Photomechanic IPTC metadata lost in Photoshop

Question

I am ingesting RAW files with Photo Mechanic 6 from SD cards used in a Sony A7R camera and adding IPTC Metadata including Descriptions, Keywords, locations, Credits and other fields. I then use Photo Mechanic to select and rate the images with Colors and Star ratings. Then I select 10-20 images at a time to open in Photoshop. I use Camera RAW to tone the images, then open in Photoshop to crop and Save As to jpg as an edited folder for further use. After many years of this workflow working well including in January 2025, the Metadata is missing in Photoshop and does not appear in Bridge. I am using the latest MAC OS on a Macbook Pro laptop, and updated Camera Bits software and the latest in Creative Cloud apps. I asked for help from Camera Bits and they inspected sample files and reported that the problem is in the Adobe software.

Stephen Marsh · Answer

I am ingesting RAW files with Photo Mechanic 6 from SD cards used in a Sony A7R camera and adding IPTC Metadata including Descriptions, Keywords, locations, Credits and other fields. I then use Photo Mechanic to select and rate the images with Colors and Star ratings.

By @qoq@bob

Photo Mechanic didn't directly produce the XMP sidecar file you uploaded, so there is no way to check the "before", as this looks like the "after" ACR sidecar result. EDIT: Can you confirm if Photo Mechanic is writing to a sidecar file or directly to the raw?

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