Sharing one project on 2 macs

Dear All,
My husband and I have just started using Aperture and both have it installed on our iMacs (2 licenses). We have been editing around 1600 photos from a recent dive trip and decided to split the load doing half each. However we now want to combine both projects as one master project on my mac using the same keywords etc. I have tried exporting his project and then importing into my library but it will only come in as a separate project which means when I want to create a smart album with all the best photos so that I can order a book I can only do this from each project. Is there anyway of combing the two projects as one?

So you have two Projects, each with ~800 images in?
Option 1
Make a blue Folder and put both Projects into it. Selecting the blue Folder will show all the images in both Projects, and any Smart Albums in the Folder will search through both Projects. Note that you won't be able to stack images from different Projects.
Option 2
Select all the images in one Project and drag them into the top level of the other Project. This will copy all the Versions and Masters into one Project.
Ian

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