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Metadata in avi-files

Ingo Bartholomaeus
Hi everybody,

I would like to add some information to the metadata of uncompressed .avi files (Image > Show Info... ; similar to EXIF information).
It's easy to add information using the macro language, but my changes are not stored when the file is saved.

Is there a way to permanently attach information (e.g. text) to avi-files?

Ingo
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Re: Metadata in avi-files

Michael Schmid
Hi Ingo,

in principle, the AVI format has a possibility to store additional  
information including text in a RIFF INFO list, but this seems to be  
not popular at all and I fear that most AVI readers simply ignore  
them anyhow.

At the moment, ImageJ neither reads nor writes these tags.

If you want the full set of metadata, and if you want to read it into  
ImageJ, why not save the stack as tiff or zipped tiff?

So I think that it makes no sense to add this to ImageJ unless  
several users need it - anyone else who would need to have the Image  
Info stored/read with the AVI?


Michael
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On 9 Dec 2011, at 11:01, Ingo Bartholomaeus wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I would like to add some information to the metadata of  
> uncompressed .avi files (Image > Show Info... ; similar to EXIF  
> information).
> It's easy to add information using the macro language, but my  
> changes are not stored when the file is saved.
>
> Is there a way to permanently attach information (e.g. text) to avi-
> files?
>
> Ingo