Metadata Caption autofil

Hi,
I accidently typed a capital in the caption field where there shouldn't be one. Now I'm unable to correct that mistake. Every time I re-enter the caption, without the capital, LR automatically changes the small letter to the earlier entered version with capital.
I went to File > Catalog Settings > Metadata and checked out 'Offer suggestions from recently entered values'. That doesn't make any difference. Can anyone help me to solve this? Thanks.
Ivan
LR 1.3.1 for Mac on a MacBook Pro (intel)

I'm sorry to start beating this horse once again (but it ain't dead yet!) I just encountered the buggy behavior mentioned earlier in regard to editing captions (LR 1.4.1, Mac, OS 10.4.11). I tried the recommended deselection of options in File/catalog settings... , however I still cannot successfully edit the capitalization (case) of certain words in my metadata Caption entries. I can add or delete letters altogether, but cannot change from lower-case to upper (or vice versa). When I do that, the case of the edited letter immediately reverts to the original entry.
It seems that my problem occurs whenever the Caption entry is a word that I had originally entered by copy/pasting from the image keyword list. IOW, it seems that there's no problem when I edit the case of letters occurring in words that were not pasted over from the set of keywords. This is unexpected to say the least, as I assumed that "text" is just "text"; however LR evidently thinks otherwise in this situation.

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Exporting Metadata (caption information) from JPEGS to a comma separated value (CSV) file

Here is my dilemma. I am an archivist at an arts organization and we are in the process of digitizing many of our materials to post them on the web and make them available to internet users. One of the principle components of our collection is a large trove of photographs. We have been in the process of digitizing these images and embedding metadata (in the Caption/Description, Author/Photographer and Copyright fields) via PhotoShops File Info command.
Now I am at a crossroads. We need to extract this metadata and transfer it into a comma separated value form, like an Excel spreadsheet or a FileMakerPro database. I have been told that it is not possible to do this through PhotoShop, that I must run a script through Acrobat or Bridge. I have no clue how to do this. I have been directed to a couple of links.
First I was directed to this (now dead) link: http://www.barredrocksoftware.com/products.html
The BSExportMetadata script allegedly exports the metadata from files selected in Adobe's Bridge into a comma separated value (CSV) file suitable for import into Excel, Access and most database programs. It installs as a Bridge menu item making it simple to use. The the Export Metadata script provides you with an easy to use wizard allowing you to select associated information about a set of images that you can then export. This script requires Creative Suite 2 (CS2). This script sounds like it does exactly what I want to do, but unfortunately, it no longer exists.
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Arnold Dubin, "Script to Export and Import Keywords and Metadata" #13, 8 Aug 2005 7:23 am
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Are A3 metadata captions limited to a certain # of lines/characters?

I created a five line preset and appended it to 'caption' in the metadata drop down window. The five lines are my name - club affililiation - cell number - email address and copyright name.
Using batch I 'copied' the caption preset to 20 images. I then highlighted them and slecetd 'print images'. All works well until I get to the metadta options. I choose the 'caption' option but all I see is line one, two and part of line 3 of my 5-line caption. If I select EXIF all the lines of data are shown - far more than my 5 lined caption.
What am I doing wrong? When printing a contact sheet (or a standrad sheet with 20 pictures) am I limited to the size of the caption that will print? I checked the preview but only the same two plus lines of the caption are shown.

Ah so that's what coment lines are, learn something new every day.
Anyway I tried printing out just one image on a sheet and making it small and even then Aperture will only print out two full ines and a part of the thrid line of the comment section. Didn;t matter where the caption was printed (above, below, left, right)
What the OP needs to do is create a custom Metadata view which contains the fields he wishes to include with the image.
The five lines are my name - club affililiation - cell number - email address and copyright name.
Four of the fields exist alrady name, email adress, copywrite and telephone number. He can pick one of the other fields to use as the club info or else create a custom field.
So doing that I get:

Can I move Metadata captions?

I spent the weekend captioning images and it's been a while since I did it.
However, When I was meant to add the persons name in the photo to the "caption" section in the default metadata section.
I actually added the persons name into the IPTC Extension "Persons show in image" Section.
There are lots of different people in lots of different photos...is there a way to move the information from one field to another for all images without having togo in an copy and paste each one?
D.

Metato will do it. I think John Beardy's "Search/Replace" plugin will too.

Metadata Caption Field confusion

In my Metadata, in the "Make" field it states "OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP". In the "Model" field it states "E-3". So far so good. However in the "Caption" field it also states "OLYUMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA". This caption data is not included in any preset I use. But what is more confusing is that this occurs with some cameras and not with others. It occurs with Olympus, Konica/Minolta, BenQ and Pentax sometimes but not with Canon, Fuji or Casio. Any ideas?

It's the camera itself that stores that piece of metadata.
You can prove it to yourself by running exiftool on a fresh out-of-camera file:
exiftool -exif:ImageDescription <your_filename>
If you want to get rid of it, define an import template with just an empty caption (don't forget to check the box next it).

Can I do a 'bulk' find/replace operation in the metadata 'caption' field?

I have about 3000 images in a geneology library in Lightroom. I need to go through all the captions and make the persons' names consistent. Is there a way, in Lightroom, or a 3rd party app, that will let me find all the "Bill Smith" occurances in the captions and change them to "William B Smith" (for example). Editing the captions, one by one, in the metadata panel is way too tedious, and there a lot of other names as well as Bill Smith to work on. I know that I can find all the images, using the text search cabability. It is isolating the string that I want to replace, and then individually typing in the correction for each image that is the problem.

It'll be properly on sale as soon as I can figure out how to incorporate some licencing code from another, far cleverer plug-in developer.... But for now it's fully-functional and gives 90 runs for free.
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How do I put a metadata(caption or keywords) in multiple pictures at once ?

I would like to make a filter of places like NYC, London and some pictures have no GPS data, I would like to put blocks of pictures with the same metadata to do so.
Thanks!

You can easily add keywords to selected Images ("Metadata ▹ New Keyword", and several other ways).
You can easily add Location information to selected Images ("Metadata ▹ Assign Location ... "). (Some information here. This topic is not thoroughly covered in the User Manual.)
You can Lift & Stamp keywords. You can Lift & Stamp Location information.
Note that you can stamp only what you want. Delete the lifted items in the Lift & Stamp HUD which you don't want to stamp.

Metadata 'caption' field locked - cannot change

This is very odd. I have a caption I want to change, and I can type in new text, but when I leave the field it reverts to the former text. There are no other programs running. Wha' hoppen?
LR 2.1
TIA _ Chuck

DJ - FWIW I installed 2.2 and still have the problem.
OK, I have found the problem. If any photo has a Caption field with the example text using upper case, if you type in a Caption in another photo using exactly the same text LR will change it to the upper case version. This happens even when you "Clear All Suggestion Lists" in the Catalog settings. My problem was that another photo in a sub-folder had the capitalized text and getting rid of it in the top folder wasn't enough.
So the answer is to change one photo to different text (doesn't matter what), synchronize all relevant photos to the first one, and then you can type in the desired lower case text and LR will not interfere.
It's not about auto-completing, but why LR should want you to have complete agreement on upper and lower case from photo to photo is interesting.

Using Title/Caption In Metadata...

While I love the develop module in LR I would have to say I am finding the library module most difficult to figure out. Presently I am trying to decide the best way to identify images upon import. For instance, I do a great deal of boat photography and would like to label images with the name of the boat upon import. In the metadata panel there is both a Title and Caption entry line and I would guess that the Title line is the best spot to insert the boat name. At the same time it's not at all clear to me what sort of information is meant by the term Caption. Which of the two spots would be best for entering the boat name or other identifying text. Also, if I had a series of shots of the same boat is there a way for me to enter the name once and have it applied to all the selected images.
In the Mom/Pop iPhoto all one had to do is enter the boat name in the comments panel. Is there a simple straight forward equivelent in LR3?
Thanks!

The short answer: I recommend putting the boat name in Caption, not Title.
A longer answer: Industry standards define the use of Title and Caption reasonably precisely, but many tools, communities, and workflows interpret them differently. If you anticipate sharing your photos with others, you might scope out which tools will be used to access the metadata of the photos and how they handle the Title and Caption fields. Take some sample photos, set their Title and Caption in LR, do Save Metadata To File, and then view the file in the other tools.
The IPTC industry standards define Title, Caption/Description, and Headline as:
Title: A shorthand reference for the digital image. Title provides a short human readable name which can be a text and/or numeric reference. It is not the same as Headline. Enter a short verbal and human readable name for the image, this may be the file name. Many use the Title field to store the filename of the image, though the field may be used in many ways. Formal identifiers are provided by the Digital Image Id, or the Registry Entry property of the IPTC Extension.
Caption (Description): A textual description, including captions, of the image. Enter a "caption" describing the who, what, and why of what is happening in this image, this might include names of people, and/or their role in the action that is taking place within the image.
Headline: A brief synopsis of the caption. Headline is not the same as Title. Enter a brief publishable synopsis or summary of the contents of the image
Those standards were originally defined years ago for professional press photographers and later expanded to encompass many different uses. But for better or worse, there exist many tools, communities, and workflows that use those fields in ways different than prescribed by the standards.
For example, when you upload a photo to Flickr, it will populate its Title field from the photo's Title if it exists, otherwise it uses the filename. But many (perhaps most) Flickr users use its Title field as a short caption (e.g. like a Headline), and Flickr's design encourages that.
As another example, Windows Live Photo Gallery will show as its "Caption" the metadata Title if it exists, otherwise the metadata Caption/Description. When you change its "Caption" field, it will write it into both the metadata Title and metadata Caption/Description fields.
So depending on the intended audience and tool set of your photos, you may choose to adjust your use of Title and Caption to better fit in with their way of doing things.

Unable to change Date Created in Metadata

Please help with my first post...
Unable to change Date Created field in Metadata.
I am a newspaper photographer sending .jpg pics with captions to my office from my iMac. They are viewed at the office on Windows PCs using SCC MediaGrid.
When changing Date Created in Metadata Invalid Format warning appears "Format should be ISO 8601 XML compliant, that is YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm[:ss][tz] (eg 2006-07-11T13:14:30-07:00)"
If 2009-09-26, for example, is entered then exported pictures opened up in Photoshop or shown on SCC MediaGrid do not display the date.
To get dates to show up I first have to open a pic in Photoshop, go to File Info, enter 26/9/09 in Date Created and Save As.
Next I have to Import this into Aperture where the Date Created shows as "20090926".
Using Lift Metadata and Stamp Metadata the date can be transferred to other pics.
Now when I export these pics the date does show up in Photoshop and SCC MediaGrid.
Can Date Created be typed straight into field in Aperture?...Very important when pics go into archive on a server.
Also if I hit Return key in a Metadata Caption, to type on the next line, both lines will appear as one with a small square in-between them when viewed on SCC MediaGrid on a Windows PC.
Thanks in anticipation.

Nick I don't generallt use the IPTC metadata, so I'm not sure I will be too much help.
What version of Aperture are you using? I tried both things and I didn't have any problems with the latest version of Aperture on my Mac.
I was able to enter a date into "Date Created" both with and without the time-zone adjustment. Can you tell us the exact string you tried to enter into the "Date Created" and exactly when you get the error? I tried to enter my time zone (eastern US) as "-5:00", but Aperture wouldn't let me enter the 5 and popped up the error message when I typed that key. I had to use "-05:00".
As for the caption, when I hit return, Aperture ends my edit. I cannot reproduce your described behavior of actually getting a new-line into the field. I suspect your problem (although I don't know how you get to your problem) is one of the following:
1) The IPTC standard doesn't tell if the software should use a Unix-style end-of-line (which is a line-feed), or a DOS/Windows style end-of-line (which is carriage-return followed by line-feed). Aperture may put in the Unix-style and your Windows programs don't know what to do with it.
2) The IPTC standard does indicate the end-of-line style, but either Aperture or your other programs don't follow it.
or
3) IPTC Metadata doesn't actually support end-of-line, so Aperture should not allow you to enter multiple lines, but it has a bug so it does allow you to do that.
Can you tell us where exactly you are editing the caption? I tried it in the inspector pane (on the left) in the "Metadata" tab, and then I hit the "IPTC" button at the bottom of the tab.
nathan

IPhoto and metadata

I started using iPhoto 09 yesterday, and have some questions for you. When I import my pictures I use Adobe Lightroom to convert to DNG, add captions, keywords and ratings. I (want to) use iPhoto for viewing, organizing and ordering books and stuff. Unfortunately there are a few shortcomings to this approach.
* iLife doesn't import any metadata for my raw images. Under the JPEGs I see captions and keywords, but under the DNGs it just says "raw". It also has problems importing from some of my JPEGs
* The captions from LR are written to the IPTC urgency field. This is not standardized (I think), but applications like Picasa and Digikam understand it on import. iPhoto does not.
* Faces and places are not written into the metadata of the images, is it? Does iPhoto write back any of the other metadata (captions, keywords)?
Anyone have any comments/solutions to any of the things I have mentioned?
I have considered fixing this myself, by writing a script that pulls the metadata I want from my JPGs/DNGs and puts it ... somewhere in the iPhoto database. Do you think this is possible?

Thanks for the fast reply.
To continue on your car-comparison. If I learn a lot about driving using that one car, I don't want to forget what I learned if I get a new car in the future At the moment I really like iPhoto, but if I at some point want to use another application, I want all the metainformation I've added to follow me to the new application, and that means it has to be either embedded in the images or really easy to get out from the database. I feel much more in control of my metadata when using Lightroom.
Especially hierarchical keywords are important to me. The are easy to use and manage, and reorganizing them works like a dream. After writing captions, keywords and rating to the images, I can write back the changes to the images and it wouldn't matter if I lost the database, since the complete info is in the images. Haven't heard about Lightroom not using metadata in standard ways, but that sounds scary. Do you know more about this? In my experience, most applications understand the metadata written by Lightroom.
Like I said I want to use iPhoto after the organizing because it's great as a viewer and I may want to order stuff, but also because iPhoto talks well to other applications I want to use, like iDVD. I also like Events, Places and Faces so much that I want to play with those even if the information is lost if I move to another application.
I'm guess I'm gonna have to think a bit about what approach to choose. Right now I keep the DNGs in my library, but maybe I should export to JPG and just keep the DNGs for backup on some offline media. This would take up less space and make my collection understandable by most applications. I could also let iPhoto copy the photos and live with two copies of my library. If/when moving to another application, the LR-copy would then be the portable one.

XMP metadata for Photo Libraries

I demo lightroom at shows for Adobe and one of the constant gripes I get, and spend a long time trying to convince punters I have no answer for, is that Lightroom doesn't interact at all well with some of the software that photo libraries use. I have never had any exposure to such applications, but I recall one being called Photo Suite.
Apparently the problem is metadata captions do not travel well from Lightroom back to these Photo Library apps. So I have just had a load of photographers over the last few days come to me complaining that they have captioned images in Lightroom, but the captions have not been captured in such a way that they can be read by these library apps.
Can anybody make this happen for these people supplying photos to the libraries, because I feel that suppliers are a little hesitant to use Lightroom fully unless it improves. I can't shed much more light on it than this as I have no experience of any Photo Library software.

I'm not so sure that a lot of image libraries are prepared to ditch their library software. My understanding of it is that the photographers who have the library software - and there seems to be a number of them - are being forced to use the image library software by the image library they are submitting their shots to. If captions aren't being retained, then the shots they are submitting are being rejected by the libraries which is obviously causing a loss of income. Something that causes me a loss of income doesn't get used.
So, by the lack of communication and updating of captions between the apps, photographers are being held back, and I get the feeling the photographers would very much like to use LR and know it is without fail compatible with the image library software.
These captions and changes are apparently being recognised by PSCS3, but not lightroom, so where does the fault lie?

Aperture and iWeb and Captions

I'd like to notate my photos in Aperture and have the notations appear under each photo in an iWeb Photo template. I've tried using Metadata Captions and I'm still seeing filenames under the iWeb photos. I'm using the Media Inspector to drag and drop the images into iWeb.
Thanks for any help!
-=Tim=-

Sorry, I don't think I correctly read your question. I was trying to explain having your captions show in the Aperture web gallery, but it looks like you want iWeb help.
To show a caption, I have been double-clicking on the album (in iWeb) to edit the selected image. Then I go from page to page and edit the filename to be the caption I want. This doesn't provide but a few letters, so I try to make the captions brief.
Creating web galleries in Aperture isn't as simple as I thought it would be. Each time I've created one, I forget all the steps to doing it. I am hoping Apple adds better iLife support so it doesn't have to be a multi-step process and the metadata already entered can be used for the caption. I'm new at Aperture, so hopefully I haven't totally missed something.
If you find something easier, I'd like to know also because I've been staying away from Aperture Web galleries until this is easier. I put up a few albums on my site just to test, but am anxious to get new photos up when it isn't so tedious.

Lightroom Metadata editing and workflow is tedious nightmare!

I'm new to Lightroom in just the past month, but have used it enough to see that a serious interface problem makes Lightroom version 1x virtually unusable in a deadline-oriented publishing workflow. Lightroom's Metadata editing and workflow is just a terrible nightmare, and far too tedious and slow. It appears to be an afterthought implemented by good-hearted souls who've never had to edit this sort of information under serious deadline pressures. I know Lightroom is marketed as an image database and not a file browser, but we're all looking to simplify our workflow here and with just a few subtle enhancements, Lightroom could be an excellent file browser and file import manager too.
As it is now, the Lightroom v1x handling of File Naming and Renaming, Metadata Editing and Keyword Editing is poorly implemented and in need of an immediate overhaul to help professional photographers expedite this crucial and time-consuming first step in the archiving workflow. While Lightroom is very good at many other tasks, I give it a big fat "F" of a failing grade for these tasks.
First, the Lightroom Library Module needs an even more simple, linear interface that steps users through a precise procedures (and helps them remember them). Arguably, to accomplish this, the Import function may need to become a separate Module that can be selected and used separately before entering the Library. As File Naming and Renaming, Metadata Editing and Keyword Editing currently are implemented, I, for one, am always forgetting to fill out one of these critical sections and can't even seem to remember that some may need to be done before importing while others appear to be conceived to be done after importing. My point is, all these related steps really need to be done together, but the Interface spreads out the functions too much, and it is nearly impossible to build a logical and linear Import workflow, especially when you are first learning Lightroom.
I'd like to see a workflow that walks me through applying and editing (in order), File Naming, Basic and IPTC Metadata, Captioning and Keywords, so that I don't always forget some obscure step in the process (which I keep doing). Here are some specific suggestions, some of which may prove to be valid, some of which may be problems due to my lack of experience with thye software.
1. As currently implemented, Metadata editing requires too much thought, and does not have enough intelligent automation. Eliminate as much typing as possible (See Photo Mechanic!)
2. Lightroom needs better Metadata Presets. A "Quick Edit" view to simplify interface for editing minimal metadata info (File Name, Basic Info, Keywords, Headline, Limited Copyright Info).
3. Separating Keyword Tags, Metadata Browser, Keywording Presets and Metadata Presets confuses the workflow. They should all appear together under one selectable module that organizes a suggested, linear workflowfor these tasks, but allows it to be customized. This is the sort of tasks that need to be learned by rote memory, and having all these panes floating around on both sides of the photo make it impossible to quickly step through these tasks.
- Name (or Rename) files, Edit/Apply Basic and IPTC Metadata, Edit/Apply Keywords, Import or...
- Import, Name (or Rename) files, Edit/Apply Basic and IPTC Metadata, Edit/Apply Keywords, Import
4. Rename should offer the option of renaming the master file names on the disk, not just file names in the database (which I think is what Lightroom does, but again, this is very confusing for new users)! So, it is my belief that this feature needs a checkbox option to rename one, the other or both. But you need to be able to quickly find this dialog box every time you do an import, and it should not be hidden away out of view under the Library menu. Ideally and logically (for workflow), File Renaming should be handled when starting the Import into Lightroom.
This is critically important because many user

Lightroom metadata editing Part 2 (see Part 1 at top of thread)...
...This is critically important because many users just do not want to trust their images solely to any database and we want the ability to go look for master files with identical names should something go wrong with the software or we decide to edit the file in Photoshop outside of Lightroom or even switch to another library software program.
My own habit is to rename every file with the date followed by a unique, three-digit file number, as in 20070717_001, 20070717_002...up to 999 etc. (I have never shot more than 999 files in a single day, but this could be a four-digit number). To file these on disk, a folder with a similar naming scheme is created for each day's shoot, although a keyword slug is added to the end instead of file numbers.
5. Metadata Presets (Basic Info, IPTC metadata, EXIF metadata), Keywords need to be able to toggled on or off (promote/demote-expand/contract). Turning Off/On one section at a time via the Metadata Presets popup menu is too tedious...and you can't display IPTC and Large Caption together or leave Large Caption turned on. It also is difficult to remember where the Large Caption default (Preferences) setting is...
6. Please get the EXIF data out of the way entirely when editing captions and visa-versa...And the EXIF data should not separate Basic Info and IPTC Info fields. Please relocate the EXIF to the bottom of the Metadata pane...
7. IPTC Content, IPTC Copyright, IPTC Creator, IPTC Image expand/collapse sections need more automation:
- The Presets fields need Preset lists of entry choices for cities, states, countries, etc.!
- ISO Country Code automatically should be filled in when a country is entered.
- Date created automatically should be filled in from camera EXIF data
- Metadata Presets "Save As" should fill in old name, and allow you to rename it; (When it appears, the new name field should not be empty. This would aid in consistent, alphabetical naming
- Metadata Presets naming should support job names, with actual Presets saved under each job name...
8. IPTC Status EXIF, Contact, etc.
- Caption field MUST display more than one line...(6-8 lines)!
- Caption field MUST support Shift/Return!
- Headline (IPTC Content) should be displayed with (and above) caption. Please present information logically!
- Yellow popups should describe what each field name is for...some are real brain teasers...

Serious Bug - Carriage Returns in Caption field

LR for Windows does not handle Carriage Returns/Line Feeds correctly in the metadata Caption field.
Windows Vista SP1, 32-bit
Adobe Lightroom 2.4
Library Module, Grid View
Initial settings:
LR Menu bar > Edit > Catalog Settings... > Metadata tab > Editing
uncheck Offer suggestions from recently entered values
uncheck Automatically write changes into XMP
LR Menu bar > View > View options... > Grid View tab > Cell Icons
check Unsaved Metadata
Metadata panel: choose the Default Metadata Set.
Import a JPG file into LR which contains no IPTC metadata.
LR Menu bar > File > Import Photos from disk... > Choose the JPG file
In the Import Photos dialog box, Information to Apply:
Develop Settings: None
Metadata: None
Keywords: None
Click Import.
Click thumbnail of the JPG file which was Imported.
In the Metadata panel click Caption field.
Type "Word1" in the Caption field and press Return/Enter key.
The Caption field loses focus.
The Caption field should not lose focus when the Return/Enter key is pressed.
Click the Caption field and press the Delete key to remove "Word1" from the field.
In the Caption field type "Word1" and press Ctrl+Return/Enter key.
As expected, the cursor moves to the line below "Word1" and the Caption field remains in focus.
Type "Word2" and press Ctrl+Return/Enter key.
As expected, the cursor moves to the line below "Word2" and the Caption field remains in focus.
Click the JPG thumbnail and notice a down-arrow icon appears on the thumbnail indicating that the metadata for this JPG has been changed in the LR catalog and that it does not match the IPTC metadata that is embedded in the JPG file on the hard disk. Also notice in the Metadata panel, Metadata Status is "Has been changed".
Click the down-arrow on the JPG thumbnail.
See the dialog box that pops up saying "The metadata for this photo has been changed in Lightroom. Save the changes to disk?"
Click Save.
Notice on the JPG thumbnail, the down-arrow icon remains visible and does not disappear as it should if the JPG's metadata in the LR catalog and the metadata embedded in the JPG file on the hard disk were the same.
Also notice in the Metadata panel, Metadata Status is "Has been changed".
Click LR Menu bar > Edit > Catalog Settings... > Metadata tab > Editing
check Automatically write changes into XMP
Click OK.
Notice on the JPG thumbnail, the down-arrow icon blinks rapidly. Also notice in the Metadata panel that "Metadata Status: Has been changed" blinks rapidly.
Click LR Menu bar > Edit > Catalog Settings... > Metadata tab > Editing
uncheck Automatically write changes into XMP
Notice the blinking stops.
Using a program that properly handles Carriage Returns/Line Feeds in IPTC metadata, such as Photo Mechanic 4.5, edit the metadata of another JPG file by typing "Word1", pressing the Return/Enter key, and typing "Word2" in the Caption field.
Import that JPG into LR.
LR Menu bar > File > Import Photos from disk... > Choose the JPG file
In the Import Photos dialog box, Information to Apply:
Develop Settings: None
Metadata: None
Keywords: None
Click Import.
Click the JPG thumbnail in LR Library Module.
Notice in the Metadata panel, "Word1Word2" appears in the Caption field, in both the Default Metadata Set and the Large Caption Metadata Set. The CR/LF has been stripped away.
CR/LFs typed into or pasted into the Large Caption set, also result in the persistence of the down-arrow icon even after metadata is saved to disk. And, if the Automatically write changes into XMP option is checked, the down-arrow icon blinks rapidly. And, if you view the Default set, notice Metadata Status: "Has been changed" blinks rapidly.
When metadata is saved to disk, the down-arrow icon should disappear from the thumbnail, and in the Metadata panel, Metadata Status should read "Up to date". I would guess the blinking behavior indicates LR is stuck in some kind of loop - it is trying to save the metadata to disk and verify that it has been saved, but it keeps going round in a vicious circle. I also notice there is increased hard drive activity during the blinking behavior.

Here is a related problem (using Lightroom 3.3, Windows). When I import photos that have the IPTC caption field created in another program (ThumbsPlus, or IrfanView), carriage returns in the original do not show up in Lightroom. Does anyone know why, or what to do about it? I'd like to import lots of photos with existing captions, and some have carriage returns I would like to retain.
For me, adding a carriage return to the Caption metadata within Lightroom works fine. In the Library view, using the right panel, I can enter a carriage return using Ctrl+Enter in the Metadata > Default view or in the Metadata > IPTC view. I can enter a carriage return directly with the Enter key (no Ctrl required) in the Metadata > Large Caption view. After these entries are saved to the file, they show up correctly in other programs (IrfanView > Image > Properties > IPTC Info)

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