Getting LR to recognize the news given IPTC?

After shooting a large race this weekend for which I need to add numbers of runners to my photos, I've added the Photo Mechanic to programming. I also shot the JPEGs instead of raw for the sake of space. I imported the photos in LR, them organized by keyword and they renamed to LR. Then I find images JPEG in Photo Mechanic and used the field legend for bib numbers.

When I got back to LR, the caption fields were all still empty, so I thought that I had to somehow LR aware that there are new data in there. The method I chose was metadata > reading of the metadata file. I would never have to do again for two reasons. The first is that it took five hours to update metadata about pictures of 1920 and I have another 8000 or so still to go. The second is that in addition to adding the data to the legend, he wiped out the changes I had made to the photos. Specifically, cropping, and Keywords.

My question, finally: is there a way to tell LR simply look for new metadata and add it, without wiping stuff that's already there? And I hope that something that will take a whole day to finish?

Thank you!

Dane

Short answer: no: now he's way to Merge the metadata in a conflict, but I think that you can avoid this problem by ensuring that you save your Lightroom metadata changes in your files before making changes more in photomechanical.

Have you noticed if the key words that you added first in Lightroom appeared in photomechanical while you add captions? The corollary to metadata > read metadata from file command you used after your photomechanical changes corresponds to metadata > save metadata to file option. Have you used this command before making the changes in Photo Mechanic? The keyboard shortcut for save the metadata in the file is command + S (or CTRL + S in Windows).

Note that for JPEG, TIFF and PSD files (and by default for the DNG), metadata are written inside files and not in the sidecar files. Documentation should probably be updated to clarify.

If you want metadata to back and forth between Lightroom and photomechanical (or bridge and practically all other apps besides), you must use the canonical container for your metadata file. By default, Lightroom saves the metadata changes that make you only database of your catalog until you tell him to write these changes to your files. There are a few things you can do to make this a little easier workflow type.

1. in the settings of the catalogue Lr choose "Automatically write changes into XMP" in the metadata catalog options section. This tells Lightroom to update the metadata in the files automatically when you make changes such as adding words keys, cropping, rating, etc.

2. in the library view Options (view > View Options... menu item or command + J), turn on the cell icons "unsaved metadata". This makes Lightroom displays an icon 'arrow down' in the upper right corner of the cell. See, below, that the cell has not saved, metadata icon circled in yellow for emphasis...

3. understand the other status icons of the metadata that may appear in the cell. First of all, the external change icon, which is the opposite of the unsaved metadata, the up arrow icon, shown below with its ToolTip. This icon should appear if you changed the metadata in photomechanical after that you have saved in your file changes that you've made in Lightroom.

Finally, the warning icon. This icon will appear if you change the metadata in the file with photomechanical but forgot to save your changes to Lightroom in the first file.

You are right that it is impossible to Merge the two conflicting sets of metadata: what is in the file now instead of Lightroom last known to the State of the metadata until you do the photomechanical mounting. Must choose the one that you want.

If you follow the workflow to save changes to Lightroom for file, then the photomechanical changes, and then read the changes back into Lightroom, I don't think that you will lose the changes in Lightroom. Make sure you do not see the icon of unregistered in Lr metadata before going to the photomechanical, make sure you see the photomechanical Lightroom evolution and look for the warning icons when you return to Lightroom. If you follow the workflow I suggested and still loose metadata, let us know.

Finally - why did you choose to enter captions in photomechanical instead of just into Lightroom? I'm curious. Have you tried the option to display metadata 'Great legend', it could bring faster captions for you into Lightroom.

-David

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