[Originally posted by jimmyj352 on 2009-05-18 18:49:04-07]
Hi everyone! I am completely new to ExifTool and am amazed at how much this tool can really do!
That being said, it's become way over my head for what I want to do and am nervous to try it without a little bit of help... hopefully you can help get me started.
I have about 850 TIFF images of photos that I have scanned in. They are also in subfolders based on the event. I have gone through and tagged them with probably a good dozen or so tags on each file. I then used Picasa/Google Earth to add coordinate data to them. Now, what I would like to do is archive these off and instead have JPG files that I can more readily use (such as on websites, etc).
I used Irfanview to batch convert all the TIFF images to JPGs and kept the hierarchy and naming convention into a different root folder. Unfortunately, Irfanview can't convert IPTC tags to EXIF and so all the tags then get lost.
From what I read, ExifTool looks like THE way to go to be able to export out all tags from the TIFF files and then import them into the JPGs. Sounds good, but I can't seem to figure out the best way to do this - especially as a batch job. Please help!
Thanks!
-- Jim
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-05-18 22:40:31-07]
Hi Jim,
The command would look something like this:
exiftool -tagsfromfile TIFFDIR/%d%f.tiff -all:all .
First, "cd" to the JPEG directory, then run this command.
You should try this in a test directory first to make
sure everything is working correctly.
Have fun!
- Phil
[Originally posted by jimmyj352 on 2009-05-19 01:37:58-07]
Phil, thanks for the quick response and the AWESOME advice!!! Worked like a champ!! Thanks so much!!
-- Jim