[Digikam-users] is there anyway......Writing tags to Raw

[Adam]

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> From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009 12:41:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] is there anyway......Writing tags to Raw
> 
> 2009/12/15 Adam :
> > Using RC(?), the latest one, I think
> >
> > Right now I am chugging along my seemingly endless picture folders, tagging 
> and deleting the garbage and whatnot. Most of the pictures I took this year are 
> raw. I tested the write exif data to raw option. It says experimental and that 
> could be why it did not work for me. My questions are
> >
> > 1. The "writing to raw" feature, is that supposed to write to the XMP or IPTC 
> for the tag informaiton (the tags did not show up in either one for me)
> 
> yes
> 
> > 2. Does the "writing to raw" work on canon cr2 files.
> 
> Not yet. See Exiv2 library project.
> 
> > 3a. While playing around, I found a way to export the data from 1 image, is 
> there a way to do it in batches.
> 
> Export to what exactly ? XMP sidecar ? not yet. You can use Exiv2
> command line tool for that.
> 
> > 3b. Are sidecar files anywhere in the future
> 
> yes. there is a file in bugzilla about.
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> _______________________________________________


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