Deinterlacing WITHIN Aperture?

Have imported a bunch of JPG frame grabs (created using a program called Movist -- similar to VLC Player). Despite having chosen the frames as carefully as I could to avoid any noticeable interlace issues, the occasional one does contain some small area (a head turning in the background, for instance) with that distracting interlace-split look.
And now for the confusion part:
I notice that while I'm making an adjustment (moving the Brightness slider, let's say), the Aperture preview momentarily becomes deinterlaced -- but then as soon as that new adjustment gets processed the interlacing re-appears.
This briefly raised my hopes that Aperture 3.x had added a Deinterlace adjustment -- but I guess that still falls under the category of "Feature Request Feedback"?
Nevertheless -- does the fact that Aperture can briefly display a deinterlaced preview of a given Version (at least while processing a new Adjustment) suggest there may be some way to "trick" the program into retaining that deinterlaced version -- and thereby avoid the current tedium of having to export the image into Photoshop or some other external app, in order to do the deinterlacing completely outside of Aperture?
John B.
Toronto

Jpeg's are created, called "Previews" within Aperture. These are used to share with iLife apps.
You can turn generation of previews on or off, change the resolution and change the quality within Aperture/Preferences.
In the project view. you can select to maintain previews, delete them, update manually or update them automatically. I chose manual as the auto setting kicks in too often.

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I reinstalled my system on a new hard drive, from time machine. However my old photos seem corrupt within aperture. iphoto seems okay. New photos take a long time to load as well.
Have you heard of this?
Thanks

We need a little more information to be able to help.
However my old photos seem corrupt within aperture.
What kind of corruption? And when do you see it? All your images, or only some? Are the images distorted, discolored, or not displayed at all?
Are you shooting in raw? Is your library referenced or managed? Is your library on your system volume or on an external harddrive?
And it would help to know your MacOS version and Aperture version too.
Regards
Léonie

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I'm a novice user whose not gonna know all the relevant information the knowledgeable and helpful folks will need to thoroughly answer my question, but here's the best I can do. Perhaps with specific questions, I'll be able to provide more information.
The problem: Aperture contains two librarys: (1) iphoto Library and (2) Project Library. Project Library is larger and all projects and photos within the iphoto Library are duplicates of projects and photos within the Project Library.
Solution I'm working towards: eliminate the duplicate iphoto Lilbrary.
Facts: I do not know how Aperture was initially set up and how the iphoto Library was imported into Aperture, as hubby did that quite some time ago. My masters are now referenced on an external drive. My husband and I both tried to figure out how to properly do this and I just noticed that there were two duplicate folders on our external drive. I effectively housed the masters in a folder on the external called "Aperture Masters." I just attempted to send to trash the two duplicate folders: one named "iphoto library" and the other named "TSP photos." I left the folders in the trash and have not emptied them from the trash.
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Question: Is the final step simply to empty the Trash and then the duplicate library will be gone? Is there anything else with which I need to be concerned to properly eliminate the duplicate library?
Thank you for your time in answering!

One thing to remember is that Aperture does not contain libraries. Aperture libraries are the places where your images are stored to be accessed by the Aperture application. You can have multiple libraries on your system at any one time but only one copy of Aperture the application.
So if I am understanding your situation: You have two Aperture libraries one named iPhoto and one named Project. The Project library contains everything that is in the Aperture library named iPhoto (bad choice of names BTW as it is easy to get confused with iPhoto itself) plus more.
The two libraries do not share any masters.
You now want to delete the Aperture library named iPhoto. You moved referenced masters that this library was referencing to the trash.
This is what I would do: Open the Project library, go to the Photos icon in the Library tab of the Inspector. Make sure the search box says Showing All, select all the images and open the filter HUD and filter for missing images like so:
If the browser is empty then all the images in this library are accounted for and you can empty the trash and delete the Aperture library named iPhoto. If anything shows up then you need to figure out what's going on before you delete anything.
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Opening pdf Version of User Manual from Within Aperture 3

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Try this.... http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/ (I realise you already have it)
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Regards.... Gerry..
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As William wrote you can;t do this directly from within Aperture you need to use the Finder for the burn.
But one ting in your post caught my eye. You wrote that you
want to burn several of my Aperature Projects
Do you truly mean the project or do you really mean the images that are in the project?
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regards

Is there any downside to using a reference type library if I use Time Capsule and will do file management only from within Aperture?

Have done a lot of reading to get prepared to convert to Aperture 3 and have this question regarding setting up my library type.
I'm not a professional -just a heavy user hobbyist.
It appears that the major factors in using reference style is to backup the images with Time Capsule and always do moves or deletes from within the Aperture application.
If my architecture matters here's what I have that may be involved in photo management and editing:
iMac (latest 27" high power version with lots of memory)
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External (FireWire) 2TB HD where the images are stored
External (FireWire) 6TB HD backup drive
In the future an iPad for remote work on images (when/if available) and a Mac laptop (for same remote use)
I see major downside issues to letting the library manage my files - such as inaccessibility (or awkward accessibility) to the images for other programs, and performance issues when the library gets large (thousands of images or 100+ gb in size)
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Goody, Goody, you hit a few of my favorite subjects! Herewith some comments, with the usual caveats - true to the best of my knowledge and experience, others may have different results, YMMV, and I could be wrong.
I run Aperture on two machines:
-- 2007 Mac Pro with 2x2.66 GHz Xeon, 21 GB of RAM, a 5770 GPU, and multiple HD. I have about 11,000 images, taking up 150 GB. (Many are 100 MB TIFF, scanned slides)
-- 2006 Mac Book Pro with 1 2.0 GHz Core Duo, 2 GB of RAM and a 240 GB SSD.
Two very different machines.
-- Aperture Libraries are all the same - Managed or Referenced. If Managed, then the Master image files are inside the Package, if Referenced, they are outside, and you can have any combination you want. Managed is easier, but Referenced is not hard if you are the least bit careful.
-- While the sheer size of an Aperture Library is not a big issue, the location on disk of the different components can have a tremendous impact on performance.
-- Solid State Drives (SSD) read and write faster than regular Hard Disks (HD) and, what is more important, empty HD read and write much faster than full HD.
-- Aperture speed requires a combination of RAM, CPU, graphics processing unit (GPU) speed, and disk speed. The more RAM you have, the less paging you will see. With enough RAM, the next bottle neck is CPU (speed and cores) and GPU speed. But even then you will still have to fetch an image (longer if you pull the full resolution Master, read and rewrite the Version file, and update the Preview and Thumbs.
So what works?
-- RAM, RAM, and more RAM. 4 GB will work, but you will page a bit. 8 GB is much faster. On my old MacPro the sweet spot was about 16 GB of RAM.
-- Keep your Library on your fastest (usually internal) drive. Keep that disk as unloaded as possible. How do you keep it unloaded? Either buy BIG, 1 TB+ or move your Masters off onto another disk. The good news here is that as Master files are written only once and never rewritten, speed of this disk, as opposed to the disk that holds the Library, is not important. There is a one second pause as the Master is read into memory and, if you have enough RAM, that is it - the Master will never be paged out. If, on the other hand, you do not have enough RAM, and you do a lot of adjusting at full resolution, then the speed of the disk that holds your Masters will become very important due to paging.
-- I found that I picked up a tiny bit of speed by keeping the Masters on a dedicated disk. Thus, in your configuration, if you can dedicate that 2 TB FW HD to your Masters, you should see very nice performance.
Final notes on backups and archives:
-- One conventional wisdom is that you should make an archive copy of every image file before or as you load them into your system. (Aperture in this case.) This archive is then never touched or deleted.
-- An alternative approach is that you do not keep such an archive, but only the images that you have in your Aperture Library. And when you delete from the Library, you no longer keep a copy anywhere.
I do the following:
-- Card to Aperture. Card is then kept at least 24 hours until all of my backups have run. (I use three - Time Machine, Clone, and off site.)
-- I do not keep archive copies. If I decide to delete a file, my only recourse is to recover it from Time Machine during the six month cycle of my Time Machine backups. Thereafter, it is lost.
There are merits to both approaches.
Hope this is clear, correct, and responsive to your needs.
DiploStrat

How to move master files between projects (within Aperture)

I've imported 6,000 files into Aperture - all into one project, imaginatively named "Photos". Since I imported from a directory structure, underneath this Photos project is a nice structure of folders and albums organising my photos as I did on my hard disk. (I imported references, and then relocated the actual files on disk to a new structure based on year-month-day, ready for amalgamation with 4,000 other photos from iPhoto. So the original disk structure no longer exists.)
Since 6,000 files are too many for one project, I want to split this project into many. I've created some new top-level projects, such as "Macro" and "Flowers", and I now want to move the relevant masters into those projects.
From what I've read, it seems the only way to do so is to drag images from the top level project - certainly when I drag from the albums, only the versions move. But with 6,000 images at the top level, this reorganisation is going to be slow and tedious, and not take advantage of the organisation I'd already done in my folder structure.
Is there anyway to copy from an album, but to move the version's master to the new project too? I've tried option and alt-copying, but it doesn't seem to work.
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For example let's say you want to move all the images you have in the project 'photos' within the album 'macro' to a new project called 'macro'.
Go to the album called 'macro' and select all the images. At the bottom of the browser you have the keyword controls, if you can't see it press shift+d to show them. You can create a temporary keywords group to help you classified the images by project, in this case we create a keyword named 'macro' and apply to all the images within this album.
Now go to the project 'photos' and on the top right of the browser enter the word you wanna look for, in this case macro. Select all those images and drop them to the new project 'macro'. They will be moved.

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I'm using Aperture as my photo mgmt app of choice on my Mac Mini which serves as my entertainment center, along with iTunes and a few other apps.
Among the over 6000 pix I have in my Aperture library, some of them are charm pictures which I would rather protect from unauthorized eye balls. Yet I don't want to simply shut down access to my whole library, nor do I feel like using a separate library for those pictures. In my dreams, the ideal solution would be
* that each picture has a "privacy" flag which can be toggled through right clicking.
* If a picture has its privacy flag on, a generic icon would show instead of its thumbnail, and viewing the picture would require that you enter a privacy password.
* Once the pwd entered, the private viewing session would last X minutes.
* It would also be possible to mark a whole project as private so any picture in it would be private.
I know that very feature doesn't exist and I guess pros don't have much use for it, but regular folks like me who use Aperture because of its superior editing power would definitely have a use for such a feature.
Does anyone know of some other way to restrict access to some pictures within a library?
Thanks
js

Jest kot jabolko wrote:
It's very easy but time consuming: I just open every folder and simply count it.
Use Finder to search for JPGs. Select the top-most Finder folder, press "{Command}+f". Count of matching files in shown the bottom border of the window (in this example, click "ptgOther" (the name of a folder) instead of "This Mac"):

How to delete masters from within Aperture

Hi all,
I have searched the discussion forums for this one, with no luck.
What I want to do is import say 500 images from a shoot, and review them in Aperture. I will delete 200-300 of them. I'd like to look at them in Aperture, and if I don't like the image, delete it. But I want to delete the underlying image file in the filesystem as well.
I have tried File | Delete Original Image and All Versions followed by emptying the Aperture trash and then emptying the system trash. Does not work.
I am on Aperture 3.5.1 and OSX 10.9.2.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian

It's a common mistake If you set the import pane to copy the originals into the library (which is the Aperture default) then you wind up with two copies of the original and deleting it from Aperture doesn't delete the original original
As a suggestion start off with managed originals, there is less to deal with while you get use to the rest of Aperture. You can always turn the managed originals into referenced originals down the road by using the Aperture command File->Relocate Originals.
regards

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Hi Kai,
Yes, that's the same problem I had. My iPhone was importing into a directory that my wife had access to.
I discovered that you can keep a single Aperture library, but it needs to be in a directory that is not permissioned, or is only permissioned for your use alone and is owned by you. If any of the movies or the library itself are downloaded into a directory that is in any way shared with another user, or created outside your user directory, or the movies are initiallially imported by another user, you may get problems.
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If you only use the library yourself, you can simply move it and the location your iphone imports to, to your personal user directory. You might have to reimport all the movies, but I didn't have to rebuild my entire library.
If you want to share the library with another user, the solution is more complicated. Create a new partitiion in Disk Utilities, I named it "Shared drive". Then in Finder, select Get Info on the new drive. select Ignore Permissions on this drive, and then move the library and movies over. It should now work fine. Note that any user will be able to see files put into the new partition, and the only way to avoid that is to use an ACL using Terminal, but that didn't work for me and is above my pay grade!
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Batch Resizing within Aperture?

Greetings-
I shoot 400-600 images a day, thus I'm beginning to run out of hard drive space. I don't want to create a new vault of pictures on an external drive. I'm willing to reduce the overall size of my photos in order to create some space on my drive.
I'm at a loss how to batch resize groups of images in Aperture. It was an easy function in iPhoto.

Spuds\'n\'Surf wrote:
I don't want to skip a step, lose sharpness, image cropping/adjustments, or mess up my project/folder/album file structure in this process.
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Personally I have images managed on the internal SSD until editing is complete then convert to Referenced-Masters.
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• Database size. Larger databases are by definition more prone to "issues" than smaller databases are.
• Vaults. Larger Library means larger Vaults, and Vaults are an incremental repetitive backup process, so again larger Vaults are by definition more prone to "issues" than smaller Vaults are. One-time backup of Referenced Masters (each file small, unlike a huge managed-Masters DB) is neither incremental nor ongoing; which is by definition a more stable process.
Managed-Masters Libraries can work, but they cannot avoid the basic database physics.
HTH
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