Importing TIFF

I can import TIFF files into Aperture, but only by dragging it from Finder onto Aperture, not through the cmd-I import window. Why is this? It ask this just out of curiosity. I hardly ever need to import TIFF's.
Koen

Koen,
you should be able to import tiff-files from the Import-panel. I am doing it all the time, for example:
What kind of tiff-files do you have? 16 bit, 8 bit, what is the file-extension? Are the tiff directly from your camera or did you generate them using a program?
What are your import setiings? Can they be excluding duplicates, special file types?
And what is your Aperture version and your MacOS X version?
Regards
Léonie

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I don't care what your IT people think as ALL the general computing IT people I've ever dealt with (and I have dealt with A LOT) don't have the imagination to really understand what is going on in a graphics driven computing environment.
sooooo,
TAKE OUT THE RAM and try again. If it still crashes the IT guys might be right, if it works, you can lord it over them until the the cowboys win the superbowl again .... (which will be a very, very long time!)
keep at it!
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edit: I really am this grumpy but I will explain: when you use images, you are likely pushing into realms of your new ram that other applications do not require and therefor will not access. This is the simplistic explanation of why FCP may crash while other progams seem to run unaffected. Launch Activity Monitor and examine how much ram is being used, how many page swaps are taking place, etc to get a feel for the relative demands of each application.
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I noticed sometime ago that some imported TIFFs with alpha channel are not showing the correct image. Recently I upgraded to Premiere Pro CC (for PC) to see if such issue was solved, however it is not.
Basically just importing the TIFFs into the project panel results in Premiere showing the same text even though the actual TIFF files contain different text. This is quite bizarre. No other software (including FinalCut Pro) displays such odd behavior.
I have uploaded the two TIFFs that replicate this issue consinstently here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2IT1EAcyLlBZXRlMDkxNzY3d1U&usp=sharing
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Thanks for your reply.
At this moment we can't export PNGs with an Alpha channel so we are stuck with TIFFs.
It is a bizarre issue though.
Here is a Dropbox link for the images, seems Google Drive download links are buried deep:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gktixc0cdbhr3oz/jPCI8yciY-

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Drag the photo from the iPhoto window to the desktop or export as kind = JPEG
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Hallo all!
I´m working with a publication right now, i write music in a program called FINALE (www.finalemusic.com ). I export the Finaledocument to TIFF, and then import it into Indesign CS5 to do the layout and combine it with grapihcs etc...
BUT...when i print the Indesigndocument, all of my imported TIFF-files are slightly unsharp. Not much, but it´s a differens betwen the text in the imported tiff-file and the text i wrote directly in the indesign-document.
First i thought the problem was when converting to PDF, but i compared a PDF , a Indesign and a original finale-file of the same document and it seems that the "unsharpness" has to do with the TIFF...
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I am seeing a very similar problem when importing TIFF files back to Aperture.
This is what I do and what I see:
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3. After editing I save my image as 16bit TIFF and it still shows correct date and time.
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I can then go in and Metadata/Update Date and Time (no masters) and it works well, but it is a pain to do on each image I process.
In all cases camera and image timezone is set to US Pacific as it should be.
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