Applying keywording to groups

I know about adding keywording while importing but not all keywords apply to the group. So when I try to select groups of thumbnails in Library and add keywords to them it will not apply to the group but only one photo in the group. What am I doing wrong?

The reasoning is to be consistent with Filmstrip in Develop where there is no Grid and only one image is worked on at a time (forgetting sync) so the most select of multi-selection gets the action. In Library it is the same. It is in the grid where multiselect thumbnails all get the action (in your case keywording).
Don
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Applying keywords to groups of images

I'm having difficulty applying Keywords to groups of images. When I select a group of images in the browser and drag a keyword from the HUD over them, the keyword is only applied to the image onto which it was directly dropped. I'm sure that in the past I've been able to apply a keword to any number of images at once using this technique. What's the obvious thing that I'm doing wrong here?
Andy.

"That's probably because you have the toggle primary only selected. It's the rectangle box on the far right of the first set of controls on the bottom of the screen.
Jeff "
Or in case you have those controls hidden you can also press 'S'

Applying Keywords to Groups

Hi, as an Aperture newbie, according to Page 85 of the Exploring Aperture booklet, I can shift click several images and drag keywords to one of the highlighted browser images and they should all be assigned the keywords. Yet when I do this only the image I drag it to is assigned and not the others. How can I assign the keywords to all of the highlighted images as the booklet describes?

you have primary only selected ... this feature lets you have multiple images selected but changes, such as keywords, only go to the primary image, thicker border ...
it is under the Edit menu, or the icon on the bottom right with a '1' in it ... or used to be keyboard 'S' ... i think i had to set that back up in my own command set for the keyboard ...

Help with Keywording a group of Images

I need help applying keywords to a group of selected images. For some reason I can't get this to work. I've done it before and now it won't work. Here is what I'm doing. I've selected a group of images in a project by using shift and clicking the first and last image I want and using comand to select images that are not next to each other. They all show up in the viewer and the thin white lines show up around the images in the browser. Now I go and add a keyword. It doesn't seem to matter if I use the Keyword control bar buttons or if I type in a key word in the bar in the lower right hand side, the same thing happens. The keyword is only being applied to the primary selection and not the whole group. Why isn't this working? I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but it's starting to drive me crazy. Any help with this would be great thanks.
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You have switched 'toggle primary only' on. To turn it off click on the button with a square in it at the bottom of the screen or press 's'

Applying metadata to groups of images

i understand this has been answered by "toggle primary" off but this isnt working for me when applying keywords for some odd reason.
any ideas?
matthew

It should, when you select a group of images, the primary will be the one showing in the viewer.
If primary only is off all the images should get the keywords, if it's on only the image shown in the browser with a yellow border (primary) will get the keyword.
Press 's' to switch 'primary only' on or off.

Bridge CC crashes when I am applying keywords

Hello everyone!
I'm using applied keywords in Bridge to standardize our metadata and it seems that at least once every hour or so I'll be in the middle of adding keywords and Bridge CC will "unexpectedly crash" so none of my changes get saved.
Has anyone else experienced this? I wondering if it's something I'm not doing correctly.
Thank you so much!
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That is not the same as having the latest versions, you also ned to check for updates to be sure using the latest versions
RAW files seem ok, the problem is happening with JPEG pics
Double check if you have read and write permissions for the files, folders and disks, but first check if you can add other metadata like keywords etc to the problem files. If not it seems definitively a read write permission issue.
And also check if you have used the correct file naming with no strange characters, only one dot at the end of the filename and the correct extension (preferable .jpg).

Applying keyword to multiple images

I'm going through many thousands of images applying keywords. The keywords are applied with Option 1, 2, etc.
I am finding that if I have more thn ne image selected, hitting option 1 applies the keyword to the first image only. Is this expected bahavior? Is there a way for me to apply the same keyword to many images in a selection all at once?
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Make sure you don't have Primary Only set.
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Feature Request: Apply effects to group of clip instances

I have been trying to supply this feature request into the Adobe feedback form. But it appeared that it was too large to be posted in a single feedback form. So I had to split it into three distinct feedback forms.
I don't want this feature request to get lost just because those three parts can't be joined back into a single feature request again. So I'd like to post it here, requesting for comments, too...
This feature request is about applying effects to more than one clip:
a)
Currently, when selecting more than one clip, it's not possible to change any effects settings. The Effects Settings windows only shows a "Multiple clips selected" message.
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When selecting more than one clip, the Effects Settings window should display any effects that apply to all the selected clips. Moreover, only those effect parameter values should be displayed having the same value across all selected effects. This on the other hand, of course, can only be displayed for effect parameters not having key frames/timing activated.
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b)
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| a |   | c |   | e |
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End of clip       | d |: (100%)
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End of clip       | e |:     400%
(Unfortunately, this forum doesn't allow me to apply any kind of formatting to the example above. So I can't apply a monospace font or colouring )
When a group gets ungrouped (Menu Clip > Ungroup), effects that had been applied to the group will be assigned to each individual clip of the group. For effect parameters that had key frames/animation activated, key frames will be created at the beginning and end of each of the clips. The previously calculated values will now be inserted at each automatically created key frame to mimic the grouped effect behaviour. This operation then would finalize the Ungroup operation involving clip group effects.
Regards,
Axel Dahmen

You could combine the Next/Previous Edit commands with either the Apply Video Transition shortcut or with a paste command if you had copied the transition you want.
OR... much easier if all you want is a bunch of consistent fade ins/fade outs...
On a single clip, keyframe opacity to create a fade in from the in point of the clip at the duration you like, e.g. 30 frames. Right click Opacity, and select Save Preset; give it a name, e.g. Fade In 30 Frames and set it to Anchor to In Point. Reset the effect and delete the keyframes, and then repeat this to create a fade out. Go to the out point of the clip, set keyframes, and once again, right-click Opacity and Save Preset; this time call it something like Fade Out 30 Frames and set it to Anchor to Out Point.
Now, you can simply select all of your clips in the sequence, and apply these presets by dragging them to the selection. Even though you created two presets, because you can only have one instance of Opacity on a clip, the keyframes from both presets will be added to that single effect. You have to do this with two presets--if you do it with one and use Scale, the keyframes will stretch out or compress to maintain a relative duration instead of an absolute duration.

Automatically Apply Keywords when file is added to folder?

I am learning to love Bridge, but the more I learn, the more I see it's shortcomings. I love the idea of automation and I use it a lot but Bridge does seem to fall a little short in the area. I could not find a way to do this so I can only hope they will add features. I want to have Bridge automatically apply keywords to any file that exists, or is added to a folder. This would save a lot of time. It seems Bridge is perfectly suited to this kind of thing, so I really hope they add some automation features!

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I'm trying to apply keywords to images by dragging and dropping both from the keyword HUD and the keyword panel, but nothing is happening. Nothing appears either on the image or in metadata. Am I missing something really simple (happens a lot to us seniors), or is there another explanation? I would really appreciate some help on this as I've already spent a long time with Apple & Microsoft to no avail. I thought that upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1 might help, but no luck there either. I hope someone out there can help to stop me climbing the walls!!!

I'll try be of more help to you than Microsoft
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• If not, type a keyword in the Keywords field.
• With the same picture selected go to Menubar>Metadata>Lift Metadata. When the Lift & Stamp HUD appears deselect everything except Keywords.
• Select a few pictures and click Stamp Selected Images in the HUD. Have the keywords been added to the selected pics?
Let us know how this goes…
Jade

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I've been using keywords through grouped sets. For instance. Same guy (John Doe) under two seperate parents:
Family > John Doe
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This typically produces a result in the query (search) HUD like:
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I've tried rebuilding the library but can't figure out why these are caching differently.
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1
12
123
1234
12345
123456
1234567...so on
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Aperture 3: How to apply keywords to multiple photos?

Hi,
I'm trying to apply keywords to multiple photos at once but if I select several photos and add a keyword in the 'metadata' panel it just gets applied to one of the selected photos, not all of them. Is this a bug or am I just doing it wrong?
Thanks,
Sam

I see,
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OK, so I've been categorizing for a couple of days now, and everything's going fine. I'm going through around 200gb of files, applying keywords to each one.
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I have a Videos folder with lots of subdirectories, each of which contain lots of video clips.
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I'd stumbled on that (the Find command) in the past and subsequentyly forgotten about it - and that works just as you described, giving me the option of searching through my subfolders. This leaves 2 questions, though.
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