It seems that Aperture exports very little data that is of use (i.e., minimal IPTC metadata). Is there a work around to export EXIF metadata? If not, is there a feature request mechanism within Apple?
Thanks much,
Tim
How do you export, Tim?
When you export your version - did you enable the "Include Metadata" flag in the export preset ( in the "Edit" optin of the export preset selection)?
Regards
Léonie
Leonie,
Although I don't remember how to get to the dialog that you made a print screen of, I don't want to export the image. Rather, I would like to only export the EXIF data of multiple images into a csv file. The ultimate goal is to build a small Excel csv file to upload to my viewshare.org account (http://viewshare.org/views/pghartist/).
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Tim
That's not something that Aperture can do. I'd recommend using software like ExifTool to read the data from your images. Worst case, create a smart album containing the images of interest, export them, run ExifTool to grab the data, then trash the exported files.
—Andreas
Sorry, I thought you wanted to export your images with metadata attached.
I only know of two built-in ways to export metadata:
This second methode will export the Master image file (delete it, if you do not want it) and an additional file with IPTC and EXIF tags, like this
<rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:exif='http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/'>
<exif:GPSLatitude>21,59.08662000N</exif:GPSLatitude>
<exif:GPSLongitude>159,32.12172000W</exif:GPSLongitude>
<exif:GPSAltitude>670400/1000</exif:GPSAltitude>
<exif:GPSAltitudeRef>0</exif:GPSAltitudeRef>
</rdf:Description>
Perhaps you can use this as a starting point.
For more EXIF tags you will have to write an AppleScript or an Automator workflow. I posted an Automator Workflow here: http://dreschler-fischer.de/FAQ/Scripts_Services/Entries/2012/2/8_Write_EXIF_Inf o_to_a_File.html
This is a service to be called from Aperture; it writes EXIF tags to a textfile. You can use it as a template and add more EXIF- and IPTC fields in a similar fashion.
Regards
Léonie
P.S: If you export the master, make sure to write your IPTC data to the master file: Use Batch Change for this.
Thanks much Leonie!
I was playing around with the sidecar file before I posted and was wondering if there was something easier, but I will certainly try your service and customize it to the fields that I need. Just as an aside, I need the GPS info too and I do not know exactly where that resides but this gives me a start.
Again, thanks much and have a great day.
Andreas,
This looks like a good solution too. Although I haven't used a terminal window since my UNIX days in college, I will certainly give this a try as it seems to do everything that I need.
Thank you for your help. One of these two solutions should get me to the next step in my viewshare.org project.
Tim,
for the GPS info you may look at this sample code from another script of mine:
try
tell application "Aperture"
activate
tell im -- any Aperture image
set longi to value of EXIF tag "Longitude"
set lati to value of EXIF tag "Latitude"
try -- remove this "try" if you want a warning if the altitude tag is empty
set alti to value of EXIF tag "Altitude"
end try
try -- remove this "try" if you want a warning if the location tag is empty
-- set plce to "unknown"
set plce to value of IPTC tag "Image City" as rich text
end try
end tell
end tell
on error
-- whatever you want to do in case of an error
end try
Regards
Léonie
How do I export exif data in Aperture?
