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Off Subject Apple Aperture
Hi All, I know this is off subject, I am hoping some of you FCP users are also using Aperture. Comming from using Photoshop ( I know it is not made to takes it’s place) I am really confused ? when I import where do my images go ? I made the library on an external firewire hd to save space on the MBP. I made the vault on the external drive also. But I can not find a list of my tiff images I imported. I tried a simple export to a disk and burnt and a 2.8 mb image is now a 35mb in size. Any help please. Note, I see the library and the vault on my drive but just do not see the list of images. I am sure its a simple matter I do not where to look/
thanks all
Tom
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Control Click on your Library. Select Show Package Contents. If your photos are in projects, control click on the enclosed projects and do the same.
You should put your Vault on a different disk. The whole point is to have a backup in case the disk fails.
Dont know what you did with the bloated file size photo…probably exported a JPEG as an uncompressed TIFF.
Check out the tutorial that comes with it. Like FCP, its a pretty deep program, and although its interface might seem familiar, the way it works is very different than other programs.
Now back to our regularly scheduled FCP programming.
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you can decide at import where you want your photos stored. use the drop down and it should have library, folder… if you include the photos in the library then everything is all neatly stored away and aperture is managing your photos.
if you would prefer to manage your own files you can have aperture either move or copy the photos to a designated folder, these are then called referenced files. referenced files being stored somewhere else and not in the library will save you size on the library. to save more space in your library you can reduce the size of the previews (which will always be stored in the library). keep in mind that if your referenced photos are on an external drive and that drive is not connected, you can still see the photo (because you are looking at the preview) and you can keyword and stuff like that but you can not make adjustments to the photo (not even crop).
an easy workflow that i have heard a lot of people using is to import the photos from the card to aperture -photos saved to library-. when home or connected to external drive back them up with the vault. you can export the project (save that too for the paranoid) to say your main machine. back on the laptop you can “relocate masters” to someplace else and free up some space. you can still show clients images because you still have the previews.
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