Keywords problem with V8.2 (Win and Mac)

johnontheroad

• 12. April 2015 21:14

Having a problem with copying keywords from a Master Variant to Multiple Variants. Wondering if this is a V8.2 issue, as it seems to have worked under prior versions?

To begin, I loaded up http://blog.phaseone.com/iqp-tip-adding ... r-catalog/ to make sure I was using paste/copy correctly. Immediately noticed a discrepancy.

The Blog shows Keywords as an "IPTC - Keywords" tab under the tool METADATA. On V8.2 (on both my copies, one running on Mac 10.10.3 and the other on Windows V8, Keywords is no longer under the METADATA tool, instead, has moved under the Tool Tab as a separate Tool. It s no longer called IPTC - Keywords, but has the Tool name KEYWORDS.

My problem is that although I can assign Keywords to an image, I can't Copy from the Master Variant, and paste them to multiple selected images. No matter how I try the Copy/Paste function never works.

Note the same problem occurs on V8.2 on both Mac and Windows. Any suggestions?

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  johnontheroad

  • 12. April 2015 21:59

  Maybe I have it figured out but it is very counter intuitive. What you have to do is select the Primary Variant, enter the Keywords, then select all the variants you want with that keyword including the Primary Variant and then select Paste.
  
  Usually, you select one, hit copy, then select the remaining variants that need to be copied to and select Paste.
  
  Now I've got to figure out how to use Keyword Search. This was much easier in Aperture and, from what I've seen so far, on Photos.
  
  John

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • 13. April 2015 01:50

  Keywords became a separate tool in CO8. The blog you referred to was made with CO7. Hence the confusion. Have to look into the copying issue.

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • 13. April 2015 10:08

  Copying Keywords (and other metadata) is treated a bit different from other adjustments like exposure, white balance. Metadata is not visible in the viewer, and for that reason it is not automatically enabled on the Adjustments Clipboard when you use the Copy command (Sh+Cmd+C on Mac). You have to manually check the box in metadata. This is by design.
  
  However, when you use the Copy or Apply buttons from the Keywords' tool (diagonal double arrow), the checkbox on the clipboard is set in the background and metadata is applied to the target image(s).
  
  This works both identical for Mac and Windows. This also works identical whether you have selected both source and target images at the same time or when you select the target images later and apply the adjustments.
  
  Critical is whether you use the generic copy/apply command or those on the tool itself. In the first case, you have to enable the metadata field on the clipboard after the copy command.
  
  More details on both workflows can also be found in my blog http://imagealchemist.net/adjustments-explained/

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  Mark Sealey

  • 4. Juni 2015 21:06

  Paul,
  
  Thanks for your clarification/explanation.
  
  How does one create a simple 'bank' of keywords unattached to any images?
  
  A repository of Keywords which can be attached to any images - as in Aperture - please?

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  Ron Berchin

  • 5. Juni 2015 17:19

  On the subject of keywording: I'm attempting...slowly...to move from lightroom to Capture One. I use a conformed vocabulary for my keywords, and I was able to import it into Lightroom. I can't seem to find a way to do that in CO8. Is there a way to do that?

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