File data for scanned film and slides

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I have thousands of scanned images (film, slide, and a small amount of print) that I need to catalog. When I scanned them in I put them in folders by year, and film type. I have access to LR, and use Aperture on an OSX machine.

What is the best way to tag the images with year, film type, location, etc.?

Preferably on OSX, but if not I can use a W7 PC.
 
I downloaded a program called FilmTagger a while ago, but the website it came from seems to have disappeared. Maybe someone with a bit more google-fu than I have can source somewhere it's still available from - iirc there was a mac version as well as the windows version i've got. If not drop me a PM and I'll see if I've got a copy of the .zip file
 
There's no hard and fast rules for tagging, the best way is the way that works best for you.

I use LR to tag when importing into the catalogue using tgs that cover all the shots such as year, film type, camera (if I can remember), event, subject if it applies to all the shots, then I add separate tags as I go through the shots in LR as I'm assessing them. Also all my scans are already split fairly generically in to folders for years/month/subject/film type/ before I import.
 
If you already have access to LR then I don't really understand why you'd need a separate tagging/cataloguing tool, that's essentially half of what lightroom is, with the other half being a skin for ACR
 
Access to LR means just that, and not that I'm familiar with it. I'd rather have something on my own computer. Thanks to Mark for FilmTagger. It seems to offer what I need but I've ran into a few errors:

Filmtagger error: cannot parse camera data

The data shows an Epson scanner in the scanned TIF file, and though I tried adding it with FT (overwrite) that produced the same error.

The data are; Epson, PerfectionV700

Filmtagger error: ...not a validated TIF file

Not sure about this one - it came up when I tried to tag files in a different directory.

All files are TIF - scanned with a V750.

I have the scans organized by year (some were done on a Nikon Coolscan), and wanted to add film type, and ISO info.
 
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