Hi guys,

Do any of you know if there is some software or easy way of transferring metadata from one batch of images to another?

So let's say you have 50 different JPEG images with titles, description and keywords. You want to transfer this to a set of 50 TIFF images.

Of course I know it's possible to easy sync or write metadata to a large batch - but the challenge here is that the metadata of every image is unique.

I hope you understand my question!

Kind regards,
Jacob

Do the TIFFS and the JPEGs have the same file names - and only the file extension is different ? Eg - imageAA.jpg and imageAA.tif want the same metadata.

If there is a reliable relationship between the naming then copying the metadata transfer can be scripted - ie it can be done programatically. By looping through the list of JPEGs and, for each one, copying the metadata to the TIFF with the same name. Exiftool is the very best software for metadata manipulation. And is ideal for scripting like this.

I would caution again using Lightroom for keywords - since it will mess up the order - it still insists on alphabetical order.

imagesbykenny: Of course that makes sense - but it's not the solution for my workflow. The thing is that I'm outsourcing the keywording process. We have challenges with sending big amounts of data so I need to send low-res jpegs for the person keywording. These needs to be transferred to the high-res JPEG afterwards.

bunhill: Thanks. Filenames will be the same. Are you able to write scripts like this?

@ammentorp:

I think that what skyfish is saying is that ExifTool may be able to do this for you without the need for the additional clunky scripting which I was proposing as a possibility. And I think that is true. The key to this may be -tagsFromfile

I am very new to ExifTool. But there is a forum here where the author of the software and other experts answer questions like yours. That is probably going to be your best resource I think.

At this point it would take me as long as you to work out exactly how to do this. But it is do-able. Very interested to know how you get on.

I really appreciate your help - but this ExifTool software is not the most user friendly! 

I think I'll try to find a software developer to help me out.. 

Quote from: ammentorp on March 20, 2015, 05:46

I really appreciate your help - but this ExifTool software is not the most user friendly! 

I think I'll try to find a software developer to help me out.. 

I can understand you wanting to get someone in. But I would strongly advise you task them with building their solution around ExifTools. The guy behind ExifTools knows everything there is to know about metadata. And metadata is lots of different formats and encodings which is why compatibility is often an issue. You don't want to be paying someone to pointlessly re-invent the wheel and not do it as good.

The person asking this question is trying to do almost the same as you and gets to the solution very quickly.

Awesome. Thank you. I'll save this and I'll update you if I find a more user friendly solution (something I can handle).. 

A guy from the Stocksy forums helped me on this one. There was actually a plugin for Lightroom made for this specific problem.
http://photographers-toolbox.com/products/jbeardsworth/syncomatic/

Problem solved! 

That looks like a very good solution. Thanks for sharing it.