Exporting metadata on multiple photos

[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.
> 
> 
>