Aperture 1.5: First Impressions
2006-09-30
My first impression is that my machine is going to be very busy for a long time.
After updating to 10.4.8 I installed and ran Aperture 1.5. After selecting to update my library, my Mac went to work. First there is a preparation stage during which I think it copies all the non-image library information to a safe place. Then it converts projects one by one. Then it validates the projects one by one, presumably comparing them against the data it save during preparation. At this point the projects start to reappear in the projects pane. Then it upgrades all the albums one by one and they reappear.
Then it is done! But not quite. In the background it is generating previews, about 20,000 of them in my case. This will take a while (it is still going). Use Window > Show Tasks List to see how far it has to go:
At the rate it is processing them right now, I have about 4.5 hours still to go. I can use Aperture in the meantime, but I know it is going to be sluggish.
To find out how to use the new loupe, go to Help > Late Breaking News. You bring up the old loupe first (tilde, above the TAB key on my US keyboard), then select View > Use Centered Loupe (command shift tilde). The manual that is in the Help menu is more up to date than the one on the Apple web site, but still incomplete.
The most obvious visual difference is that the keys 1 through 8 no longer add metadata to images. Option 1 through 8 do that. Keys 1 through 5 are now used to change ratings. 0 now means not rated and 9 means reject. + and - increase and decrease as before.
Clicking on the filter button brings up the filter much faster for projects with a lot of keyworded images.
After updating to 10.4.8 I installed and ran Aperture 1.5. After selecting to update my library, my Mac went to work. First there is a preparation stage during which I think it copies all the non-image library information to a safe place. Then it converts projects one by one. Then it validates the projects one by one, presumably comparing them against the data it save during preparation. At this point the projects start to reappear in the projects pane. Then it upgrades all the albums one by one and they reappear.
Then it is done! But not quite. In the background it is generating previews, about 20,000 of them in my case. This will take a while (it is still going). Use Window > Show Tasks List to see how far it has to go:
At the rate it is processing them right now, I have about 4.5 hours still to go. I can use Aperture in the meantime, but I know it is going to be sluggish.
To find out how to use the new loupe, go to Help > Late Breaking News. You bring up the old loupe first (tilde, above the TAB key on my US keyboard), then select View > Use Centered Loupe (command shift tilde). The manual that is in the Help menu is more up to date than the one on the Apple web site, but still incomplete.
The most obvious visual difference is that the keys 1 through 8 no longer add metadata to images. Option 1 through 8 do that. Keys 1 through 5 are now used to change ratings. 0 now means not rated and 9 means reject. + and - increase and decrease as before.
Clicking on the filter button brings up the filter much faster for projects with a lot of keyworded images.
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