NEED HELP GETTING STARTED! - Blinded by the endless possibilities!

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[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

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[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

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[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