Aperture 3: Fantastic New Import Settings, backing up your Photos made easy now, plus the new Zoom
In the field I always carry two hard drives one for working and storing my reference files and the other one for backing up all my Photos.
Aperture 3 has now a very simple solution during Import, select in the Import Panel the Import Settings and tick on the Backup Location.
Then you scroll down at the Import panel and at the bottom you see this new back up Location window, point to you location where you like to store your back ups and you're done. When you import images now you have an instant back up but still working with reference files of your other drive, this is one of the coolest new addition in Aperture 3.
I recommend you have a close look at the new import panel, study it and see what suits your work flow, but having the ability now to make an instant back up of your Photos in a separate location during Import I think is brilliant and a real time saver.
Another
very new cool addition is the Zoom option (Z key) if
you press this now say on full screen you have a new
small thumbnail window, but now you can zoom in more,
not just 100% very cool and so handy. Say you have
zoomed in to 150% and like to go back to your 100%
just hit the z key and you're back to your starting
point of 100%. Personally, I find both of these new
addition extremely useful for my particular workflow
and I have to praise the engineers for an excellent
job by in incorporating it into Aperture 3. Great Job
Guys!
GD
Tip: Photography and Aperture 2… on the Road in Bali, the setup in our Hotel room after the shoot making sure everything is save
© Gunther
Deichmann - Happy faces at the
Denpasar Market, Bali
Indonesia
I
thought I better get another Blog post out today, who
knows if I have a connection in the next few days
since we are moving Camp and to get these recent
Blogs out took some 3 hours already. For those of you
who have not seen it before I have included the image
below…
A very simple but super effective setup with two
Lacie 160 Gig Hard drives, daisy-chained, thanks to
their triple interface. (One USB, One Fire Wire
400 and one Fire Wire 800. Use only the fire wire for
this setup, Daisy-chain the 400 and use the 800 for
your Card Reader.)
A fast 800 Fire Wire San Disk Card reader and a few
blank DVD’s and CD’s just in case.
I named the Lacie Drive A and Drive B. On Drive A I store all my reference
Images and keep my MacBook Pro Drive nice and clean,
and Drive B is
purely for backing up Drive A. By the way the Room Menu
usually comes in very handy as a Mouse Pad.
The setup - Photo by
Hermes Singson
You can use a variety of
software’s for your back ups, I have been using in
the past the SilverKeeper which comes with the Lacie
Drives when you buy them, but I have switched
recently to Personal Backup X4 from Intego, a very
simple and reliable software.
Back home I transfer all my Projects to my Mac Pro
including all my adjustments and Metadata.
This set up has saved me so much time over and over
again, I can do some editing in Aperture right from
the Hotel room and once back home a lot of my work is
done already.
A word of caution the Lacie Drive uses the power from
the MacBook Pro so you better make sure your Machine
is fully charged and I advise that you carry a spare
battery.
My Battery is fairly old now and I can only keep the
charge for about one hour, previous test have shown
me that on a new fully charged Battery you can work
for about two hours plus.
GD from Bali
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/blog.html
PS. I prepare more
images from Bali on my MobileMe Web Gallery once I
am back Home where I have a faster connection.
