Syncomatic - Sync StacksWhen you add metadata like the title or keywords to a stack, Lightroom only updates the picture on the top of the stack - items lower down the stack are not updated. So if you do want all members of the stack to share similar metadata, you first have to expand the stack and select all the items. Then after adding the metadata, you would collapse the stack again. For some users, that is OK because they will only keep the best image and don't want to annotate the rejects. But for others it's pretty inefficient, for instance stock photographers or those who use stacks to gather frames intended for panorama stitching. For them the stacks-metadata problem is often a reason for not using the stacking feature. Sync Stacks is intended to overcome that problem. It adds a menu command and:
Running Sync StacksSelect the pictures including some which are in stacks and choose the menu command Library > Plug-In Extras > Syncomatic. Then go to the Stacks tab where you can choose to sync metadata from the top of the stack to those within in (recommended) or upwards from the stack members to the top. ![]()
Stacking and CollectionsSyncomatic's Sync Stacks command works only on stacking created in folders, not on collection-level stacking. This is because until Lightroom 4 you could only create stacks in folders but when that changed Adobe never added code to detect the new collection-level stacking. You can launch Sync Stacks when you are are working in a collection, but Sync Stacks is still only detecting folder-level stacks. include "affected.php" ; ?>Syncomatic - Virtual copiesSyncomatic can sync metadata between the master photo and its virtual copies, and in either direction. As usual, it is recommended that you select only the masters and only the virtual copies which you want to include in the processing. Select the pictures and choose the menu command Library > Plug-In Extras > Syncomatic. Then go to the Virtual Copies tab where you can choose to sync metadata from the master to its virtual copies, or vice versa. Normally syncing from masters to virtual copies will sync metadata to all the virtual copies of each master. However, as shown below, you can also choose to sync only to one of the virtual copies, based on the Copy Name field. So here metadata is being synced only to Copy 3.
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