how to add copyright in RAW

frederic chaume frederic.chaume at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 12:09:22 GMT 2024


one correction,
  in fact  using tools "edit metadata" doesn't create a new RAW version, 
but as this is not manageable to update it manualy I used BQM to update 
metadata and when running it  BQM is creating a new RAW version

regards

frederic




Le 07/11/2024 à 12:27, frederic chaume a écrit :
> Fully agree not to write into Raw files, but for example when I apply 
> geotag in a raw file , only XMP is updated and no new version of the 
> RAW s created.
> Was hopping to do the same for metadata ?
>
> and during import , such operation would conduct to automaticaly 
> create an XMP with such information ?
>
>
> Regards
> Frederic
>
>
>
> Le 07/11/2024 à 12:09, Remco Viëtor a écrit :
>> On jeudi 7 novembre 2024 11:09:23 CET frederic chaume wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> some of my camera can be configured with copyrights information in
>>> parameters and then RAW are imported with such information included, 
>>> but
>>> some not
>>> So I wanted to update RAW in DK when missing. I found the tools "Edit
>>> metadata" that make the job, but it creates a new version of the RAW 
>>> file
>>>
>>> Is there another way to update the metadata of the RAW without creating
>>> a new version ? is there a way to update it during import for example ?
>>>
>>> thanks for your help
>>>
>>> frederic
>> Several programs are quite reluctant to write to RAW files, as a 
>> slight error
>> can make the file unreadable. Apparently, even camera makers get it 
>> wrong
>> sometimes for their own files and programs...
>>
>> That said, programs like Exiftool and Exiv2 allow you to modify RAW file
>> metadata. I'm not sure if that also works when you change the lenght 
>> of a
>> string, but that you can try on a small selection (of copied files!).
>> As the copyright tag seems to be an EXIF tag (and not a makernote 
>> tag), your
>> chances of this working should be good.
>>
>> Of course, as digikam seems unwilling to write to your RAWs, updating 
>> the
>> copyright while importing may not be possible.
>>
>>
>>
>



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