Metadata editing weirdness

Keith Walter

• May 07, 2020 19:35

Having just imported a catalog to Capture One 20 I'm going through the pictures making sure they all have the correct metadata.

Why is it that I can't modify the metadata in some (primarily B&W) pictures and the metadata tool icons are greyed out?

Yet I can enter the correct data by entering the details in a different picture and then synchronising the data back across to the B&W shot - it's weird!

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  BeO

  • May 07, 2020 20:16
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  Guesswork: Can you adjust the exposure (for example) on the B&W images, or can't do any adjustment? If the latter then they might be Grayscale (not RGB) images, which C1 cannot edit, not even metadata I believe.

  https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002478277-JPEG-and-TIFF-file-formats

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  Keith Walter

  • May 07, 2020 22:22
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  Yes, they’re B&W - but although I can’t alter or add metadata directly, I can add it by entering what I want in a different picture and then synchronising it into the B&W shot (an xmp sidecar file is created) 
  Why would COP20 not be able to edit and embed metadata into a B&W JPG file?

   

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  Permanently deleted user

  • May 07, 2020 23:19

  Why would COP20 not be able to edit and embed metadata into a B&W JPG file?

  1) Capture One NEVER modifies an original file.  That is a choice the designers made.   Color, B&W, JPEG, Raw --doesn't matter. The most you can do other than depend upon a Capture One Session or Catalog is to save metadata as an XMP sidecar file.

  2) Capture One does not let you edit most images with a Grayscale color space -- I think the Leica monochrome cameras may be an exception to that rule.   Not editing is an all or nothing thing.   It includes metadata as well as image enhancements.

  I'm actually surprised you can copy and apply metadata from other images.  I'll have to remember that trick for the future.

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