FastRawViewer Software 2.0 (Download) User Manual
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FastRawViewer
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Copyright © 2014-2016, LibRaw LLC,
Ratings and marks (please see below).
Title (title) and description (description) of an image (see below).
If a folder contains files with the same name (for example, the source CR2 file and the result of its
conversion to DNG), then, while recording an XMP file, a naming conflict may happen: it is necessary
to record filename.XMP for filename.CR2 file, but a filename.XMP already exists in the folder, for
filename.DNG file. In this case,
FastRawViewer
will issue a warning:
To switch this warning off, unset the setting: XMP - Warn if overwrite XMP for file with same name.
If the default settings are in use:
When the file is displayed in “Grid View” mode, the sidecar XMP files (those having the same
name as the current by with a .XMP extension) are read.
When the file data is changed, both XMP sidecar files and XMP blocks embedded into RAW
files (for those RAW file formats where such XMP blocks exist: DNG files mainly, but also some
other formats) are read, and the most recent XMP data is chosen using the modification date.
Ratings and Labels in XMP blocks are ignored to ensure that the data displayed in “Grid View”
mode and single file mode is the same.
Only manual changes are recorded into XMP files (for instance, image orientation or exposure
are changed from automatic to something else).
This behavior can be changed with the following settings:
Preferences – XMP – Use XMP for RAW Files – turning off these settings leads to a complete
disregard of XMP files: they are not read, written, and not moved together with RAW files.
Preferences – XMP – Read Only XMP – blocks any recording of XMP files. Data (ratings,
labels, white balance, exposure correction) will be read and used for display, but any changes
to it will not be saved.
Preferences – XMP – Force XMP file creation – turns on the creation of XMP files, even if
nothing was changed manually. The parameters which were (automatically) set up when
opening the file will be set as the parameters in the XMP file.
The settings for reading embedded XMP blocks are described below in the “Embedded XMP
blocks” section.