Can the Metadata Browser be extended?

I am thinking of filtering according to 'Focal Length' or 'ISO Speed Rating' or eventually the aperture f-value (if only this were not shown together with the exposure time in 'Exposure').
Thanks
Stefano

Hoping, not only for extension but Metadata handling Module with more choices of handling Metadata than current two panes.
Don
Don Ricklin, MacBook 1.83Ghz Duo 2 Core, Pentax *ist D
http://donricklin.blogspot.com/

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Lens Metadata in the Metadata Browser question

Hi,
I just noticed something peculiar while importing a DNG file converted from a 1D Mark III raw file :
The lens used is reported being an "EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM". The same lens used on a 20D is showed as "70.0-200.0 mm".
Why the difference? Is it because the metadata is taken from a DNG? Because the Mk III reports lens differently?
And now, I have 2 lens data for the same lens in the "Metadata Browser". Do I have a way to move pictures from one lens to the other? Or somehow edit that data?
Thanks,
Louis

>It would be nice if LR had the equivalent of synonyms for this field, and built in so it showed them all as the same.
Problem is that 24-70 might be a Sigma, Canon, Tamron, etc etc. So treating them all the same would be silly.
>Ideally, you could just click on a couple of lenses and then choose a menu item to inform LR that the entries are in fact for the same lens.
The best solution is one were users can edit this and other similar fields from within the metadata panel. For example, my camera may have © Ian Lyons registered in EXIF but I can already change this to read Ian Lyons, and it will be reflected in both the metadata panel and the metadata browser. Using this approach for the Lens field I could reduce from 40 entries to just 20. With your approach I would still have 40 entries and twice as many clicks to find the same batch of images. No thanks.

Can the 100% browser width function be used in non-master pages?

Can the 100% browser width function be used in non-master pages? I watched the video about pulling it to the red edges, and did that on some of my parent pages, but when I preview the page in browser, it doesn't work. I can still see my browser edges.
The idea for the website I am designing is to have different full browser width images for different pages, and I'm looking for a way to do that. I would create a different master for each page, but there are more than 20 pages...too many master pages! Thanks!

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I can't find a clear answer on this, can the private browsing feature be removed?

I am not doing this for teenagers. I am doing this for personal accountability and transparency. Please no lectures, I just want a simple answer. Can the private browsing feature be removed? If so, how?

No it can't be removed.

Can the loop browser be modified with ones own way of sorting loops

It has become a burdeon and very difficult to work effectively with GB3 loops. Can i somehow name the different categories my own way! like electric guitars distorted, elec gtrs riffs,
changing the name of these NONHELPFUL categories to suit my own HD arranged loops. In using this loop browser it takes so much time to find what im looking for and this could i think be made easier if i could make my own categories in the browser. Im asking for too much arent i?
do all of you use the favorites?
that would be too cumbersome also.
no way around all this overwhelming amounts of sounds loops fonts. How do you all arrange this in an orderly fashion or do you just use ten basic instruments/loops?
would like to hear from you all

Do you really have only one copy of each? Do a Finder/Spotlight search. There are several places where the loops could show up:
- the general Library/Audio folder
- the user Library/Audio folder
- the general Library/Application Support folder
- the User Library/Application Support folder
Did you install over an old version of GB? That might explain the duplicate loops. And the "single" loops that were either part of your old installation and not of GB3 or vice versa.
In order to repair that, you should trash the duplicate loops and the content of the Loops Index folder and then drag the remaining loops into the loop browser.

Can the IMAC use an extended monitor?

I have the old Imac G4, a fantastic computer, but the screen has driven my old eyes crazy. I'm looking at getting a nice new Intel Imac and was wondering if it has the capacity to extend the screen to a second monitor? I know the original Imac could not do this. Will the new Imac have this capability.
Thanks in advance, you guys have saved my life on more than one occassion.

Yes, the Intel iMacs are the first iMacs to be able to support a seond monitor in both mirror and extended desktop mode.
According to the tech specs found HERE (look in the middle column under "Graphics and Video) and you will see that the iMacs have -
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* Analog resolutions up to 2048 x 1536
Support for external display in video mirroring mode"

Obtaining Metadata Browser data for a single collection within a catalog?

I have 8075 images out of 29000 in a catalog. These images are in
approximately 35 folders but are all tied to a single unique keyword. I
have moved the images to a new collection.
What I want is to have the Metadata browser query only the collection to
give me statistics on lens use, camera used, etc. I seem to be only able to
get information here for the entire catalog. Is there a way to have the
Metadata browser query only a portion of a catalog?
If not, how can I export this collection to a catalog so that I can query
the information?
LR 1.1, Vista,
Thank you
Rikk Flohr

I noticed this too - really a non-starter to use the Metadata browser with a large catalog when you want a more 'local' search.
I keep coming back to the observation that it would be really helpful for the community of users if the LR team could maybe communicate a bit with the Bridge team, and get the benefit of the several iterations of the latter tool.
I still can't do all my work, effectively, in just LR. I switch back and forth between the two.
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Get metadata browser back in sync

I changed the State/Province field for about 300 pictures a couple of days ago, and Lightroom hung trying to make the change. After about 15 minutes I killed the process and started again. Now, when I change the State/Province field, LR doesn't adjust the metadata browser to reflect the change. It looks like something has gotten stuck. Any suggestions on how to get the metadata browser back in sync?

Hi Simonfish --
I think the metadata worklist table is probably the one you found. If you make a change to the location fields of a few of the images, do at least the edited ones correct themselves in the metadata browser? If so, I'd recommend doing these in smaller batches for now. It may have just gotten jammed up for a bit and just needs to be prodded to try again (still a bug, but at least recoverable).
If not, hopefully we can find the error that is preventing it from processing the worklist entries with a bit more investigation.
I was able to get the app to hang for quite a while by doing a batch edit and will file this as a bug internally. I'll hopefully be able to repro the issue where the list entries get jammed as well. Thanks!
Dan Tull
Lightroom QE, Adobe Systems
P.S. Regarding BogdanH's question:
> I'm not sure if SQLite database has rollback feature.
SQLite does have transaction support with rollback capability, so generally I haven't seen cases where simply killing the app causes database corruption, though it will certainly cause the contents of the last (incomplete) transaction to be lost since it rolls it back next time the DB is opened. One thing that SQLite doesn't have is enforcement of referential integrity constraints, but that's quite a bit less critical than risk of corruption of the database file structure itself.
All that said, It is still strongly recommended that you make regular backups of the database file. It should be quite rare, but hardware failures and other extreme circumstances can certainly result in a corrupted database. The usual best practices for backups also apply, of course (keeping them on a separate machine/disk and regularly pushing copies to a different geographic location if possible).

Force Metadata Browser to update

When importing from a CF card and copying as DNG, I see the following:
If, after import, I select images and add City, State, Country info, the metadata browser still shows Unknown Country>Unknown State>Unknown City groupings that contain these same images. THe only way to get the Metadata Browser to refresh itself and show the correct status is to relaunch LR. Even a Find using the just entered metadata comes up empty until I relaunch. Is anyone else seeing this?

Just filed it as a bug. Oddly enough, if image selection is made via Find, and you alter any metadata used both in the find criteria and Metadata Browser panel, Meatadata Browser will indeed update. Even with this though, LR takes quite a few seconds to refresh the data, which makes it a bit clunky to work with. Even if LR is not being touted as a full-fledged DAM, the limited features it does have in that regard should work much more seamlessly on the whole.

Metadata Browser - selected view

I may be missing something, however....
It appears to me that the 'Metadat Browser' only acts on the entire 'Library'. Is it possible to select a folder...or just a selection of images...and have the "Metadata Browser' so the breakdown for just those items?
thanks...JOHN

Just select all the images you want to change and go to the Menu »Metadata > XMP > Export XMP Metadata to File«. This will create a sidecar (text file) to each of your image files containing all the Metadata Lightroom uses. Now find all those .xmp files with your favourite File Browser (Spotlight on Mac, ??? on Windows) and load them into a text or xml editor that supports batch search and replace with multiple files (I use TextMate on the Mac, I'm not sure what the Windows world has to offer on this). Within those text files you'll find a line like this: <aux:Lens>EF-S17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM</aux:Lens> Replace the text as you see fit or create the line just above the aux:ImageNumber entry if no aux:Lens entry exists. Now go back into Lightroom (make sure all the images are still selected) and go to »Metadata > XMP > Import XMP Metadata from File«. Give LR some time to update the Metadata Browser and have fun. Alexander. -- Canon EOS 400D (aka. XTi) • 20" iMac Intel • 12" PowerBook G4 • OS X 10.4 • PSL 1 • PSE 3

Missing metadata browser/panel

The tutorials refer to a metadata panel or browser, on left side of screen. Nothing like that shows in my version. How do I get at it?

In Lightroom 2 the Metadata Browser panel is replaced by the Metadata Filter element of the Library Filter bar, which is located at the top of the thumbnail grid. You need to tap the "\" backslash key to toggle the Library Filter on/off.

No metadata browser available

When I click on the metadata browser it does not expand to show the metadata browser panel. All the other panels expand, and the metadata is showing in the metadata panel on the right.
It worked on my other computer at home.

Thanks Lee. I'm home now, basking in the splendour of an expanded metadata browser <grin>. I will re-install tomorrow at work.

Timeshift in Metadata Browser Date

There is some strange time shift occuring between the actual EXIF Date shown and the day the image is listed under the metadata browser, e.g. if I set the capture date to 1.9.2000T00:00.00, the images are listed under 31.8.2000.
Same happens on year boundaries.

There are Date/Time bugs that Adobe are trying to isolate and fix. They do read this forum, so hopefully this will be added to the info pile on the bugs.
What platform are you on?
Don
Don Ricklin, MacBook 1.83Ghz Duo 2 Core running 10.4.9 & Win XP, Pentax *ist D
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Metadata Browse icon does not display the folder selection dialog( CITRIX )

Hi Experts,
After logging into Financal Management Desktop when a user tries to extract Metadata the Browse icon does not open the open files dialog box.I tried the following steps.
1)logged into the HFM in the citrix environment on production , opened the HFM Win 32 client connected to the application, tried to Extract the metadata clicked on the search icon, it doesn't display the windows search dialog box.
2) logged into the HFM in the citrix environment on Test , opened the HFM Win 32 client connected to the application, tried to Extract the metadata clicked on the search icon, it displays the windows search dialog box.
3) Gave the security permissions to the HFM folder as Everyone still the same issue.
4) Gave the security permissions to the HFM folder as Anonymous still the same issue.
NOTE: HFM 9.3.1.1.00 INSTALLED IN THE CITRIX ENVIRONMENT
can some one advise me on this issue.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Experts,
After logging into Financal Management Desktop when a user tries to extract Metadata the Browse icon does not open the open files dialog box.I tried the following steps.
1)logged into the HFM in the citrix environment on production , opened the HFM Win 32 client connected to the application, tried to Extract the metadata clicked on the search icon, it doesn't display the windows search dialog box.
2) logged into the HFM in the citrix environment on Test , opened the HFM Win 32 client connected to the application, tried to Extract the metadata clicked on the search icon, it displays the windows search dialog box.
3) Gave the security permissions to the HFM folder as Everyone still the same issue.
4) Gave the security permissions to the HFM folder as Anonymous still the same issue.
NOTE: HFM 9.3.1.1.00 INSTALLED IN THE CITRIX ENVIRONMENT
can some one advise me on this issue.
Thanks in advance.

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