On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Dr. Georg Troska <georg.tro...@uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I finally managed to move from iPhoto to darktable by using the software > "phoshare" on the mac and a lot of bash-programming on linux. Now I'm > starting to use darktable and see how powerful it is. Already now I think, > moving was the correct choice. > > Still a few questions: ...
> 3. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to recover the modifications I did to the > pictures. Luckily I didn't do much, as iPhotos feasibilty is very limited, > but.... Especially, I set thousands of geotags in the picutures manually, > which I would like to keep. I think I would be able with some scriping magic > to read in this information from iPhoto. Is there an easy way to tell > darktable "please use these geotags for these pictures"? E.g. I saw one can > provide a file with the exif_date and the geotag and darktable will set the > geotag to the corresponding picture. So is it possible to do this on a > larger set of picture (lets say 30k??) How should the fileformat look like? I would try to save them to GPX, and then just apply it using https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch02s03s09.html.php > 4. I didn't found a possibility in darktable to set a geotag manually. There > is only the workaround with the mentioned file. Is there something going on > into this direction? https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch05.html.php > 5. I'm missing a possibiliy to move one picture forward and backward in the > darkroom. Using the mouse on the lower part is very slow. Is there a > keyboard shortcut? space/backspace > Thanks a lot in advance > > Georg Roman. > Am 21.12.2016 um 21:38 schrieb Georg Troska: > > Hello to everybody, > > thank you very much for the very quick answers. > > > I think the idea with the xmp-files is brilliant. When started googleing I > found this: > > https://gist.github.com/lpar/2191225 > > What do you think about it? Has somebody tried it out? Is is compatible to > darktable? > > I'm a bit afraid to let is run overy my whole library without fully > understanding what it does. maybe I create a copy first :-) > > > Georg > > > On 21.12.2016 21:27, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2016, 21:17:44 CET schrieb Georg Troska: > > Hello Hanatos, > > Not hanatos, but hi nevertheless. :-) > > > I already tried my first importing on the dataset of the last year: > > > in iPhoto my photos are stored on a yearly basis followed by a daily > > basis (e.g. 2016/31.10.2016/00001.NEF). > > > So when I am importing the folder 2016 recursively I will get as many > > filmrolls as there are folders in 2016 with the names of the folders. It > > would be very nice if the dates would be replaced by the names that I > > used in iPhoto. In iPhoto these names are stored in a sqlite3 database. > > I think when I would write a small programm I could receive the names > > per folder from that database. But how do I tell darktable "please > > import this folder and use this name"or "please import this folder use > > this name and use this geo-location" > > [...] > > > When I'm calling darktable using a folder as parameter you say it will > > import this folder. What will be the name of the filmroll? Can I set it > > manually? > > For all intents and purposes "filmroll" is just a fancy name for "folder". > More > > precisely the last level of the hierarchy. So in order to have the filmrolls > > named after the descriptions from iPhoto you have to rename the folders > > accordingly. If you want to take over metadata like georeferencing I would > > create an XMP file for the images before importing them with the data from > your > > sqlite db. Tools like "exiv2" and probably also "exiftool" should be able to > > create such sidecar files for you. > > > Georg > > Tobias > > > [...] > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
