Batch convert .tif images to .heic images (with preserving EXIF metadata)

Intall the required tools

imagemagick and exiftool needs to be installed.

sudo apt install imagemagick exiftool

Convert .tif to .heic

mogrify -verbose -format heic *.tif

or

for x in *.tif; do echo "$x"; convert -verbose "$x" "${x%.tif}.heic"; done

for x in *.tif; do echo "$x"; exiftool -overwrite_original -tagsFromFile "$x" -all:all "${x%.tif}.heic"; done

for x in *.tif; do echo "$x"; exiftool -overwrite_original -tagsFromFile "${x%.tif}.XMP" -all:all "${x%.tif}.heic"; done