[Digikam-users] Lightroom Integration: how?

[Paul Waldo]

Hi Gilles,

I use CRW, but the only option I see to write metadata is Tools|Write Metadata To All Images.  Will this create sidecars for all my images?

Paul
----- "Gilles Caulier" <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you use CR2, Exiv2 cannot write metadata into this file format. a
> sidecar must be used instead
> 
> Gilles
> 
> 2009/8/19 Paul Waldo <paul at waldoware.com>:
> >
> > ----- "Mikolaj Machowski" <mikmach at wp.pl> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tuesday 18 August 2009 18:23:49 Paul Waldo wrote:
> >> >
> >> > OK, no wonder I could not find out how to export the data!  So,
> >> there is no
> >> >  way currently to export the tags from my Canon Digital Rebel
> and
> >> Canon
> >> >  Powershot G1 raw files into Lightroom, right?
> >>
> >> Theoretically there is a way. Use digiKam to write all necessary
> >> metadata to
> >> RAW files and later use exiv2 command line tool to extract this
> >> metadata to
> >> sidecar files and later import files separately into LR.
> >>
> >> m.
> >
> > Hi Mikolaj,
> >
> > So this would involve modifying the raw files themselves?  That is
> very scary for me... :-)
> >
> > Paul
> >
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