No Metadata-Editing in Snow Leopard

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No Metadata-Editing in Snow Leopard

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After I’ve edit several photos in Photoshop CS4 and given them some metadatas (titles, keywords, copyright etc.) via xmp, I changed some of these IPTC-datas in Aperture and tried to export these photos (incl. all metadatas) for a client but none of these modifications were taking over. Is this a bug in SnowLeopard?
Mactheny.

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MacBook Pro Core2Duo 17", Mac OS X (10.6), CinemaDisplay 23"

Posted on Aug 30, 2009 5:09 AM

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Aug 30, 2009 2:21 PM in response to Mactheny

Perhaps you haven't mapped the fields correctly. Changes in IPTC metadata in Aperture should export in XMP sidecar files if you export masters. I do this fairly regularly. But the fields don't always map to identical fields as you would see in Bridge, as right now Aperture doesn't exactly support the IPTC Core specification.

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Aug 31, 2009 1:25 PM in response to William Lloyd

Thanks for your reply.

I’ve figured out that Aperture has problems in Snow Leopard to read out the description of the photo (in Aperture named »subtitles« - is this the right german-english-translation?). If I change the »subtitles« in Lightroom, Photoshop can read the modifications exactly and vice versa but not Aperture. In Leopard there was no problem like this, Aperture could display modifications in IPTC I made in Lightroom (that’s one of reason why I use this program) but now there are the same symptoms like in Aperture 1.5.X. again. **** happens!

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Aug 31, 2009 2:34 PM in response to Mactheny

In general Aperture won't pick up changes you make in Lightroom, as Aperture doesn't read XMP sidecar files.

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Aug 31, 2009 3:05 PM in response to William Lloyd

Would it be a problem to code this for Apple or is that a philophosy?

Edit: I start my digital photographer career with Aperture enthusiastically but now I tend more and more to Lightroom of necessity. These small reasons make the difference to me. (OK, this is another thread... .)

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Aug 31, 2009 6:05 PM in response to Mactheny

I'm not writing the code so I can't say. I don't think it's technically impossible for Apple to add this support to Aperture. Then again, few things are impossible in software.

It likely comes down to resources, timeframe, and priority, as all these choices do.

I'd suggest using Aperture's "Submit Feedback" mechanism to let them know why it's critical to you.

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Aug 31, 2009 9:58 PM in response to William Lloyd

Thanks again for your reply.

Yes, the feedback option has been discovered by me yet and I use it often to advice Apple bugs, future requests, ideas etc. And because I know that some of Apples crew read along in this forum I use this way as well, so to speak as »voice of the common folk«.

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Sep 1, 2009 7:42 AM in response to Mactheny

this has been a growing source of frustration for me as i have looked into IPTC specs. IPTC Core has been the standard since before Aperture 1.0, yet Apple has never fully supported it. As I have started shooting more for wire services and daily papers who demand IPTC Core, I have to export from Aperture and into Photo Mechanic. There's really no excuse, especially since Aperture was marketed as an end to end solution.

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