krites xmp write¶

Description¶

Write an XMP sidecar (<frame>.xmp) beside each original, carrying the cull verdict as a star rating and a colour label that Lightroom reads (spec 0001 §4.7; R-XMP-1). Importing the folder (or reading metadata) in Lightroom then surfaces your krites cull as ratings + labels — no originals are modified, only the .xmp companions are written (R-XMP-3).

Verdict → sidecar mapping:

Verdict	`xmp:Rating`	`xmp:Label`
keep	5	Keep
maybe	3	Maybe
reject	1	Reject

Once a frame has been developed, write also carries its crop and straighten angle into Camera-Raw settings (crs:HasCrop, crs:Crop*, crs:CropAngle, R-XMP-1b), so keepers open in Lightroom already leveled and cropped. A frame straightened but not cropped carries its corner-safe inner crop. White balance is not yet carried (see the note below).

The shoot must already be culled with krites cull; develop geometry comes from krites straighten and krites crop.

Usage¶

krites xmp write [flags]

Flags¶

Flag	Description	Default
`--shoot`	Shoot directory	the current directory
`--output`	Output format: `text` or `json`	`text`

Example¶

krites xmp write --shoot ~/shoots/smith-wedding

Wrote 3814 XMP sidecar(s) beside the originals in /home/hailey/shoots/smith-wedding

Note: Looks, retouch and object-removal are never written to XMP (Adobe can't represent them) — those live only in krites export. The XMP path carries the decisions Lightroom understands: verdict, crop and straighten.

White balance and the exact crs:CropAngle sign are pending verification against Lightroom before white-balance carry is enabled (the look's white balance is an RGB-gain model, which needs a temperature/tint mapping to travel to Camera-Raw cleanly — see spec 0006 §6/§9).