Installing Aperture for the first time
Hi,
I am considering shifting from iPhoto to Aperture. However, before doing so, I just have a few questions that I need help clarifying on.
(1) On Apple’s website ( http://www.apple.com/aperture/iphoto-to-aperture/how.html), it says that “Aperture 3 creates a new folder named iPhoto Library and a subfolder named Events. The Events folder contains your projects.”
Does this mean iPhoto Events are turned into Aperture Projects? What happens to my iPhoto Faces, Places, and especially important to me, Album data? Does that also get conserved? All of my photos in iPhoto are already classified in 60+ iPhoto Albums.
(2) The aforementioned Apple link also says that “After experimenting with Aperture features, you can (1) delete the Aperture library and keep your images in iPhoto or (2) choose “Consolidate Masters for Library” to move your masters and your work from iPhoto to Aperture. If you chose to consolidate your masters, you can delete the iPhoto library once the consolidation is complete.”
If I take, for example, Option (2) and move my masters and my work from iPhoto to Aperture, does this mean that during the transfer and prior to deleting the iPhoto library after consolidation I will require double the hard disk space taken up by my iPhoto library for the transfer process? So if my current iPhoto library takes up about 26GB, does this mean that during the transfer/consolidation process I will need 52GB of hard disk space before I can delete the old iPhoto library once the consolidation is complete?
Thank you for your help and clarifying these 2 points.
I am considering shifting from iPhoto to Aperture. However, before doing so, I just have a few questions that I need help clarifying on.
(1) On Apple’s website ( http://www.apple.com/aperture/iphoto-to-aperture/how.html), it says that “Aperture 3 creates a new folder named iPhoto Library and a subfolder named Events. The Events folder contains your projects.”
Does this mean iPhoto Events are turned into Aperture Projects? What happens to my iPhoto Faces, Places, and especially important to me, Album data? Does that also get conserved? All of my photos in iPhoto are already classified in 60+ iPhoto Albums.
(2) The aforementioned Apple link also says that “After experimenting with Aperture features, you can (1) delete the Aperture library and keep your images in iPhoto or (2) choose “Consolidate Masters for Library” to move your masters and your work from iPhoto to Aperture. If you chose to consolidate your masters, you can delete the iPhoto library once the consolidation is complete.”
If I take, for example, Option (2) and move my masters and my work from iPhoto to Aperture, does this mean that during the transfer and prior to deleting the iPhoto library after consolidation I will require double the hard disk space taken up by my iPhoto library for the transfer process? So if my current iPhoto library takes up about 26GB, does this mean that during the transfer/consolidation process I will need 52GB of hard disk space before I can delete the old iPhoto library once the consolidation is complete?
Thank you for your help and clarifying these 2 points.
MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.5), iPhoto 8.1.2
