Stuck in "Processing ...."

Slowly, as I worked backwards deleting some of the folders I added as projects yesterday, I came across a folder that I loaded into a project labeled "Bila Tserkva Fall 2010", the folder I loaded in was simply called "Fall 2010", "Oh," I though yesterday, "I will load this in the BT folder and the dupes will take care of themselves...".

BUT inside this folder at the bottom were 4 avi movies I filmed with my Nikon D300s. It was only after I dumped the folder from Aperture to the Aperture trash and then to the Mac trash that I was able to open it to inspect the contents. Prior to that Aperture would crash so quickly I could not inspect files in Aperture trash ... and there were the movies. At this point Aperture is back to working.

But I have noticed that if I get careless and load a batch into a project that includes a movie(s) made by my camera that Aperture has this problem. So how did I get careless? I forgot to inspect the folder beforehand, and during my haste early this morning I eliminated the movies from the original folder .... but failed to remember I had merged the two folders. Still, though, I find it interesting that Aperture would hang up on this. Perhaps as the inspection routine is going on it arrives at the movies and tries to process them, and of course they do not.

So I will give Aperture a work out in the next few hours and if the problem persists I will long back on and report my failure ... or better yet I will long on and report that I have solved my own problem.

Prior to this, I have really hand no problems with Aperture and even installed ALL of Nik Software's plugins to use. They work fine, it does make most of my Capture NX2 redundant, but I manage my workflow in either with no difficulty. I have all but eliminated Photoshop. I did also load Nik's HDR program and I would say that it was worth the $99 (upgrade price).

So, if you are interested, check back in a day or so and I will give an update. If you have similar problems with DLSR movies I would like to hear about it.

Yup, that was it. Simply put: at least for Nikon, don't leave your video files in a folder and do a mass transfer without taking the avi files out. I was able to replicate this 25 times (glutton for punishment).

So I answered my own question, thanks Me!