Metadata does not show correctly in caption

It can be difficult to reach the correct metadata - but no reason not to use Live Captions.

My objection is that it's complicated to use, fussy about the details, and quite limited in scope.  All compounded by it being more or less the only "caption feature," without any more general/useful/flexible feature or option. It's use Live Caption™ or do it all manually.

How often is metadata of much use as a caption? Except in a sort of technical-listing context? My objection is that it doesn't really generate "captions" as such as "credits" — and very limited ones. How often is even the file name useful as a "caption"?

And then you have to have the metadata in there in the first place. What the camera or even stock service puts in mostly isn't very useful. For useful "captions," someone has to add/enter/update the metadata... and then it's fixed, inaccessible to the layout designer.

When I work with images, and need captions, they need to mesh with the material, which means the captions have to be written as part of the creative workflow. And often edited once or twice. I'd wager that that's closer to what most designers need from captions, than being able to pull a canned text string from the image.

I can see (and have conceded) that the system might be ideal for any highly managed shop, like a magazine or catalog producer, where an art department maintains thousands of images and part of the release/archive process is to write and review extended meta-data, so that the layout department is freed from both error and drudgery of captioning a shot "Pitcher, blue, 32 ounce, floral design." or "Jennifer Connelly smiles at the camera."

So, IF you have all your images preloaded with the right metadata, AND your need is to include some-many-lots of them AND have one fairly short, canned, fixed slug as a "caption" — it's a great system.

But in the absence of any more general/flexible caption management feature, and given all the enormous front-loading and rigidity of the data... I find Live Caption to be a feature I've never, ever found a use for, across many projects where something better than manual caption management would have been nice.

Oh... did I mention it's another cross-ref feature subject to the "no break text" fault, so your live caption better be real short? That Jenny Connelly photo better be 3-4 inches across, at a minimum...

Couldn't find Author in the metadata options, but I did find "Credit Line", which did work. Thanks for putting me on the right track.

Hmm...Disappointing, but I'll take your word for it.

Thanks