Hi Phil,
I would greatly appreciate verification of the correctness of this command. I am copying keywords from jpegs back to original dngs (I know, doesn't make sense, but go with it). Two folders, same contents per se with same names, different file types
exiftool -tagsfromfile "c:/source-folder/jpg/%f.jpg" -IPTC:Keywords -ext dng "c:/destination-folder/dng"
Thank you,
Brett
I ran this from the command line on a test of two files
exiftool -tagsfromfile "c:/tiff/%f.tif" -iptc:keywords -ext dng "e:/dng/"
and it said "2 images updated" but when I looked at the dngs in Lightroom (I brought them in fresh) nothing had changed
dirs
source - c:/tiff/files-here.tif
dest - e:/dng/files-here.dng
Hi Brett,
Command seems to be fine.. after executing, did you look into DNG with ExifTool (to see, if keywords are there)?
I don't use LR, but as far I know, to make changes in LR visible, you need to "re-import" metadata from files.
Bogdan
Thanks Bogdan, with DNG the IPTC is written directly into the file, and all one can do is import the DNG into Lightroom. You can't re-import the metadata per se with DNG, it just comes along with the file (I am importing the files that were updated by ExifTool "fresh" - they were not in the LR catalog prior).
apparently I'm wrong because the kw do show in exiftool. LR should not be behaving this way. If you bring in a brand new DNG, which is what I'm doing - whatever KW it has should show up. I don't get it.
Working now after just doing the same thing over and over,nothing different, not sure what's going on. Ugh, technology. Thanks for the help
Hi Brett,
Try using XMP:Subject instead of IPTC:Keywords. The Adobe products have a tendency to ignore IPTC.
Or better yet, use ExifTool's MWG feature and write MWG:Keywords. See the MWG Tags documentation (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/MWG.html) for an explanation.
- Phil