Export iPhoto 5 keywords to Metadata

Since I no longuer have confidence in iPhoto I would like to export my photo's including the date and keywords in the metadata of the images.
Did somebody find a way to do that?

The only way I know of getting your keywords into the actual files is to use iView MediaPro and the following process that I worked out:
Steps to Move from a totally iPhoto Image Management System to an iViewMedia Pro System.
This method will permit you to bring over your image files, keywords, comments, rolls and album organization into a new folder system totally managed by iView Media Pro.
1 - Launch iView and create a new catalog file.
2 - Go into the Thumbnail size menu (the arrow at the far right on the top bar of the Thumbnail window and select the size of the thumbnail you want created. If you import at too small size then you’ll have to do a Rebuild Item to get them larger for viewing. It’s best to pick the largest size you think you’ll need. However the larger the thumbnail size the larger the catalog file size will be.
3 - Select the ”iView Media->Getting Started...” menu and the Import iPhoto Library option.
4 - iView will open iPhoto and immediately begin importing the photos from the iPhoto Library folder in the Pictures folder. If you have multiple libraries it will catalog the last library opened.
4 - Once the importing is complete save the catalog.
5 - You will notice you will have Catalog Sets for each album in your iPhoto library. These do not get saved backto the original image file so create a category for each Set and drag the photos in the set onto the Category bar. This will assign that Category to the picture. Do a Save.
6 - Now select all the photos in the catalog and select the Action->Sync Annotations menu item. In the next window click on the “Export annotations to original files option”. When complete do another Save.
The next steps are designed to copy the photos out of the iPhoto Library folder into a folder system that is similar to what you see in iPhoto, i.e. a new folder for each roll.
7 - Open a roll and select all of the photos inside. (if you’ve edited any photos and want to export the originals instead of the edited version select the File->Revert to Original menu option beforename).
8 - Then select the Share->Export menu item. Click of the File Export tab and the Full -size images radio button.
9 - If you’ve changed any of the titles of the photos in iPhoto you should click on the Use Title radio button so your files will retain than name when exported.
10 - Export those files to a folder on the desktop that’s been named the same as the roll. Then place that roll where you ultimately will want to keep it. (I suggest you create a folder to contain all of the newly created folders and name it appropriately).
11 - repeat Step 10 for each roll in your library.
12 - Close iPhoto.
You now have all of your new “rolls” in a overall container folder.
The next steps are designed to create a new iView catalog file based on your new folder system.
12 - Open iView and create and save a new catalog file. Give it a appropriate name and save whereever you want to keep it permanently.
13 - Again make sure your thumbnail size is selected to the maximum size you think you’ll need.
14 - Drag the folder containing your “roll” folders into the new catalog’s thumbnail window and start the cataloging process. When it’s done do a Save.
You now have a catalog with the same keywords that you have in iPhoto and Categories representing the albums that you had in iPhoto.
Once you comfirm that you have all of your photos safely in the new folder system and catalog you can delete your iPhoto Library folder. If you need to create a book at sometime you can create a Category or Catalog Set just for that project and add photos to it. Then create a new iPhoto library just for that book and drag the photos from the thumbnail window of that Category or Catalog Set into the new library window. Now you can create the book unencoumbered by

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    From that point, Spotlight would refuse to search for files via keywords. That is, until I updated the photo. By select each photo and changing somthing about the photo, wether editing the photo, changing its star rating to something else and back again, or even adding keywords to the photo, even putting a comment of a blank space in for each photo, doing anything to the photo that would update the xml file would cause that entry to get updated and in turn allow the photo to be searchable by keyword via Spotlight.
    There are scripts available that can actually put the iPhoto keywords into the photo file iteself. The one I am using also needs to have GraphicConverter installed. This way I can search either through iPhoto or Adobe Bridge for the Photos that I want to use.
    PPC G4 1.4GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.2)   1GB RAM, 120GB HD x2, SuperDrive, 128MB ATI Graphics Card

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