Aperture doesn’t export all EXIF header info
Comments(6) While playing around with the new geotagging Places feature in iPhoto ’09 I was pretty stunned by the fact that Aperture 2.1.2 doesn’t export the full EXIF header info when exporting photos from an Aperture project. I already found out that Aperture doesn’t include all EXIF fields for its preview pictures but I expected it to write all EXIF fields when doing a full-size JPEG-export and the Include Metadata option is selected in the export options.
Missing EXIF fields include:
- Altitude
- Latitude
- Longitude
- Lens model
- Lens minimum (mm)
- Lens maximum (mm)
- Flash exposure correction
- Serial number
All my exported and geotagged photos from Aperture do not show up with coordinates in iPhoto’s Places :( What’s even more disturbing is that this information is lost whenever an external plugin creates a new version according to this lone thread on Flickr.
Does anyone know a workaround? Is there a better export plugin?
EXIF header as seen by Aperture
EXIF header as seen by EXIFviewer
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If your goal is to get things correct in both Aperture and Iphoto ’09, then you need to alter your workflow slightly. If I recall, you are importing into Aperture, the out to GeoPhoto.
This works better…
1) Save your pic’s to a “scratch” folder (don’t import yet).
2) Geotag with Geophoto, update originals
3) Import into Aperture
4) Add to iPhoto ’09 using “Open Aperture Library” function.
This preserves everything intact, and it all works.
Took me forever to figure it all out as I had some of the sme issues you are now experiencing.
I use Aperture to submit my project, and face axactly the same problem. Been searching onine for solution without avail. This should be a show stopper, without lens info is simply unacceptable. Because of this, I will have to insert manually to the hundreds of photos
Relocate your masters to a location outside of Aperture’s control (eg, right click on an image or project, choose Relocate Masters, and place into another folder – in my case, I created a “Photo Library” directory off of my Photos directory). Once you do that, you can export with this data. I came across this accidently.
[...] to see what photos we’re about to import from our camera. I also checked if they fixed an annoying EXIF metadata export issue when exporting a photo – and to my big surprise, they did! EXIF [...]
[...] since the release of Aperture, Apple only half-heartedly supported metadata in exported photo’s. I don’t know why but Apple decided not to export useful metadata [...]
Sigh… It’s been almost 2 years since this was posted and Apple continue to strip basic EXIF fields from exported versions.