Batch editing IPTC metadata - this is so ridiculously convoluted
Has anyone working on this software ever worked for a newspaper or magazine?
Every picture has to have a caption - a 'Description' + other details within the IPTC metadata
Batch editing metadata is so convoluted (It's taken me three days to figure out just how)
There are at least 7 steps to doing it once (unless someone can show me otherwise)
1) Make a selection of the pictures you need edited
2) Edit the metadata on one of the pictures, keeping it as the main picture in the selection
3) Click tiny double arrow at top of Metadata tool
4) Click the arrow left of 'Metadata'. Don't tick the box, it'll just select every metadata type and then you'll have to untick everything you don't want
5) Select the metadata type you want copied and tick the box
6) Click 'Copy' (not 'Apply' which is highlighted)
7) Click larger Apply arrow at the top right of the main screen
Now all selected pictures should have your specific metadata enty
That's unless someone can show me a quicker way?
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If you have common metadata that you wand on every image then you can add these during Import by specifying a Style (as mentioned above). Then you would just need to add a Description to the images you select, the drag and drop method above would work well in this scenario as you're only updating a single field.
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SFA - I don't know if there's a step missing from your solution, but I couldn't get it to work
Martin Tollley - I'm looking at how PhotoMechanic might fit into my workload now. I shouldn't have to though, as Captioning a picture is essential and should be the most important part of any workflow
Maybe I'll just go back to using Lightroom CC
Does anyone fancy buying a C1 license for 2023?
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Capture One in its effort to give you a variety of ways and combinations of ways to do the same thing, sometimes sends you off into the weeds.There is a simpler way to tag a series of images with the same metadata:
Select the images, including the source (the image with the metadata you wish to apply to the images selected). Select the source image by clicking on it if it is not already selected as the image to copy.
Hold down Shift and click the double arrow next to Metadata. The IPTC data in the source image is copied to all the other images.
If you want to unselect the metadata to copy, just click on the double arrow and uncheck the boxes displayed on the Adjustments Clipboard popup window and then click Apply.
Although, you can use Copy to select the metadata you want to copy from a source image and then separately select the images to apply the metadata and click the Apply arrow at the top left of the main screen, this seems unduly complex.
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That would be great Jerry, if it worked, but it doesn't :-(
I don't know if it will only work with certain bits of metadata (I'm concentrating on IPTC Description)
or the move to Apple chips (M1 Max) has broken it, or the latest C1 2023 Pro has, but the only way I can get it to work is the method I described above
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Sorry to hear that, Keith. I tested it with Ventura 13.2.1 on a 2017 3GHz 10 Core Intel Xeon W iMac Pro with Radeon Pro Vega 64 16GB GPU and 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4 RAM running Capture One 16.0.2 with hardware acceleration off for display and processing. I tested it with several IPTC metadata fields populated.
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I reckon the switch to Apple M1 has broken it. It seems much more reliable and predictable if run under Rosetta
I don't know exactly what they've done in the latest version, out today, but it's jumped from 39.4 Mb to 1.07 GB
Crikey!
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Keith, I fully agree with you. This is one of the few things I miss from LR. What I can share and recommend is a software called Houdah Geo. Main gap it fills is to set GPS coordinates. However it can also be used for setting other ITPC data. And software is pretty cheap.
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Thanks, Olof - that sounds interesting, I'll take a look
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