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Mitch Alland
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I've been looking at Aperture 2 this evening and came across something that could be an important issue for me: if RAW files are imported into A2 and one choses to "Store Files in the Aperture Library" they are kept in kept in a file by that name. If one then does a Show Package Contents one sees that the Aperture Library contains files for each Project into which one has imported files; these file names are "project name.approject" — "project name" being the name one gave to each project. Doing Show Package Contents on the "project name.approject" files shows that this is where the RAW files have been imported. All this means, of course, that these RAW files are then not accessible to other editing programs like LightZone. This is not an issue if one intends to use only A2 for RAW conversion because the converted files will be then available to other editing programs.
But all this does mean, if one wants to have access to the RAW files directly, one has to first download them from the camera to one's hard disk and then import them to A2 using the option "Store Files in their current location". While this is easily doable the problem is that one then cannot use A2 to organize these files the way one can use Lightroom to organize files.
Am I missing something?
—Mitch/Bangkok
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/
But all this does mean, if one wants to have access to the RAW files directly, one has to first download them from the camera to one's hard disk and then import them to A2 using the option "Store Files in their current location". While this is easily doable the problem is that one then cannot use A2 to organize these files the way one can use Lightroom to organize files.
Am I missing something?
—Mitch/Bangkok
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/