The Properties pane displays all the metadata about your files. It also displays file properties such as file size, creation date, and read-only or hidden status. You can use the Properties pane to add, change, or delete the metadata for image and media files.
To open the Properties pane:
In Manage mode or View mode, click View | Properties.
The Properties pane is located by default on the right side of your screen in both Manage mode and View mode.
New Metadata panel offers adjustable width for metadata fields. Simply hover between a corresponding label and field to display the double arrow cursor. Click and drag to adjust width. Double-click to toggle between the width of the longest label in the group or the longest label in the pane.
The Properties pane has a Metadata tab and a File tab.
The Metadata tab displays the rating, category, IPTC, EXIF and ACDSee metadata stored with a photo. The ACDSee metadata fields are available for you to enter the caption for your photographs as well as date, author, notes and keywords. IPTC information is automatically embedded into your image, while ACDSee Metadata is not embedded in your files, but instead is held in the database. ACDSee Metadata can be embedded into all your files (or just selected ones) by clicking the Tools | Embed ACDSee Metadata command.
The IPTC data fields provides a standard means for entering and storing information about your photographs such as description, creator, and copyright information. ACDSee supports fields defined in IPTC Core 1.1.
The EXIF data fields hold information captured by your camera such as shutter speed, camera model and GPS information.
Certain EXIF fields are no longer visible by default. The EXIF Artist, Copyright, Image Description, and Date/Time Original fields are automatically modified when their matching IPTC fields are modified (see table below). This change reflects the recommendations of the Metadata Working Group (MWG). If you need to have these fields visible in the EXIF section you can adjust your settings by clicking Tools | Options | Properties Pane and clicking the Manage Metadata Views button.
Matching IPTC and EXIF fields
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IPTC |
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EXIF |
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Description |
writes to |
Image Description |
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Creator |
writes to |
Artist |
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Copyright Notice |
writes to |
Copyright |
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Date Created |
writes to |
Date/Time Original |
When ACDSee parses metadata from a file, the contents of the field is displayed without mapping.
The File tab displays detailed file information and image attributes for a selected file or files. You can set or change the Read-Only and Hidden properties of a file or folder, and view a summary of any EXIF information contained in a file.
If you have metadata in your files and they are copied, moved, or renamed, outside of ACDSee Pro, the link between the file and the database will be broken, but you can rebuild the database using the embedded data in the file.
ACDSee Pro uses XMP to embed ACDSee Metadata into each file. Only some file formats and file extensions support XMP. These include GIF, JPEG, DNG, PNG, and TIF. In the case of these file formats, the ACDSee Metadata is embedded inside the file and so you can rename or move the file outside of ACDSee Pro and still be able to retrieve the ACDSee Metadata. For formats that currently do not support XMP, including RAW, PSD, ABR, the ACDSee Metadata is written to a sidecar file that is stored in the same folder as its file. Because a sidecar file is separate from the file itself, you need to rename or move them together, or you could lose the ACDSee Metadata permanently.