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Title: Rating tags & IPTC Category not imported
Post by: JONCAT on January 22, 2009, 11:03:10 pm

I'm using Lightroom with my new camera. Editing, uploading to Flickr, before sending my pictures for storage on the main system. I'm trying to read up on the rating metadata standard. Seems like MC & Lightroom aren't using the same method.

I'd like to be able to tag up close on my laptop, and later be able to make some playlists on the HTPC based on these assigned ratings.

13's working pretty smooth otherwise. Great work.

DC

Title: Re: Rating tags (images)
Post by: Matt on January 23, 2009, 11:22:37 am

We should support XMP ratings.  We'll double-check.

Title: Re: Rating tags (images)
Post by: DarkPenguin on January 23, 2009, 11:25:23 am

Have you set lightroom to write changes to the files?  Otherwise your ratings are in the LR database.

Title: Re: Rating tags (images)
Post by: JONCAT on January 23, 2009, 12:35:10 pm

I haven't switched it on, but I was manually writing the metadata to files and then import the files to MC. I'll try again now.
DC

Title: Re: Rating tags (images)
Post by: DarkPenguin on January 23, 2009, 01:18:17 pm

Cool.  I've lightroom, too.  I'll give it a shot this weekend sometime.

How exactly are you doing this, btw.  Are these RAW files in lightroom which are then exported for MC's use?

Title: Re: Rating tags (images)
Post by: JONCAT on February 01, 2009, 11:32:00 am

Something's amiss.

2. When I edit the IPTC category in Lightroom and export the meatdata, the result is:

IPTC Category in Lightroom = Explore
Genre in MC13 = Exp

I see that Style is now a default field in MC13; would be nice to have IPTC sub-category mapped to this field..think that makes sense.

2. Ratings are not being imported by MC13.

I've verified that the IPTC data is there with Irfanview after exporting with Lightroom.

DC

Title: Re: Rating tags & IPTC Category not imported
Post by: DarkPenguin on February 02, 2009, 10:13:05 am

Got a file we can look at?

Title: Re: Rating tags & IPTC Category not imported
Post by: JONCAT on February 02, 2009, 10:44:14 am

I have a file http://www.hifitubes.org/iptc.jpg  (http://www.hifitubes.org/iptc.jpg)for you.

Tunrs out that Lightroom is exported my IPTC Category, "Explore", as "Exp". Why it's being abbreviated by Lightroom, I don't know.

IPTC sub-category is not being abbreviated; can we map IPTC sub-category to Style in MC since Genre=IPTC Category? Semms to make sense, and I could then use the sub-cat with Lightroom.

The rating being applied in Lightroom isn't being seen by Mc though.

thanks
DC

 

Title: Re: Rating tags & IPTC Category not imported
Post by: JONCAT on February 05, 2009, 08:22:18 pm

I haven't dug around to figure out if Lightroom should be tagging more than 3 letters, sound wrong doesn't it?

And the rating tags? Mc should pick them up?

DC

Title: Re: Rating tags & IPTC Category not imported
Post by: JONCAT on February 06, 2009, 09:21:48 am

ACDSee confused because they use some custom categories and I confused those with the default 3 character IPTC standard.

The mystery of ratings applied in Lightroom remains; maybe incompatible with MC13?

DC

Title: Re: Rating tags & IPTC Category not imported
Post by: JONCAT on February 06, 2009, 10:13:12 am

Tools like Irfanview allow users to enter more than 3 characters in IPTC Category fields. Lightroom actually reads more than 3 characters but exports a truncated, 3 character version.

Maybe MC should map the Genre field to the IPTC supplemental category as it defined as 32 characters. This would be both useful for tagging and would adhere to the standard where ITPC Supplemental Category is a user editable field.

DC