Re: [Openexr-devel] EXIF meta data attributes in headers

[Larry Gritz]

Yes, lots of non-Adobe programs use XMP.  It's an important standard for 
embedding camera metadata.

        -- lg


On Jul 18, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Brendan Bolles wrote:

> On Jul 17, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Lars Borg wrote:
> 
>> An advantage of using XMP as the native metadata format, is that you can 
>> move the entire XMP blob into other file formats that support XMP.
> 
> 
> But do any non-Adobe programs use XMP?  We could also embed the binary EXIF 
> data (possibly zipped) as an attribute if programs are more likely to support 
> binary EXIF.  XMP has the advantage of being human-readable.  Both have the 
> disadvantage of not being easily parsed into individual parts without another 
> library - individual attributes would be easier.
> 
> I agree it would be great to get more camera metadata standardized in 
> OpenEXR.  I use a custom attribute to embed binary ICC profiles.  I would 
> certainly love it if the OpenEXR library were to make it standard.
> 
> 
> 
> Brendan
> 

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