Apple Photos Library Import

Feature Requests
1

I searched through target features and this community but, surprisingly, haven’t seen any reference to supporting Apple Photos Library. As a long time Aperture user, I begrudgingly converted to Photos and have been searching for a workable solution ever since.

While I would gladly abandon Photos for all of my “real” photos, I do like to use iCloud for my phone’s photos. As such, it would be great if I could link Aspect to the Photos library to have it “automagically” add my phone’s photos into the Aspect catalog.

2

For the phone case specifically, we currently have an iOS app in TestFlight (still has some known issues and shouldn’t be used productively just yet): ‎TestFlight im App Store

We could also pretty easily add a new menu entry “Import photos from Apple Photos” that would perform more or less the same on the desktop, just in the form of an explicit import. It wouldn’t import albums and other Photos specific organization and it would create a copy of each photo, so it’s not an ideal solution for working with both systems in parallel, but it would get the job done to make the phone photos available.

3

My simple workflow right now is to import from iOS with Apple Photos to pre-sort them a bit by events. I also split images and videos apart, because Aspect does not handle videos.

I can then export certain albums/events from the Apple Photos Library and move them into aspect as a new event.

4

Sorry, I completely missed replying to this at the time. So we actually added a simple Apple Photos import in the release candidate. This will import all images from the main Photos Library, but does not currently allow things like selective imports, importing albums or importing from an external Photos library.

I also split images and videos apart, because Aspect does not handle videos

More details on this would be interesting. Aspect in general does support videos and is also using the operating system provided framework on macOS, so in theory it should support all formats that are supported by Finder/Quicktime. Do you have any particular video formats that don’t work or are not displayed at all?