Monday, May 30, 2011 at 10:29 AM ApertureExpert Live Training Session 007: Keywords
Welcome to the seventh ApertureExpert Live Training session!
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This session is all about keywords in Aperture 3. We’ll move on to Adjustments soon, I promise, but this important metadata topic should not be overlooked. Keywording can be easy if, like everything else in Aperture, you develop a consistent strategy. We’ll look at understanding Aperture’s hierarchical keywording capabilities, applying keywords, searching by them, and more.
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Agenda
30 minutes - lesson
15 minutes - Q&A
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Reader Comments (5)
Another great live training! I swear I'd be fairly lost in Aperture without these. Thanks!
I had my place reserved, unfortunately I missed it though :(
I look forward to the download version coming out.
My favorite so far. But I would probably say that after each one. You answered 9 out of my 10 questions before we even got to the questions, and then you answered the 10th! Thanks for another great session.
G,day Joseph,
Sorry to be so far back on this session, but I rewatched it the other day, and a question of roundtripping from Aperture to other external editors plugins indicated that the Keyword Hierarchy was lost and it came back in a flat state and so could potentially generate a whole lot of new keywords
Wedding:Reception:Cake would become three separate keywords, Wedding, Reception, Cake and thus make a mine field of searching possibilities.
I catalog a lot of scientific names for some of the natural history I do. I also use extensively the Nik software plugins, mostly the noise and sharpening and occasionally Viveza.
Did you ever solve the problem, or is it something that we have to put up with, and perhaps do Keywording later in the workflow?
Regards
David
David,
I haven't seen this get fixed, but I also haven't checked in ages. It's easy enough to test; I'd say give it a go.
Using the hierarchical keywords makes perfect sense in your line of work, doesn't it. How frustrating.
It'd be more work, but if you want to keep the hierarchy searchable you could always add multiple keywords, like this:
1. Kingdom
2. Kingdom+Phylum
3. Kingdom+Phylum+Class
etc. etc. I don't know what separator would make the most sense (I put + in there but I haven't tested this). Commas would NOT be good because they could be interpreted as separate keywords in external apps.
It's an idea… maybe not a great one, but an idea!
If you want to continue this conversation, please post it in the forum. In fact, maybe you could anyway, as others may see it and have something to offer.
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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