I’m currently evaluating Retrobatch for some workflows and noticed that setting metadata fields like keywords, author or copyright would reproducibly corrupt raw files (at least Panasonic .RW2).
Is this a known bugs? Any workarounds available like writing XMP sidecar files?
Haven’t yet verified if this also affects raw files from other manufacturers (can try it on Nikon)
This isn’t a known issue! Thanks for letting us know, I’ll look into it.
There’s no support for writing sidecar files as of now.
Let me know if you need a copy of the workflow I’m using (really simple one, Read-Files -> Set General Metadata -> Write Files (Original Format)) or a Panasonic RW2 files.
They show up as zero-byte files after being written.
I got it to reproduce. I’ve got it fixed so it no longer writes out zero length files in the latest builds, which you can grab from here: Latest Builds from Flying Meat
The API that I use to write the metadata doesn’t currently support RAW files, so I’ll have to see if I can use a different tool in the future.