Imported Star Ratings

In Aperture, when I import images that have been previously meta-annoted in iView, the star ratings do not show up (that column is empty in list and thumb views), although all my other iptc stuff is there.
The stars DO show up in LightRoom, but not in Aperture. Is this a known thing and is there a tip for it?

Well, you forced me to go through the old iView manuals. Turns out it IS an XMP thing that allows Lightroom and Bridge to see stars:
*iView 3x manual*
Ratings as annotations (pg 64)
+Ratings in MediaPro are mapped to Adobe’s XMP standard for ratings. When annotations for images in a catalog are synchronized (written) to the original files, all ratings will be written into the files. If you open the image in Adobe Bridge, the star ratings will be displayed. Likewise, if you have assigned a rating to a file in Bridge, the rating will be displayed when you import that file into a MediaPro catalog.+
*iView 3x manual*
+iView / IPTC / QT / XMP / Aperture chart (pg 147)+
Color labels no longer mentioned. No mention of ratings, but they do specifically list Aperture's equivalents.
As for my Urgency memory:
*iView 2x manual*
+iView / IPTC / QT / Photoshop CS (pg 90)+
"color labels" are listed with "urgency" here (and Urgency in the big IPTC list is indeed empty). Ratings are not listed
So I guess for coprporate reasons Apple does not support the was XMP sees some stuff. If it's just the stars, that's workable, as Steve said. I just wonder what other annotations I haven't noticed yet...

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Lightroom isn't importing Star Ratings any more.

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Why would Lightroom be writing metadata changes, when it's supposed to be importing the metadata as-is, and no in-program changes have been made to the images yet?
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Hello,
I have a "legacy" problem that goes all the way to 1999: on my PC I used to create a subfolder with the "selected" pictures from a given event (selected to be printed or posted on my website). I did that before the age of Picasa, where stars or flags can do that for you, and I kept doing it until today.
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When I import my library in iPhoto, it simply merges the folder in a single event.
By library do you mean your set of folders and subfolders? If your photos are in multiple folders, ie folder with subfolders, when you import them into iPhoto each folder will be imported as a separate Event. The subfolders will not be linked to its original container folder. You can do that later by creating virtual folders in iPhoto and adding albums to them as seen here. However you would have to create an album for each even by dragging the Event onto the Album heading in the left hand pane. Then you can add it to a folder. Folders can only contain albums, slideshows, calendars, etc. but not photos. Album can contain only photos.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

Importing photos from ZoomBrowser into iPhoto without losing keywords and star ratings

I have been using Canon's ZoomBrowser EX on my Windows Vista laptop. I have just bought a MacBook Air running Lion. I would like to import all of my photos to iPhoto, but when I do this I lose all of the keywords and star ratings I have associated with my many photos. Is there any way to import the photos into iPhoto while retaining the keywords and star ratings so that I can use them in iPhoto? Doing this manually would be impractical due to the large number of photos involved.
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Keywords:
Iphoto can certainly import them if they are written to the correct fields of the standard metadata. They key question is can your Windows app write them to the files?
Ratings
There's no real way to share ratings via standard metadata, but if you can write the keywods, then you can quickly tag the pics with simple keywords (1star, 2star) and when imported to iPhoto recreate your rating system.
So, the question is really about your existing software and what it can do.
Regards
TD

Can Aperture recognize star ratings or keywords on import?

I do all my initial sorting and culling of images outside Aperture (Photo Mechanic, which I highly recommend). I tag images with star ratings. I would like to import only those photos with a star rating above some threshold. Is there a way for Aperture to recognize those star ratings in the import dialog, such that I could filter the photos that I want to import? I would prefer to do that in place, rather than having to move or copy all those large RAW (NEF) files to another folder just for import into Aperture. A related question would be whether Aperture could filter by keywords or other metadata that is already associated with an image? Thanks, David.

Just wanted to say that your understanding of Referenced and Managed now seems correct. Managed Masters is a very good way to start with Aperture. There is so much to learn, and a few tall conceptual hurdles to clear, that this administration decision can be safely postponed. Aperture makes it easy to change any Image's Master from either status to the other.
In the longer term, however, Referenced Masters are often a better set-up -- and become necessary for large Libraries.
Note that there is no reason not to have a mix. "Managed" and "Referenced" refer the status of each Image's Master. I keep my personal Library on my laptop, and keep as Managed all recently imported Images and all portfolio Images. This allows me complete adjustment, printing, and exporting of those Images whenever I have my computer. All the other Masters are stored on an external drive at work.
But note, too, that Referenced Masters are not backed up in Vaults. If you use Vaults, you will have to back up your Referenced Masters using a method other than Aperture's Vault feature.

Imported photo all have three star ratings -- why?

When importing photos from a card reader into LR 1.1 on an Intel Mac the photos are loaded into Lightroom with three star ratings. Why is this happening and how do I prevent it in the future? I want the photos to come clean from the memory card.
After editing on my laptop on the road I want the images to retain the ratings I assign when I export them to an external hard drive and then import them to my desktop Mac for further work. I'm afraid that Lightroom will import all images into my desktop with three star ratings, thereby wiping out my earlier rankings.

Do you have more than one Computer? or can you install 1.2 under another user and try again?
Like I said, I have never heard of this sort of thing happening before And I have used LR since Beta 1.
Don
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How can I transfer my star ratings to my new computer?

Just bought a new Dell. I have ITunes on my old computer, and have spent lots of time creating playlists and star ratings. How can I import that into my new computer? I have a video Ipod with my complete music library on it, and when I connect it to my new computer I can listen and change the ratings, but I can't transfer the music, or any of the playlist info. Ideas?

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Nano star RATINGS not reflected in iTunes 7.4.1 (2) - manual sync

Aloha,
I rated several tunes while walking. I don't have enough room on my 4gb iPod to carry everything at once. I would like to temporarily remove those tunes that I have already rated and put some others on. I use the star ratings as my own personal way to sort by speed, favs, and junk.
When I get back to my Mac, I know that the ones with 1 star are to be deleted - pau (pronounced pow! Pau is Hawaiian for done, did it, finished, no more).
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I want to have that ranking info sync up with the same songs that came from my library in the first place. Then I want to dump those and grab more music, or audiobook parts, or podcasts, whatevahs. This is the way I used to do it on my old FireWire iPod many versions of iTunes ago.
I plan to continue to rate music as I have time and when I get back to my Mac that rating system allows me to put the music into playlists that I have essentially created on the fly.
I can change my rating system at any time and wa-la I've got a new playlist.
I'm open to other ways of accomplishing same onthego sorting principle. I've tried creating a playlist using iTunes, but the playlist is on my Nano and I cannot copy it or the files to a playlist on my Mac. . . . maybe I can export a playlist
Oh, that was ugly - don't follow me! I imported the playlist into my library and I now appear to duplicates of every playlist related to music (and the two called 4star are both empty). Great (eSarcasm).

First thing to get out of the way is ratings do not transfer from iPod to iTunes in manual syncing. Try using sync selected playlists mode. Then set up iPod to sync the playlists you want on iPod.

Transferring Star ratings in iTunes

After using iTunes on a windows machine for years, I have taken the plung and purchased a mini-MAC. I have transferred all my songs from iTunes on the windows machine to iTunes on the mini-MAC. I have also figured out how to import my playlists from the PC to the MAC. Is there any way to "transfer" the star ratings of the songs from the PC iTunes to the MAC iTunes? I would really hate to lose the ratings on over 2000 songs?
Thanks
Mini Mac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I did it by making 5 separate smart playlists on the original machine, called '5star', '4star', '3star', etc. Then I exported the playlists - but as .txt files, NOT .xml files.
I imported these playlists onto the new machine, then selected each of the imported playlists, one at a time, and assigned the appropriate star rating to all songs in each list. (Ctrl-A will select all songs in each list; then Ctrl-I will bring up one Info screen for each entire playlist, and you can go to the Options tab to set the star rating for all songs in each list.)
Once I figured it out, it went pretty fast. You can delete both the smart playlist and the imprted lists after the ratings are assigned.

How to keep star ratings between catalogs?

I'm sure this has been addressed, but can't seem to find it. My issue is simple: I have rated keeper images in one catalog, and I want to bring them into another catalog with those star ratings intact. I have saved metadata to the file, and I have "write xmp to file" checked. I'm dealing with RAW and jpegs, LR 4.2 OSX 10.7.5 What's the solution?

The easiest solution is to use one catalog for all of your photos. Then there is no issue now, or in the future, of making sure both catalogs have the same star ratings (and many other benefits as well).
But if you must have multiple catalogs, you can transfer the start ratings like this: select the desired photos in one catalog, then File->Export as Catalog, then go to the 2nd catalog and File->Import from Catalog. This makes sure that the star ratings match at the instant you do it. Future changes to star ratings would require you to repeat the process, as often as necessary, as you cannot keep these two catalogs in sync any other way. Hence the suggestion in the first paragraph

Star ratings on iphone aren't displaying proplerly in itunes

Hello,
I am new to the community, so this may be a very stupid problem that i am having.
No matter how many times i sync my iphone with itunes, the star ratings that i have assigned songs on my iphone will not display correctly in itunes.
I understand that the ratings wont sync with the itunes library. I just want the iphone's library that is displaying on my computer screen to match with star ratings on the actual iphone.
Example:
I give a song on my iphone a 1-star rating, connect my iphone to my computer, open itunes and sync my iphone, click on the iphone icon and find the same exact song in my iphone's library,
only to find that the song is showing to have never been given a star rating.
Please help me!!!
My star ratings are very important to me, and i have never had trouble with this before in all of my years of owning apple products.
Thank you in advance.

Sounds like you haven't had and never had Sync Apps selected under the Apps tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes and now you are wanting to select this after downloading all apps with your iPhone.
With your iPhone connected to iTunes and without syncing, at the iTunes menu bar go to File and select Transfer Purchases From - the name of your iPhone. This will copy all 3rd party apps - paid and free from your iPhone to your iTunes library.
Follow this by selecting Sync Apps under the Apps tab for your iPhone sync preferences and leave this selected. This way you can remove an app from your iPhone by deselecting the app under the apps tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes followed by a sync. To re-install the app on your iPhone at a later date, reselect the app under the apps tab for your iPhone sync preferences followed by a sync. After downloading an app with iTunes on your computer, the app will be pre-selected under the apps tab for your iPhone sync preferences. Sync with iTunes to install the new app on your iPhone. And after downloading an app with your iPhone, the app will be copied to your iTunes library on your computer the first time you sync your iPhone with iTunes after doing so.

LR Star Ratings into iPhoto?

I routinely export a (relatively small) portion of my LR catalog as jpgs and import those into iPhoto ('08) for online sharing, syncing with iPod touch and a few other reasons. LR keywords move over just fine but I'm not able to get the star ratings out of LR and into iPhoto. Is there a way to do that?

As a work around, you could also add "onestar" "twostars" type keywords to the photos in LR so that you'd be able to call them up in iPhoto and apply the iPhoto stars en masse if you wanted.
And, with iPhoto's smart folders, it should work pretty well.

Export Masters to include star ratings, places, faces, and tags?

I have 25,000 photos at about 2.5 mb each that I have imported into Aperture. The original import file was about 60gb. The current Aperture file is about 205gb. If I export masters, I get a file that is 60gb (same aas the orignal import file. If I export versions, I get a file that is about 150gb. During import, I may have had the import adjustment preset at "quick fixes"; possibly creating a new version for all 25,000 photos.
I tried importing orignal masters with no auto adjustments ad by setting previews at lower quality and the dimensions that match my macbook pro with about a 40% change in file size.
All of my photos have now been adjusted, tagged, geo-tagged, and facial recognized. I do not want t lose that.
I am trying to export the masters to an external drive with all of my star ratings, places, faces, and tags in order to import them to a smaller file.
Once, I get all of my adjusted photos into Aperture, I do not really care about the masters.
How do I export my master files with all of the tags? Or how do I export my versions without having to keep the bloated file of 150gb instead of 60gb? What is attached to the versions that would more than double th efile size?
Thank you

Sunblock,
Once, I get all of my adjusted photos into Aperture, I do not really care about the masters.
Don't take this the wrong way, but what you are trying to accomplish goes agains the most basic design of Aperture. Aperture is intended to keep your masters safe and unadulterated, while giving you the opportunity to export your versions on demand.
If I export masters, I get a file that is 60gb (same aas the orignal import file. If I export versions, I get a file that is about 150gb.
Your versions do not take up 150 GB in the Aperture library. They take up several K for the "recipe", and then some small thumbnails and preview images. The only reason you see that the versions are 150 GB is because you exported them and looked at what Aperture generated at your request.
How do I export my master files with all of the tags? Or how do I export my versions without having to keep the bloated file of 150gb instead of 60gb? What is attached to the versions that would more than double th efile size?
Your masters are supposed to stay exactly the same as when you imported them. However, when exporting masters, you can choose, in the Metadata selection, to "Include IPTC"; this includes some of the metadata. I am unsure of the exact items it includes, though. Some of the things you can do in Aperture are not supported by general metadata formats.
As for exporting the versions, you don't get a "bloated file". Rather, you get many (25000?) files. Depending on your export preset, it is entirely possible that each exported version is larger than its corresponding imported master. Check the "Export Preset" selection when you export versions to see what format Aperture is making. There is nothing "attached" to versions. Each one is a completely independent picture file.
I am trying to export the masters to an external drive with all of my star ratings, places, faces, and tags in order to import them to a smaller file.
Not sure what you are getting at here. What do you mean by "import them into a smaller file?" Do you mean that you want to get rid of your Aperture library package (which is actually hundreds of thousands of files) and replace it with a different Aperture library which is smaller? Again, you might want to rethink this. It is not what Aperture is intended for -- you are giving up good, quality photos for something inferior. Why do you want to replace your photos with something inferior?
nathan

Star Ratings

Hello folks-
Not sure if anyone else is having this issue getting into aperture but thought I'd ask...
I'm conceptually okay with the file structure but the thing that is doing my head in is the ratings system. I wonder if this is a function of my photographic inexperience? I shoot a variety of things as a hobbyist and for my own research but not in a professional sense. I initially ignored the ratings, but have come to realize that the system is quite key to the organization of a large number of images within aperture. Now I'm reimporting all my images and rating and tagging them as they come back in.
I did some reading about ratings and was a bit daunted by the 5 pass system suggested by the manual, so decided to try the three tier system suggested by Bagelturf, i.e. *= not awful; **= good; *= proud of. I boldly waded into about a thousand photos from a recent trip to the middle east and found that this was not sufficient. The not awful photos were just that, not awful but kind of boring. The photos to be proud of, I was proud of. The majority were just two star, good images. So at the end I had a slightly smaller pile of 'okay' images. Clearly, that ratings system did not really work for me.
So now I'm considering a four tier system, adding in a 'best of project/trip/place' category in betwixt good and proud and leaving the five star category for when I get better at photography...
Would anyone else be willing to share their rating technique or ideas?
Thanks,
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I agree it is important not to get too tense about how accurate any given rating is. Also, I find that ratings change over the course of reviewing a project more than once. It is not all that important!
My protocol is as follows, but I would love to hear what other folks do.
• Rejects: out of focus or otherwise technically not good.
• No stars: not reviewed yet.
• One star: too lame to show to the client but perhaps some future cut-and-paste partial usage.
• 2 stars: lame but some clients might find it useful.
• 3 stars: solid journeyman work but unexciting, maybe submit to client.
• 4 stars: good technically and compositionally, for sure submit to client.
• 5 stars: best of project.
What actually gets submitted to the client and/or used actually depends on the project, how many pix are needed and on the client. Star ratings are just a general ranking within a given project.
I find that I never know what I might want to use a pic for in the future. I know that I am capable of visually reviewing thousands of digital pix very quickly. In addition to keywords the star ratings help me refine the review process. If I am looking for trees for a background I might filter for 1 star and better, keyword trees; trees as a main ad image I might filter for 4 stars and better, keyword trees.
Another use for rankings is to determine which pix get edited. Typically 4 and above get tweaked, 3 and below do not get tweaked until a specific need for the image exists (e.g. the client likes it). However, every project is different.
-Allen Wicks

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