Difficulty Importing Photos from Aperture
Hello,
I'm in the 30-day trial period and attempting to import my photos to proceed with a further exploration of COP. However, I'm having problems at this stage.
I've divided my Aperture library into smaller sections as recommended in numerous places, but several hundred seemingly random projects—and photos within projects—have been rejected by COP as "incompatible files". After much trial and error and effort, I've identified the problem: the Copyright Notice field in the photos EXIF data contains the copyright symbol. Removing this from the field allows the photos to be imported into COP without problem.
I'm now in the process of removing the symbol from hundreds of photo files, a time consuming process. (I tried gathering all the affected photos into a single smart album, not for import into COP which I understand will not be recognized but just to make a batch change, but such a wholesale edit does not appear to be possible.)
Short of a patch or an updated version addressing this from Phase One, can anyone offer a solution to achieve this? Much Thanks.
I'm in the 30-day trial period and attempting to import my photos to proceed with a further exploration of COP. However, I'm having problems at this stage.
I've divided my Aperture library into smaller sections as recommended in numerous places, but several hundred seemingly random projects—and photos within projects—have been rejected by COP as "incompatible files". After much trial and error and effort, I've identified the problem: the Copyright Notice field in the photos EXIF data contains the copyright symbol. Removing this from the field allows the photos to be imported into COP without problem.
I'm now in the process of removing the symbol from hundreds of photo files, a time consuming process. (I tried gathering all the affected photos into a single smart album, not for import into COP which I understand will not be recognized but just to make a batch change, but such a wholesale edit does not appear to be possible.)
Short of a patch or an updated version addressing this from Phase One, can anyone offer a solution to achieve this? Much Thanks.
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Hey there - so this is a user-to-user forum, and what you're running into sounds like a legitimate question for tech support.
To get an actually useful response, go ahead and submit a request directly to the support team - they'll generally get back to you within 1 business day: https://www.phaseone.com/SupportMain.aspx0 -
For various reasons I've decided to reimport my Aperture Library into COP 10.
Phas One has done a decent job improving each version.
In COP 8 I had to split up the Aperture Library to allow it to be imported without crashing.
I find that in COP 9.3 and COP 10 I can import my entire Aperture of about 16000 images into COP without splitting it up.
If I separate the keywords in Aperture with "|" I am able to import the hierarchical keywords correctly in to V10.
In Aperture this:
Location
...Ontario
......Ottawa
is replaced by "Location | Ontario | Ottawa"
When imported into COP 10 the original keyword hierarchy is recovered.
Strangely enough, I don't seem to have a problem with the copyright symbol in the IPTC Copyright Notice field. However the copyright symbol in the Title field may have caused some problems. I don't have any images with the copyright symbol in the EXIF copyright field.
It looks like Aperture will not allow editting of the EXIF Copyright field.
To change the Tile or the IPTC field you could do is go to the photos section in your Aperture Library (3rd line from the top in the navigator), and set up a search in the exif field for each version of your copyright notice. Then select all, and use the batch change tool to replace the old text in the IPTX copyright field with new text ( without (c), if so desired)
To change the EXIF copyright field, you could use pyexiftoolgui, I think it does have a batch mode.0 -
Here's an update on my experience with the import:
I did take brianmerwin's advice to send a message to Phase One's support team (thanks for the suggestion) and they did get back to me within a day. Their reply was basically that the presence of the copyright symbol should not be a problem but they've passed this on to the development team for a remedy in a future release.
Anyway, with a definite idea of where the difficulty lay I was able to spend a couple of days importing batches of Aperture projects into COP to find the problematic images—always due to some non-alphanumeric character in an EXIF field—and then stripping the offending symbol. Once everything was cleaned up I was able to import around 20,000 images in one go.
One of the recurring complaints I came across when considering the switch to COP was the frustration in trying to successfully import photo libraries—hence the frequently-offered advice to create smaller libraries (e.g., Derrick Story's excellent "Moving to Capture One Pro"). Preferring to have just one main entry under Recent Imports—I know, it doesn't change COP's functionality, it's just me—I now have all my photos in COP and can now definitively leave Aperture behind (although still archivally present on my computer because one never knows...).
It's now 23 days until the trial period expires, but I'll be sending Phase One my license fee today. My images are showing more detail than they did in Aperture and I'm looking forward to discovering all that COP is capable of.0
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