Migrate from iPhoto to Aperature...

Hello,
I've been shooting (digitally) wildlife & nature photography for roughly the past 5 years. I started managing all my photos in iPhoto but I'm looking to migrate to Aperature. But, I'm wondering if there's any sort of way to migrate settings set in iPhoto into Aperature? For example, my image ratings, keywords, etc. As I have 5+ years worth of images all organized in iPhoto, I'm hoping I wouldn't have to start from scratch moving into Aperature (especially consider how tightly integrated most Apple software is).
Any advice from anyone on this...?
Thanks,
Kristin.

Ok, checked it out and it didn't have any information in regards to migrating images from iPhoto into Aperture and whether or not it imports keywords/rankings that were originally assigned in iPhoto.
Does anyone else have any information on this?
Basically, I'm trying to decide between Aperture and Lightroom and I know Lightroom won't import iPhoto keywords, etc. so I'm really hoping Aperture will (as, with over 15,000 tagged/ranked images, it would be a huge job to redo it all from scratch).
Thanks,
Kristin.

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Let us know what you decide to do!

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