Importing photos from ZoomBrowser into iPhoto without losing keywords and star ratings

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Importing photos from ZoomBrowser into iPhoto without losing keywords and star ratings

I have been using Canon's ZoomBrowser EX on my Windows Vista laptop. I have just bought a MacBook Air running Lion. I would like to import all of my photos to iPhoto, but when I do this I lose all of the keywords and star ratings I have associated with my many photos. Is there any way to import the photos into iPhoto while retaining the keywords and star ratings so that I can use them in iPhoto? Doing this manually would be impractical due to the large number of photos involved.

Thanks.

- Charlie

iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Aug 27, 2011 8:08 PM

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Yer_Man

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Aug 28, 2011 12:10 AM in response to Charlie_T

Keywords:

Iphoto can certainly import them if they are written to the correct fields of the standard metadata. They key question is can your Windows app write them to the files?

Ratings

There's no real way to share ratings via standard metadata, but if you can write the keywods, then you can quickly tag the pics with simple keywords (1star, 2star) and when imported to iPhoto recreate your rating system.

So, the question is really about your existing software and what it can do.

Regards

TD

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