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Offline Matt London

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Copying Specific IPTC fields
« on: April 01, 2010, 02:06:54 AM »
Hello,

Is there a way to customise which iptc fields you can choose to copy and paste?

For example - last night I was editing a soccer match for two photogs, using their camera serial numbers in a code replacement to ingest like so:

123456   Joe Bloggs
123456BLA   Joe Bloggs
123456Name   Joe Bloggs
123456t   STF
123456int   ME

Say they both took a picture of the same moment of action from different angles:

I write the caption for the 1st picture and then want to copy and paste that same iptc template onto the other photogs version of the same moment keeping all the iptc fields the same except for the two iptc fields where the photog name ={serialnum}Name= and title ={serialnum}t= have changed and the photog name in the main body of the caption field (Agency Photo/={serialnum}Name=) has changed.

Having this feature would speed up the captioning workflow and remove the risk of ever getting the byline name wrong for a photog when editing for multiple photogs.

Many thanks as ever!

Matt
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Re: Copying Specific IPTC fields
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2010, 07:27:19 AM »
att,

Is there a way to customise which iptc fields you can choose to copy and paste?

For example - last night I was editing a soccer match for two photogs, using their camera serial numbers in a code replacement to ingest like so:

123456   Joe Bloggs
123456BLA   Joe Bloggs
123456Name   Joe Bloggs
123456t   STF
123456int   ME

Say they both took a picture of the same moment of action from different angles:

I write the caption for the 1st picture and then want to copy and paste that same iptc template onto the other photogs version of the same moment keeping all the iptc fields the same except for the two iptc fields where the photog name ={serialnum}Name= and title ={serialnum}t= have changed and the photog name in the main body of the caption field (Agency Photo/={serialnum}Name=) has changed.

Having this feature would speed up the captioning workflow and remove the risk of ever getting the byline name wrong for a photog when editing for multiple photogs.

No, copy and paste of IPTC data always copies all fields and pastes all fields.

-Kirk