Best practice - converting to 8 bit?
I'm am working on a project using Corel Painter X which is limited to 24 bit (8 x 3 RGB) color. Some of my source photographs are Nikon Raw (shot with a D200) which is 12 bit. Aperture will of course export versions as 8 bit tif. My question for those with experience is whether the conversion via Aperture is good or if I can do better (but please don't suggest Photoshop, I don't own it and won't buy it because I don't agree with the licensing restrictions).
Thank you!
The conversion is a straightforward thing in any app. The factor that decides quality is whether you have used the tools to distribute the tones optimally before the conversion, in Aperture, Photoshop, or whatever.
Not sure what your problem with the Photoshop licensing restrictions are. You can install it on an infinite number of machines, and legally activate it on any two of those machines at any time. Frankly, I find the hardware requirements of Aperture to be more restrictive to my workflow than the licensing requirements of Photoshop, since Photoshop will run on any Mac I own, but Aperture, being too picky about video cards, will not.
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Edited by: Dimitar Dimitrov on Nov 13, 2010 1:53 PM
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http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/home.html
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Any "best practices" for managing a 1.3TB iPhoto library?
Does anyone have any "best practices" or suggestions for managing and dealing with a large iPhoto library? I currently have a 1.3 TB library. This is made up of anything shot in the past 8 years culminating with the past 2 years being 5D Mark II images. This also includes a big dose of 1080P video shot with the camera. These are only our family photos so I would hate to break up the library into years as that would really hurt a lot of iPhotos "power".
It runs fine in day to day use, but I recently tried to upgrade to iPhoto 11 and it crashes repeatedly during the upgrading library process.
(I have backups, so no worries there.)
I just know with Lion and iPhoto 9 being a bit old my upgrade day is coming and I'm not sure what my path is.If you have both versions of iPhoto on your Mac then try the following; While running iPhoto 09 create a new, test library and import a few photos into it. Then try to convert that test library with iPhoto 11. If it converts OK then your big library is causing the problem.
If that's the case you can try rebuilding your working library as follows: make a temporary, backup copy of the library and try the following:
launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
select the options identified in the screenshot.
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Once rebuild try converting it to iPhoto 11.
NOTE: if you already have a backup copy of your library you don't need to make the temporary backup copy.
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Installation and best practices
I saw this link being discussed in a thread about "Live Type," but I think it needs a thread of its own, so I'm going to begin it here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4722?viewlocale=en_US
I have Motion 4 (and everything else with FCS 2, of course), and just purchased Motion 5 via the App Store. (I'm sure I'll be buying FCP X also at some point, but decided to hold off for now.)
When I was reading the "Live Type" thread there was some discussion about Motion 5 overwriting Motion 4 projects or something like that, so I started freaking out. I've opened both 5 and 4, but am closing them until I understand what's going on.
Since I purchased Motion 5 from the App Store, I'm just under the assumption that my Mac took care of everything correctly. I see that Motion 4 resides in the FCS folder and Motion 5 is a stand-alone in the Applications folder.
So I guess my questions are these ...
1) What's so important about having FCS 2009 on a separate drive? I have a couple other internal drives with more than enough lots and lots of free space, so that isn't an issue for me. I just wonder why this is a "best practice." The two programs CAN share the same drive ...the link says so.
2) I supppose that I'll let 4 and 5 reside side by side for now. How do I make sure Motion 5 won't screw up my Motion 4 projects? (My hunch is that you can open a M4 project in M5 and do a "save as" ...this will create an M5 version and leave the M4 alone. Am I correct about that?) Maybe the answer to this is related to my first question.
3) I want to make sure I'm not missing something my the words "startup disk." Although I have 3 drives in my MacPro, only is a "startup disk" ...the other two are for storage. If I move everything from FCS to a different internal drive, does it make any difference that the destination drive is NOT a starup disk.
**I'm gonna separate this part out a bit because it may or may not be related to the previous quesitons.**
I noticed the Motion 5 came with very little content and only a few templates, but I read in another thread that additional content/t can be downloaded free when I do an update. I also read that thread that this free content is pretty much the same as the content that I have with Motion 4.
1) If I download this additional content (which is basically the same as what's in Motion 4), will I just have a duplicate of all that material?
2) Could this be part of the reason that Apple reccomends that Motion 5 be on a separate drive ...so that the content and templates don't get mixed up?
--Just a couple months ago, I finally got around to cleaning out all the FCS content, throwing away duplicates and organinzing thins properly. If I've got to got through this process again, I want to do it correclty the first time.When you install Motion 5 or FCP X, all your Final Cut Studio apps are moved into a folder called Final Cut Studio. This is because you can't have two apps with the same name in the same folder. I'm running them both on the same drive, no problems.
Motion 5 does not automatically overwrite any Motion project files, that is hogwash. When you open a v.4 file into 5, it will ask if you want to convert the original to 5, or open a copy called Untilted and make it a v.5 project. Very simple. If you're super paranoid, Duplicate the original Motion project file, and open the copy into v.5 to be extra safe. Remember once a project file is version 5, it can't be opened into previous versions.
You can't launch both at the same time, duh.
The System Drive, or OS drive, is just that, the drive your operating system is installed on. All applicactions should be on that drive, and NOT be moved to other drives. Especiall pro apps like these. Move them to a non-OS drive, and you'll regret it. Trust me.
Yes, run Software Update (Apple Menu) and you'll get additional content for Motion 5 that v.4 doesn't have. It won't be any problem with space on your drive. That stuff takes up very little space.
Apple recommends two different OS drives, or partitions, only to avoid an overwhelming flood of people screaming "What happened to my Final Cut Studio legacy apps?" and other such problems. Hey, they're put into a new folder, that's all, breath...
If you're having excessive problems, you may not have hardware up to speed. CPU speed is needed, at least 8GB RAM (if not 12 or 16 for serious work), but your graphics card needs to really be up to speed. iMacs and MacBook Pros barely meet up, and will work well. Mac Pros can get much more powerful graphics cards. Airs and Minis should be avoided like the plauge.
After checking hardware, be sure to run Disk Utility to "repair" all drives. Then, get the free app "Preference Manager" by Digital Rebellion (dot com) to safely trash your app's preference files, which resets it, and can fix a lot of current bugs.
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