Format Support
Daminion supports a huge number of media formats. This section covers:
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Supporting media formats
Daminion supports a huge number of media formats including raster, vector, camera RAW images, video, music, and PDF files. Besides media formats, Daminion can also read/write tags from/to XMP, IPTC, EXIF metadata in a wide range of media formats including video and camera RAW formats. Third-party developers as new MediaProcessors can add additional media and metadata formats.
For a full list of formats supported by Daminion, visit the link –
http://daminion.net/feature-tour/daminion/broad-format-support
Supporting Metadata
All a file’s information, including copyright information, is stored as metadata. Whenever you copy, email, or publish your asset, all its file information travels along with it. Ownership of an asset and its usage rights will also be included in the metadata.
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Daminion automatically synchronizes database information with EXIF, IPTC, XMP, MWG, as well as format-specific metadata in a wide range of other media files including PDF and Camera RAW formats. Daminion stores all of an asset’s information in tags. Examples of tags are: Author, Keywords, File size, Media format, People, Place, etc.
Why is Metadata important?
Metadata plays a critical role in organizing your media files effectively.
- Assets that are completely described and saved into metadata information will mean less time in hunting, and more time for working on your current project.
- Metadata prevents you from losing information in case of DAM database damage. Daminion supports reading/writing metadata from EXIF/IPTC/XMP and format-specific metadatas in numerous media formats like PDF or Camera RAW.
- Metadata is the best way to integrate your application with third-party systems like contentcreation or web-publishing tools. Metadata is a language Daminion can speak with any XMP-supported tools like Adobe Photoshop and InDesign.
Some formats are not supported metadata yet some has limited support. For example, you cannot
save metadata to BMP format. But other formats like JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PDF as well supported
metadata.
You can exchange data between different programs by metadata. For example if you set Rating 5 to
a JPEG file, you can see the same rating on this file by Windows Explorer.
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You can exchange data between different programs by metadata. For example if you set Rating 5 to a JPEG file, you can see the same rating on this file by Windows Explorer. Some formats are not supported metadata, some has limited support. For example you cannot save metadata to BMP format. But other formats like JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PDF as well supported metadata.
