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Understanding metadata management

MartinR
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Asking if my understanding of metadata handling in C1 is correct -

When you Import, you can only add the Copyright and/or Description metadata fields.

When you edit an image's metadata in C1 you are limited to a handful of IPTC fields.  (~ 32 fields among the categories IPTC Contact, Content, Image, Status & Getty Images.)  C1 associates the edited metadata with the image in the C1 catalog or session but does not write the metadata to the image file.

When you export you can include Keywords, Rating, Copyright and a few other metadata fields.  They will be embedded in the exported image file.

Is this correct?

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  • Walter Rowe
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    You can create metadata presets and apply them on import.

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  • MartinR

    I know I can create metadata presets but I cannot find any way to appy them on import.  The only options I see on Import are Copyright & Description.  The ellipsis (...) only allows Reset Tool and Online Help, no "Load preset" option.  (Using C1 22, build 15.4.3.4)

    I am actually more interested in confirming that once an image is in the catalog, C1 does not write any edited metadata to the image; it only writes metadata to exported images - correct?.

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  • MartinR

    Just noticed that I mistakely posted this in the Legacy Software section.  I'm actually using C1 22, so it should be moved to the C1 22 section.

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  • Ian Wilson
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    Moved.

    Ian

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  • Walter Rowe
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    Metadata and Keyword presets can be applied via the Adjustments settings in the import dialog.

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  • MartinR
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    Ian & Walter,

    Thanks for the guidance.  It took some poking around in C1 to figure this out.  The procedure to create a custom metadata preset is not easy to find (I had to google search to find it) and when you go to Save Custom Preset you are presented with an additional dialog box that appears to exclude or at least limit many of the very IPTC metadata settings you may have just created. 

    Further, in the Import dialog, you can only apply a Custom Metadata Preset under Adjustments > Styles, which makes no intuitive sense whatsoever.  IMHO metadata presets should be available under the Metadata tab.

    I'll continue to experiment with this but in the big picture I think this could use a lot of improvement in C1.

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  • Walter Rowe
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    I concur that it could be more intuitive.

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