Copy EXIF from RAW to JPEG leaving RAW un-touched.

[Zoltran]

Hello

I'm attempting to extract Jpegs from my ORF Raw files along with their EXIF data.
I want to leave the source ORF RAW files un-touched. 
 
I first extract the jpegs from the raw using "-preview:Previewimage". 
This works well but the jpegs do not have any EXIF at all.(As expected).   

I'm trying to copy the EXIF over using "-tagsfromfile".   
I'd like to leave the original ORF alone..un-touched and update only the above extracted jpegs.
So far, all I can do is have exiftool copy/preserve both the ORF and Jpeg with the 'original' added to the file name... OR update/touch BOTH the ORF and Jpeg.     
Currently using ...

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exiftool -overwrite_original -tagsfromfile *.ORF -exif:all *.jpg
With this, I have the JPEG with EXIF, but the ORF has also been modified (Copied??) and has the current date.  How do I only update/touch the JPEG ?

Also .. which tagsfromfile argument would copy both EXIF and GPS data?

Also-2 ... Is there a way to extract the previews and associated exif data in one command? 

WS

[Zoltran]

Further to the above. 

As noted, -tagsfromfile creates a copy of the ORF file.   This ORF file doesn't appear to have any Preview left in it.   For example, ... only the Thumbnail is present now. 

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wes@Wess-MacBook-Pro test2 % exiftool -preview:all .     
======== ./Churchill-Day1-Wes-8260062.jpg
Thumbnail Image                 : (Binary data 7887 bytes, use -b option to extract)


[StarGeek]

You can't use a wildcard as the source in the -TagsFromFile option.  From the docs
     advanced batch use, the source file name may also be specified using a FMT string in which %d, %f and %e represent the directory, file name and extension of FILE.

Assuming the jpgs and ORFs are in the same directory, you would use %d%f.orf.

Additionally, you want to exclude the source file type so you don't copy the ORF file data back into itself. You would use the -ext (-extension) option, either to process only jpgs or exclude ORFs, i.e -ext jpg or --ext orf.  Also see Common Mistake #2 for possible problems using wild cards.  It's better to give the directory name and use the -ext option. Especially if you need to recurse into subdirectories.  For the current directory, you would use a dot .

exiftool -overwrite_original -ext jpg -tagsfromfile %d%f.ORF -exif:all .

Also .. which tagsfromfile argument would copy both EXIF and GPS data?

Not counting the XMP GPS tags, the standard location for GPS data is in the EXIF block, so copying the EXIF will copy the GPS data.

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C:\>exiftool -G1 -a -s -e -gps* y:\!temp\Test3.jpg y:\!temp\Test4.jpg
======== y:/!temp/Test3.jpg
[GPS]           GPSVersionID                    : 2.3.0.0
[GPS]           GPSLatitudeRef                  : North
[GPS]           GPSLatitude                     : 40 deg 41' 21.12"
[GPS]           GPSLongitudeRef                 : West
[GPS]           GPSLongitude                    : 74 deg 2' 40.20"
======== y:/!temp/Test4.jpg
    2 image files read

C:\>exiftool -P -overwrite_original -TagsFromFile y:\!temp\Test3.jpg -EXIF:All y:\!temp\Test4.jpg
    1 image files updated

C:\>exiftool -G1 -a -s -e -gps* y:\!temp\Test4.jpg
[GPS]           GPSVersionID                    : 2.3.0.0
[GPS]           GPSLatitudeRef                  : North
[GPS]           GPSLatitude                     : 40 deg 41' 21.12"
[GPS]           GPSLongitudeRef                 : West
[GPS]           GPSLongitude                    : 74 deg 2' 40.20"

Also-2 ... Is there a way to extract the previews and associated exif data in one command?

Sort of but not really.  You can combine the two separate commands using the -execute option but there really isn't any advantage to doing so.  Exiftool will still have to make two passes over the directory, once to extract the images and then once to copy the EXIF.

[Zoltran]

Thank you StarGeek for a very informative reply.
Works like a charm.
WS

[Zoltran]

Hello StarGeek
I'm struggling a bit with the file tags. 
The below cmd works great when the RAW and extracted preview JPEGS are in the same folder.
What would I modify if the RAW ORF was in 'DIR'. And the jpegs were in subfolder "DIR\JPEGS" ?

exiftool -overwrite_original -ext jpg -tagsfromfile %d%f.ORF -exif:all .

Thanks in advance

[StarGeek]

The %d stands for the directory of the file currently being processed.  See the -w (-TextOut) option for details.  You can replace it with the correct directory if the files are in a completely different directory or add to it if it's in a subdirectory.

You are using a dot . as your directory.  That is the path that will be used where the %d is used and it includes a trailing slash. So if your files is File1.jpg in the current directory . then %d%f will be replaced by .\File1

To use a completely different directory, you would replace the %d with that values. For example
-tagsfromfile c:\some\other\directory\%f.ORF

If your files you are copying from are in a subdirectory, then you would add that after the %d.  This would look for the ORF files in .\RAWS\
-tagsfromfile %dRAWS\%f.ORF

[Zoltran]

I think my use case is slightly different
My ORF files are in the .\ directory and the jpeg I want to update are in .\jpegs   
I'me confused which part of the command string is referencing the target files vs source. 

WS

[StarGeek]

You would process the jpegs directory and copy from source

If you cd to the jpeg directory, you would use %d../ The ../ stands for the parent directory

If you CD to the jpeg directory
-tagsfromfile %d../%f.ORF -exif:all .

Or if you CD to the ORF directory
-tagsfromfile %d../%f.ORF -exif:all ./jpeg/

The %d is always the directory path of the file that is being edited (unless you're using the -srcfile option, which is a whole other subject).