Populating An Information Field

[mgreer316]

My assistant forwarded me Canon CR2 image files with the frame number stripped from that field inside the file (for JPEG files it's called EXIF data, for RAW files I don't know what this information is called). Well, I use that 4 digit frame number for various things. So, can I repopulate that field for an automatically incremented sequence of numbers? If so, how?

[Kirk Baker]

You mean you want Photo Mechanic to reinsert some EXIF tag that was stripped out?  Photo Mechanic does not, in general, edit EXIF tags.  Some tags like capture time/date can be modified with various tools in Photo Mechanic however.

I'd suggest using ExifTool for this purpose.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

-Kirk

[mgreer316]

Yep, that's exactly what I want to do.