Metadata workflow

[rstub]

What is your metadata workflow? My intuition would be to the following:

• store all scans for a roll in one folder
• import that folder into the library
• fix common metadata (camera, film, processing, roll identifier, ...)
• fix specific meta data (lens, date, location, ...)
  Only after that I would start working on individual files and exporting a subset. However, so far i have not found a way to save the metadata w/o exporting the file. Am I missing something?

[Icodextrin]

That workflow looks correct to me. There is no need to manually save the metadata as it is automatically saved per image (just like with the edits).

There is an edits.db file that lives in your Documents/NegPy folder (at least that's where it is on macos) which saves all edits and metadata per imported image.

[rstub]

Thanks. Now I see where I was less than clear: Is there a way to apply the common metadata to all the frames in a roll?
Alternatively: When stepping through a roll one-by-one, is there a way to preserve the metadata defined on the previous frame?

[Icodextrin]

I think the best way to apply all the common metadata without exporting would be hit this button:

which will pop up this dialog:

That should sync everything without having to export.

[rstub]

Thanks a lot! That works really well, but with one exception: Images that have been stitched or HDR merged are treated independently. Is there a way to propagate metadata from individual image to stitched/HDR merged image? Or in the other direction?
Background: For stitching, which I use for getting higher resolution from my MF negatives, it probably makes sense to always apply it and set the meta data only afterwards, since both steps are more or less mechanical. But for HDR merge, which I use for processing slides, I sometimes find that using only one or two instead of my usual three images works best. Here it would be nice to set the metadata for the individual images as a first step (mechanical) and have that data propagate to the eventually HDR merged image.

[Icodextrin]

I see, I think that kind of upwards inheritance would be a fairly small change, but that's a feature I haven't really used at all in this app so let me poke around a bit and see.