Keywords applied from Bridge

I have many Parent/Child keywords set up in Bridge and applied to DNGs. When I import the DNGs into LR The first folder imported creates the correct Parent/Child setup in LR for as many of those at are include in that folder. Any subsequent import makes all keywords from imported images appear as Parents not respecting their place as Children (obnoxious kids?). I tried exporting the keywords from Bridge and importing them into LR but all imported images/keywords still show as Parents ignoring the keyword tags. Is there any way for LR to respect the Parent/Child setup I made in Bridge?
John

Thanks. I searched but never found that message. I looked at my files in Bridge and I do not have that extra line of code. I also did another test where I started from scratch using the keywords imported into LR from Bridge. The first import put the keywords in the right Child place. The 2nd import started putting all Children as Parents using the same keyword as the Child already there.
John

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Thanks for getting back. The only reason I tried to do it via Bridge is
that I was having a problem getting a keyword applied to a bunch of
selected photos. I then discovered that I had to "sync" once I selected the
group, and that actually did the job. I presume that is the correct way of
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I downloaded the trial version of Aperture and have now imported RAW files (Canon 20D) with keywords and IPTC data applied via Bridge.
The import of the RAW files was no problem however the files lacked the keywords and IPTC data, which I applied in Bridge.
I also tried to import JEPG files and here Aperture could show me keywords and IPTC data.
Why does this not work for RAW files? What do I have to do in order to get it to work?
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When you add metadata (keywords etc.) to most proprietary raw formats (including Canon .CR2 files), Bridge doesn’t know how to embed that data in to the file—Canon and other manufacturers haven’t told Adobe (or anyone else) what the structure of these raw files is and how metadata can be stored within the file itself. Therefore, Bridge creates a ‘sidecar’ file to go with the raw file: the sidecar file sits alongside the raw file, with the same filename and a .xmp extension. This sidecar file contains any metadata you may have applied, as well as adjustments you have made in Adobe Camera Raw.
Unfortunately, Aperture doesn’t read these sidecar files when importing raw files, so you lose any adjustments from ACR (not surprising, since Aperture is obviously a different raw converter to ACR so the adjustments would be different anwyay), but also you lose any metadata you may carefully have applied.
There may be an answer, however. But it’ll cost. That would be to use iView Media Pro (which has recently been bought by Microsoft, but a Mac version still exists). There is a 21-day free trial for iVMP—since my suggestion is to use it as a temporary conduit for importing all your existing raw files into Aperture, you won’t necessarily have to pay the £129 GBP asking price for iVMP (others can debate the morality of that statement, however; fortunately I already owned iVMP and so didn’t have to worry about such things). I believe iVMP can read the XMP sidecar files created by Bridge. Create a new iVMP catalogue with all your raw files which you want to move into Aperture. It should bring all your existing metadata into the iVMP catalogue as well.
Then, import all the raw files into Aperture. As you have found, they’ll be without any metadata. As long as the filenames are the same in both the iVMP catalogue and the Aperture library, you can use Adam Tow’s application Annoture to transfer metadata from the iVMP catalogue into the Aperture library.
Sort of circuitous, but possible. If only Aperture read the metadata from those sidecar files, eh? If I’m wrong in thinking that iVMP imports the XMP metadata, then what you can do is get Bridge to convert all your .CR2 raw files into .DNG files. If you don’t know about DNG, read about it at Adobe. But briefly, Bridge is able to embed its metadata into the DNG files and iVMP is able to read that embedded metadata when importing DNG files into the catalogue. I know that for certain: I used iVMP and DNG files (from my own 20D) before using Aperture; when I started using Aperture (which I love, now) I used Annoture to transfer all my metadata from iVMP into Aperture.
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I have a .mrw image that I use Bridge CS3 to add four keywords a,b,c,d. When I view them in Bridge it shows the four keywords checked. I looked at the XMP file with wordpad and see them there as well. When I import the xmp file under Lightroom only keywords a,b & c are shown. I looked at the .xmp file in the imported file location for light room and the d keyword is missing from it as well. I tried this using a .nef image from my nikon and it doesn't seem to have the problem
Has anyone seen this problem before? Any work around?

I've done some more investigation on the problem I've described above. In the xmp for the image I have a keyword written by bridge of "Sandy" with the upper case "S". In the lighroom keyword list I already had "sandy" with the "s" being lower case. The import of the "Sandy" keyword in the xmp file of my image failed. If I removed "sandy" or renamed it "Sandy" in the Lightroom list then "Sandy" imported fine. If I tried adding "Sandy" in addition to "sandy" in the lightroom list I got an error saying that the keyword existed and the add failed. From that test it appears that within Lightroom "Sandy" and "sandy" are the same keyword, but coming in on an import they aren't.
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I have a very detailed keyword tree that I use in Bridge. This tree is organized in a hierarchical manner, and some of the keywords have synonyms or in case of taxonomy, common and latin names separeted by " ;"
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Changing the keyword list only will not fix it because I have thousands of images with these keywords already, and it would be impossible to redo them all.
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Thanks

Thank you, Michael!
Let me elaborate a little more.
Here is a little part of my keyword tree from a txt file
taxonomy; Species
               Animal
                              Invertebrates
                                             annelida; segmented worms
                                                            earthworms
                                                            leeches
                                                            marine worms
                                             arthropod
                                                            arachnid
                                                                           scorpion; scorpions
                                                                           spider; spiders
                                                            centipede; centipedes; chilopoda
                       crustaceans
                                                                           crab; crabs
                                                                                          porcelain crab; porcellanidae
                                                                           lobster; lobters
                                                                           mantis shrimp; odontodactylidae
                                                                                          peacock mantis; odontodactylidae scyllarus
                                                                           shrimp; shrimps
                                                                                          boxer shrimp; stenopodidae
                                                                                          broken back shrimp; hippolytidae
                                                                                          commensal shrimp; palaemonidae
                                                                                          harlequim shrimp; hymenocera elegans
                                snapping shrimp; alpheidae
1) The reason I need an organized keyword list is for stock photography and for search engine.
2) I usually include all the keywords in the tree manually, because I don;t want to top parent to show in the photo keyword as it is just for organizational purposes.
3) LR is including the keyword and all the parents, that's making a lot of duplication. This is an option on Bridge and I imagine it is also in LR, but I couldn't find it.
How the photo info looks on Bridge:
Animal; aquatic; marine; calf; Central America; Central American; Caribbean; cetaceans; cetacea; conservation; diving; dive; Dominica; female; juvenile; Mammal; mammalia; mammals; Nature; nature reserve; ocean; sea; pod; Sperm whale; shyster macrocephalus; tropical; tropics; Underwater; vertebrates; whale; whales; Wide Angle; Wildlife
The same photo info in LR:
Animal, aquatic, aquatic; marine, calf, Caribbean, Central America, Central America; Central American; Caribbean, Central American, cetacea, cetaceans, cetaceans; cetacea, conservation, dive, diving, diving; dive, Dominica < Central America; Central American; Caribbean, female, juvenile, Mammal, Mammal; mammalia; mammals, mammalia, mammals, marine, Nature < Style, nature reserve, ocean, ocean; sea, pod, sea, shyster macrocephalus, Sperm whale, Sperm whale; physeter macrocephalus, Sperm whale; shyster macrocephalus, tropical, tropical; tropics, tropics, Underwater < Style, vertebrates, whale, whale; whales, whales, Wide Angle, Wildlife
4) It's not a problem that the keywords are being split up, the issue is that LR is splitting up the keyword list.
This is the Keyword list view as it is in Bridge
As you can see, it still have my tree, but is also including all the words as a separate keyword and I only imported 2 folders so far!
5) In LR there's the concept of Synonimys that is actually more appropriate then using different words for the same item. Is there any way I can get my whole list and redo it using LR synonimys concept?
6) If I do that, how to fix all the photos that I alredy have keyworded?
You suggested to not import the keyword list, but only the images already with the keywords, but than how I will organize the new images?
Sorry for the very long explanation

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Greetings
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Hello Curt
Thank you for your reply.
This Keyword system was working earlier, that is I could shut off the computer and come back to open Bridge and the keywords were there.
As you suggested the keyword did come up in Italics as I began working with them a few days ago, because someone had responded to an old Thread of mine from this site from almost a year ago. Initially there were coming up as persistent in normal font face.
I followed your suggestion with a smaller batch of Keywords, then shut down the computer and, and they were present when the program came back up.
So Thanks, that works.
This will get me back on the right track again with Keywords.
I have no idea what iniciated a change of from persistent keywords to loosing them all in the past. But at least cognitively, I now have a clear process for getting them to show up again on start.
Thanks again for your reply.

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