[digiKam-users] Metadata for RAW files

[Remco Viëtor]

On vendredi 21 juin 2019 13:42:53 CEST Rafael Linux wrote:
> As I always work from RAW, I would like to document my RAW files metadata
> so, when creating exported versions of these RAW files, the metadata
> automatically spread to the new files. However, I can edit metadata for my
> RAW files from Digikam, and I guess it will be saved to XML files. 

It depends on which metadata you want to change. Certain items should not be 
changed (e.g. original creation date, photographic information like F-stop, 
shutter speed, ISO setting), others should be written only once (creator...), 
and some aren't really useful on a raw file, or can change for every export 
(e.g. licensing info).

Also note that saving to XML files is optional, and writing to raw files is 
strongly discouraged. So if you have both "writing to raw" and "writing to 
sidecar XMP files" disabled, dk can't save the metadata other than to its 
database (which is done in any case).

> The fact
> is that I can access to "Edit metadata", but I can't change the info.
> Is a nonsense what I pretend or there is another way to do what I want?

I suppose you noticed that, in the "edit metadata" dialog, a lot of items have 
to be explicitly enabled by clicking a checkbox...



Remco