Comments on: Apple releases new version of Aperture 3.0 http://blog.planet5d.com/2010/02/apple-releases-new-version-of-aperture-3-0/ the best HDSLR community on the planet! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:50:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James Craig http://blog.planet5d.com/2010/02/apple-releases-new-version-of-aperture-3-0/comment-page-1/#comment-1445 James Craig Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:34:41 +0000 http://blog.planet5d.com/?p=3245#comment-1445 I FINALLY have Aperture 3 running. Great, great, great update with but two issues. First the minor one: Where the heck is the obviously needed lens barrel distortion filter? I love the ability to switch Libraries on the fly. Cool. All in all, very satisfying, AFTER GETTING THE OLD FILE updated. Now the serious problem of upgrading from previous versions. Hard, bad experience brings the following tips: 1-BACK up your Aperture 2 libraries first. You may need them. 2- Turn off screensaver. It can take a while and use a LOT of processor. You DO NOT need this complication, believe me. 3- DO NOT LEAVE THE CHECK BOX CHECKED for reprocessing images. NOT NECESSARY and makes the process last hours, as many as 24 depending on number of images in your library. 10 times the time without it. Plus, even without it you will have all of the new tools, plus, at the top of the Adjustments column, a big bad BUTTON for Reprocessing the individual file, almost instantly, Cool. Steve Jobs should be absolutely pissed about this. Pros with large libraries, who don't test it out on a smaller file, will suffer greatly and needlessly. 4- After installation, turn off horrible faces or face more interminable hours of not being able to use the app while it processes faces. 5- DO NOT mess with the size of the thumbnails in preferences, or face complete reprocessing all over again, a process that can be never-ending. Apple does not seem to have built in a way to stop reprocessing once begun. Even after quitting. The fact that during upgrade Reprocessing is on by default is SIMPLY INSANE. Again, turn it off. I have four large libraries, all with images stored separately. Three converted well. The fourth, the smallest, is where I made all the wrong choices. Apple's failure to caution and guide Aperture 2 users in reprocessing is going to create a living hell for a lot of people. For no reason. I FINALLY have Aperture 3 running. Great, great, great update with but two issues. First the minor one: Where the heck is the obviously needed lens barrel distortion filter? I love the ability to switch Libraries on the fly. Cool. All in all, very satisfying, AFTER GETTING THE OLD FILE updated.

Now the serious problem of upgrading from previous versions. Hard, bad experience brings the following tips:

1-BACK up your Aperture 2 libraries first. You may need them.
2- Turn off screensaver. It can take a while and use a LOT of processor. You DO NOT need this complication, believe me.
3- DO NOT LEAVE THE CHECK BOX CHECKED for reprocessing images. NOT NECESSARY and makes the process last hours, as many as 24 depending on number of images in your library. 10 times the time without it. Plus, even without it you will have all of the new tools, plus, at the top of the Adjustments column, a big bad BUTTON for Reprocessing the individual file, almost instantly, Cool. Steve Jobs should be absolutely pissed about this. Pros with large libraries, who don’t test it out on a smaller file, will suffer greatly and needlessly.
4- After installation, turn off horrible faces or face more interminable hours of not being able to use the app while it processes faces.
5- DO NOT mess with the size of the thumbnails in preferences, or face complete reprocessing all over again, a process that can be never-ending.

Apple does not seem to have built in a way to stop reprocessing once begun. Even after quitting. The fact that during upgrade Reprocessing is on by default is SIMPLY INSANE. Again, turn it off.

I have four large libraries, all with images stored separately. Three converted well. The fourth, the smallest, is where I made all the wrong choices.

Apple’s failure to caution and guide Aperture 2 users in reprocessing is going to create a living hell for a lot of people. For no reason.

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]]> By: Gary http://blog.planet5d.com/2010/02/apple-releases-new-version-of-aperture-3-0/comment-page-1/#comment-1434 Gary Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:46:01 +0000 http://blog.planet5d.com/?p=3245#comment-1434 Tried it this evening - no good. Still like Lightroom or Raw Developer color much better. The process of using lightroom generally takes longer. One pro - interface is great. If Lightroom or Raw Developer were to get Aperture's inerface... Tried it this evening – no good. Still like Lightroom or Raw Developer color much better. The process of using lightroom generally takes longer. One pro – interface is great. If Lightroom or Raw Developer were to get Aperture’s inerface…

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