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Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.

Status Awaiting review
Workspace Feature requests
Categories Capture One Pro
Created by Christian Velten
Created on Jul 2, 2023

Keep file metadata with HDR merge

What problem do you see this solving?

HDRs should keep the metadata of the series which is merged (currently CO is removing). This particularly concerns capture date, location data but also any other metadata like color/star ratings and keywords. As some metadata across the series can slightly deviate, a pragmatic approach could be to simply use the data of the first shot or primary variant of the series (as with HDR series, date, location, describing keywords, etc. should anyhow be more or less the same).

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?

Currently, metadata of new CO generated HDRs need to be manually added after in separate tools, which actually is an unnecessary additional step making the workflow less efficient. For someone like me, who is regularly creating HDRs, the additional steps to always take after HDR are taking nerves.

Current workaround

Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?

HDR merge is removing metadata, which in my workflow had been added automatically early, and I always need to manually re-add. So, I am going back to Photomechanic or even exif-tool to manually re-add metadata, which CO has removed with HDR merge.