Import "People' from iView media pro

Question

So the People category in iview does not exist in LR, or anywhere else it seems.
Is there a way to add it to LR's metadata so that my Iview cataloged photos will come over to LR with "people" intact. Or do I just move all the People into the keywords in iView and have them show up as keywords in LR?
any help appreciated,
John

Answer 1

It looks to me like iView Media Pro is using a custom XMP metadata field named 'People' with a registered custom XMP prefix of 'mediapro'.
This is all part of the normal XMP standard that Adobe was brilliant in creating.
Lightroom currently has no way to access and/or use Custom File Info Panels. I think this is the heart of the issue for you. Your images have the info but Lightroom currently cannot understand the info.
I would guess that in some future version of Lightroom the Adobe engineers will add the ability to use Custom File Info Panels and after that you should be able to access the mediapro:People custom XMP metadata field and values.
I just looked at the Custom File Info Panel that iView installed on my Mac years ago. It is where most Custom File Info Panels live in "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels/iViewPanel V3.txt". This panel is how the field shows up in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Bridge CS3 also added Custom File Info Panel support but needs separate lines in the Custom File Info Panel to use them.
I've copy and pasted the code that defines the 'mediapro:People' custom XMP metadata field below.
group(placement: place_row, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_fill, reverse: rtl_aware)
static_text(
name : '$$$/iView/MediaPro/Fieldname/People=&People: ',
font : font_big_right,
vertical : align_top );
group(placement: place_column, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_fill, reverse: rtl_aware)
cat_container_edit_text(
xmp_ns_prefix : 'mediapro',
xmp_namespace : 'http://ns.iview-multimedia.com/mediapro/1.0/',
xmp_path : 'People',
container_type : bag_struct,
v_scroller : true,
horizontal : align_fill,
height : 60 );
separator( horizontal : align_fill );
group(placement: place_row, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_left, vertical: align_top, reverse: rtl_aware)
icon(
builtin_icon : builtin_icon_alert,
width : 20,
height : 20,
vertical : align_center );
static_text(
name : '$$$/iView/MediaPro/Fieldname/Howto5=Catalog Sets, Custom Fields and People use semi-colons ";" as a seperator.',
font : font_small,
vertical : align_center,
horizontal : align_left,
label : false );
mru_popup(
xmp_ns_prefix : 'mediapro',
xmp_namespace : 'http://ns.iview-multimedia.com/mediapro/1.0/',
xmp_path : 'People',
container_type : bag_struct,
no_checks : true,
mru_append : true,
vertical : align_top );