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What is ExifTool?
ExifTool by Phil Harvey is an advanced metadata utility that can read an enormous number of file formats, media properties and tag formats (see lists below).
Flash Renamer already contains support for many metadata formats, but if you miss something there is a good chance that ExifTool supports it, and you can use ExifTool together with Flash Renamer to get this data into Flash Renamer!
How to enable ExifTool
Before you can use ExifTool you need to "install" it:
- Go to ExifTool homepage and download the Windows Executable.
- When finished, open the zip file and extract the file
exiftool(-k).exe. - Change the name of this file to just
exiftool.exe. - Finally move the file in the folder where Flash Renamer is installed, for example
c:\Program Files\Flash Renamer\.
How to use ExifTool
ExifTool implemented as a <tag> and can be used anywhere tags are allowed. Use it like this:
<ExifTool-TagName> - This will return the value of "TagName" (provided such a tag exists in the file of course)
<ExifTool-Group:TagName> - You can type a group name first to be more specific.
See the ExifTool documentation for more info on what is supported.
Notes
- ExifTool is pretty slow. You will probably want to turn off the Instant Preview or only select a single file while typing ExifTool tags.
- Here is something that I find useful: Create a copy of ExifTool and name it
exiftool(-a -G1 -s -k).exe. Drag and drop files onto this exe. It will display all data found in the file, inclding where it is located in the file!
File Formats Supported by ExifTool
| File Type | Description |
|---|---|
| 3FR | Hasselblad RAW (TIFF-based) |
| ACR | American College of Radiology ACR-NEMA (DICOM-like) |
| AFM, ACFM, AMFM | Adobe [Composite/Multiple Master] Font Metrics |
| AI, AIT | Adobe Illustrator [Template] (PS or PDF) |
| AIFF, AIF, AIFC | Audio Interchange File Format |
| APE | Monkey's Audio |
| ARW | Sony Alpha RAW (TIFF-based) |
| ASF | Microsoft Advanced Systems Format |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleaved (RIFF-based) |
| BMP, DIB | Windows BitMaP / Device Independent Bitmap |
| BTF, TIFF, TIF | BigTIFF (64-bit Tagged Image File Format) |
| COS | Capture One Settings (XML-based) |
| CR2 | Canon RAW 2 (TIFF-based) |
| CRW, CIFF | Canon RAW Camera Image File Format (CRW specification) |
| CS1 | Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot RAW (PSD-based) |
| DCM, DC3, DIC, DICM | DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine |
| DCP | DNG Camera Profile (DNG-like) |
| DCR | Kodak Digital Camera RAW (TIFF-based) |
| DFONT | Macintosh Data Fork Font |
| DIVX | DivX media format (ASF-based) |
| DJVU, DJV | DjVu image (AIFF-like) |
| DNG | Digital Negative (TIFF-based) |
| DOC, DOT | Microsoft Word Document/Template (FPX-like) |
| DOCX, DOCM | Office Open XML Document [Macro-enabled] |
| DOTX, DOTM | Office Open XML Document Template [Macro-enabled] |
| DYLIB | Mac OS X Mach-O executable and library files |
| DV | Digital Video |
| EIP | Capture One Enhanced Image Package (ZIP-based) |
| EPS, EPSF, PS | [Encapsulated] PostScript Format |
| ERF | Epson RAW Format (TIFF-based) |
| EXE, DLL | DOS/Windows executable and library files |
| EXIF | Exchangable Image File Format metadata (TIFF-based) |
| F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V | Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video (Quicktime-based) |
| FLA | Macromedia/Adobe Flash project (FPX-like) |
| FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec |
| FLV | Flash Video |
| FPX | FlashPix image |
| GIF | Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format |
| GZ, GZIP | GNU ZIP compressed archive |
| HDP, WDP | Windows HD Photo / Media Photo (TIFF-based) |
| HTML, HTM, XHTML | [Extensible] HyperText Markup Language |
| ICC, ICM | International Color Consortium color profile |
| IIQ | Phase One Intelligent Image Quality RAW (TIFF-based) |
| IND, INDD, INDT | Adobe InDesign Document/Template (XMP metadata only) |
| ITC | iTunes Cover Flow artwork |
| JP2, JPX | JPEG 2000 image |
| JPEG, JPG | Joint Photographic Experts Group image (see table below) |
| K25 | Kodak DC25 RAW (TIFF-based) |
| KDC | Kodak Digital Camera RAW (TIFF-based) |
| KEY, KTH | Apple iWork '09 Keynote presentation/Theme |
| LNK | Microsoft Shell Link (Windows shortcut) |
| M2TS, MTS, M2T | MPEG-2 Transport Stream (used for AVCHD video) |
| M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V | MPEG-4 Audio/Video (Quicktime-based) |
| MEF | Mamiya (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based) |
| MIE | Meta Information Encapsulation (MIE specification) |
| MIFF, MIF | Magick Image File Format |
| MKA, MKV, MKS | Matroska Audio/Video/Subtitle |
| MOS | Creo Leaf Mosaic (TIFF-based) |
| MOV, QT | Apple QuickTime Movie |
| MP3 | MPEG-1 layer 3 audio (uses ID3 information) |
| MP4 | Motion Picture Experts Group version 4 (Quicktime-based) |
| MPC | Musepack Audio |
| MPEG, MPG, M2V | Motion Picture Experts Group version 1 or 2 |
| MPO | Extended Multi-Picture format (JPEG with MPF extensions) |
| MQV | Sony Mobile QuickTime Video |
| MRW | Minolta RAW |
| MXF | Material Exchange Format |
| NEF | Nikon (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based) |
| NMBTEMPLATE | Apple iWork '09 Numbers Template |
| NRW | Nikon RAW (2) (TIFF-based) |
| NUMBERS | Apple iWork '09 Numbers spreadsheet |
| ODP, ODS, ODT | Open Document Presentation/Spreadsheet/Text (ZIP/XML-based) |
| OGG | Ogg Vorbis and Ogg FLAC audio |
| ORF | Olympus RAW Format (TIFF-based) |
| OTF | Open Type Font |
| PAGES | Apple iWork '09 Pages document |
| Adobe Portable Document Format | |
| PEF | Pentax (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based) |
| PFA, PFB | PostScript Font ASCII/Binary |
| PFM | Printer Font Metrics |
| PGF | Progressive Graphics File |
| PICT, PCT | Apple Picture file |
| PMP | Sony DSC-F1 Cyber-Shot image |
| PNG, JNG, MNG | Portable/JPEG/Multiple-image Network Graphics |
| PPM, PBM, PGM | Portable Pixel/Bit/Gray Map |
| PPT, PPS, POT | Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation/Slideshow/Template (FPX-like) |
| POTX, POTM | Office Open XML Presentation Template [Macro-enabled] |
| PPSX, PPSM | Office Open XML Presentation Slideshow [Macro-enabled] |
| PPTX, PPTM | Office Open XML Presentation [Macro-enabled] |
| PSD, PSB | PhotoShop Drawing / Large Document |
| PSP, PSPIMAGE | Paint Shop Pro |
| QTIF, QTI, QIF | QuickTime Image File |
| RA | Real Audio |
| RAF | FujiFilm RAW Format |
| RAM, RPM | Real Audio/Plug-in Metafile |
| RAW | Kyocera Contax N Digital RAW |
| RAR | RAR Archive |
| RAW | Panasonic RAW (TIFF-based) |
| RIFF, RIF | Resource Interchange File Format |
| RM, RV, RMVB | Real Media/Video [Variable Bitrate] |
| RSRC | Mac OS Resource |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| RW2 | Panasonic RAW 2 (TIFF-based) |
| RWL | Leica RAW (TIFF-based) |
| RWZ | Rawzor compressed image |
| SO | Unix ELF executable and Shared Object files |
| SR2 | Sony RAW 2 (TIFF-based) |
| SRF | Sony RAW Format (TIFF-based) |
| SRW | Samsung RAW format (TIFF-based) |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics (XML-based) |
| SWF | Shockwave Flash |
| THM | Canon Thumbnail (JPEG) |
| THMX | Office Open XML Theme |
| TIFF, TIF | Tagged Image File Format |
| TTF, TTC | True Type Font/Collection |
| VOB | Video Object (MPEG-based) |
| VRD | Canon DPP Recipe Data |
| WAV | Windows digital audio WAVeform (RIFF-based) |
| WEBM | Google Web Movie (MKV-based) |
| WEBP | Google Web Picture (RIFF-based) |
| WMA, WMV | Windows Media Audio/Video (ASF-based) |
| X3F | Sigma/Foveon RAW |
| XCF | GIMP native image format |
| XLS, XLT | Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet/Template (FPX-like) |
| XLSX, XLSM, XLSB | Office Open XML Spreadsheet [Macro-enabled/Binary] |
| XLTX, XLTM | Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template [Macro-enabled] |
| XMP | Extensible Metadata Platform sidecar file |
| ZIP | ZIP archive |
Tags Supported by ExifTool
AC3, AFCP, AIFF, APE, ASF, AVI1, Adobe, AdobeCM, CIFF, Canon, CanonCustom, CanonRaw, CanonVRD, Casio, Chapter#, Composite, DICOM, DNG, DV, DjVu, DjVu-Meta, Ducky, EPPIM, EXE, EXIF, ExifIFD, ExifTool, FLAC, File, Flash, FlashPix, Font, FotoStation, FujiFilm, GE, GIF, GIMP, GPS, GeoTiff, GlobParamIFD, GraphConv, H264, HP, HTML, HTML-dc, HTML-ncc, HTML-office, HTML-prod, HTML-vw96, HTTP-equiv, ICC-chrm, ICC-clrt, ICC-header, ICC-meas, ICC-meta, ICC-view, ICC_Profile, ICC_Profile#, ID3, ID3v1, ID3v1_Enh, ID3v2_2, ID3v2_3, ID3v2_4, IFD0, IFD1, IPTC, IPTC#, ITC, InteropIFD, JFIF, JPEG, JVC, Jpeg2000, KDC_IFD, Kodak, KodakBordersIFD, KodakEffectsIFD, KodakIFD, KyoceraRaw, LNK, Leaf, LeafSubIFD, Leica, M2TS, MAC, MIE-Audio, MIE-Camera, MIE-Canon, MIE-Doc, MIE-Extender, MIE-Flash, MIE-GPS, MIE-Geo, MIE-Image, MIE-Lens, MIE-Main, MIE-MakerNotes, MIE-Meta, MIE-Orient, MIE-Preview, MIE-Thumbnail, MIE-UTM, MIE-Unknown, MIE-Video, MIFF, MNG, MPC, MPEG, MPF0, MPImage, MXF, MakerNotes, MakerUnknown, Matroska, MetaIFD, Microsoft, Minolta, MinoltaRaw, NITF, Nikon, NikonCapture, NikonCustom, NikonScan, Olympus, PDF, PICT, PNG, PSP, Panasonic, Pentax, PhotoMechanic, Photoshop, PictureInfo, PostScript, PreviewIFD, PrintIM, ProfileIFD, QuickTime, RAF, RAF2, RIFF, RMETA, RSRC, RTF, Rawzor, Real, Real-CONT, Real-MDPR, Real-PROP, Real-RA3, Real-RA4, Real-RA5, Real-RJMD, Reconyx, Ricoh, SPIFF, SR2, SR2DataIFD, SR2SubIFD, SRF#, SVG, Samsung, Sanyo, Scalado, Sigma, SigmaRaw, Sony, SonyIDC, Stim, SubIFD, System, Track#, Version0, Vorbis, XML, XMP, XMP-DICOM, XMP-MP, XMP-MP1, XMP-PixelLive, XMP-acdsee, XMP-album, XMP-aux, XMP-cc, XMP-cell, XMP-crs, XMP-dc, XMP-dex, XMP-digiKam, XMP-exif, XMP-iptcCore, XMP-iptcExt, XMP-lr, XMP-mediapro, XMP-microsoft, XMP-mwg-coll, XMP-mwg-kw, XMP-mwg-rs, XMP-pdf, XMP-pdfx, XMP-photomech, XMP-photoshop, XMP-plus, XMP-prism, XMP-prl, XMP-pur, XMP-rdf, XMP-swf, XMP-tiff, XMP-x, XMP-xmp, XMP-xmpBJ, XMP-xmpDM, XMP-xmpMM, XMP-xmpNote, XMP-xmpPLUS, XMP-xmpRights, XMP-xmpTPg, ZIP