Author Topic: Looking for an IPTC Batch Update Tool (Read 5190 times)

dirkr · « **on:** May 06, 2009, 16:25 »

What I need:

A tool that allows me to copy content from one IPTC field into another one for a huge number of files.

Reason for that is the upload process of Featurepics. I just started with them (thought I give them a try, after all they pay 70% commission and should be supported if only for that!) and uploaded a view files to see how the upload works.
And I found that they expect the image title in a different field than I have it in. As this prevents me from using their bulk submit tool, I would have to either submit every file with several mouseclicks on their site or copy the image title into the right field manually before uploading.
As I am talking about more than 800 files, I'd love to have a tool that allows me to do that update in one batch.

Anyone knows something like this?

Thanks for your ideas!

dnavarrojr · « **Reply #1 on:** May 06, 2009, 16:37 »

Supposedly they are very accommodating to submitters. Why not ask them to support the same TITLE field used at every other agency?

madelaide · « **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2009, 16:42 »

dirkr,

It's curious, I never had a problem with IPTC in FP. WHat do you use and what filed are you putting the title?

Anyway, I don't know the tool you are looking for, but I suppose you can use their batch edition tool. At least for a group of images with the same title, I suppose this would work. I can't tell for my own experience, as I've only used the batch edition tool for prices.

Hmm, I use Exifer and I know you can have it copy some fields from other fields. I don't think however you can make this automatically.

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2009, 17:04 »

Expression Media is good for this, and keywording and cataloging.

Oldhand · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2009, 17:47 »

Hi there - best tool around if you can get hold of it is Fotostation. Lot's of pro's use if for batch editing large numbers of images. you can add, append rename etc etc.

It's very simple to use, however it is a bit costly.

Just a thuoght

Oldhand

dirkr · « **Reply #5 on:** May 07, 2009, 02:50 »

Thanks everyone for your thought, I will look into the tools you suggested (though I don't plan on spending money on it, I won't need that permanently).

Good idea to contact FP and ask them, that might work as well ;-)

@madelaide:
When I upload pictures via FTP and then go to their "Bulk Editor", it tells me that IPTC data is missing. I played around a bit and found that it was the title and what field they expected it (can't remember right now which fields exactly that were and can't look it up here in the office

).
So it's just that field, I tried another file where I put the title there and it worked.

dirkr · « **Reply #6 on:** May 07, 2009, 14:14 »

Problem solved, I found ExifTool. A very powerful command line tool, took me some minutes reading to understand what it is capable of - and then the whole deal was done with a simple command line within seconds!