[Andreas Yankopolus]

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…

[Andreas Yankopolus]

I see the start ratings for DNG files in Preview. The Preview Inspector pane doesn’t show much for HEICs.

Looking in the finder:

% exiftool -Xmp:Rating 2025-04-28-0001.heic
Rating : 1

% exiftool -Xmp:Rating 2025-04-30-0048.dng
Rating : 1

In both cases I’m not getting the files to show up with a star in Nitro.

[Andreas Yankopolus]

Thanks in advance!

[Andreas Yankopolus]

I’m 100% fine with that risk. I’ve never one in my life shot R+J, and using filename.XMP would give seamless integration with cataloging apps, which is particularly important during batch renaming.

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