IPTC EXIF Core Transfer - LR Migration

I want to thank the guys that weighed on my last post regarding strategies for getting out of Aperture with my content.

Hard lesson learned. Without too much detail, here is what I'm slowly doing ( perhaps it might help others )

• Consilidate ALL my masters from different drives into one place.
• Go through every folder and CONVERT all color tags, flags, ratings into KEYWORDS
• Export a full JPG version from MASTER and export a full JPG version with my edits.
• Start slowly rebuilding my 'Aperture' Library on a dedicated hard drive.

The lesson here if it's not obvious, is NEVER let a program 'own' your RAW images, like I did in Aperture, Keep them pure and use programs like LR that 'look' to the files on a drive and just store metadata and edit stacks. Aperture will not give you back your RAW images, and exporting out to TIFFs will blow up any library of significant size.

I would be happy to hear any criticism or addendum of those going through the same migration.

One thing that I need clarity on - are ALL the 'info' fields in Aperture exported ( IPTC, EXIF, Large Caption, etc, etc ) along with the image ? I assume folks have already hammered this out going into LR ?

For what it's worth, I've been toying with LR the last few weeks. While it has some lackings in file management - it's a pretty amazing program. If you're a designed, the integration with Photoshop and smart exports is worth the pain alone.