Aperture vs Photo Mechanic

just recently got a stringer contract....the paper uses photo mechanic to caption....The fields they want filled are Caption, Object Name, Headline, Photographer.
I sent a test image and used Aperture- filled in Byline (Headline) Credit (Photographer) Caption (caption).... Does anyone have ANY experience they might share in terms of does this match with PM fields? I have not gotten a response from photo editor yet, but I have an assignment Saturday and I wanted to know if I need to invest in PM.....I really want to continue with Aperture since I have about 40,000 images at this point...

Hi Howard,
take a look at this: http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptccoremapped.pdf
It is a good site for keywording too.
It's a thing that I hate: every apps has their own terms! Why they don't go for a standard?
Anyway...
Best regards,
Ken

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Hello all,
I am trying to create another complete set of my images, that can be edited by outside programs (Photo Mechanic and/or Lightroom). I am doing this by exporting the images out of a managed library. I want the Aperture "*Project name*" and Rating fields to be passed to Photo Mechanic. And then I want PM to be able to do queries on the Metadata fields containing the Aperture Project Name and Rating. My intention is to use Photo Mechanic to rename the images and relocate the images but still keep track of the Rating and Project Name.
In Aperture, when I add a custom metadata item under IPTC and export the image, that custom metadata item does not show up in PM or Bridge for that matter.
How can I export images and have the Rating and *Project Name* be exported and visible in PM or LR or Bridge?
Thanks in advance,
Dick B.

There is not an easy way but Ian Wood's tool might help you out.
Personally I would just use the "subfolder format" drop down options available in all of the export and relocate dialogs to sort them into directories that are based on Aperture project name - easy enough considering those other tools use file system based folders for there organization structure anyway.
RB

Photo Mechanic Metadata & Small Thumbnails

I'm new to Aperture and I'm using V1.5.
I imported some photos that had metadata added in Photo Mechanic. The thumbnails for the imported files are very small in Aperture (288x192 pixels). Even when I send the file from Aperture to an external editor (PhotoShop) the file is sent as a small image. For example, a Canon 1Ds raw file is sent to PhotoShop as a 288x192 pixel image!
If I process the raw through Adobe's DNG converter and then reimport the image, the the thumbnail looks as it should and transfers to external editor fine. However, the metadata no longer shows up in Aperture (although I can see it is still there if I look at the file with Bridge or Photo Mechanic).
Once the DNG file is in Aperture, if I quit Aperture and then edit the metadata in PhotoMechanic again, the little thumbnail is back when I restart Aperture.
JPEG files and unmodified RAW files have the proper sized thumbnails. Building previews does not change a thing.
Anybody else seeing this?
Karen
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Thank you for responding, jrg_uk. I have filed a feedback report with Apple. BTW, Bridge and Lightroom don't have the same problem rendering a preview from a Photo Mechanic modified file.
I posted my same question on Photo Mechanic's forum and received this response:
ME: ...a Canon 1Ds raw file is sent to PhotoShop as a 288x192 pixel image!
PM: That's the exact size of the thumbnail inside the 1Ds TIF file. Aperture, (actually ImageIO which Aperture uses to render RAW files) has a fairly naive parser for some file formats. Files that have been modified at all render ImageIO useless with some files. We have filed numerous bug reports with Apple on this issue and only a small portion have been addressed. When Aperture exports a file for editing, it creates a new file and in this case this new file has lost all of the RAW data. It is no longer present due in part to this bug.
ME: Imported photos without IPTC data added with Photo Mechanic do not have this problem.
PM: That's because those files pass right through their naive parser.
ME: If I process the problem raw file through Adobe's DNG converter...
PM: Once again their naive parser gets tripped up by simple modifications to the file. We'll have to file a bug on their DNG parser too!
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How can I open images in Photo Mechanic with AppleScript

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I need to minimize the space photos take on my MacBook Pro OSx 10.7. They are in iPhoto, Aperture, Pictures/Photo Library, etc. Are they taking space in all of these locations?

I need to minimize the space photos take on my MacBook Pro OSx 10.7. They are in iPhoto, Aperture, Pictures/Photo Library, etc. Are they taking space in all of these locations?

Are they taking space in all of these locations?
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How to email Aperture library photos from iPhoto

Want to use Aperture library photos (which I can easily view from iPhoto 11) in the beautiful email systems of iPhoto. When I select the Aperture library photos and select Share-email nothing happens, then the Share-email menu becomes grayed out. According to the help available all aperture library shots are fully available for use in iPhoto 11. Any suggestions? Thanks

You hav to move the photos from Aperture to iPhoto to do this.
1. Using the Media Browser you can drag from the browser to the iPhoto Window - this yields the Aperture Previews
2. Export from Aperture to the Finder, import to iPhoto.
That said if you use Apple's Mail.app you can
A: Take advantage of the Stationery feature, which has more templates than iPhoto, more varied thatn iPhoto and others can be downloaded
B: It's a full mail application, with an outbox and so on
C: You can email from Aperture, and so avoid this loop into iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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I'd like to remove a thin line that is part of the page design in one of Aperture's photo books. I can't seem to make it happen. Any suggestions?

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When I use Preview,Photo Mechanic and Pages, all JPEG or RAW images appear corrupted. I thought my hard drive was failing and replaced it and migrated everything over but the problem still exists. Any idea what is going on?

When I use Preview,Photo Mechanic and Pages, all JPEG or RAW images appear corrupted.
I thought my hard drive was failing and replaced it and migrated everything over but the problem still exists.
It felt as if maybe a virus was at work but I ran Sophos and found nothing.
I store images on my Drobo Raid system but when I work from my Macbook Pro I have no issues, just on the tower.
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First of all, why did you say yes to Nero Back up before researching what it does with files already on the HDD? When I install Nero, the Back Up is the first thing I disable, it is a nagging pain, there are much better backup programs available. There are several file recovery programs out there to recover deleted files, that is, if that is what happened. Also, if you haven't overwritten the files, so you should be able to find them.

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If you have not found any problems using DiskUtility, I would suggest that you might try deleting your Aperture preferences file (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2945) then re-open Aperture and set your preferences up again. That may resolve the iWeb issue as well as your Export difficulties.
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"Try Disk Utility
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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Lightroom vs Photo Mechanic

I shoot weddings and would love to know how to get lightroom to run like Photo Mechanic during my culling phase. It just takes so long for lightroom to render the shots before I can check sharpness etc. I hate having to use Photo Mechanic to cull then re open all of it in Lightroom. Anyone know how to get lightroom running faster for this phase without me altering my images in other software. Perhaps Adobe my look at a module in Lightroom that works like Photo Mechanic.
Here are my Specs
Lightrrom 5.3
imac 27inch
Processor 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1024 MB
Software OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)

My experience is that culling in Lightroom's library module is pretty-darn fast *if/when* library previews are up to date.
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* Assuring library previews are up to date. They stay up to date unless you make changes, which, unfortunately, I like to be able to do whilst culling, but if you can find a way to keep those two pieces separate, i.e. cull and only cull with up-to-date previews, it's pretty fast.
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Rob

Photoshop truncates photo mechanic field to 32 characters

I add IPTC info to photo files when ingesting into Photo Mechanic. If I later edit the photo in Photoshop C6, it truncates the "Description Writer" (and possibly other fields) to 32 characters. That means I have to reload the IPTC file to correct this.
Does Photoshop have a solution that will prevent this truncation?
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Brilliant John. Quote for LR transporter website
LR/Transporter also offers the ability to modify certain metadata fields (such as the IPTC title and caption) based on other metadata fields. This allows you to, for example, define the Title field from a combination of other fields such as the filename. (Requires Lightroom 2 or later).
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