On Fri, Jun 07, 2013, jeremy rosen wrote: > [lost attribution] >> >> 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)
The connection is unlikely to get lost within DT -- the problem is file manipulations. I've been noticing this problem already because I often shoot RAW+JPEG (because I'm not yet comfortable with RAW and not all tools work with RAW images). Suppose you want to move an image to a different folder, now you have to be careful to move two files, not just one. It's an easy mistake, and hard to recover from unless you notice almost immediately (unless you have a really really good differentiating filenaming convention). -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
