I have found a solution that works for me. I can use exiftool per this
posting.
http://130.15.24.88/exiftool/forum/index.php/topic,4659.msg22240.html#msg22240
Best,
Patrick
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:38 PM, News <[email protected]> wrote:
> jeremy rosen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> please look into the wiki (and my previous mail about lua) on how to do
>>
>>> it.... you can also ask me any questions on lua, either here or on IRC
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think the first step for me would be to learn yet another language. ;)
>>> Anyway, I think it's an interesting option. I've some ideas here, but it
>>> has a learning curve as I don't yet speak lua.
>>>
>>> Probably you have some more and documented samples somewhere? Some sort
>>> of tutorial on how to accomplish easy things? E.g. apply a block of tags in
>>> one go or the like?
>>>
>>>
>> Unfortunately not, Lua is a new thing in DT (it's in master only) and I
>> was hoping the community would help me provide sample exporters...
>> Especially people like you that already have some programation knowledge to
>> bootstrap the process
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, for most RAWs you start out you need a way to go to DNG
>>>> first.
>>>> For this I see no easy option, yet. (Well, the main option at the
>>>> moment
>>>> requires quite a large runtime and a virtual box with file
>>>> sharing...)
>>>>
>>>> again, you could "cheat with lua" by intercepting the "new image
>>>> imported" event, do whatever you want in there, then import the DNG in.
>>>>
>>>
>>> In this whole thread I have the feeling that people think to complicated
>>> and completely missunderstood my suggestion.
>>>
>>> My suggestion was only to allow the export of a finalized, archivable
>>> format that contains metadata along with the RAW, thus comprising a self
>>> contained file that does not depend on the environment and thus is just
>>> more stable. It would just avoide the (obviously) fragile linkage by file
>>> names between the xmp and raw or a complex database backend like dt. AFAIK
>>> DNG is currently the only (more or less well known) format that
>>> accomplishes this and is pending at ISO
>>
>>
>>
>> For archival puprose I really thing raw+xmp is good enough, it can be
>> easily reimported and I don't really see how the connection between the
>> file could be lost (in the case of archival the archive is usually never
>> touched)
>>
>>
>>
> Hi!
>
> I dis not yet see how the lua can get parameters from the gui. As far as I
> understood it, I could add a keyboard hook, but not read in anything
> interactively (e.g. by a dialogue or module-like interface).
>
> Concerning the connection of file names: this is just not stable in an
> archival context. Imagine a time span of years. Wrt archival I think along
> the lines of the OAIS framework.
> --
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>
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