Now what’s pretty cool is can do:
% exiftool 2025-04-28-0001_heic.xmp -Xmp:Rating=1
Nitro immediately shows a star for the image. I can change it to two stars in Nitro and do:
% exiftool 2025-04-28-0001_heic.xmp -xmp:Rating
Rating : 1
Unfortunately, DAM software expects to see “2025-04-28-0001.xmp” for “2025-04-28-0001.heic”, so I need to run a script that uses exiftool to sync ratings between the XMP info in the image file “2025-04-28-0001.heic” and the Nitro-unique sidecar “2025-04-28-0001_heic.xmp”.
I remember the halcyon days of Aperture seamlessly handling everything…