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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: jljonathan on March 19, 2012, 03:02:17 pm

Title: Should I save metadata to image files before converting catalog to LR4?
Post by: jljonathan on March 19, 2012, 03:02:17 pm

Is there any reason why I should do a save metadata to my files (jpeg,dng,tiff) before converting the catalog to LR4?

Title: Re: Should I save metadata to image files before converting catalog to LR4?
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on March 19, 2012, 03:42:34 pm

Quote from: jljonathan on March 19, 2012, 03:02:17 pm

Is there any reason why I should do a save metadata to my files (jpeg,dng,tiff) before converting the catalog to LR4?

None that occurs to me. Just open the existing catalogue: LR4 will make a copy (with "-2" appended to the name) and convert it to its own format. The original remains untouched.

Jeremy

Title: Re: Should I save metadata to image files before converting catalog to LR4?
Post by: wolfnowl on March 20, 2012, 02:00:25 am

Completely up to you, but as Jeremy said, LR$ will create a new catalog, leaving your LR3.x catalog untouched, and it will read the metadata from the 3.x catalog, the files, or both, so as long as you have the metadata in the catalog you'll be fine.

Mike.

Title: Re: Should I save metadata to image files before converting catalog to LR4?
Post by: digitaldog on March 20, 2012, 10:50:29 am

Not a bad idea!