it completely wipes out the other info (such as Creator...) within the video.mp4.xmp<br><br></div>How can I get Digikam to properly read my video sidecars. Right now I am forced to keep any folder containing videos out of Digikam to avoid destroying information.<br><br></div>I'm using Digikam 5.5 under openSUSE Tumbleweed<br></div>
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