Automating export versions after sorting a photoshoot - advice please!!!

Hi
I'm about to embark on a location shoot and I'm looking for workflow / automation advice which will help me to reduce my post production hours.
I'm using a Nikon dSLR, Aperture and a MacBook Pro 15inch. My knoweldge of Aperture is fairly basic although I am an intermediate to advanced mac user.
Background:
Within the week's shoot I'll end up shooting approximately 1000 RAW images, of which all are imported into thier own specific album within the project, represent ing one of about 25 locations which make up the shoot. At the end of each day I'll import, tag and make my selections: 'Selects' denoted by two stars (**), and 'Secondary' denoted by by one star (*).
The bit I need advice on:
The flight home is about 8hrs, of which I wish to conclude all my post production, including output. I wish to automate the latter part to save me a lot of pointing, clicking and generally sitting about to wait for each album to export.
Final export is 1500x (or similar), 8 bit jpg, sRGB colourspace.
I wish export all shots with one click to folder structure like the example below. Which I'll then burn to CD and pass to the client:
South America Photo Shoot (name of PROJECT)
--> Hotel (name of first ALBUM in above PROJECT)
---->Selects (containing all ** shots in above ALBUM)
---->Secondary (containing all * shots in above ALBUM)
--> Beach (next name of ALBUM in above PROJECT)
---->Selections
---->Seconday
..and so on for each of the locations.
Any advice on how I can automate the output side of this project would be very welcome - I'll be reusing this workflow on multiple trips.
Many thanks in advance
Oliver

You're going to need some AppleScript experience for this one, and also to change your Album structure a bit.
Go to http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/tips/tipprint/index.html and copy the AppleSCript from about half way down the page. The script will export all images that are in Albums in a given Project, making a folder structure in the Finder that echoes your Aperture structure of Sub-folders and Albums.
You'll need to change your structure to something like:
South America Photo Shoot (name of PROJECT)
--> Hotel (FOLDER in above PROJECT)
---->Selects (ALBUM in 'Hotel' folder)
---->Secondary (ALBUM in 'Hotel' folder)
--> Beach (next name of FOLDER in above PROJECT)
---->Selects (ALBUM in 'Beach' folder)
---->Secondary (ALBUM in 'Beach' folder)
With some careful setting up, you should be able to make Smart Albums for all of the Albums, using keyword and rating searches.
Also, you will need to make a new export preset to fit your 1500px sRGB requirements, and copy the name of that preset into the AppleScript.
Ian

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