Aperture and 3 Monitors?

Ok, so we know Aperture slows down if you use it across 2 monitors on 2 different video cards. So here is where I'm going. Lets say you have 2 30" monitors running on a 7800 and a 6600. You now add a 23" monitor to the second port on the 7800. How is Aperture set up to deal with 3 monitors. Can you get it to only use the monitors hooked to the 7800 card so as not to have the problem that arises from two separate video cards running Aperture windows?

Thanks for the answer, so now we know there is no
reason to run 3 monitors with Aperture.
Sorry, but we do not know the answer. The setup with
a display mirroring is almost certainly doing that
because that happens to be the way it is set up under
OS X, rather than because of anything to do with
Aperture.
There are lots of reasons to run three displays, the
main one being that with graphics apps more screen
real estate properly managed is very productive. I
only have two monitors but would to have love a
third..
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i just could find how to prevent that from happening
I am not at my work setup right now, but look under
Apple/System Preferences/Displays.
-Allen Wicks
Well I have not set up 3 monitors but it sounds to me that it is Aperture that is setting up how the monitors behave while running Aperture. It simply mirrors one of the other 2 monitors. You know how in Aperture you can set the second monitor to mirror the first, show the desktop, span etc. It sounds like Aperture simply takes the second monitor setting and applies that to the 3rd monitor and not the monitors control panel. If this is true, we have our answer.

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I'm having problems with color in PS CS2 looking a bit flat after doing "edit with" from Aperture. I shoot raw and do most processing in Aperture 2.0, where I have on-screen proofing turned off right now. I "edit with" PS, which exports to a 16-bit .psd file that opens in PS; I understand I have no control over the embedded color profile, which is always Adobe RGB, I believe.
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In Aperture, the adjusted raw and the managed psd file, sitting side by side, look identical in color. If I compare those two images to the same psd image I just opened in Photoshop, the one in the PS window is less saturated. I have the Aperture and PS windows open on the same Cinema monitor, so it's not a monitor difference.
I'm no expert in color management, for sure...what else can I try? I’m going crazy!

I'm no expert in color management
An expert in colour management engineeri can fail in configuring any two ICC-enabled applications for compatible assumptions. Understanding the architecture is one thing and understanding the current conditions for configuration are another.
In such situations as this, the best bet is to ask the Apple ColorSync Users List.
/hh

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http://www.automator.us/aperture/
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After installing the upgrade to 1.5, something went wrong with my printer setup for both my R1800 and my PictureMate Deluxe.
I've done the following:
Reset the printer system.
Reinstalled the Drivers
Attempted to Print from Aperture using about 30 + combinations of settings.
I'm still getting colors that are off and overall dark photos.
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Print Settings
Media Type: Premium Glossy Photo Paper
Color: Color
Mode: Advanced (Photo, High Speed, Finest Detail, Off)
Color Management
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Black Point Compensation = Checked
Gamma 1.10
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Epson doesn't have Aperture and doesn't understand all of the settings. The Apple Care support tech stated that he is not qualified to answer and said to call back when the Aperture team is working. I've got a ton of Christmas gifts to print out!
Assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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william:
you don't state in your original posting whether or not you've calibrated your monitors, especially to a 2.2 Gamma. in order to get the most accurate screen->print matching you have to hardware calibrate your monitors. this is by far the single most significant improvement i've made in my workflow. prior to calibration my monitors were set to a gamma of 1.8 which is much brighter than 2.2 and this causes you to NOT correct your images with the additional exposure required for proper printing. my prints were always too dark prior to calibration.
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scott
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Running Aperture and Slow Performance on MacBook Pro

I am running a MacBook pro w 4 GM interal memory, lost of HD space, and OS 10.8.4. Often when working with Aperture system performance seems very sluggish to the point of becoming unuseable. Export of 20 images to mail can take 10 min. It just becomes so slow as if strangled for memory. I find I shut down other apps but don't think this should be necessary with current OS technology. Any suggestions? Thanks

Have you checked what it going on, when Aperture becomes sluggish?
I'd recommend to launch some diagnostic tools, if you have not already done so:
Aperture's own "Activity Viewer": From the main menu bar: Window > Show Activity
This will tell you, how Aperture is spending its time : rendering, previews, scanning for faces or places, raw processing. Inparticulur, check, if Aperture is hanging while processing one particular image or video over and over again.
The Console window: Launch it from the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. Look, if you see error messages or warnings in this window, when Aperture starts to hang.
The Activity Monitor: Launch it from the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. This window will tell you, which processes are using the cpu, the RAM, and doing page outs to the disk. You can see, if other processing are competing with Aperture and slowing it down, orif Aperture is starved for memory.
How large are images? Do you have very large raw files or scans, or are your photos moderately sized?
Is your library on the internal drive or an external drive?
Do you see this slowness only with your main Aperture library, or also, if you create a new, small library with a few test images?
Regards
Léonie

Printing differences between Aperture and PS

I have been using Aperture for almost two years, but I have never been happy with the results I get when making inkjet prints. I have custom built profiles, calibrated monitor, all goo d color management etc., however I get very different prints from the same files when print from Aperture that I do with Photoshop or Lightroom. Why would Aperture interpret the same profiles differently? And what rendering intent is it using? I built some new profiles yesterday with the XRite ColorMunki and the prints made with PS are an excellent match to the monitor. Some of the darker, more saturated blues in the Aperture printed image go bright purple. Aperture prints a bit lighter than the monitor as well. I am printing from the same saved Tif file that was processed in Aperture, and sending it directly to PS out of Aperture.
Thanks
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Assuming your settings in the Aperture print dialog are what they should be - If you are not sure there are plenty of topics on that, the issue could be the following.
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Delete all the printers from system preferences.
Make sure that you download and install the latest leopard printer drivers (again).
Trash all of your old Aperture preferences.
Put all of your correct preferences back in to the print dialog.
Try again.
RB

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I am new to Aperture. I just purchased the new 24" iMac and have installed Aperture and a new HP B9100 Pro Printer. I have been making test prints directly from Aperture with photos taken on a Nikon D80. None of the prints have come out anywhere near close to how good things look on my monitor. The prints are darker and lack the vividness and detail I see on my screen.
I got better prints from iPhoto and my Canon MP780.
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Thanks.
Roger
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24" iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I have the HP D7160 (uses six inks). I had the same problem, until I spent countless hours testing different parameters.
I had problems with Aperture printing too muddy/dark until I did the following:
On an HP Photosmart D7160:
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In my printer dialog, there is a dropdown menu when you select "print". Under the printer presets, I select "Paper type/quality". In this dropdown, there is a selection for Paper: Color:- I select "Color Sync" (not the printer selected "ColorSmart/RGB")
I also go to the "Color Options" tab and decrease my magenta output to -5.
I saved this as a "HP D7160" preset, so whenever I print, it automatically changes these for me.
Works like a charm now, after a lot of trial and error.

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I'm finding the increased clunkiness of Aperture annoying. Aperture is not the slick trouble free application that I was lead to believe it would be on a high end Mac Book Pro. The feature set is brilliant. The inconsistent speed issues are a pain - even for basic edits.
I'm starting to wonder if Lightroom will be any better. I've tried the beta and the adjustments do appear to be somewhat smoother, which may ultimately result in a more productive workflow application for my purposes.
Releasing the library in 1.5 has enabled Aperture to become another tool in the arsenal - rather than the only tool. From a purely performance based standpoint (and by performance I mean speed of adjustment) I wonder if lightroom will be opened more than Aperture.
Interesting times.
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There must be architectural issues if they are still present on the latest equipment (see the cite above)
On October 13th, the equipment Paul described may have been the latest equipment of the day, but my recently-purchased laptop is a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz with 2MB RAM (and the potential for 3MB). I have the standard 5400 RPM hard drive. Aperture adjustments are smooth on my laptop, with the exception of the straighten tool which has only a slight hint of jerkiness. My RAW images are from an 11 megapixel Canon 1Ds.
BTW, I keep activity monitor open with the dock icon set to a pie chart of system memory. I just adjusted a RAW in Aperture (including straightening and cropping), opened the image from Apterture into Photoshop as a PSD, added several adjustment layers with masks, saved, and back in Aperture did a few more adjustments. Still smooth, with Aperture and Photoshop open at the same time. The combined wired and active system memory never went over 1GB, and there was free memory available the entire time. I can't complain.
-Karen

Aperture and me Ol' G5

Okay... I'm no longer happy with iphoto for I need a bit more bang for me buck so I'm looking at Aperture.
I have a single processor G5 1.6 GHz PowerPC Tower, 1.5 gigs of ram, with a GeForce FX 5200 graphics card.
Now all looks good, but Aperture specs state I need a Geforce FX 5200 Ultra card.
Questions as Follows:
1. Is there difference between a GeForce FX 5200 card and a GeForce FX 5200 Ultra or are they both the same thing? ... or am I in need of an upgrade?
2. What's a good Graphics Card to upgrade to in order to get the best performance out of Aperture?

Certainly, but if Eric's been using iPhoto all this
time and his only complain is that "is not enough" in
terms of features (not performance) in my opinion
Aperture would do just fine on his box with the new
video card.
Absolutely, the G5 is a fine piece of hardware, so why chuck out a working box if it can do mostly what you need. If he doesn't need Pro performance, then so what?
I've just recently bought Aperture, for a similar reason to Eric, and found its performance a little worse than iPhoto, but the extra features are a real advantage, even for a serious hobbyist.
I have a Dual 1.8 G5, about the same era as the 1.6, but of course a bit more poke, and has the same graphics card. I am not seeing the performance issues reported by some, which seem to be with PCI-E cards, rather than the older AGP cards.
We have threads all over the place from people with
PowerBook G4 running Aperture and while is not the
best place to run it, they do just fine. If Eric has
been using iPhoto all this time my gut tells me he
doesn't have to deal with publisher or customer(s)
deadlines. A single G5 1.6 with the ATI video card
should do just fine.
I have it running on an iBook 14" here.
Let's not get caught up on performance discussions
here. Eric's original questions were related
strictly to video cards. The answer to his second
question is (as David mentioned) that the ATI will be
a very good card for his system, and Aperture will
run.
Now, if we want to discuss whether the G5 1.6 is a
computer worth upgrading or replaced by a Mac Pro,
that's a different topic.
I realize that by giving Eric the specs of my box as
a point of reference may have not been the best, and
rather mentioned the people running Aperture on G4s.
It's all what we're used to, and what we need from our system. As for the economics, I think it's very easy to justify upgrading a G5 for better graphics speed. I looked at the possibility of a new Mac, but there are too many cost caveats to consider.
To upgrade my G5, I needed a bit more RAM, I just added another 2GB to make it 4.5GB (which just about seems to the enough now), that was £180 from Crucial. I have also ordered an ATI 9600 card for £130 (the X800 has reports of spiking the PSU). So I've just upgraded my G5 for a bit more use in the future for about the cost of a Mac Mini.
If I bought a new MacPro (which seems to be the general advice given nowadays), I have to buy a new Mac (obviously), which would be about £1500. On top of that, I'd have to add some more RAM anyway, and the stuff in a MacPro isn't cheap, so add another £300. I am also running my Mac on an ADC monitor, so I'd either have to buy an adapter (which is about £90), or a new monitor - perhaps another £300 to get the same quality.
Oh, yes, and I still use some G5 native software too - such as Photoshop Elements, so I wouldn't have any speed advantage there at all. And of course, more expense when the Universal version arrives.
Besides which, judging by all the comments in this forum, I wouldn't necessarily see any performance gain in Aperture anyway (indeed, it might even be worse!).
I would say, on balance, if you don't need outright performance, and you have a G5 PowerMac, then a card and some RAM is without doubt a very viable and economical solution for Eric.
PowerMac G5 DP 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5GB RAM, Formac Gallery, LG Flatron, soon to have an ATI 9600.

Leopard running Aperture and Photoshop really slow

I just got Leopard and my Aperture and Photoshop are running slow and crashing, also when I run Pro Tools it won't boot up all the time. This is really frustrating. I keep loosing files images. This is running like Bill Gates made it.

Have you checked what it going on, when Aperture becomes sluggish?
I'd recommend to launch some diagnostic tools, if you have not already done so:
Aperture's own "Activity Viewer": From the main menu bar: Window > Show Activity
This will tell you, how Aperture is spending its time : rendering, previews, scanning for faces or places, raw processing. Inparticulur, check, if Aperture is hanging while processing one particular image or video over and over again.
The Console window: Launch it from the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. Look, if you see error messages or warnings in this window, when Aperture starts to hang.
The Activity Monitor: Launch it from the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. This window will tell you, which processes are using the cpu, the RAM, and doing page outs to the disk. You can see, if other processing are competing with Aperture and slowing it down, orif Aperture is starved for memory.
How large are images? Do you have very large raw files or scans, or are your photos moderately sized?
Is your library on the internal drive or an external drive?
Do you see this slowness only with your main Aperture library, or also, if you create a new, small library with a few test images?
Regards
Léonie

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None of my apple apps can export files, including Mail, iPhoto, Aperture and Preview. When I try to export a file from any of these programs, the app hangs for a few seconds and then does nothing, not even open an export dialogue. Same thing happens when I try to attach a file to an email. Also, maybe related and maybe not, Photoshop will crash after the splash screen. All of these app function properly when using a different User Account.
I've tried deleting my application preferences in my user library and when that didn't work, I deleted my account and then created a new one that used the same user directory, which still didn't fix anything.
I don't really want to make a new user from scratch and have to re-enter license numbers, re-calibrate monitors, recover bookmarks, contancts, etc. etc. if I don't have to, so I would be grateful for any advice.
Thanks!
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Getting organized with Aperture and iPhoto

Hmm, meanwhile it is a bit of a mess....
Imported my iPhoto library some times back into Aperture 1.1 (thus copied not referenced). So everything is in the rolls projects and referenced in folders/albums (the way Aperture imports an iPhoto library). New stuff is imported into Aperture projects, subdivided with libraries inside. So now I have the the same stuff e.g. "castles" as Aperture project and library (with actual pictures in the iPhoto rolls projects). Started to move the pictures out of the iPhoto rolls projects but that's a lot of work. I'm thinking of deleting the whole iPhoto library in Aperture and reimport it now as referenced pictures to get rid of the duplicates but I will loose any editing I did inside Aperture.
Before I start with this tedious task, I like to know, how you deal with the coexistence of Aperture and iPhoto on your system?
Then there is the other way round, using Aperture pictures in iLife. This can now easily be done with the Aperture preview pics, but the bad thing in this concept is, that you have to decide on the resolution of the previews before you actually know for which task you need them in iLife. For a slideshow you only need monitor resolution, for an iMovie 480p project even less, but for a calendar or book in iPhoto probably the full resolution of the master. So be on the save side and do full resolution previews of all pics wasting a lot of hard-disk space? Or do 1600x1200 previews for slideshows and movies and for books manually import full res versions into iPhoto? Or simply not doing previews at all and transferring all pictures with the resolution needed for the task prior to iPhoto? It would be great, if the iApps would treat the Aperture pics like smart objects in Photoshop, thus generating a preview in the resolution they need, but that is wishful thinking.
Again how do you deal with that?
Thanks for you comments.
Peter
Quad G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) GT 7800

The only way to use pictures in both is to use referenced files, and point both libraries at it. This will be a completely manual process -- both will point to the same RAW files, and you need to import them into both. iPhoto will create a JPEG version it works with, and Aperture will store its info.
There's work there. It's most typical to just stop using iPhoto when you have Aperture. As for previews, the full-resolution ones do take more space, but give you more flexibility. Still, the JPEG generated on quality 8 from a 10 MB RAW file may be 1-1.5 MB. You may worry about the extra space -- but be aware that iPhoto is creating JPEG versions of EVERY file as well. If you stop using iPhoto your net space if you do full res previews will be some sort of savings overall.

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I have been storing my Aperture and IMovie Libraries on an external hard drive that recently died. Fortunately I've been using Time Machine to back up to a 2nd external drive. How do I restore my libraries to a new external hard drive?

This is a tricky one.
Open up Time Machine and go back to a date using the timeline on the right side of the window when you know the drive was working and was backing up as part of Time Machine backups.
Click on the name of your Mac under the Devices heading on the left side of the window in Time Machine, and if things are working correctly you will see Macintosh HD (or whatever you have named it) and the name of the external hard drive that was backing up in the past.
Right-Click on the name of the external hard drive and then click on "Restore (name of drive) to....." You may be asked for your adminstrator password at this point.
It might be easier to restore the drive contents to your desktop if you have room on your Mac, and then copy things over to the new external drive where you want to store the Aperture and iMovie Libraries.
Once the libraries have been moved over the new external hard drive, you will likely need to "point" Aperture and iMovie to the location of the libraries on the new external hard drive.

New to Apple and Aperture-I am surprised at the lack of integration between Aperture and applications as iMovie.

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Since I come from Windows I will be importing most of my photos into Lightroom3 and doing most of my work. Yet, there are features in Aperture that I like and will probably use both for the time being. I am using Aperture 3 and iLife11. New Macbook Pro

I read the manuals and watched the tutorials on the Apple web site as well as F1 in Aperture and never saw a reference to using Windows menu to list photos in iMovie. I check this and it does seem to work. however, you must admit that the procedure for adding text on a photo is limited as compare to iMovie. Maybe, it is because I want to add text to a photo for posting on Mobileme or other photo posting sites so friends can view the photos in a slideshow or one by one.
I assume that you can answer this question. Since I was exporting photos to the desktop so I could import them in iMovie, if I delete the folder on the desktop will they disappear form the project in iMovie? Since I do not like a lot of folders on the desktop can I move them to the Pictures folder and not loose the project links in iMovie?

Did up date for 10.7.4 to 10.7.5 and update for Aperture and now Aperture doesn't open. How do I fix?

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I heard dump the app and reinstall? How do I go about that?

If I install a trial version of Aperture and don't like it, will I be able to still use my photo library in iPhoto?

I'm evaluating both Aperture and Adobe's Lightroom to decide which one meets my needs for the best price (got a deal on Lightroom 3 for $120 and I know Aperture 3 is $79 in the Mac App Store).
I have a few questions:
I currently use iPhoto '11 (9.1.3) and have Photoshop CS4, so I have tools for importing DSLR shots and making pro-type changes in Camera Raw, while also having iPhoto to organize my photo library and syncing Events and Albums with my iPhone and iPad.
I like that I would be able to maintain my iPhoto library data for Faces and Places in Aperture, but am concerned that when the iPhoto library is "upgraded" for Aperture, and I decide I don't really need that program, the upgraded library won't work with iPhoto anymore.
Will I still be able to use iPhoto to access and organize my library, or will it be forever converted for use with Aperture?
I'm considering Lightroom because I have been disappointed with the number of bugs showing up in recent iPhoto releases. I'm a bit weary of buying another photo management software product from Apple. iPhoto '11 crashed my old iMac very frequently (I wound up upgrading to a new iMac due to this and I was expecting to run out of hard drive space in a year or two anyway).
Recently, iPhoto bugs make Events show up multiple times in iTunes when syncing for iPhone and iPad.
If iPhoto management is this unstable, I would like to consider choosing a new method of organizing and syncing to iOS devices and abandoning the iPhoto library method.
Will I find a better user experience with Aperture, or does it also use the single file library and suffer the same struggles iPhoto users have been seeing lately?

I like that I would be able to maintain my iPhoto library data for Faces and Places in Aperture, but am concerned that when the iPhoto library is "upgraded" for Aperture, and I decide I don't really need that program, the upgraded library won't work with iPhoto anymore.
The iPhoto library isn't changed in any way by Aperture. Aperture will import the Library and you can choose to copy the files to the Aperture Library or reference them within iPhoto. As long as you don't delete files from the iPhoto Library via Aperture (which you could do if you choose to Reference) there is no impact on iPhoto
Will I still be able to use iPhoto to access and organize my library, or will it be forever converted for use with Aperture?
They are completely different libraries.
Recently, iPhoto bugs make Events show up multiple times in iTunes when syncing for iPhone and iPad.
Fixed in the 9.1.3 update.
Will I find a better user experience with Aperture, or does it also use the single file library and suffer the same struggles iPhoto users have been seeing lately?
Like iphoto, Aperture can use the "single file library" or it can use a Referenced Library (just like iphoto can). Note that using a Referenced Library offers not a whit more in terms of features or capabilities. It's file storage plain and simple. Nothing more.
No you won't see the "same struggles iPhoto users have been seeing..." because Aperture is an entirely different allication.
But you my see Aperture or Lightroom struggles
Regards
TD

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