Remember then to delete all Smart Albums from Aperture before you start using Aperture Exporter. These are given the keyword “Video” using the same process. Also create a Smart Album and using the search function within Aperture, put in all the files which are Video Clips. The way to do this is to create a Smart Album for photos with “No Adjustments”, select them all, and do a batch change adding the keyword “No Adjustments”. Keep these “smaller” folders under 4,000 images as exporting over this number seemed to create problems importing into Aperture Exporter.Īdd the keyword “No Adjustments” to all images that have no adjustments to them in Aperture. Sort the photos into folders which can be exported as smaller, separate libraries – rather than try to export for example a 400GB library in one session. If you have keywords which denote which photos are in albums in Aperture it’s really easy to recreate your structure in LR.ģ.
#LIGHTROOM 6.2 IMPORT MANUAL#
The reason for this is that your photos will import as originals and you will have to do a manual “sort” into albums (called “Collections” in LR). Time consuming but will make life easier later! (c) Write the keyword for each album next to its name on the printed out sheet (see Step 1). (b) Use Shift-Command-B to bring up the Metadata Box to Batch Change and assign a keyword which is reflective of the Album name. Give each photo which is in an album a keyword – Print it out, and then if you want you can go through through each project, folder, and album, and write the number of photos in each of these on the printed out copy so that later you can verify that they imported into Lightroom 6.Ģ. Take a screenshot of each small library being created (Cmd-Control-Shift-4 to put it on the clipboard) then Cmd V to paste into a Word document. Break the original Aperture Library into smaller ones. Don’t panic! This part will make more sense later! What you need to understand is that your smaller Aperture libraries will export and have the same Aperture icon and you will also have other files which Aperture Exporter will create for you and these are used to import into Lightroom CC/6.ġ.
![lightroom 6.2 import lightroom 6.2 import](https://photographylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Lightroom-Subfolders.jpg)
So, for example there is a folder called OLD PHOTOS (a sub-section of the original library) and AE OLD PHOTOS (this is the OLD PHOTOS exported from this small Aperture Library to Aperture Exporter and is the file that is later imported by Lightroom). These were differentiated from the smaller Aperture libraries by the prefix AE. This was used to hold both the smaller, broken up libraries from my original “complete” Aperture library and also was used to hold the files which Aperture Exporter creates. Note that Projects in Aperture are called Folders in LR6 whilst Albums in Aperture are called Collections in LR CC/6.Īnother external drive was bought specifically for the migration process and it was named “Smaller Aperture Libraries”. I wanted to recreate this structure in Lightroom 6. Lots of folders/sub-folders and albums! And my library has photos which appear in multiple albums. For example – folder FAMILY – folder for each CHILD’S NAME – another album within a particular child’s name, e.g., HANG-GLIDING etc. The second part of my Aperture library consists of Folders which contain sub-folders and albums. Very easy to find a photo on a certain date and very easy when doing Photobooks or videos in chronological order. Each year has its own folder, and the Projects (i.e., Masters/Originals) reside in those Folders. In other words, the date the images were taken and a brief description. The first part is all of my Projects dated, for example 2015_12_25 Xmas Day. My 400GB library is a single Managed Library in Aperture and resides on an external drive (backed up of course!) My Aperture library is in 2 sections of organisation.
![lightroom 6.2 import lightroom 6.2 import](https://westernfancy749.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/4/1/124133530/456665569.jpg)
#LIGHTROOM 6.2 IMPORT PRO#
Macbook Pro 17” 2012 with 27” Apple Display 2014. This is a very simple step-by-step guide as I could not find anything with a really detailed description of the process for someone reasonably competent but not expert and who has a highly organised Aperture library of Projects, Folders and Albums!
#LIGHTROOM 6.2 IMPORT HOW TO#
Just scroll down to the bottom of this page to download it.Ī STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS TO GET PHOTOS FROM APERTURE TO LIGHTROOM CC/6 USING APERTURE EXPORTER – AND HOW TO RECREATE YOUR FOLDER/ALBUM STRUCTURE This document is also available as a pdf.
![lightroom 6.2 import lightroom 6.2 import](https://valeriegoettsch.com/wp-content/uploads/new-lightroom-cc-2015-6.2.png)
One of our customers was gracious enough to share her experience with AE and created this guide which many people may benifit from.