Select a bunch of images in Aperture and run this script. It will ask you for a destination folder and create a text file corresponding to each selected image. This text file will contain all of the useful metadata that I could glean from an image using AppleScript.
From its beginnings in Mac OS X Tiger, Automator has been getting rave reviews. Automator opens up automation for the non-technical and allows for practically anyone to create powerful workflows. Since I’ve been an AppleScripter since System 7 Pro I’ve never really used Automator much. I found its building blocks approach to be limiting and [...]
I believe that v4 should have resolved issues that some users were experiencing with v3 (http://brettgrossphotography.com/2008/03/04/aperture-applescript-make-keywords-real-v03) crashing Aperture. Make Keywords Real Current version: 04 Built on: Aperture 2.1 / Mac OS X 10.5.6 This AppleScript operates on the current selection. This is an update to the previous update and should work properly now. This AppleScript [...]
Aperture 2.1 can now export full Projects with masters consolidated! Wicked cool! No sample script yet, but I wanted to shout out this great new feature-
Lift/Stamp Date Current version: 02 Built on: Aperture 2.0.1 This AppleScript operates on the current selection. This script will perform a lift/stamp on the selected images’ dates. It will (obviously) only lift a single date but will stamp onto the entire selection. It will try to adjust the master files’ dates if possible, but will [...]
New AppleScript Features – Yay – sort of John Larson posted some quick sample AppleScripts to his site. While there, you should also probably just subscribe to his blog to make sure you get any updates. I can’t get reveal to work for me, but I dig duplicate. Now I can make my own Albums [...]
Updated script Requires Aperture 2 Probably requires Mac OS X 10.5.2 One of the many cool new features of Aperture 2 is support for DNG masters from just about any camera. My venerable old Canon PowerShot S50 has never been supported by Mac OS X’s RAW engine, but now I can use the images in [...]
Aperture 2 or later Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later This script is more a big stub. It’ll give you the paths for the currently selected images’ masters. It uses 2 methods for finding the master depending on whether the master is managed or referenced. I am sure that I can speed up the managed [...]
Aperture user John Larson posted some excellent getting started AppleScripts & stubs to his site at: http://homepage.mac.com/jlarson7/. There is some great info there and his scripts show some great new functionality for Aperture 2. I’m very excited about being able to ‘get name of every project’ – I’m pretty sure that you couldn’t do that [...]
Sometimes you want to know an image’s containing Project. As part of Aperture 2′s excellent new Other Tags property, you can do just that! I wrote this script stub for my Reimport as DNG script and figured that somewhere out there might be another scripter that wants to determine an image’s containing Project… Determine Image [...]
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