[digiKam-users] Metadata for RAW files

[Rafael Linux User]

That's exactly what I pretend from beginning!!!  ; )
Thanks for your clarification, Gilles

El lun., 24 jun. 2019 a las 0:24, Andrew Goodbody (<ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk>)
escribió:

> Gilles,
>
> I think you are not understanding what Rafael is asking. He knows that
> raw files are not to be modified. He has enabled sidecar support. He
> only wants to edit the metadata that is stored in the database and in
> the sidecar file.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 22/06/2019 14:10, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > Even if RAW files are mostly based to TIFF/EP standard, there are plenty
> > of proprietary chunk/tags/container included in the tree of file and
> > it's a very bad idea to try to write RAW metadata in file. RAW files
> > must be considerate as read only and XMP side car used instead.
> >
> > Best
> >
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
> >
> > Le sam. 22 juin 2019 à 12:48, Rafael Linux User
> > <rafael.linux.user at gmail.com <mailto:rafael.linux.user at gmail.com>> a
> écrit :
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >     image.png
> >     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 <mailto: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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