Stripping IPTC Description metadat
I inadvertently applied a description upon import to several files that I would like to remove. I cannot see how to do so in C1. When I go to the 'Description' field in the metadata and replace it with a blank, and press return, nothing appears to happen.
The tag seems to be locked in.
I read in the help file that metadata presets could be used to strip a field out by checking all others and unchecking the target field, but this does nothing I can see.
Not sure if this is a bug in C1 or me simply not understanding 'how Caputure One thinks'!
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I ran into something similar....it appears that this is actually somehow by design with C1.
Apparently their philosophy of non-destructive, extends to things you SHOULD be able to alter, especially since it is usually user set as in your case.
I ended up finding a tool and learning how to use it called EXIFTool
Here's a link:
The faq o the site is useful too.
It is a command line tool, open source and works on Mac and windows boxes. I went the route of doing batch mode and this might work for you.
I did a dump of all of the metadata of all files in a directory to a .csv file. I opened that file with spreadsheet software (Numbers on Mac, or Excel on Windows).....
You can then alter any or all of the metadata on each image in the directory.
I then saved this to a different .csv file.
And then ran the exiftool commands to write all the meta data from this .csv file back to the images in that directory and voila!
It took me a few runs to figure it out, but once you do, its easy and VERY effective.
I did find one quirk, in that if trying to just 'blank' out a field, it didn't seem to work correctly, so, in that case I'd just change it something like "NA", or even put some joke data in there like "nothing to see here" or the like as that you can write just about anything to most of those fields.
HTH,
cayenne
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The description field works fine for me.
Are you by any change syncing files with external data in XMP files?
If it's not that it may be a Mac thing? (I use Windows.)
If you are trying to do a mass update using "edit all variants" and eliminating the test on one of them I don't think that will work but change one and then copy to the others via the copy and paste facility should work. Also possibly using the filter tool.
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I'm not the original poster on this, but I did find there are a LOT of meta data entries on an image that Capture One simply will not let you edit.
Other DAM systems let you alter more than C1 does....the exiftool. I linked to will let you alter ANY metadata field on any image.
IMHO, C1 should allow more metadata editing...this is info about a file, not the image data itself, so non-destructive shouldn't apply here.
I could see the possible exception of the lens type, etc....things RAW tools need to work but that's only a few of those fields.
But no...it is not a Mac or Windows thing....it is exif data that C1 doesn't allow you to access/alter on every image.
C
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As far as I can tell if the Exif data comes with the file form the camera it obeys the C1 "we never change the original file" rule.
IPTC date, on the other hand, is not subject to the same constraints as it is mostly generated after the image creation process. (There are a few fields allowable in many cameras - Copyright for example, Owner - but mostly not available) Anything that can be set up in cameras or after shooting in post processing is allowed to be changed.
For anything else C1 will not permit changes and leaves that to other programs.
It would seem to be quite a significant change in policy to enable anything else.
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