Software Update: ExifTool 11.44

Phil Harvey has released version 11.44 of ExifTool. ExifTool is a free and cross-platform program that allows the metadata of a large number of files can be managed and edited. It works from the command line, but there are third-party solutions available that allow it to be used with a graphical user interface as well. Since version 11.40, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 11.44

• Added ability to extract XMP as a block from XMP files
• Prevent ExifIFD from being deleted from any RAW file type
• Fixed problem where some Canon tags couldn’t be written in CR3 files
• Fixed problem reading QuickTime Keys tags with a space in the tag ID
• Fixed incorrect family 1 group when reading some QuickTime Keys tags

Changes in version 11.43 – “Write HEIC and CR3”

• Added ability to write/create EXIF ​​and write ICC_Profile in HEIC images
• Added ability to write/create EXIF ​​and write MakerNotes in CR3 images (one might hope/expect EXIF ​​to be stored in the same location for HEIC and CR3 since they are both based on the QuickTime file format, but in fact they couldn’t be more different, and both are much more complicated than necessary, which of course follows the seemingly established practice of intentional obfuscation and zero standardization in video metadata)
• Added support for QuickTime ItemList:Author and Keys:DisplayName tags
• Prevent MakerNotes from being deleted from any RAW file type
• Fixed writing of XMP in HEIC files to conform with the HEIC specification (obviously, Apple couldn’t put this XMP in the same place as any other QuickTime-based file format, because Apple is, after all, king of “Let’s reinvent the wheel !”)
• Fixed problem where API WriteMode option wouldn’t always prevent groups from being created when group creation was disabled

Changes in version 11.42

• Added ability to edit ThumbnailImage in Canon MOV videos
• Improved verbose hex dump for HEIC files
• Fixed another “Chunk offset outside movie data” error when writing some HEIC files

Changes in version 11.41

• Added write support and improved language handling for 3GP QuickTime tags
• Fixed format problems writing some binary values ​​to QuickTime tags
• Fixed some language translations (thanks Herbert Kauer)