Iphoto library & aperture library - help

Here is my deal...
I had been using iphoto and then a year ago got aperture and want to use it for editing, printing, books, etc. So, I have been importing photos right from the card into iphoto and then, within Aperture, I have been importing to folders/projects. When I got Aperture, I imported the whole iphoto library into aperture and opted for "keep photos where they are".
Now, I would like to change my workflow and just import to aperture, and avoid this extra step. The only problem is that my DSLR takes movies and iphoto will keep them all organized and display thumbnails for them, but aperture will not. What to do?
Option 1- to keep movies organized, I have to maintain this workflow
Option 2 - ?
Thanks

When You download your memory card to Aperture, Aperture detects that there is media that it cannot handle, ie, movies.
You then get a window pop up that asks you what do you want to do with this media. I just download it to a folder on my desktop, then import it into imovie and edit it accordingly, and continue to download photographs only into Aperture as usual.
Gerry.........

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So now you see our delimma (the originals went away with the bad hard drive).
It sounds like iPhoto was running in Referenced mode.* Was it?
If the actual photos “went away with the bad hard drive“ then they are gone.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Try these in order - from best option on down...
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1) I know that Aperture is non destructive, is iPhoto?
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2) will changes ( like GPS location) in aperture be applied to iPhoto images
No.
3) looking to see if I can make changes made in one program appear in the other
You can't.
4) or it it better to import the images in from my external drive (how they were before iPhoto), and have a separate library for each program
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Aperture and iPhoto are entirely different applications that work in very different ways.
The only communication between the two is as follows:
Aperture is able to parse the iPhoto Library to allow it to import the contents while stacking the Originals and Modified versions, preserving metadata and so forth.
Aperture can share its Previews with the iLife apps, including iPhoto.
That's it.
So, specifically, what interaction there is between the two is designed to facilitate migration from iPhoto to the more powerful app. After that, iPhoto has exactly the same relationship to the Aperture Library as, say, Pages or iMovie.
iPhoto has no knowledge of, and knows nothing of how the Aperture Library works. It cannot read the Aperture library.
What are you hoping to achieve by running both?
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TD

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If I have aperture 3 should i get rid of iPhoto and just transfer all my photo to aperture 3 ??

There is nothing to transfer. iPhoto and Aperture share the same library format. You can simply open your iPhoto Library in Aperture, if you have the latest iPhoto version and use both programs on the same library.
See this support article: Aperture 3.3: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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Busy busy Dad wrote:
I was having major freezing problems that didn't respond to disk utility or other fixes. Finally I decided to reinstall OS X. I have been pretty diligent about using Time Machine to backup. So, reinstalled using a version 10.5.2 Install Disk 1 (I forgot tofind the Snow Leopard disk). I didn't touch the time machine because I was afraid to overwrite inadvertently. So now I have updated to OS X 10.6.4, and reinstalled my iLife 09 and done all software updates. The issue is that I want to get all the iTunes music and iPhoto pictures and iMovie movies back into the libraries. I'm guessing the best way is to somehow get them off of Time Machine, but I don't think the current system considers my external drive as the time machine now.
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What exactly do you mean by that? Do you mean one thumbnail only was visible in the iPhoto Window? What? This is the sort of thing that's fixed easily by an iPhoto rebuild. Gives us some more information and we may be able to help with that - iPhoto version and a description of exactly what's happening will help.
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Carolina Picon wrote:
Is it safe to delete iPhoto library from Aperture if I chose to save it in their current location when I did the import?
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Thanks for the prompt and helpful reply Najinsky!
I originally imported the photos using "Import files" not the actual iPhoto library.
Well I did originally use the Consolidate Original menu item - I can confirm that - but I had done that as a test before I upgraded my hard drive and installed Mavericks.
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