Today I was thrown by what I could do with Automator easier and faster than straight AppleScript…

I wrote an AppleScript to export the metadata from images so that I could keep things safely offsite… the AppleScript takes literally days to run on my 34,000 image Library. The above Automator Workflow is much, much faster but doesn’t export some of the tags that my AppleScript does…

Time to connect Automator and AppleScript…

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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 will make Aperture’s virtual keywords real.

“Huh?”

If you make hierarchal keywords in Aperture (you are, aren’t you), parent keywords are not exported with masters when exporting with XMP nor are they exported when exporting images as other formats. You can, however, use those keywords to find your images. Thus if you tag an image with ‘Bald Eagle’ in the following keyword hierarchy:

Animal
–> Wildlife
—-> Bird
——>Eagle
——–>Bald Eagle

You can find your image by searching for ‘Bird’, but when you export that same image the term ‘Bird’ is nowhere to be found.

FWIW, IMHO this is something that should have a checkbox in the Export panel.

make-hierarchal-keywords-real-04scpt1

Wicked cool!

No sample script yet, but I wanted to shout out this great new feature-

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 settle for just adjusting the record in Aperture.

Lift-Stamp Date 02.scpt.zip

As always, the Script menu is probably the best way to run this script.

Technorati Tags: Aperture, AppleScript

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 via AppleScript. You can’t remove an image from an Album once it’s in there, but I’m excited about being able to add images to Albums.

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 without resorting to hacking any parts of the OS.

This script is easy- it just exports the master RAW, converts it to DNG and imports the DNG into the Aperture Library. The DNG will be imported into the Library as a managed file. You can relocate the DNG later if you’d like.

Update: version 3 will copy IPTC and custom tags from original masters to the new DNG masters.

Download and enjoy!

Reimport as DNG 03.scpt.zip

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 master finding by moving from the Unix find command to querying the database, but that’ll have to wait.

Get Path to Master 04.scpt.zip

I’m very excited about being able to ‘get name of every project’ – I’m pretty sure that you couldn’t do that under Aperture 1.x. I sure hope so or I wrote some extra verbose & slow scripts for Aperture 1.x

He even went the extra mile to make his scripts clickable to open in Script Editor. Maybe I can automate that in ecto…

Thanks, John!

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 Project.scpt.zip

Cheers-

Requires: Mac OS X 10.5.2, Aperture 2
This script operates on the currently selected Aperture images

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 without resorting to hacking any parts of the OS.

This script is easy- it just exports the master RAW, converts it to DNG and imports the DNG into the Aperture Library. The DNG will be imported into the Library as a managed file. You can relocate the DNG later if you’d like.

Download and enjoy!

Reimport as DNG 02.scpt.zip