Aperture Assistant, the visual automation tool for use with Apple Aperture. Build automated workflows of any complexity using a simple visual interface, and perform tasks that can't be done with Aperture alone.

Aperture Assistant supports Aperture 1.5.6, and Aperture 2.0 and above, on OS X 10.4 and OS X 10.5.


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A small selection of Aperture Assistant's features:

• Automatically find all Libraries on your computer and easily swap between them.
• Export images using different presets depending on metadata/ratings etc.
• Export to different folders depending on metadata.
• Export echoing Aperture's internal organisational structure.
• Open exported files in another application, without setting up a hot folder.
• Export any combination of metadata to comma- or tab-delimited text files, one per output folder or one per Version.
• Set metadata and Version Names from other metadata, for instance setting up more complex date naming.
• Find and replace in metadata.
• Find all the Albums that a Version appears in and then reveal those Albums (Aperture 2.1 and higher).
• Add Versions to Albums automatically (Aperture 2.1 and higher).
• Make Burn Folders directly from the Masters, whether they are managed or referenced.
• Create Keynote presentations with body and title text based on metadata.
• Find and tag duplicate Masters.