How to relocate referenda images (moving fr. Aperture to C1)
I am moving from Aperture to C1Pro10 and did the following: Export Aperture library and import it into C1. It is my intend to have the structure as it was in Aperture: What used to be projects/albums in Aperture should now be folders.
Now I am in the following dilemma: If I simply import my existing image structure on the harddrive then I do have my folders - but miss the metadata from Aperture.
And vice very - when I import my Apterure library into C1 my project/album structure from Apterure shows up, but only in the C1 catalog. It does not show up under Folders.
So how can I reach my goal? Either relocate what is there now from the aperture import into my folder structure (but I cannot find any relocation menu command)? Or find a way to import my external images in that structure but with all ITPC, EXIF, Aperture keywords?
Thank you for some lines of help.
Now I am in the following dilemma: If I simply import my existing image structure on the harddrive then I do have my folders - but miss the metadata from Aperture.
And vice very - when I import my Apterure library into C1 my project/album structure from Apterure shows up, but only in the C1 catalog. It does not show up under Folders.
So how can I reach my goal? Either relocate what is there now from the aperture import into my folder structure (but I cannot find any relocation menu command)? Or find a way to import my external images in that structure but with all ITPC, EXIF, Aperture keywords?
Thank you for some lines of help.
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The way I imported from aperture was first to export images from aperture with xmp files. Then I imported into CO as normal imports not via aperture library import option. Although this lost the aperture crops and rotations and structure the metadata was more important to me. I don’t think what you are looking for exists in CO. 0 -
THANKS @fotojenic777 - That helped a lot! This is a big step on the way I want to go.
Now I have it all the way I want within "folders" in C1. But I miss to see the same under "Catalog Collections". How can I have my structure reflected there as well?
Great help, I hope we can take it that step further and then I am all set for some days of MEGA import sessions.0 -
Hi, that is the manual process I was referring to. You need to setup a user collection with projects and albums and smart albums to mimic aperture. I followed some very good videos (seeing it on the screen rather than written down helps) on the PhaseOne.com site. This is a good start https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xjCyAgJATjc 0 -
Okay. "You need to setup a user collection with projects and albums and smart albums to mimic aperture" - you mean manually?
My Aperture project/album structure is hundreds of projects/albums. Just to do it right: I do the above step manually? And after that I manually drag the images from the folder to that specific C1 project/album?0 -
I'll see if I can post some images of aperture folders and CO collections 0 -
technically you can work in CO directly in the folders but you do not have any ability to create albums or smart albums. These are created in user collections. 0 -
[quote="macadelic" wrote:
I am moving from Aperture to C1Pro10 and did the following: Export Aperture library and import it into C1. It is my intend to have the structure as it was in Aperture: What used to be projects/albums in Aperture should now be folders.
Now I am in the following dilemma: If I simply import my existing image structure on the harddrive then I do have my folders - but miss the metadata from Aperture.
And vice very - when I import my Apterure library into C1 my project/album structure from Apterure shows up, but only in the C1 catalog. It does not show up under Folders.
So how can I reach my goal? Either relocate what is there now from the aperture import into my folder structure (but I cannot find any relocation menu command)? Or find a way to import my external images in that structure but with all ITPC, EXIF, Aperture keywords?
Thank you for some lines of help.
Hi, I'm also a migrant from Aperture.
I think that you've missed one key difference between C1 and Aperture.
In Aperture, the only structure which is shown is the structure of the Library, which is an organisation of images. The equivalent is shown in the section "User Collections" on the C1 Library tab. The folder/project/album structure of the Aperture Library is converted to a group/project/album structure of the C1 catalog.
C1 also shows a structure not shown in Aperture, which the structure of the folders and files in OSX file system. This is shown in the section "Folders" on the C1 Library tab.
There is no reason for the "Folders" structure to have the structure from Aperture Library.
For example, I organise my files on disk by year and by camera. So I have folders 2017-GX7, 2017 EM1, 2016 GX7 and 2016 EM1, and so forth.
But in Aperture Library, and now C1 catalog, I have top level Groups "Wildlife" "Travel" "Wilderness Tripping" and "People" Each of those groups are subdivided into projects, perhaps "Family" and "Friends" and "Japan Trips" and "Sweden" and within those albums containing images. The images in one album maybe, typically are, to image files in various folders on disk. But which disk folder contains the image file doesn't really matter.
However, C1 will show you where the image file is (in "Folders" section), whereas Aperture won't.0 -
Thank you both! Yes, I now understand how it works.
it is my intent to somehow automatically generate the collection names - as my Aperture project/album structure is hundreds of projects/albums.
Thank you for the Aperture/CO screenshots. Was that collection structure generated manually?0 -
[quote="macadelic" wrote:
Thank you both! Yes, I now understand how it works.
it is my intent to somehow automatically generate the collection names - as my Aperture project/album structure is hundreds of projects/albums.
Thank you for the Aperture/CO screenshots. Was that collection structure generated manually?
Yes, but I don’t have too many projects.0
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