Volker Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 I would like to be able to perform a 'bulk copy tags' on my pictures. How shall this functionality work? I have a directory with NEF files. These files are tagged with all the information I need. Ususally now I edit some of these pictures in Paint Shop Pro and store them as JPG files in a subdirectory. During this process the tags are lost and I have to adjust them manually. I choose the first NEF file (for example DSC_2952.NEF), copy the tags and paste the tags to picture DSC_2952.JPG. This I also do for the other pictures which is a rather annoying process if you have to do it 20 or 30 times. The 'bulk copy tags' should work as follows: - I mark all the NEF files in a directory - copy the tags of all these files with Alt+Shift+C - next I mark the corresponding JPG files - and finally paste the tags with Alt+Shift+V The software should assign the tags from DSC_2952.NEF to DSC_2952.JPG, drop the tags from DSC_2953.NEF as there is no corresponding JPG file, assign the tags from DSC_2954.NEF to DSC_2954.JPG and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lintujuh Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Hi! Do you loose only XMP tags or also EXIF tags in your process? Daminion is not able to set the "read-only" tags with copy-paste tags; see thread. -Juha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volker Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Hi, I loose all my custom tags, location, people and so during the process. The tags already included in the NEF file are preserved. Volker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lintujuh Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Hi, I think the problem is that the tags are in the .xmp sidecar file. I have used following exiftools command to copy my tags from .CR2 to .JPG (they reside in the same directory). exiftool -ext xmp -tagsfromfile %d%f.xmp -all:all -ext jpg . And then I do read tags from file in Daminion. I think you should execute the command in the directory where you have the jpegs and replace %d with the actual path of the .NEFs. (No guarantee given ) I hope this helps you for the time beeing. -Juha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volker Posted August 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Hi, seems to be the right idea, but unfortunately does not copy all tags. I tried the command exiftool.exe -TagsFromFile ..\dsc_3017.xmp -all:all dsc_3017.jpg but the custom tags are not copied by this. Any idea? Volker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lintujuh Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Hi! I haven't used the custom tags, so I don't know. Maybe Murat can give some advice. -Juha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volker Posted August 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 Any ideas, Murat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted August 21, 2014 Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 ExifTool doesn't support working with Daminion's custom tags Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volker Posted September 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Will we see the described feature in Daminion in the future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 Can't say now. But we'll probably revisit a way of storage Daminion custom tags in the XMP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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