Apple Aperture Custom Fields

Started by martinw, August 22, 2013, 01:34:51 AM

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martinw

I have a huge amount of photos in Apple Aperture to which I have added custom fields such as "Species Name'. I now want to export these images with this metadata embedded so that I can upload the images to a DAM system. The issue however is that Aperture will not export images with Custom Fields. Unfortunately for me it will only export metadata in Exif or IPTC fields. I am totally new to Exiftool and want to know if it could be used to remap my custom field data to Exif fields

Thanks

Phil Harvey

If the information is in the image, then the answer is yes.  But if Aperture stores this in its own database, then the answer is no.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

tonychristopher

How can I test to find out if the Aperture Custom Fields data is in the image or in Aperture's database?

Phil Harvey

Run exiftool on one of the images and see if the information is there.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).