Rick, What's the difference in Aperture's and LR organization? I use LR, after Aperture didn't do a couple of things I needed, of course now Aperture does! John
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Rick Burnett <[email protected]> wrote: > I have one of the new 2.8Ghz Macbook Pros with 4GB RAM and 512mb VRAM. > On it Aperture still seems sloooow. > I've gone back and forth between it and Lightroom because there are aspects > of both that I like. Lightrooms performance on this machine blows away > Aperture, but Aperture's organization and workflow keep pulling me back in. > Should this machine be able to properly handle a program like Aperture? > Moving sliders around in adjustments mode is very slow, unlike doing so in > Develop mode in LR. > > I would be able to deal with the lagginess of Aperture if it could do a few > of the things that LR can, like import as DNG and write metadata and > keywords to the file (a big issue for me). > > I've managed to come up with a workflow that uses both of the programs, but > it would be nice to just use one. Currently, I import my RAW files as DNGs > using LR and store them in my Pictures folder in a Year>Year-Month>Month-Day > structure (2009 > 2009-07 > 07-14, etc.). All keywording is done via LR and > saved to the file. > Then imported into a new project in Aperture (all the keywords are > recognized), and edited there (even dealing with the slowness, because > browsing is so much better in than LR). > > Anyone have any suggestions to improve this workflow, or to speed up > Aperture, or a way to have Aperture write the keywords to the actual files > (without having to export then re-import the files)? > > Rick > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > -- U-2 & SR-71 web page http://www.blackbirds.net Those who would sacrifice Liberty for Security deserve neither -Benjamin Franklin Read the Constitution - It's Interesting! http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html Blog: http://johnsstone.tumblr.com/
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