How does Aperture run on 128MB of VRAM?

I want to purchase the low end mac book pro. How does aperture run on the 128MB of VRAM?
Will it run okay and how will it compare to the 256MB one?
Also, is it different for Ap1.5 and Ap2?

ZLH wrote:
Will it run okay and how will it compare to the 256MB one?
It is really simple: Aperture performs better with stronger hardware. As one goes up the line of Mac hardware performance improves.
Although Aperture will run on any MacIntel with at least 2 GB RAM, all laptops and iMacs are very significantly limiting to Aperture's performance. IMO if one buys a by-definition-limiting box like a MBP (I own one) it makes most sense to buy the strongest MBP available.
Whatever you buy, max out the RAM.
-Allen Wicks

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How does Aperture run on a PowerBook?

Does Aperture run well on a PowerBook?

Hi
I have a PB 1.5MHZ and 1GB RAM. Aperture works quite ok for basic stuff(despite all the beta quality problems that are not acceptable, but this is another story). I have 12'000 photos in the entire library and it takes some seconds to load them all. But I never work with all images at the same time. So, If you have not incredible huge projects this is not an issue. However, I do not use many raw images but only high res jpg's (8 and 10 m-pixels).
This is for browsing, working with keywords etc. - the powerbook works fine.
But when it comes to editing, the Powerbook really hits the limit. Maybe this is also because I have only 1 gig of RAM. E.g. using the patch tool is almost impossible since moving the patch area takes 5 seconds to recalculate. The feeling is like having a blind mouse - you navigate and wait to see where your pointer now is. This real-time feature is totaly unusable on a powerbook. Basic editing like contrast, exposer works ok.
And since everything is realtime, the more image adjustments you make, the slower everything gets.
Importing is really a slow dog. In the office I have a dual 2.7Ghz machine with lots of RAM and even there importing images is slow.
But still, I was quite surprised how well it woks on my Powerbook. I do the big things in the office, but beeing able to take everything with me and do some works on my projects in the train or whatever is really good.
I hope that we soon get very fast dual core intel based powerbooks that might even be faster than todays dual powermacs...
Cheers
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How does Aperture handle file structure

I have been working with iPhoto since its infancy and have one big issue with it, namely that it is such a closed system. I dislike that everything needs to be imported and exported to use it elsewhere, clogging up my computer with all these duplicates. Does Aperture handle that better? I spent 2 hours reading different reviews and discussions and for some reason, nobody seems to discuss exactly that, maybe most people don't mind to have a vault structure? If so, how do you handle sharing files outside of the tools like Facebook export etc that are offered?
Thanks ~ Barb

namely that it is such a closed system.
It's not. It's a Database and this
everything needs to be imported...
is a characteristic of databases. This
and exported to use it elsewhere
is just not true if you use any of the very many ways that the OS and other applications integrate with iPhoto. I rarely, if ever, exported from iPhoto when it was my primary Photo app.
The point is not to defend iPhoto, but if the database aspect of it irritates you then run a mile from Aperture. Everything has to be imported and can be accessed only in (pretty much) the same ways as they can be in iPhoto.
how do you handle sharing files outside of the tools like Facebook export etc that are offered?
Here's a stock answer I use over on the iPhoto forum. You can pretty much swap the word 'Aperture' for iPhoto:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 and later*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
+*(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)+*
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
*If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running*:
For users of 10.6 and later:
You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu. Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
Regards
TD

Does Aperture run on MacBook 2.0GHz model without graphics card?

I'm considering buying a MacBook and wondered if Aperture runs on the 2.0GHz version or not since it does not have a graphics card.
Thanks,

While I haven't use it if you check out Apple's Aperture page you'll see that according to Apple you can "Enjoy Aperture on any current Mac desktop — Mac mini, iMac, or Mac Pro — or laptop — MacBook or MacBook Pro."
So yes you can run Aperture just fine on a MacBook. It's really too bad that the onboard video gets such a bad rap. If you're working in a 2D environment it's most likely more than capable of doing what's required and in most cases when people have concerns it's really a question of CPU and not GPU performance. It fairs much less in 3D though.

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Was going to start using NetBeans today and was amazed at how bad it was. Can't really picture it being that bad for most people.
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Loaded - took like 10 seconds.
Popped up, I choose to make a new project.
Spent like 5 minutes reading the classpath classes or something.
Gave me a wizard. I tried to make a project, java errors showed up red in the status bar, stopped working: I closed it.
I could continue but basically it was the slowest and buggiest thing I have ever tried to use, Maya seriously runs faster and I don't understand how what is basically a text editor could lag so bad. It only crashed once, but it was painly slow; even trying the whole thing lagged. Is this normal or was it just not working right on my computer? Anyone know what could maybe make it go faster?
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Stats:
1.8 gig amd
128 ddr
128 videoIt is probably a memory issue. Netbeans consumes quite a bit of memory. On my workstation which has 1 gig of memory, Netbeans consumes 128 megabytes at startup. WinXP, email, virusscan and a few other necessities eat up about 400 megabytes on my PC, so when I'm using Netbeans my PC uses between 528 and 768 megabytes depending on what I am doing.
Your poor performance and failures are most likely due to memory constraints on your PC (128mb if I am reading your note correctly). If you want to use a robust IDE you are going to have to add additional memory to your PC, and even for modest command line programming your memory is borderline.
I use and really like Netbeans and have found it fast and stable for all the work I have done and it has been extensive. I am running on a AMD 64 3000+ with 1 gig memory, but ran reasonably well on a P4 1.3Ghz with 768 megabytes.
Sorry I don't have a better message for you.

Why does aperture run so slow

i have loaded a very larg number of photos into aperture. now the app runs so slow it is impossible to use. what am i doing wrong?

what am i doing wrong?
Probably nothing.
You might turn on the "Activity" window in Aperture, to see what Aperture is doing (from Aperture's main menu bar: "Window > Show Activity". After importing it will need plenty of time to render previews, detect faces, assign places, etc. Best let it run over night.
Other things that might be a problem:
Aperture will slow down, if the project are too large. Did you import all images into one single project? Keep the projects small, not much larger than about 200 images per project.
And if your harddisk becomes full, you may slow down the mac considerably.Try to keep at least 20 GB of your harddisk free.
You may have imported a corrupted image or an incompatible video. If that is the case, than Aperture will try over and over again to render a preview and not succeed. It might help, to disable the rendering of previews, until you have spotted the video or image that is causing the problem
How much RAM do you have, and how full is your disk?
Regards
Léonie

How does aperture store pictures on external drive?

Ok, I imported pictures to aperture, and I saved them on an external drive. The Library is on the internal drive. When I do editing, or try to share Pictures from Aperture, I have to connect my external drive. What I don`t understand is that I can drag these pictures to final cut, without connecting my drive. How is this possible? When does FCPX requires connection withe the "real media"?

What I don`t understand is that I can drag these pictures to final cut, without connecting my drive. How is this possible? When does FCPX requires connection withe the "real media"?
When you drag from the Browser you are exporting the JPEG previews stored in your Aperture library. It will depend on your settings in the Aperture Preferences > Preview tab, how good the resolution of these previews will be.
Many applications can access these previews using the Media Browser, even if your external drive with the originals is not connected. You need the originals if you use "File > Export" or if you edit the photos.

Import from iPhoto: how does Aperture manage videos?

This is relevant to some persons migrating from iPhoto to Aperture. My iPhoto Library contains a few small camera videos. I know Aperture doesn't handle these. When it does the import into Aperture, does it let the user know that there are some files it can't handle? Does it make it easy for someone to discard their iPhoto Library without losing the videos?

So someone who wished to dump their iPhoto Library after migrating to Aperture, might unwittingly lose videos they'd forgotten about -- they have to know to search for the videos and set them aside. Aperture does not help avoid that error.
(I saw your note on needing to keep iPhoto. It's true that one may use iPhoto for its many unique secondary services, but keeping two libraries of the same images is ridiculously inefficient.)
I've long been tempted to migrate to Aperture, but the inability to change 'image acquired' dates, concerns about how trustworthy the iPhoto migration really is, and Aperture's lack of official support for the MacBook have all held me back.
This lack of attention to detail wrt to iPhoto import reinforces the sense I have that Aperture isn't where I personally need it to be (not that iPhoto is perfect, but that's the devil I know). I know it works well for many others and I may yet migrate --- probably in a year or two and then only if they decide to support the MacBook.

How does XP run?

Let's say I have a new baseline Mac Pro, and a PC with comparable specs. How would the mac stack up against the PC, running XP SP3? I'm thinking of getting a mac and putting bootcamp on it, but I want to be able to run all my games. Does a mac run games fine in bootcamp?

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Let's say I have a new baseline Mac Pro, and a PC with comparable specs. How would the mac stack up against the PC, running XP SP3?
They would have similar or the same benchmarks.
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Depends on the system requirements of the games, but when your Mac is running Windows, it is for all intents and purposes a Windows PC and can run Windows applications and games like any other Windows PC (as already stated).
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How does Aperture store changes

The difference between iPhoto and Aperture is that when you edit a photo in iPhoto, the app creates an entirely new file to store the changes, while Aperture, on the other hand, can store multiple versions (edits) of a picture in a single file, thus taking less hard drive space, right?
So my question is, can Aperture do this with RAW pictures only or does it edit JPEGs the same way as well?

It does this on all images that it supports.
It merely creates a thumbnail (mini and tiny) for the adjusted versions to be able to display them in Quickt Preview, and in your browser. and whe you look at the image in the viewer without quick preview it will load the original file and then apply the adjustments that were made to it.

How does Aperture Face recognition work

Just upgraded to Aperture 3 --- I'm a little baffled by the functionality of the face recognition. Aperture certainly found most (if not all) of the faces in my collection but I thought it was supposed to be able to actually do recognition (to some extent) so that when I associate a certain face with a name, it would automatically find the same face in other photos and mark them.
I am not seeing any evidence that this actually happens --- I just seem to keep getting fed faces along the bottom that I have to name manually, even if it's a very similar picture that was already seen.
What am I missing?

I've noticed that sometimes (seems like all the time, but I've only done a few imports) when I first import new photos it can take a long time before Aperture decides to search for similar faces.
I can tag a few pics of people in the "Faces View" and then double-click their photo to try to see suggested matches, but watching the "Activity Window" shows no searching for similar faces... I don't know what's stopping it, but it just doesn't seem to even bother searching for quite some time. It's not that it's still detecting faces in the photos (I've checked to see it's finished doing that) — there's nothing in the Activity Window and the CPU usage of Aperture is basically zero. Memory is not full, nothing else is using the CPU, it's just sitting there doing nothing...
And then randomly, suddenly, it seems to remember that it is meant to search for similar faces and does so...
Would be interested to see if others are having similar behaviour, where Aperture just doesn't even bother searching until some event, or some time after importing... Open up the Activity window in Aperture (from the Window menu), double-click on a face in the faces view and see if it starts searching for similar faces... if it's not even searching, then that might explain why you're not being given the ability to match faces. If it is searching, then I guess it's just not finding anything. Also note that you won't get any matches until the search finishes (it can take quite a while to search through the photos for similar faces; likely depends on (and is slowed down by) the number of faces for that person, the number of 'unknown faces', the total number of faces and/or people in your library)

Multiple images with same filename-how does aperture deal?

I recently lost a several pictures from iphoto on my imac running snow leopard. I have tried multiple things with the guidance of a senior advisor from apple, but the pictures are not retrievable. I have multiple backups for many, but I lost about 20 images. Naturally, I am a bit paranoid now about the stability of the remaining photos in my 66gb library, so have made multiple backups of the entire library and plan to migrate to aperture 3 with a vault.
It just struck me though, that because we use multiple cameras with the same canon file naming scheme, I have several instances where I have multiple photos with the same filename. Is this potentially a problem, or because the EXIF info is different for each one, am I okay? If this is a problem, do any of you have any remedies? I plan on adjusting the naming scheme on our cameras for the future.
Thanks in advance!

The same filename isn't an issue, and no, it won't consider them duplicates, unless you try importing them into the same project.

How does Aperture handle RAW from Canon S90

I have my Canon S90 set to RAW plus jpeg. I don't see any of the RAW photos in Aperture 3, just the JPEGs.
What's happening to the RAW images?

"Do you have a very specific requirement That needs both. ? If not just use raw, Aperture will produce any number of file formats from the raw file when required, but Aperture does not need them."
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