More info on FRV’s metadata compatibility can be found here: https://www.fastrawviewer.com/usermanual14/xmp-metadata. Looks like it gets along with Adobe, CaptureOne and Raw Photo Processor. If I remember correctly, FRV is made by the folks from LibRaw.
@hobo Have you tried asking the devs of FRV? If you paid for it, they might listen to your request…
Did you actually try that? If none of those settings are taken over it might help to file a bug report against darktable and add an XMP file with all those settings used.
The point is how to do the same to/from DTfW. Can save a lot of time for FRV users.
Please don’t ever call darktable DTfW again. Seriously, it hurts.
Yes, FRV part - as of today - is Adobe-based, published and can be re-used. RPP needs it own metadata format support, this is done. If I am not wrong, the FRV guys can do more from their side if the DTfW XMP-related details will be shared.
After all, DTfW is a funny single-click easy to use tool for your photos to share and publish, well, with a single click. More easy to use presets will be added in the near future. Follow DTfW on FaceBook!
A single-click easy to use tool (whatever it means) always sounds great! Many thanks in advance!
Just do not forget to find this magic button to click on and immeditately make my poor Raw files absolutely perfect.
Can you please be more specific about XMP? I am wondering if I can better use darktable together with what I have already collected.
I was actually only teasing @houz, thinking about not-so-old discussions about making an official darktable for Windows. Now there it is, unofficially, available. Besides, quite advanced presets can be made as starting points for different camera-lens-circumstances combinations. I wonder, what will happen, this tool is better than many commercial programs.
We all can probably save some time if you can share more about XMP in darktable (or provide with the link if available). Then I will prepare a couple of test files in FRV to see how it will be processed. Not sure that I can call it a bug - if something is simply not supported due to any good reason.
Mica’s answer to your question is (still) correct https://discuss.pixls.us/t/xmp-sidecar-files/1423/19?u=lebedevri
If some other software Y uses the exact same XMP scheme/tags/whatever as the lightroom, then you could use darktable’s rudimentary lr importer to partiallymimicsome of lr settings. And i do mean it, the conversion is not and never will be 1:1. Otherwise, no luck.
Thanks! Still something to play with. Even if 1:1 conversion is not possible, but some of the settings (if converted correctly) can be re-used - not bad!
I have consolidated the cross-posts all based around the same question from @hobo (please don’t cross-post) into this thread, which is more on-topic and won’t veer other threads too far off-topic.
Comment : give a chance xnview MP : it is fast viewing RAWs and brings some interesting features like bulk renaming, tagging, rating… A good complement of RT in a photo workflow
It is a free software available to all OS (you may want to move to Linux one day like I did after 15 years of MacOS ;-))