Exporting RAW masters of RAW-JPEG Pairs

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Exporting RAW masters of RAW-JPEG Pairs

Is there any way to export only the RAW master of a RAW-JPEG pair? I always shoot both RAW and JPEG. In my workflow, I first import into Aperture the JPEG's. I then group into stacks, choose my stack picks, and finally rate all my stack picks. I then will go back and only import those RAW files which match my stack picks. Occasionally, I would like to edit my RAW files outside of Aperture using Capture NX2 and would like to export only those RAW files. Exporting a "version" only allows to export a JPEG/TIFF or other file. Exporting "masters" exports both master files, the JPEG and the RAW. Is there a way to only export the RAW master?

Thanks for your advice.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Oct 5, 2011 5:21 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 6, 2011 7:19 AM in response to ELFritzen

Without commenting on your workflow, the answer to your question is no. RAW+JPG pairs are tightly coupled in Aperture. They can't be split.

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Oct 6, 2011 10:40 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Thanks for the reply, Frank. I do seem to remember reading something about that in one of the many books and articles I have read about Aperture.

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Oct 6, 2011 11:44 AM in response to ELFritzen

If you're using a referenced library you could just select "Show in Finder" and do a finder copy from there.

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Mar 12, 2012 7:41 AM in response to ELFritzen

I'm frustating about how Aperture give RAW+jpg pairs and once imported is not easy to select one of the two files depending on the case. I read recently a good solution, you can import Both as masters(RAW and JPG) and select AutoStack(⌥⌘A)

with a short time span (0:02) and Aperture will import the two masters of each photo, and later you'll be free to use one of them. And you can reject manually all the RAWs that you don't want to store.

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