[Digikam-users] Copying metadata from one image to another?

[Elle Stone]

Forgot to mention - the example command is for copying metadata over
for a bunch of images. It's easy enough to modify to use on just one
image at a time. But make sure you test before you use exiftool. It is
fast, powerful, and will do exactly what you ask, so you need to know
how to ask for exactly what you want. Else you can just as easily
erase all your metadata, as copy it to another image file.

And the sample command assumes you've written the metadata out to the
starting/source file. So probably it won't work for you at all unless
you allow digiKam to write to your raw files. I don't allow digiKam to
write to my raw files, which is why I use a jpeg "sidecar". But
exiftool does also copy from xml sidecar to other files, too.

On 8/14/12, Elle Stone <l.elle.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can use exiftool. I give an example of using exiftool to copy
> digiKam metadata from a jpeg "pseudo-sidecar" over to the
> corresponding raw file (in this case, an old Minolta d7 camera "mrw";
> a canon would be "cr2", etc) here:
> http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/exiftool-commands.html#jpeg-to-raw
> The command should be easy enough to modify to copy from raw file to
> converted image.
>
>
> On 8/13/12, Milan Zamazal <pdm at zamazal.org> wrote:
>> I use digiKam 2.6.0 on Debian.
>>
>> I'd like to convert my raw images to another format using external tools
>> instead of digiKam tools (for reasons mentioned in my other post and to
>> make photo editing faster).  The problem is how to import metadata,
>> i.e. all metadata from the camera and metadata assigned by digiKam such
>> as captions and tags, from the raw images to the converted images.  I
>> couldn't find any (working) way to do it in digiKam.  Is it possible?
>>
>> If it is not possible using UI, something like direct database
>> manipulation would probably still helpful.
>>
>>
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