Exporting Custom Metadata to Excel

I've created custom metadata views and presets for cataloging my images. Is it possible to export this metadata into an Excel spreadsheet as a CSV or TSV file? File/Export/Metadata exports standard metadata, but not my custom fields and entries. Or, is it possible to export XMP sidecar files and somehow import those into Excel? All that data is there somewhere within Aperture - please help me get it out and into a spreadsheet! Thanks.

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I'm trying to export custom metadata from Premiere CC into Excel. I can create the custom metadata and I've been using the following workflow to get it to excel:
File: Export: Batch List
This exports a .csv file but the only metadata I can produce is a fraction of metadata from the 'Premiere Pro Project Metadata' schema. Has anyone figured this out?
Many thanks,

I'm not familiar with Batch List exports, and I don't know of a way to export metadata as a CSV or other file adapted to Excel. The way I know to export metadata is as follows
Select clip in PPro's Project panel
File>Export>Media
in the Export Settings dialog, click the Media button
in the Metadata Export dialog, set Export Option to Create Sidecar Fiie.
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Click Okay to close Metadata Export and proceed to encode.
If you change the extension from .xmp to .xml, you'll be able to open the file in any text editor--including Excel, but not in a tabular view.

How to export custom metadata fields

How do I export custom metadata fields (or even the DATE) to a text or spreadsheet? Why does Aperture have dozens of metadata choices, but only allows a few to be exported?

You can try Automator which must be installed already in your computer. Create a new workflow, on the left pane select Aperture to see a list of actions, select "get selected items" and "extract metadata", and drag both to the right most pane. there you'll choose the Tag names to extract from the images already selected inside aperture and choose an output method, tabbed text should work fine for a spreadsheet. Hope it works.

Export Custom List into Excel through custom Ribbon

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Hello Nihath,
As per your description, you have to read each and every items in list with column value then only you can generate excel. There is direct way to export datatable to excel but in your case you will also need to iterate Col3 value to create new row in excel.
I would suggest to use CAML query to get all items then check Col3 value. If there are multiple value then add them as new datatable row and finally export full datatable to excel.
Here is link for CAML:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spquery.listitemcollectionposition.aspx
Export datatable to excel:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12533626/export-datatable-to-excel
Finally add this feature in ribbon:
http://ankurmadaan.blogspot.in/2012/10/custom-ribbon-action-for-specific-list.html
Hope it could help
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Export custom metadata

Does anyone know a way of exporting custom metadata in Aperture? The standard export only seems to apply to ITPC data.

RedKite provided this script for exporting to a tab-delimited text file in an archived forum. Copy the script to the Apple script editor. Change "category" in the upper section and "photo category" in the lower section to the name of your custom field. Run it. To add more custom fields, copy and paste the custom field section in the lower part. Add a corresponding line to the upper part. The upper part is the column name on the spreadsheet.
This script is old, It works for the version name, file name, and custom fields. It does not work for Keywords (written into the script) or other IPTC fields written the same way. Does anyone know a script that does both IPTC and custom fields in Aperture 3 in 2013?
tell application "Aperture"
set tSelection to the selection
-- this is the header, not really necessary
set tValues to "Version Name" & tab
set tValues to tValues & "File Name" & tab
set tValues to tValues & "Keywords" & tab
set tValues to tValues & "Category" & tab
set tValues to tValues & return
--here starts the real stuff
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in tSelection
set tImg to item i of tSelection
--add Version name
try
set t to name of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
try
--add FileName
set t to the value of other tag "FileName" of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
try
--add IPTC tag
set t to the value of IPTC tag "Keywords" of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
try
--add a custom field
set t to the value of custom tag "Photo Category" of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
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--next line/image
set tValues to tValues & return
end repeat
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set mylogfile to open for access f with write permission
set eof of mylogfile to 0
write my_log to mylogfile starting at eof
close access mylogfile
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Export customer invoice to excel

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Hi,
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I am not sure whether you really can embed custom metadata in the jpeg file itself. However you can quite easily export all metadata associated with a file in Aperture using AppleScript. The script below shows you how it works in principle with the different data categories in aperture: IPTC, custom fields etc. To adapt the script to your needs, replace eg "Photo Category" with the name of your own custom field. By copy/paste you can add more fields...
tell application "Aperture"
set tSelection to the selection
-- this is the header, not really necessary
set tValues to "Version Name" & tab
set tValues to tValues & "File Name" & tab
set tValues to tValues & "Keywords" & tab
set tValues to tValues & "Category" & tab
set tValues to tValues & return
--here starts the real stuff
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in tSelection
set tImg to item i of tSelection
--add Version name
try
set t to name of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
try
--add FileName
set t to the value of other tag "FileName" of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
try
--add IPTC tag
set t to the value of IPTC tag "Keywords" of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
try
--add a custom field
set t to the value of custom tag "Photo Category" of tImg
on error
set t to ""
end try
set tValues to tValues & t & tab
--next line/image
set tValues to tValues & return
end repeat
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set my_log to tValues
set mylogfile to open for access f with write permission
set eof of mylogfile to 0
write my_log to mylogfile starting at eof
close access mylogfile
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How do I export custom metadata?

My Aperture setup only exports some metadata fields and not all the fields I need to include. I've added some custom fields to the metadata list, ie model release, see image, but these won't export. How can these be included in my export? Thanks Tim.

Tim -- glad to help. You've likely already resolved this better, but if you haven't, this might get the ball rolling. The data you need to have _in the exported file_ is, afaict, "Is this model released? Y/N". The specifics of the release, and the actual release, don't need to be in the file -- they just need to locatable from the information in the file. For this, a keyword suffices as long as your file naming allows you to find the Image in your Aperture Library. I would keep the custom field -- they can be, as you know, quit useful -- but add a keyword (e.g.: "ReleasedYES"). Additionally, I would create a global Smart Album set to show all Images where the custom field "Model Release" is _not_ empty _and_ the keyword "ReleasedYES" is _not_ applied. Add to your regular administrative workflow examining the contents of this Smart Album and adding the keyword "ReleasedYES" to any Images in it.
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I have created two custom metadata fields but they dont export when you export meta for excel, how can I do this?

You can't.
Note: See the "more like this" to the right; this question has been asked many times.
For example, here's one thread where the question is answered with a link to the manual:
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Consulting the manual first (it's quite comprehensive) is always a good idea, too ;-)

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Export Project Tasks to Excel using VBA by Custom Field

Question referring to the link:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/projectserver/en-US/9c46458c-893f-41ba-bd46-bdb59c533f4a/export-project-tasks-to-excel-using-vba-by-custom-field?forum=project2010custprog
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Thank you Andrew for getting back to me and I have found somewhere on the net the following macro that would do the job for the version 2007. Here is a copy for those that may need it.
Option Explicit
Sub CreateMenus()
Dim cbrMain As CommandBar
Dim ctlMain As CommandBarControl
Dim ctlOLExport1 As CommandBarControl
Dim ctlOLExport2 As CommandBarControl
Dim ctlOLExport3 As CommandBarControl
Set cbrMain = Application.CommandBars.ActiveMenuBar
Set ctlMain = cbrMain.Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlPopup, Temporary:=True)
ctlMain.Caption = "Export to Outlook"
Set ctlOLExport1 = ctlMain.CommandBar.Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlButton)
With ctlOLExport1
.Caption = "Selection to Outlook tasks"
.OnAction = "Macro """ & "Export_Selection_To_OL_Tasks"""
End With
Set ctlOLExport2 = ctlMain.CommandBar.Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlButton)
With ctlOLExport2
.Caption = "Selection to Outlook appointments"
.OnAction = "Macro """ & "Export_Selection_To_OL_Appointments"""
End With
Set ctlOLExport3 = ctlMain.CommandBar.Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlButton)
With ctlOLExport3
.Caption = "Selection to Outlook notes"
.OnAction = "Macro """ & "Export_Selection_To_OL_Notes"""
End With
End Sub
Cheers!
Chuck

Custom metadata fields used in file name?

Hi,
Is it possible to add to the list of meta data fields that are used as tokens for file names?
I've been using Rob Cole's excellent custom meta data in the library module and now I want to use these fields to name the file during export...
While at it, is it possible to add the same custom meta data fields to the info view overlay in develop mode?
Cheers,
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1. Its possible an export filter (post-process action) could be defined that supports the custom metadata for export filenaming (Lightroom itself does not have any other hooks I'm aware of) - dunno if anyone's done that, yet.
2. I think not (see PM).
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Custom TCode for Excel File Upload/Import - WebGUI Error

We get an ABAP runtime error when uploading an excel file with a custom tcode using WebGUI. It works ok with WinGUI. Any ideas what could be causing that error?
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    IMPORTING
      document_proxy = iref_document
      error          = iref_error.
IF iref_error->has_failed = c_check.
    CALL METHOD iref_error->raise_message
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DATA: l_title   TYPE char40,
          l_char    TYPE char2,
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      document_title = l_title
      no_flush       = c_check
    IMPORTING
      error          = iref_error.
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    EXPORTING
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      sheet_interface = iref_spreadsheet
      error           = iref_error.
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      no_flush = c_check
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      error    = iref_error.
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         l_sheet.
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    l_char = sy-index.
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    CONCATENATE 'Sheet' l_char INTO l_sheet.
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      EXPORTING
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Thanks
Subhankar

XMP Custom File Info panels vs. Custom Metadata

Sorry if this question is a little confused, but I don't exactly know what I am talking about yet.
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alanterra wrote:
there is no way to get the data in the original into the derived copy except by doing it by hand
Better ways:
1-1 or 1-many:
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If you want to do "many to many-others-like-them", you have to use a different plugin, like Relative Antics..
alanterra wrote:
If I understand it correctly, "Custom File Info panels" for xmp data should just solve this problem.
Many of us are hoping Adobe enhances Lr to provide better support for custom metadata - as you've noticed, Lightroom is not one of those "Standard Adobe Applications" referred to in the above link.
Rob

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