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Aperture 1.5 is out!!
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iGary said:
iGary, are you satisfied with the quality of RAW conversion you get from Aperture 1.5? Seemed to me with the early Aperture versions that my resulting TIFFs lacked the image quality on a pixel level compared with C1. C1 did better with resolving detail, quality of noise, and color accuracy. I like the Aperture workflow and love the integration, but I am not ready to compromise on image quality with such a great alternative (C1).
amin said:
I've always gotten excellent RAW conversion out of Aperture - it's one accolade I can give it. Both the 20D and the 1D work great with it.
I guess what bothers me is that the program can get bogged down. I was sorting through 800 frames of a Blue Angels show I did a few months back last night and it got "tired" at times.
Still some places that are slow. But anyway, I'm "reversing" my workflow back to Aperture since my video card is working properly and the program is usable now.
Does anyone else notice slowness in full-screen mode, specifically with editing controls? There is a decent lag for me, escpecially with landscape-oriented images.
merging libraries and refrence files
Okay, so I have two libraries, one with everything, and one with just the most recent i've done on the laptop... now, how do I go about taking what I have on the laptop and moving it to the main library without now going through and exporting every single project and then importing it into the master library (it's been a while since I've done the transfers and so they've added up).
Also, I want to store the master library on an external but still have the reference files the laptop if I want to play around with them. How does one accomplish that?
And lastly, I take my laptop with me, import in the field, will aperture now update the main library once it's plugged back in and transfer the new project over and leave the reference files? how does this all work?
I've not had the chance to play with this since it's been updating the previews all night now and I have to leave for work, it's amazing how much time it takes to updated 15,000+ images.
Okay, so I have two libraries, one with everything, and one with just the most recent i've done on the laptop... now, how do I go about taking what I have on the laptop and moving it to the main library without now going through and exporting every single project and then importing it into the master library (it's been a while since I've done the transfers and so they've added up).
Also, I want to store the master library on an external but still have the reference files the laptop if I want to play around with them. How does one accomplish that?
And lastly, I take my laptop with me, import in the field, will aperture now update the main library once it's plugged back in and transfer the new project over and leave the reference files? how does this all work?
I've not had the chance to play with this since it's been updating the previews all night now and I have to leave for work, it's amazing how much time it takes to updated 15,000+ images.
FleurDuMal said:Soooo...anyone got any experiences of Aperture 1.5 running on a fully souped up Macbook (2.0 Ghz, 2GB)??? Please?
Run's pretty well in my opinion. There is a bit of stuttering but never any long delays. I would say it is totally usable on a MacBook.
BTW, I'm running a MacBook with 2GB of RAM.
The update previews is taking a while. (you can see the progress by under the Window pull down menu by selecting "Task List".
Attachments
I'm going to sound stupid here, but what is the difference between the old loupe and the new centred loupe? (I don't own Aperture).
in case you havent noticed check the size of your aperture library
because of the previews mine has grown by 15GB...
1-2mb for each image
because of the previews mine has grown by 15GB...
1-2mb for each image
adamfilip said:
Yup, means I am going to have to think about swapping my main storage on my masters etc....
pdpardue said:
I follow the same exact flow. I was excited when I heard about the new way Aperture would store files... but it still doesn't solve my issue in the best way.
I have over 50GB of images, many of which are on a library on my firewire drive. I only keep photos from ongoing projects on the library on my MacBook Pro's HDD.
Ideally there would be a main library on your Macbook and an archived one on your firewire drive. You should be able to archive projects which would remove them from the MacBook leaving only the previews and move them to the archive library.
I've figured a way around this though...
Here's my new workflow.
Set up
1) Open Old Firewire Aperture Library
2) Export all the projects into a folder anywhere.
3) Delete the Firewire Aperture Library and open Aperture using the MacBook Pro Aperture Library (which will be the only one ever used from now on)
4) Copy all the projects (that we previously exported) into Aperture
-- Now you have all your photos in one Library on your MacBook Pro --
5) Create New Folder on FIREWIRE HDD called "Aperture Photography"
6) In Aperture, select each project (that you want to archive) and FILE> Relocate Masters for Project and put them in the new folder on your firewire HDD: Aperture Photography
Now you should have a nice light Aperture Library whose Masters are located on your Firewire HDD and Previews that look great on screen but don't take up as much space as Print Size photos which you don't need anyway until you're ready to print.
Now the work flow is simple
Work Flow
1) Shoot
2) Import photos into Aperture on MacBook Pro
3) Arrive at the studio and relocate those masters to the Firewire HDD
Taaaadaaa!
I gave Aperture another go, and the image quality from RAW conversions is better than I recall it being with 1.0. On my iMac, it is still painfully slow compared with C1.
Rev B 20" iMac
I have yet to install Aperture...receiving Ver 1.1 today. I intend to install 1.1 then update to 1.5. I have a 20" Rev B iMac, ATI 9600, 2GHz, 1.5GB RAM...any problems? Thanks
For a good Blog article on Previews see:
http://homepage.mac.com/bagelturf/
Platform said:For me this has been a good update, switched back from PS and iPhoto...
I have yet to install Aperture...receiving Ver 1.1 today. I intend to install 1.1 then update to 1.5. I have a 20" Rev B iMac, ATI 9600, 2GHz, 1.5GB RAM...any problems? Thanks
For a good Blog article on Previews see:
http://homepage.mac.com/bagelturf/
NevadaJack said:
Loaded 1.1, upgraded to 1.5, imported some images and working like a charm. Checked out the export to CS2, emailing images, all the editing tools, the loupe and set up my initial Project and Album files. Speed is excellent but I have yet to import about 3500 images. I am not building Previews until I need them.
Padriac said:
I'll go ahead and answer my own question: Aperture will not install on Rev A. G5 iMacs.