Metadata from Lightroom to Bridge

Using Lightroom 3 to import images from SD card to Mac hard drive. Complete set of IPTC metadata entered as a preset in Lightroom, does not appear in Bridge. All the fields are blank. Would you please explain why this is happening, and pointme to instructions to do this correctly.

I believe you have to choose the option, "Write changes to XMP" to have that happen. For those files that you have already added the information, try highlighting them and pressing Ctrl(Cmd)/S.

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For all those out there wanting to export metadata from Lightroom to CSV, I have found a Fantastic Company www.pkzsoftware.com that sell their product for approx AUS $10.00 "Lightroom Metadata Explorer" it works perfectly and their customer service is just the best you will find anywhere, being a computer novice I had a few problems and they went out of their way to assist me to get exactly the data I needed. Can't speak highly enough of the Company.

John,
Thanks for your reply and the references to the tools. I ran the sqlLite Database Browser to look at the LR database, and to be honest it was pretty much gibberish to me. There's over 50 tables in the database and some quick browsing through them revealed data that would seem to require a knowledge of the database structure to extract. I'm a photographer with very good knowledge of how to use software tools to do my job, but I'm not a programmer and really don't have the time or the desire to become one.
My point is any good database software should have the capability to generate at least a flat file of the information contained within. In LR's case, I (and it seems others based on feature requests) would like to see a capability of exporting a CSV or tab-delimited file of the information contained in the side panels (i.e., keywords, the metadata browser, and the metadata panel for starters) on an image-by-image basis. I could then use the output in any of several other tools to do what I need.
Thanks again for your helpful links. Maybe someone can come up with a "CSV generator" using one of those tools that could be shared among LR users.

How Do I upload from Lightroom and Bridge to the Creative Cloud

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They said that their Creative Cloud Connection app would be ready in May/June, and here we are in October!
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How to import ratings/metadata from previous programs (Bridge, Lightroom)

With the new release of Aperture 3, I am considering make the switch from Lightroom. That being said, I have imported a few folders as tests and cannot figure out how to get Aperture to recognize star ratings that I have applied in Bridge (raw and jpg). Keywords and colors are also no shows. I feel like this shouldn't be a hard thing for a 3rd version of a professional program to do, especially if they are looking to attract new users, but am I missing something here? Thanks in advance.

You need to "save" everything from Lightroom to XMP sidecar files, and then Aperture should just import the files with keywords intact.
No adjustments, star ratings, or labels will transfer over. But otherwise it's not too difficult.. just ensure you've saved the data to the XMP sidecar files (command-S) or are storing the info in DNG files if you're using those.

Will the Keywords transfer from Lightroom to Bridge?

Will the Keywords transfer from Lightroom to Bridge

In LR once you add a keyword, have that thunbnail highlighted and (if on a Mac) hit the Command Key + the S key and it will send the info so it will be readable in Bridge. Or go to Metadata and click to send metadata to file. (I don't know the shortcut for a PC) I haven't done it with PSCC yet, but in CS6 I quite often had to close out Bridge and re-start it and the keywords showed up.
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JPG's from Lightroom vs Bridge... file size difference.

I'm a Photographer. I only shoot in RAW. I use CS2 and Bridge to process my RAW files and then export the finals to JPG.
I heard the buzz about Lightroom and downloaded the trial to give it a whirl. I have since upgraded my trial version to full version (via serial number) and then took a set of RAW files that were already tweaked (via Bridge/ACR), copied them to another folder (with the xmp side car files), brought them into Lightroom and exported them to JPG. The JPG's created by Lightroom were MUCH smaller. I was very surpised by this.
I shoot with a Canon 20D and the JPGs generated from Bridge ending up being between 4 to 6mg per image. For the same set of RAW images, the JPGs generated from Lightromm avereaged between 1.5 and 3.5 mg. Both Lightroom and Bridge were set to export the JPGs at the highest quality.
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Did you choose export metadata to file first? The edits made to RAW images are contained within the database as well as xmp files if you choose this option. The edits for all other formats are embedded within the file (as well as the database) but of course you have to choose the export metadata option first. Your files may be smaller because they don't contain this data.
The image quality settings are not like for like across the Adobe range so cannot be compared.

Can Premier Pro make use of caption and keyword metadata from Lightroom

I’m using Premier CS6 to create a slideshow with images from Lightroom. When I export from Lightroom, I have quite a bit of Metadata encoded into the image and I’m wondering if there is a way to see that metadata in Premier?
I’m probably dreaming but I’d love to be able to create a lower third, title template that would get its information from the Caption field in Lightroom.
Any other tips for using Lightroom and Premier together would be appreciated.

Whatever metadata is viewable in PP will be available in the metadata pane. However, titles cannot automatically 'grab' their data from any source. It has to be typed or copied in manually.

Saving metadata from Lightroom erases custom XMP data in DNG...

Hello,
There seems to be an issue with the way Lightroom applies changes in from the LR catalog to the assets metadata. The setup is LR 2.5 and there is an orginal set of images that have custom XMP data applied to them via Bridge. There is one LR catalog that points to these images and the LR catalog ratings and labels match those that are in these images. A second LR catalog copy (not export) was made where additional changes were made only to ratings and labels. This catalog also points to the original assets. When using the Save Metadata to files function in LR for this catalog (and selecting ALL files), LR erases all the original custom XMP data contained in the DNG images and writes only the ratings and label information.
It doesn't seem that LR should be overwriting the entire XMP packet when only ratings and labels have changed and are saved back to the assets. Is that the way this is designed or is this a malfunction?
Thanks for any help on this!
David

I may have answered my own question as we have run into this issue before. Lightroom is really not designed for any type of simultaneous workflow on the same files. Most content management applications utilize the check-in/check-out mechanism to avoid having to perform any type of merging or implement a logical business rule to determine which content updates "win" It is no different with Bridge and LR. You work in one application at a time doing specific things to the same files and then read from each other when those actions are complete. Working in this manner you never run into the merge issue or lose data from either side.
Our simple answer to this question is adjust our workflow timing for things to accommodate this behavior. The one thing that I will say is that LR does really need to provide some type of catalog history functionality that can be queried. I believe that LR does interact with the catalog database in this manner when you use the Save functionality from the context menu and have not imagery selected. It scans the database looking for any changes and then only updates those files it finds changes for. If we could only see this type of functionality added in a way that would show us history for changes to the catalog at large and not have to dig into individual assets to look for these changes that would be great.
We are going to look at a way to query the LR database itself to see if there isn't some time stamp information and file ID/filename data that can't be accessed as it would be invaluable to be able to look across large catalogs (well over 1000 images) and find the files that had been most recently updated (in updated I mean only simple updates to rating and label) and then separate these out to work with in their own group (collection).
I could also look at this as yet another opportunity to refine a workflow that doesn't create changes to identical data each time changes are incurred. I will look at that option much more closely as it is really the only thing we can easily control.
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Hello. I have W7 64 bit, CS5 with ACR6.1 and LR 2.7. My Leica camera captures as DNG natively. I use 'Convert to DNG' to import in order to take advantage of the lossless compression. I understand that the sidecar XMP files are not applicable and that the metadata is written into the DNG header. That is fine by me, it should ensure that the metadata is always with my DNGs but I'm unsure how it affects the validity of any instructions I have found so far.
Currently I am using both ACR and LR to develop files in order to take advantage of the new features and processing until I can get LR3.
I want to synchronise develop settings. I have learnt how to updated the metadata for files developed in ACR6.1 when I open them in LR2.7 but I cannot work out how to make the LR develop settings visible when I open the files in Bridge.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have been unable to find the information in any of the forums or Help thus far.
I'm also unsure if this is the best forum to post this, but didn't want to cross post. If I'm best to post to another forum please excuse me and any suggestions would be most welcome.

Hi Curt. Thank you. Yes Lightroom has several options for that in its metadata menu as well as a preference to automatically write changes into XMP. However when I make an edit to a DNG in LR, I am not seeing the changes when I preview the DNG in Bridge (or open it from there in ACR). I guess that I am looking for exactly that kind of menu option or preference in Bridge.
I have ignore XMP sidecar files UNCHECKED in DNG handling and Update embedded JPEG previews checked in Camera Raw preferences.
It's confusing also because DNG files don't actually have sidecar files for XMP (it goes in the header inside the file instead) but the other option is store in Camera Raw database. That sounds less right than the other!

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I've edited lots of photos in raw in Lightroom (Rated / cropped / adjustments etc.) When viewed in Bridge, the editing does not appear in some cases. The metadata is held in xml files, I can see them. I have even ticked the 'Save metadata to file option'. Clearly I'm doing something wrong, but it is clearly frustrating as the results are inconsistent!

The presence of XMP files does not guarantee that the metadata is up to date.
I would resave metadata to file and see whether this fixes the problem.
All develop edits writen to XMP files should be fully interpretable by ACR and Bridge.
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Thanks for the suggestion Sean, I'll give that a try. I'll also run a test by simply trashing the old sidecar files. That may be the path of least resistance.
I hate to go back to Bridge especially after spending the last year using Photo Mechanic, which I still use in my assignment workflow. For editing, ranking and renaming it's head and shoulders above Bridge but it's weakness is that it can't make customized web galleries and it's not a RAW converter either. It does make galleries but they lack even the most basic HTML customizable features without serious coding. That said, Photo Mechanic's ability to embed metadata is fantastic. You can even embed the unique file name of each image as a keyword. If you've ever been handed back one of your own images by a client after they remove the file name and spent time searching for it you'll begin to appreciate being able to go to the metadata and just get the file name in the keyword field.
I'm using Lightroom only to make web galleries for my stock site and it's very important to me that copyright info gets embedded into each image. Keywords would be helpful too but that's not a deal breaker.
So far Lightroom has been fantastic as a batch processing tool but I'm amazed at how difficult it is with metadata. If metadata can't reliably be entered and saved in files then what good is it? The thing that bothers me the most is that it looks as if it's totally stripped out in the gallery process which is unspeakably awful.
I hope that the answer is that I'm doing something wrong in my processing and that it's easily fixable.

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The labels in Lightroom over-ride those in Bridge and vice versa. I have matched the descriptions of the coloured Labels between Lightroom 2.0 and Bridge, yet when I assign eg. a Green Label in Lighroom and then open Bridge, the Label appears White. If I select those White Labels in Bridge and make them Green, then return to Lightroom and Sync the folder, those formerly Green Labels are converted to White.
Same thing happens with the Reject Flag in Lightroom. It appears as a White Label in Bridge, which I can understand and wouldn't be a problem, were it not for other Coloured Labels in Lightroom displaying as White in Bridge.
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I think you have to assign the exact same name to what the colors represent in both Bridge preferences and in Lightroom preferences.
I don't even remember what the default names Adobe assigns to each of them. I changed the words to the right of the Label colors to read "Red", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", etc.
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I would like to export the metadata in a lightroom database to a flat file or Excel sheet. Is this possible? I'm using lightroom on a PC.

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Thank you for your answer. It is useful.
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