I don’t use Aperture but my guess is you may have lost the .THM files when you imported your disk to Aperture. See Part 1 of my article here:

http://www.snappertalk.com/index.php/20100328/canon-e1-plugin-workflow/

Specifically this bit…..

Of course you still have to make sure you ingest with .MOV in uppercase and that all the associated sidecar files such as .THM files are present (I think)

That said I haven’t actually tried to do it without the .THM files, but I seem to remember people on some of the forums reporting that they were necessary.

Perhaps try it again with some freshly shot footage complete with all the sidecar files. It wouldn’t help with your existing footage in Aperture, but at least you might be able to narrow down the problem.

Let us know if that’s the problem or not… Good luck

Ben

This seems in theory like exactly what I want to do but I can’t get it to work and wonder if you could help.

I created a folder called DCIM and a subfolder called To Import and then exported a file named “MVI_4082.MOV” from the Aperture library that it is stored in. When I tried to add the DCIM directory through the Log and Transfer window, I got the usual error about: “DCIM” contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media.

Thoughts? Thanks!

I’ve been thinking aboout this workflow a little while and finding your article made it just so simple. Mant thanks for your time and effort in explaining this in a great way.

Hugo

In the lower left of the box click the checkbox “Show settings – All”