Can Aperture write manually added GPS coordinates back to original RAW and MOV files?
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In Aperture 3, I’m adding GPS/location data to photos manually. My originals are Sony cRAW2 stills and MOV video files. When I export originals, the added GPS coordinates are not retained, but exporting versions does keep the location data. Is there any way in Aperture to write those GPS coordinates back into the original RAW or MOV files?
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From what I can read this isn't currently possible without the help of a 3rd party plugin.
The "Metadata > Write IPTC Metadata to Original" command within Aperture is the closest I can find but the definition that Aperture 3 uses for IPTC metadata does not include GPS information unfortunately.
There's more discussion on this in Apple's discussion forums here (There are other useful discussions but I'm currently unable to post more than two links in this reply)
The 3rd party plugin that referenced on those pages (Ubermind's MapaturePro which is no longer currently available) can be downloaded here although I was unable to install it past it's registration step unfortunately, presumably because it was unable to contact Ubermind's now offline servers to complete registration.
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Not with Aperture alone. Aperture 3’s built-in command "Metadata > Write IPTC Metadata to Original" does not write GPS/location data to the original files, so manually added coordinates won’t be embedded back into your RAW or MOV originals. That’s why the metadata appears in exported versions but not when you export the originals unchanged.
Based on the community answers, the only workaround was a third-party plugin, but the referenced option is no longer practically usable. So, in normal Aperture 3 use, you should assume GPS metadata can be stored in the Aperture library/database and in exported versions, but not written back into the original cRAW2 or MOV files.
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