[digiKam-users] Metadata for RAW files

[Rafael Linux User]

Metadata I want to change it's not photo parameters related, but "Autor",
"Credits", "Copyright" .... and so on. I have activated "read" and "write"
to "Element and in XMP sidecar", and I understand in RAW files case, it
should be write only to XMP files, not inside RAW files, that's fine.
Despite that, I only can change or "enable" checkboxes when over non RAW
files. In this screenshot, you can see I selected a RAW file and try to
change the "Credits" ... no option to do nothing about it.

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However, if I select a TIFF file, I can enable/disable and write metadata
for "Credits".  :(

El vie., 21 jun. 2019 a las 17:50, Remco Viëtor (<remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>)
escribió:

> 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
>
>
>
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