Export Aperture Custom Metadata

Hi,
I've got a big problem today.
I've got hundred of photos in my Aperture Library. I've added for all the photos, new Metadata (Others, then New Custom Metadata). These metadatas are very important, and I can't loose them.
Now, I've included a Portfolio Server in my workflow, and, I really need to get all my Custom Metadatas in Portfolio! As you can understand, it must be something easy and fast to do. It will not be 2 photos per day, but 50 to 200 photos a day, and I'm sure it can increase!
So, it must be automatic, and fast, and fully functional.

So, I've tried every export possible to get these metadatas, but nothing! They all disappeared!

Photoshop/Bridge are not able to read these Custom Metadatas! And it is the same for Portfolio!
So, is there a plugin to do so (picture (version or master) in a folder (all included in picture, or picture + XMP file)? If there is one, I can import, after something in portfolio (via FolderScripting?)

Thanks,
Tucpasquic

Message was edited by: Tucpasquic

MacBook Pro 17", Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 17, 2007 5:49 AM

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Nov 17, 2007 8:59 AM in response to Tucpasquic

By definition, custom metadata isn't embedded in the exported file because nothing else would be able to read it.

Option 1. Copy the content from your custom tags into existing IPTC tags. If you can't find the Applescript for this via the forum search I'll try and dig it out.

Option 2. If Portfolio is scriptable, it would be possible to write an Applescript that would export files from Aperture, import them into Portfolio and then copy the custom data directly from Aperture to Portfolio without it being in the image.

Option 3. There's an Aperture export plug-in that will do all sorts of stuff with XMP files, but I can't remember the name, it might work with custom tags.

Ian

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