Exporting metadata on multiple photos

[Henrik Hemrin]

Adding to my response below:
It was about two years ago we did the trial I mention below, and my 
phocus was the other direction, so my memory is not really clear and 
also new releases.

Regards
Henrik

Den 2024-04-02 kl. 16:10, skrev Henrik Hemrin:
> When I prepared my migration to digiKam from Photoshop Elements via 
> Lightroom Classic, I also did som trials in the opposite direction with 
> a friend who is a Lightroom user. As I recall, we got the meta data to 
> export quite well to Lightroom more or less out of the box including 
> face tags, for both meta data in files (eg jpg) and xmp sidecar.
> 
> The Ligthroom way of handling xmp sidecars are what digiKam in settings 
> refer to as "Sidecar file namne are compatible with commercial programs" 
> in a tick box.
> 
> (when you export, if you want to keep your non-commercial setting in 
> your digiKam collection, I guess you can copy the existing sidecar and 
> just rename the for the export, but don't store the copy in your digikam 
> folder)
> 
> So, I am optimistic you will get it working with some trial.
> 
> Best regards
> Henrik
> 
> Den 2024-04-02 kl. 09:03, skrev Remco Viëtor:
>> On mardi 2 avril 2024 01:33:03 CEST Hal Marietta wrote:
>>> I need to copy some of my photos into Lightroom and discovered that the
>>> metadata doesn’t come across. Is there any way to export metadata for
>>> multiple photos from DigiKam so it will populate in Lightroom?
>>
>> Assuming those are raw images, you'll need to use sidecar files to 
>> even have a
>> chance to transfer metadata you added in Digikam. Exif metadata should 
>> be read
>> by lightroom, though (things like capture date, exposition parameters, 
>> ...;
>> those are stored in the raw files themselves)
>>
>> But writing the sidecars isn't enough, I think you'll have to rename 
>> them from
>> digikam's scheme ("<name>.<raw_ext>.xmp") to lightroom's scheme
>> ("<name>.xmp"). And of course do that before trying to import in 
>> lightroom.
>>
>> Even then, there's a chance lightroom won't understand the xml tags 
>> used by
>> digikam. That's not a bug in either program, but inherent in the way xml
>> works.
>>
>>
>>