Reloading Metadata

Adding Metadata in Other Applications

Bibble 5 will automatically import metadata that has been applied to images in other applications as long as the other applications support the EXIF, IPTC and XMP standards, and save their metadata in a proper and supported form. If you have applied or edited metadata to your images before importing the images into Bibble 5, the metadata will automatically appear within Bibble 5.

If you import images into Bibble 5, and then edit and apply metadata using other applications, then you will need to "Merge External Metadata" to make Bibble 5 aware of the changes. This process includes:

1.	Import images into Bibble 5, and subsequently edit metadata using an XMP-compatible application.

2.	Have the other application save the metadata to an XMP file for each image you have edited, or embed the metadata in the Master File as XMP. If Bibble has already created an XMP file for these images, then the other application should edit those XMP files instead of overwriting them.

3.	Within Bibble, select images you want to sync, and select Edit -> Setting -> Merge External Metadata from the main Bibble 5 Menu or the Context Menu.

The metadata syncing process will overwrite any data that Bibble 5 and the the other application shared. So, if you had rated an image with 2-Stars in Bibble 5, then rated that same image as 1-Star in another application before Syncing this file in Bibble 5, the final rating in Bibble 5 will be 1-Star. Bibble 5 will merge changes made in both applications, but it will treat the data added by the external application (the data written to the XMP file) as authoritative and will update the Bibble 5 Catalog to match the contents of the XMP file.

Bibble 5 Metadata in Other Applications

If you use Bibble 5's Asset Management and metadata editing features and want that metadata to be shared with external applications, you will need to export your metadata changes to a standard XMP file. Then tell the other applications to read the metadata from those XMP files, updating their internal databases accordingly.

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