Making RT read the exposure field in the XMP on "import"?

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Since RT and most other processors are too slow for culling and initial browsing, I use FastRawViewer for this purpose. It can do simple labelling and exposure tweaks, but it seems RT does not respect these at all. Can I make it use them when it first sees a file? They are stored in a sidecar XMP file:

This is a little snippet of that which you can see exposure being dialled down by 2/3rds.

         <libraw:Version>20004</libraw:Version>
         <libraw:FRVS>BLE:1/0/0.75/-0.45;AE:0/1/1.00/2/6400;WB:0/0/0;CNTR:4/0;FBW:0;CM:1/0/0;XMP:0/1/2/1</libraw:FRVS>
         <libraw:Contrast>9</libraw:Contrast>
         <libraw:Exposure>-1.116667</libraw:Exposure>
         <crs:ProcessVersion>6.700000</crs:ProcessVersion>
         <crs:Exposure2012>-0.660000</crs:Exposure2012>
         <crs:Contrast2012>0</crs:Contrast2012>
         <crs:Whites2012>0</crs:Whites2012>
         <crs:Blacks2012>0</crs:Blacks2012>
      </rdf:Description>
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No, RT does not read XMP files. But with a bit of scripting, you could parse the XMP and create a pp3 file before you launch RT.

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Absolutely, thought about doing that for a split-second, but thought I would refrain from that if there was some built-in support for this.