I was inexact regarding file-names and -number:
- the XMP-file and the photo-file have the same name AND
- there is most of the time **more than one photo-file**, because I
shoot in RAW (that’s CR2 for me, shooting Canon) and all of the edited
versions are JPG, once in a while TIFF.
So for a given photo „*PhotoName*“ I have always at least two files
PhotoName.CR2 (the RAW-file)
PhotoName.XMP (the metadata-file, I was hard-working enough to take care
of the metadata ;-)
and for the most of the photos there are even some other edited versions
as
PhotoName.JPG
PhotoName-1.JPG
PhotoName-bw.JPG
PhotoName.TIFF
The edited versions all begin with A but can have a) some data added to
the end of the file-name (as digits for various versions or -bw for
black & white) and b) some other file-extensions (JPG and once in while
TIFF).
That make my dream-script a little more complicated:
1. take this photo-folder;
2. read from the first XMP-file the IPTC-keywords;
3. copy all of this IPTC-keywords as Finder-tags to all of the files
with the suffixes CR2, JPG or TIFF of which the file-name begins with
the same name as the XMP-file;
4. loop within the photo-folder until there is no XMP-file anymore.
I hope that now is more clearer.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Vlad
On 13 Mar 2020, at 8:18, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
Hey!
This is a BBEdit-question, but I first need to give a little
background to it. :-)
As all photographers here already know, the metadata to the photos
lives in a suplimentary XMP-file.
Here is a sample of a XMP-file for one of my photos, where I filled in
the so called *IPTC-keywords* in Photo Mechanic:
---
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="XMP Core 5.6.0">
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
xmlns:photoshop="http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/";
xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/";
xmlns:photomechanic="http://ns.camerabits.com/photomechanic/1.0/";
photoshop:DateCreated="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03"
xmp:CreateDate="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03"
xmp:Rating="0"
photomechanic:ColorClass="0"
photomechanic:Tagged="False"
photomechanic:Prefs="0:0:0:-00001"
photomechanic:PMVersion="PM6">
<dc:subject>
<rdf:Bag>
<rdf:li>Ben</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>Mina</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>Tom</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>Vlad</rdf:li>
</rdf:Bag>
</dc:subject>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>
---
The individual data is the creation-date:
---
photoshop:DateCreated="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03"
xmp:CreateDate="2018-05-10T13:35:00.03"
---
and the IPTC-keywords:
---
<rdf:li>Ben</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>Mina</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>Tom</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>Vlad</rdf:li>
---
Another background-information that probably all of you know: there is
no relation between the IPTC / XMP - keywords and the Finder / macOS -
tags.
And this exactly is my problem.
I need to input somehow / somewhere the metadata to my photos, but I
don't want to make this twice in order to have this information
present in the IPTC-keywords AND in the Finder-tags as well.
This is not new at all: Google-ing about "*copy IPTC-keywords into
Finder-tags*" or viceversa I've found a lot but all of it involved in
one step or another the EXIFtool, a command line utility that reads
and writes photo-metadata… and this doesn't scale very well (I have
A LOT of photos: about 220,000 pics that are more than 2 TB big!) and
it is slow, because the EXIFtool have to read the metadata from the
photo.
So my idea is to take care or the IPTC-keywords in Photo Mechanic
(this would create a XMP-file as the one above for every photo I have)
and then - and here comes BBEdit! :-) - *somehow* transfer the data
from the XMP-file (that is in the end only a text-file!) to the
Finder-tags.
Now finally to my question (sorry for the length!): How could I
- take each IPTC-keyword (delimited by the tag < rdf:li >, see above)
and
- write this IPTC-keyword into a Finder-tag
for every photo in a folder?
Ideally I'd have a script, point it to a folder full of photos and
BOOM!, after this every photo would have the same Finder-tags as the
IPTC-keywords!
Could you please help me with this?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Vlad
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