Comments on: Apple Releases Aperture 3

By: Me

Me — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:12:10 +0000

DPP is still a superior RAW developer. I develop all my final images in DPP.

Anything else aint as good. Pitty DPP has a rubbish p.o.s. interface.

By: Si Guy

Si Guy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:28:02 +0000

i only use aperture to edit, not hold libraries of all the pics ive taken.. iphoto is a sufficient library system for me.. when it comes to indepth apps like aperture handing large volumes of simple tasks its always gonna be bad news..

hope your back on track soon.

By: ppdix

ppdix — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:56:48 +0000

Since I wrote my previous comment at 11:38am, over 3 hours have past and only 13,000 previews have been processed. After almost 16 hours, I still have 8,000 to go…
This sucks!

By: Jared

Jared — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:22:37 +0000

I’m also already having problems with Aperture 3. Surprise, Surprise. I have several partially converted libraries on external hard drives which keep making Aperture become nonresponsive. I found part of the problem when I ran disk utility. I had a couple of disk permissions that were not correct, which the computer was able to correct. I also made the cardinal sin of not rebooting and unplugging the computer after installing a major program. So now, I have multiple partially corrupted Aperture libraries. I also now have three copies of the same library at varies stages of conversion.
Take a look at the progress on your update, my guess is it won’t change if you watch it for a while. It’s probably toast like mine :-(
Were to go from here? Luckily I don’t trust Aperture further than I can throw the computer it is installed in. I store all my raw files in an non-aperture format. So worse comes to worse, I can start over. I’ll probably try to restart the programs and see if they will finish up. I doubt it. I may have to purchase MacScan to fish out the corrupted pictures, if they have upgraded it to run on Snow Leopard. MacScan found several corrupted pictures in an old vault that I crashed and burned.
Good luck.

By: ppdix

ppdix — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:38:39 +0000

Not very happy with the performance at all…
After waiting 6 hours to upgrade the library from V2.0, Aperture 3 was painfully slow. So slow I had to force quit the application. After that, it wouldn’t open any more.
I had a back up of the 2.0 library but it had to be upgraded to work with v3.0. Once it is upgraded it cannot be used with 2.0 any longer.
Finally, it upgraded but I read in a few places that the previews needed to be re-generated to speed things up.
My library is 450GB and has 78,625 photos in it. I left my studio at 9PM last night and the preview regeneration started. I came back today, after 13 hours and only 56,000 of the previews have been done…
It pisses me off that I haven’t been able to work for 2 days waiting for updates and upgrades and all this crap about 64-bit processing doesn’t seem real.
I have an 8-core 2.66Ghz Mac Pro with 16GB of RAM, an NVidia GTX 285 1GB Video Card hooked up to a Vizio 32″ 120HZ LCD and over 9TB of HD space running Mac OS X 10.6.2. This thing should be screaming fast.
:^(

By: ace

ace — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:22:03 +0000

It’s a DSLR joke. Har har.

By: matthewbmedia

matthewbmedia — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:12:08 +0000

My 1 yr old macbook pro 2.4 with 4gb of ram is Flying with aperture 3, snow leopard booting into 64 bit, and my 5d2 files.

I’m sure the “newer laptops” will be fine ;-)

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:31:57 +0000

awesome, I was wondering when Aperture was going to get updated, because the crop and many other tools were not that good.

By: Gamble

Gamble — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:11:20 +0000

Robert – have you compared it to Capture One? There’s a free trial. I still find Capture One blows away even Aperture 3 at noise control with 7D RAWs… but perhaps I’m not doing the right tests.

I’d love to see some comparison shots if you have any.

By: caps18

caps18 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:31:18 +0000

I was wondering when Aperture was going to get updated.

Now, if they would upgrade the CPUs to i7′s, I will be able to upgrade my 6 year old laptop. I can’t wait.

I need to be able to process all of these pictures that I have taken with the 5DM2 so far. And I hope that their newer laptops will be able to keep up with me.

By: Robert T

Robert T — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:03:55 +0000

Huh?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:42:35 +0000

What’s your point? That they should put the price back up to $499 so that you don’t feel ripped off any more? You paid $499 because you figured it was worth it at the time. Has it suddenly become not worth it back then? Can I come around to your place and play with your time machine?

By: Evert

Evert — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:18:44 +0000

Interesting! I bet LR3 will see big improvements in this field as well, so can’t wait to see the shootout when the final version of LR 3 is released.

By: canonmonster

canonmonster — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:05:17 +0000

just down loaded aperture 3, wow.
6 hours to update my aperture2 photos ( migrate from aperture2 to aperture3 ).
$99 not bad for upgrade.