This is a graphical front-end for EXIFtool
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This is a simple metadata editor for media files. It is a graphical front-end for EXIFtool by Phil Harvey.
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Metadata is a way to store your name and website URL in a picture without changing its pixels. You can even add entire messages. In theory this could be a good standard machine-readable way to sign your work. In practice most social media websites just delete all this information to shave off a few lousy bytes. But on my own website I can choose to keep everything intact.
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To use this program, download it and extract the ZIP file, then drag-and-drop a picture file onto metadata_editor.exe or onto the left side of the program while it’s running. Then modify the data on the right and click “Save to Image” at the bottom. MP4 videos and PDF files can also be edited, even though this program cannot display them. The “Output” at the bottom displays the command that will be run when you click the save button. Clicking the “person” buttons on the far right will replace a line with a default value. To change what these default values are, just type something, right-click the “person” button, and select “Save This as the Default Value”. If you include the word YEAR somewhere in all-caps, it will get replaced by the current year when you click the button.
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I created this because Windows can only edit metadata for JPG and MP4 files. EXIFtool can add metadata to other types of files but it’s hard to use without hours of trial and error looking up the precise DOS incantations…. so I decided to make it easy instead. This only took about 5 hours to throw together. It doesn’t access every feature in EXIFtool, just the ones I care about.
#UPDATES
(2024-12-13)
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Change: Website URLs are now saved as “CreatorWorkURL” instead of “Source”, because Source can only be 32 characters long.
