Some questions about Aperture 3

Ok, let's give this a go.

1. I have a new library for every three month period. So four libraries a year. I keep my current, working library on my MBP's internal SSD and the rest on an external RAID.

2. Aperture can store videos as well as photos. So this will work just fine. You might consider a separate library for your digitised family videos to keep them organised, but it will work either way.

3. Under Metadata in the menu bar you will find Remove Keywords and an option to remove all keywords.

4. I use the default of half size and a quality setting of 8.

5. Yes, just select the folder and then export the versions. But I'm not sure why you would want to. If it's for backup purposed you can use Aperture's Vaults.

6. It's a little trickier than it could be. You have to just select all the photos in the project and drag them onto the map. OR you can add one photo and then copy that location data to all the others.

 

as far as libraries go, I have them split into different categories. I have four libraries; Waterfalls, mountains/deserts, urban and beaches.

 

Personally I go by 2 year collections. But I keep my RAWs somewhere else so my library size is actually about 34-45GB for 2 years. What do you do when you shoot something else than those 4 categories?

 

well within like the Urban library, I will have folders with like "plants" or "downtown dark cityscapes" or something.