Hi, thanks for your reply and for the possible solution. To be honest: I have the images in my online gallery with titles and descriptions - which will be a copy/paste from there to Darktable. This might be faster than renaming/copying the sidecar files. Cheers Ralf
http://ralf-kerkhoff.de Am Samstag, den 12.03.2016, 12:41 +0100 schrieb Tobias Ellinghaus: > Am Freitag, 11. März 2016, 16:40:51 schrieb Ralf Kerkhoff: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > > I have just switched from Lightroom to Darktable - because I have > > migrated my system to Ubuntu. > > > > I have imported my images into Darktable which works fine - > > especially > > that some basic development settings are taken from the xmp file. > > > > What makes me wonder: > > The tags from the existing xmp file are available in Darktable - > > but > > not the title and description of the image. > > The reason is that our Lr import code is less than stellar. It > reimplements > some code we already have elsewhere without actually supporting all > the things > it copies. So most of the metadata that we normally read from XMP > files is > ignored. > If anyone wants to fix that: use the stuff from exif.cc in > lightroom.c. > > [...] > > > Is there a 'trick' to let Darktable read the title from the > > existing > > xmp ? > > Maybe I am doing something wrong? > > It's not you. If you don't need the Lightroom processing being > imported just > rename your XMP files to have the file extension in its name, for > example: > > IMG_0001.CR2 + IMG_0001.XMP -> IMG_0001.CR2.XMP > > Then the metadata, like title, gets read, but the Lightroom settings > aren't. > If you need both then you could try the following (make backups of > the XMP > files first): Copy the Lightroom XMP files to the dartable place, so > you have two > XMP files per image, one with the image file's extension in the > filename, one > without. Both files have the same content. Then import the images. > On import > the file in the darktable location will be read and the metadata > applied. Then > when you open the image for the first time the Lightroom XMP will be > read and > the settings will be imported. Then you can delete the Lightroom XMP > for that > image. The downside is that you have to open every image in darkroom > to have > its settings being applied. Or alternatively, export all images once. > 10x10 > pixels size is enough, with high quality export disabled in > preferences. That > should also makes darktable read the Lightroom XMP files. Thumbnails > need to be > regenerated but that's probably possible some way, too. > > Caveat: I only tried that in a limited test right now, I can't > promise that it > works reliably. So better check some random samples before deleting > the > Lightroom XMPs. > > > Cheers > > Ralf > > Tobias ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
