Aperture and previews...??

Recently I posted this topic, "throwing rocks" at the NN plug-in...after today, I think this is an application issue with Ap (possibly even with Leopard)...in a session this morning, I selected six images in a project of fifty-something and did the "generate previews" command....the activity label showed "previews" for a while and then quit. When I used the "media inspector" in Apple Mail, to include these previews in an email to a client, only TWO of the images had been indexed and were shown in the inspector window...so, SOMETIMES it works, and sometimes it doesn't...I have re-booted BOTH applications and the OS...results are the same.
any ideas why the program logic doesn't work all of the time??? all of the images I wanted are from the same project with only minor variations in camera settings.
My apologies to Fernando at PictureCode...
cheers,
david

How bigs that project? I've learned that a big project file makes Aperture do whacky stuff.
Chris A.

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Thanks for this - it didn't work, but something else did!!
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Hi all,
It seems that there is a lot of conversation about moving photos between Aperture and iPhoto. For example, some like iPhotos slideshow better but still require Apertures adjustment options. Still others have tried, to no avail, to use Aperture as iPhoto's external editor.
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Cheers

Can I and if so how do I best set up Aperture as main app. (master) with iPhoto as sub app that accesses the same library to sort through, look at, order books, etc.
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+Remember though, you are not accessing the Aperture Library. If you make changes in the Aperture Library (Re-edit the shots) after bringing pics to iPhoto, those changes are not reflected in iPhoto.+
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Is it possible to exclude thumbnails and previews from a vault?

I think in Aperture 1.5, vaults did not include any preview or thumbnail files, but only the files containing metadata, adjustments etc. (and the masters, unless referenced only)
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Hi Matt. You raise an interesting point. What you say makes sense to me.
My general response is: external drives are cheap. Buy what you need and don't spend any time trying to "save" disk space. IME, the administrative overhead is far more costly than the upfront equipment costs.
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There is no way to exclude Previews from Vaults. Each Vault includes all extant Previews.
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You can test your hypothesis. Delete all your Previews, and create a new Vault. Let us know what you find out.
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Disk space - it says 114.43 GB out of 499.25 GB free. I have no idea if that is enough.
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Older or incompatible softweare can cripple your mac. Do you have any older third-party software installed, that might have installed incompatible kernel extensions?
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For most folks using the Previews is pefectly good. And bearing in mind what Facebook will do to the shots there’s no doubt that the Previews will be perfectly adequate.
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APERTURE: Small preview images do not show the changes.

excuse my lousy english...
Problem with Aperture:
Small preview images do not show the changes.
I use Aperture 3 since August 2010. By November and 10 projects later it ran normally.
Since the project 11 are in the preview images shown (on the bottom bar in the shared representation) and in the pictures in the books no adjustments. I change for example a picture in b / w it remains in the small preview images bunt even though the great View Erbild s / w is. Even in the books then the famous picture colorful and even grobpixelig.
This is of course in the processing of multiple images per project huntert pretty annoying to have no overview of processed images ...:-(
I had a third installed for books and not as close a relationship.
Does anyone have similar experience or know someone how can I fix this?
Thanks for reading!
Lokoe

Lokoe,
To make sure we understand:
I change for example a picture in b / w it remains in the small preview images bunt even though the *great View Erbild s / w is*.
I am not sure what "s/w" is, but I think you mean:
"I change picture to black and white and the small preview images remain *in color* even though the *big picture in the Viewer* is in B/W."
Even in the books then the famous picture colorful and even grobpixelig.
"In the books the selected picture is colorful and even ???"
"Grobpixelig" -> "grosspixelig" -> "Looks like big pixels???" Not quite sure of the translation. It's been 15 years since I spoke Deutsch!
nathan

Aperture and iPhoto

I have been following some of the discussion on Aperture and iPhoto. I have not yet purchased Aperture but am seriously considering it. I am attracted to the extensive edits that can be done in Aperture yet I still like the slide show function in iPhoto. It seems that only iPhoto has the one function I would like to use on occasion, the Ken Burns Effect. My questions:
1. If I shoot RAW images (Nikon NEF) can I place edited images from Aperture into the iPhoto slideshow (which I like because of the Ken Burns Effect)? Will I have to convert them to jpeg?
2. If I shoot jpeg images will I have any limits in editing in Aperture, such as highlight and shadow adjustments, dodge and burn adjustments, and white balance adjustments?
3. Is my understanding correct that "camera settings" can only be modified in RAW files and that RAW files can not be used in slide shows?
I would appreciate any assistance to aid my understanding of the interaction iPhoto and Aperture, mainly the slide show features.
WM

1. If I shoot RAW images (Nikon NEF) can I place edited images from Aperture into the iPhoto slideshow (which I like because of the Ken Burns Effect)? Will I have to convert them to jpeg
In the Aperture Preferences there's an option to Share the Previews with iLife and iWork applications. In iPhoto you can go File -> Show Aperture Library and a media browser will open. You can drag the images from the Media Browser to the iPhoto Window and they will be imported. Then you can make your Slideshow.
2. If I shoot jpeg images will I have any limits in editing in Aperture, such as highlight and shadow adjustments, dodge and burn adjustments, and white balance adjustments?
Yes, but not because of Aperture. A jpeg is a compressed file, data has been thrown away to make it. Therefore there's less data to manipulate so the range of effect possible is less. Think of it this way: Draft a paper of 50 pages. Rewrite it down to 10 pages. Now try and have the same range of editing on the 10 page doc as you had on the 50 page doc. Nothing to do with your word processor, just less words to process...
3. Is my understanding correct that "camera settings" can only be modified in RAW files and that RAW files can not be used in slide shows?
I don't know about Camera Settings but the Aperture manual says (pg510) that to make a high quality slideshow be sure to use high resolution previews - which rather suggests that it's the Previews and not the RAWs that are used in the show.
Regards
TD
Message was edited by: Terence Devlin

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This might sound unnecessary, but I am sure that people do it. I use Aperture to import, store and manage my master files. However, I would also like to keep images in iPhoto in order to utilize and play around with faces and places.
My question is what is the best way to get images from my managed aperture library into iPhoto? I know that you can open iPhoto creating a new library and then show the Aperture library to import from. My question centers around what are you actually importing? My assumption is that you are importing previews and not master files. Is so, what is the best way to set the preview so that you don't take up too much extra space on the hard drive?
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Terrence,
Good stuff. Makes sense about how to run a referenced library, and also about the quality of the preview. I was wondering though, even if I set the preview quality to be 12 and didn't limit the size of the preview, would it still be less info than the original master file? I suppose if I really wanted a master file to print from within iPhoto, I could always just export from Aperture and import into iPhoto. I was just wondering in case I brought all my images into iPhoto as previews and then wanted to print out a photo book from within iPhoto. I just want to make sure that the images are going to be of the best possible quality.
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Tried it myself and it's true.
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Don't fully understand what you are observing in Aperture. For me originals show Adobe RGB, as do the images seen in the MM gallery within Aperture, and as do Downloads from that MM gallery. (I primarily use SmugMug these days, and not MobileMe galleries).
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