Switching from IPhoto to Aperture: will changes/metadata be transferred?

I have spent a lot of time editing, adding titles and the correct dates to more than 25.000 old pictures that I had scanned/digitalised. These, obviously, did not have the correct date but the date when they were digitalised. I did this in IPhoto by using 'batch change'. Now am I stuck to IPhoto forever or will all these changes be transferred if I switch to Aperture for instance? Or will Aperture or any other Photo-application only work with the original that a Mac always keeps?

If I wanted to keep them within iphoto - but to write the faces & places tags right into the Jpeg metadata - I could export and re-import to iphoto ?
Seems like a laborious and space and time consuming way to get faces and places tags written to the underlying jpegs!
Any other options ?

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