How Do I Paste Metadata in Bridge?

In CS5 you can paste metadata in the Bridge>Get Info panel. I can't do it in CS6. How do I copy all my keywords and descriptions?
Mac 10.6.8

This is a known issue, thanks for the report Danny!
You can copy/paste from within Photoshop, but seems the copy/paste in Bridge's file info does nothing at this point.

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Shortcut-Bug in Bridge CS6 for Mac / Bridge cant' copy and paste metadata

The cmd-keys / shortcuts doesn't work in the file info panel btw. in the xmp / iptc fields (e.g. cmd+c, cmd+v, ...) of Adobe Bridge CS6 (Mac OS 10.6.8 and 10.7.3). You are not able to cut and paste info from one box to another like previous versions.
This bug only appears in the file info window (opened via alt+i) in Bridge CS6 - if you edit information or metadata in the file info panel in Photoshop CS6, the shortcuts or copy and paste from one field to another works.
The shortcuts also work under Windows (tested under Vista).
I noticed this minor bug already one in the Photoshop CS6 Beta more than one months ago. I hoped that this was corrected in the official test version, but unfortunately it is not. Although it is a minor bug, it is IMHO a basic function and would be very helpful in my daily work. Bridge CS6 and ACR 7 are very good and meet my expect ions or needs - it is too bad, that such a small thing is making working with the application a little bit annoying.
It would be nice, if you could forward this to Adobe engineers that they can fix it.
Thanks so much!

Thanks! If there is a workaround or simple solution, I would be very glad if you could inform me.
Christian
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Am 14.05.2012 um 13:49 schrieb FrankBiederich:
Re: Bridge CS6 Mac XMP File Info Panel Bug: can't copy and paste metadata
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Thanks for your report; we'll look into it.
Frank
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Bridge CS6 Mac XMP File Info Panel Bug: can't copy and paste metadata

The cmd-keys / shortcuts doesn't work in the xmp file info panel btw. in the xmp / iptc fields (e.g. cmd+c, cmd+v, ...) of Adobe Bridge CS6 (Mac OS 10.6.8 and 10.7.3). You are not able to cut and paste info from one box to another like previous versions.
This bug only appears in the xmp file info window (opened via alt+i) in Bridge CS6 - if you edit information or metadata in the file info panel in Photoshop CS6 copy and paste from one field to another works.
The shortcuts also work under Windows (tested under Vista).
I noticed this minor bug already one in the Photoshop CS6 Beta more than one months ago. I hoped that this was corrected in the official test version, but unfortunately it is not. Although it is a minor bug, it is IMHO a basic function and would be very helpful in my daily work - it is too bad, that such a small thing is making working with the application a little bit annoying.

Thanks! If there is a workaround or simple solution, I would be very glad if you could inform me.
Christian
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Thanks for your report; we'll look into it.
Frank
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How do I synchronise metadata from LR to Bridge

Hello. I have W7 64 bit, CS5 with ACR6.1 and LR 2.7. My Leica camera captures as DNG natively. I use 'Convert to DNG' to import in order to take advantage of the lossless compression. I understand that the sidecar XMP files are not applicable and that the metadata is written into the DNG header. That is fine by me, it should ensure that the metadata is always with my DNGs but I'm unsure how it affects the validity of any instructions I have found so far.
Currently I am using both ACR and LR to develop files in order to take advantage of the new features and processing until I can get LR3.
I want to synchronise develop settings. I have learnt how to updated the metadata for files developed in ACR6.1 when I open them in LR2.7 but I cannot work out how to make the LR develop settings visible when I open the files in Bridge.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have been unable to find the information in any of the forums or Help thus far.
I'm also unsure if this is the best forum to post this, but didn't want to cross post. If I'm best to post to another forum please excuse me and any suggestions would be most welcome.

Hi Curt. Thank you. Yes Lightroom has several options for that in its metadata menu as well as a preference to automatically write changes into XMP. However when I make an edit to a DNG in LR, I am not seeing the changes when I preview the DNG in Bridge (or open it from there in ACR). I guess that I am looking for exactly that kind of menu option or preference in Bridge.
I have ignore XMP sidecar files UNCHECKED in DNG handling and Update embedded JPEG previews checked in Camera Raw preferences.
It's confusing also because DNG files don't actually have sidecar files for XMP (it goes in the header inside the file instead) but the other option is store in Camera Raw database. That sounds less right than the other!

Replace Metadata in Bridge CS4 appears to truncate 5.9GB .PSB File; Does CS6 do this too?

I am running Photoshop CS4 on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.8, and ran into a problem with Bridge. I would like to know if this problem occurs with Photoshop CS6. Here's the sequence of events:
1. I have a 5.9GB .psb file created with PS; it loads into PS cleanly - no errors.
2. In Bridge, I create a metadata template, and apply it to my .psb file using "Replace Metadata".
3. The "Replace Metadata" operation completes quite quickly, no error messages
4. Immediately after the "replace Metadata" operation Bridge reports that my 5.9GB file is now a 1.6GB file - 4.3GB smaller!!
5. Bridge displays the updated metadata, no visible indication anything is wrong.
6. Now the file will not open in Photoshop - the read starts, but errors out with "unexpected end of file".
7. I restore the 5.9GB file and can open it in Photoshop without problems.
Update:
This problem is not specific to the "Replace Metadata" function in the Bridge menu. I get a similar result by updating the metadata for this file in the Metadata Panel; the resulting file is truncated, but appears to be a different size this time, and it will not open in Photoshop - same error message as before.
This is a 34-image 36856px X 7464px panorama

Thanks for your suggestion, appreciate your effort to help. The link you provided seems to focus on transfer rates and performance; it does take a while to write or read this file, but I expect that. I'm not using RAID of any flavour. I do not expect file corruption, which is what I believe is happening (and PS is reporting).
I have a number of large panoramas; this is the largest. I believe the largest of the others is a bit over 3GB; I have no difficulty updating the metadata in the other panoramas through the metadata panel or with "Replace Metadata". All of these files live on the same drive (therefore connected to the same firewire port). They are backed up to a USB drive with Time Machine, and I've recovered the 5.9GB file from the Time Machine drive a number of times. I can always read the recovered file with PS, and the size after recovery is always exactly the same. When I realized that the size of my 5.9GB file changed during/because of the metadata update, I reverted to an earlier stage in the post-processing, got a 3.8GB .PSB and put a copy on DVD; the DVD copy is good, and I can easily and quickly reconstruct the 5.9GB file by applying the same actions used the first time (the 5.9GB file has three layers that are not in the 3.8GB .PSB). I have not tried to change metadata in the 3.8GB PSB, and can't try that for the next few weeks as I'll be travelling. The only thing I'm certain of is that updating the metadata in the 5.9GB .PSB reduces the size to 1.6GB (put text in Headline field through Metadata panel) or 1.4GB ("Replace Metadata" in Bridge Tools menu), depending on how the update is done.
So, the 5.9GB file has survived several complete transfers (PS=>Disk, Disk=>Time Machine, multiple Time Machine=>Disk, PS=>Disk to 3.8GB after deleting layers, and Disk(3.8GB)=>DVD) with no signs of corruption.
It's very hard to accept the idea that there's some kind of hardware problem that afflicts just one file. The 5.9GB file is output from PS CS4, and I can read it back into PS with no problem.
I'll watch this forum for a few days to see if there are more answers until I have to travel. If not, I'll figure it out another way and report a bug in CS6 if that appears to be appropriate.

Using copy and paste in Adobe Bridge 5.0

When using Adobe Bridge 5.0, and while adding metadata to photos, whenever I use the command control-C to copy and paste metadata entries, my software locks up and I have to reboot. The last time this happened, I was told to clear my Cache, and that worked, but now I have cleared the cache several times and rebooted, and the software still locks up.

Hi BOX697,
I would suggest posting this question in the Adobe Bridge forum, located here: http://forums.adobe.com/community/bridge
You will probably get a quicker answer there!
Cheers,
Michael

Copy and paste metadata

I'd like to be able to copy and paste metadata from one to many. I envisage it as a process similar to copying and pasting Adobe Camera Raw settings, with a Paste Special style dialog. Camera EXIF data would be excluded, but you'd be choose to paste just the keywords, or the keywords and the description etc.
While you can always save a metadata template, that's not ideal for routine work. And you have to edit a metadata template manually before risking applying it to other images.
John

You could modify the code to suit as an example I have added Description to Keywords
This just appends the description, if you want to replace uncomment the marked line..
#target bridge
DataCopy();
function DataCopy(){
var SP = new TabbedPalette( app.document, "Copy MetaData", "CMtab", "script", "left", "top");
SP.content.onResize = function(){
var b = this.bounds;
pnl.bounds = b;
this.layout.resize(true);
SP.content.layout.layout(true);
    Keywords=[];
    Description =[];
    Title=[];
    Headline='';
var pnl = SP.content.add("panel", undefined , "");
pnl.alignChildren = ["center", "fill"];
var mainBtnGp = pnl.add("group");
mainBtnGp.orientation = "column";
var titleGp = mainBtnGp.add("group");
titleGp.alignment ="column";
var title = titleGp.add("statictext", undefined, "Copy/Paste Metadata");
var g = title.graphics;
g.font = ScriptUI.newFont ("Arial", 14);
    var gp2 = mainBtnGp.add("group");
gp2.p1 = gp2.add('panel');
     gp2a = gp2.p1.add('group');
    gp2a.orientation = "column";
gp2a.alignment ="left";
    gp2a.cb1 = gp2a.add("checkbox",undefined,'Key Words');
    gp2a.cb2 = gp2a.add("checkbox",undefined,'Description');
    gp2a.cb3 = gp2a.add("checkbox",undefined,'Title');
    gp2a.cb4 =gp2a.add("checkbox",undefined,'Headline');
    gp2a.cb5 =gp2a.add("checkbox",undefined,'Desc to Key Words');
    gp2b = gp2.p1.add('group');
    gp2b.orientation = "column";
gp2b.alignment = "fill"
    gp2b.bu1 = gp2b.add('button',undefined,'Select Data');
     gp2b.bu2 = gp2b.add('button',undefined,'Reset');
     gp2b.bu2.onClick = function(){
     Keywords=[];
     Description=[];
     Title=[];
     Headline='';
     gp2a.cb1.value = false;
     gp2a.cb2.value = false;
     gp2a.cb3.value = false;
     gp2a.cb4.value = false;
     gp2a.cb5.value = false;
    gp2b.bu1.onClick = function(){
        var dat = false;
        if(gp2a.cb1.value) dat = true;
        if(gp2a.cb2.value) dat = true;
        if(gp2a.cb3.value) dat = true;
        if(gp2a.cb4.value) dat = true;
        if(gp2a.cb5.value) dat = true;
        if(!dat) {
            alert("Please select at least one checkbox");
            return;
        loadXMPLib();
        var thumb = app.document.selections[0];
if(!app.document.selections.length) return;
    if(thumb.type != "file") return;
var selectedFile = thumb.spec;
var myXmpFile = new XMPFile( selectedFile.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_READ);
myXmp = myXmpFile.getXMP();
try{
if(gp2a.cb1.value){
Keywords = getArrayItems(XMPConst.NS_DC,'subject');
if(gp2a.cb2.value){
Description = getArrayItems(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");
if(gp2a.cb3.value){
Title = getArrayItems(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title");
if(gp2a.cb4.value){
Headline = "\"" + myXmp.getProperty(XMPConst.NS_PHOTOSHOP, "Headline") + "\"";
Headline=Headline.replace(/\"/g,'');
if(gp2a.cb5.value){
Description = getArrayItems(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description").toString().replace(/\r|\n/g,'');
unloadXMPLib();
}catch(e){alert(e +" Line: "+ e.line);}
gp2b.bu3 = gp2b.add('button',undefined,'Use Metadata');
gp2b.bu3.onClick = function(){
var sels = app.document.selections;
loadXMPLib();
for (var a in sels){
var thumb = new Thumbnail(sels[a]);
   if(thumb.hasMetadata){
      var selectedFile = thumb.spec;
      var myXmpFile = new XMPFile( selectedFile.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE);
var myXmp = myXmpFile.getXMP();
        try{
        if(gp2a.cb1.value){
        myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC,'subject');
        for(var s in Keywords){
        myXmp.appendArrayItem(XMPConst.NS_DC, "subject", Keywords[s], 0,XMPConst.PROP_IS_ARRAY);
    if(gp2a.cb2.value){
        myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "description");
        myXmp.setLocalizedText( XMPConst.NS_DC, "description", null, "x-default", Description );
    if(gp2a.cb3.value){
        myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title");
        myXmp.appendArrayItem(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title", Title, 0, XMPConst.ALIAS_TO_ALT_TEXT);
        myXmp.setQualifier(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title[1]", "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", "lang", "x-default");
    if(gp2a.cb4.value){
        myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_PHOTOSHOP, "Headline");
        myXmp.setProperty(XMPConst.NS_PHOTOSHOP, "Headline", Headline);
    if(gp2a.cb5.value){
        //uncomment the line below to remove all keywords before adding the description
       // myXmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC,'subject');
        myXmp.appendArrayItem(XMPConst.NS_DC, "subject", Description, 0,XMPConst.PROP_IS_ARRAY);
    if (myXmpFile.canPutXMP(myXmp)) {
        myXmpFile.putXMP(myXmp);
         myXmpFile.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY);
    }catch(e){alert(e+" Line : "+e.line);}
    unloadXMPLib();
SP.content.layout.layout(true);
function getArrayItems(ns, prop){
var arrItem=[];
try{
var items = myXmp.countArrayItems(ns, prop);
   for(var i = 1;i <= items;i++){
     arrItem.push(myXmp.getArrayItem(ns, prop, i));
return arrItem;
}catch(e){alert(e +" Line: "+ e.line);}
function loadXMPLib(){
if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) {
    ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");
function unloadXMPLib(){
   if( ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript ) {
      try{
         ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript.unload();
         ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = undefined;
      }catch (e){ }

Aperture Metadata and Bridge Metadata

I am a photographer and my workflow is to import all my images into Aperture library and add metadata.
When exporting an image is it possible to integrate Apertures metadata with Bridge metadata? This is important feature as most people do not import images with Aperture. The issue is that many of the field names are different or non existent between the two programs. For example Location field in Bridge is Sub location in Aperture.
Can you add fields such contact info such as URL, email that are included within Bridge ITPC Metadata?
Is there a way to customize the metadata fields to work with CS3?

Unfortunatelly, not really.
I am currently using Nikon Transfer (latest version) to download the pictures from the camera. This software allows me to enter quite a number of IPTC data (including contact information, url, mail, phone, etc.), but maybe not all which are available in CS3.
Then I do import the pictures from the folder into Aperture where I only add contact information in the respective IPTC field. From the tests, I did I do know, that with this step I am using the "old IPTC standard" with Aperture and the new IPTC standard with Nikon Transfer. Clearly the newer is better and meets the needs you described.
In Aperture, I do only see the IPTC data fields, which are common between the two standards (copyright, keywords and description).
When I go to CS3 Bridge, I can see the IPTC data from both, but only of you turn on the "IPTC old" in the Photoshop Bridge settings.
This is how far I have come. I have tested the export with the original and the aperture work copy. As a test reader/viewer of the pics I used Photoshop Elements 5.0 ... but except the copyright information, key words and description, I could not find "my" IPTC data. So there was no contact info. This may be a problem of the old version, so I also checked on a windows PC the file properties (picture viewer), which has more or less the same information.
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We're one of many companies looking to move to Premiere Pro from Final Cut.
We have thousands of tagged clips in Final Cut Server and I'm trying to find a way to export all that metadata so it can be used, and searched for, within Premiere Pro.
Does anyone know if/how this could be achieved?
The only thing I've found online that seems to be relevant is this:
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Well... I'm a librarian by training so I use Cat-DV a little differently.
I use it to make a searchable archive of proxy files for entire hard drives. I hook up a hard drive (say an old external) and point Cat-DV at it. It makes a catalog (locally) that has all the metadata (most importantly "date created") and a small proxy or thumbnail if it's a still. Then I unplug the drive, label it and put it on a shelf. When I need to find something all I have to do is consult the local catalog. I can search it (if I included any metadata) or, most likely, I'll just scrub around for date created. Cat-DV will display the exact path to where the asset is. I can search across multiple catalogs of drives without ever having to plug one in, Once I find the file I want, I just plug in that drive to retreive the file.
I use it mostly for stills and some b-roll that gets used over and over. For a variety of reasons, we never opted to make it a full replacement for FC Server.
And another thing... you can do a heck of a lot with the $99 or $300 version. You don't need to go the full enterprise server route (though you do have to do that to use the server functions).
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In Acrobat, I can get the metadata by "this.metadata".
The Designer's Help said: use "xfa.form.desc" to instead of "this.metadata".
The "desc" has a method "metadata(Integer para)" to return the metadata's info.
I use the code "xfa.form.desc.metadata(0)" in designer.
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Who can tell me how to get the metadata in Designer?
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Thank you,radzmar.
I use the "xfa.host.messageBox(""+xfa.event.target.metadata);" in a button's clickEvent.
But the error is same.
My target is:
Now,I have a blank PDF create by Designer.
Only one button in this PDF.
When I click the button,then show the metadate'info for me.
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I want to get a simple about get metadata info.
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         <xmp:CreatorTool>Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 9.0</xmp:CreatorTool>
         <xmp:ModifyDate>2010-11-18T13:14:40+08:00</xmp:ModifyDate>
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      <rdf:Description xmlns:pdf="http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/" rdf:about="">
         <pdf:Producer>Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 9.0</pdf:Producer>
      </rdf:Description>

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Copy (Command-C) the table or range in Numbers
Click off the table on the blank canvas of the sheet.
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