A new release of Aperture is overdue, whether Apple wants it or not. The current version is underfeatured, slow, buggy and lacking consistency. In fact it is probably the worst piece of Apple software at the moment.
Good to read your opinion, but what do you base it on? i.e. which features would you like, what hardware are you running it on to label it as slow, what bugs are you experiencing and have you reported them?
Mid 2010 15" MacBook Pro, 2.66GHz, 4GB of RAM. Very unsatisfied with the following: loading speed of projects with large amounts of photos in it. Flickr integration is a nightmare. Does not retain sorting order upon sync, creates duplicates, crashes often if network connection is interrupted, brings forth an endless stream of error messages upon network interruption, generally less stable than what I am used to (especially since 3.3.). Features I'd like: lens distortion correction, panorama stitching, support for 32bit plugins in 64bit mode, completely rewritten Flickr support that offers the same features as the web version and numerous other small things.
I've been using Aperture daily for almost a year, I'm not just pulling this out of my ass.
That ought to be 'working'. Sorry to hear the experience isn't exactly like that. You're not gonna be 'happy' with the following: thanks for this info; I have read that people are running Aperture 'ok' on a laptop but reading this I'm happy I keep on buying a proper desktop.
Very unsatisfied with the following: loading speed of projects with large amounts of photos in it.
Upon that moment it needs to load the thumbnails. I only run Aperture on my Mac Pro with PCIeSSD and remember loading projects while I was still sing HDD was indeed 'not fast'
Flickr integration is a nightmare. Does not retain sorting order upon sync, creates duplicates, crashes often if network connection is interrupted, brings forth an endless stream of error messages upon network interruption, generally less stable than what I am used to (especially since 3.3.).
Knowing Apple this won't improve. Especially because they have their PhotoStream service and now that that's 'working' (kind of replacing Galleries) I don't think the Flicker integration will be retained in a next major release)
Features I'd like: lens distortion correction, panorama stitching
expecting this myself
, support for 32bit plugins in 64bit mode
totally not expecting this as they make it clear 'across the board' that Apple is now a '64-bit company'
, completely rewritten Flickr support that offers the same features as the web version and numerous other small things.
I've been using Aperture daily for almost a year, I'm not just pulling this out of my ass.
I sympathize with your experience, certainly hope a next major release will be close to what you're asking for. I do recommend installing a SSD, makes a world of difference. You can even try it out by creating a new library on a (UHS)SD Card and have Aperture store the thumbs on there as well. I believe that would make quite a difference compared to HDD.
I must say as someonewho uses Aperture every day almost with very large RAW files multiple libraries and linking directly to Photoshop CS6 and HDR plug ins, I couldn't do my work without it. I would very happy to see it keep advancing and getting better and I for one am thrilled Apple is continuing to develop Aperture further. The bad news I guess is this may be first paid for upgrade in a long while as was FCPro X but I suppose we have to pay those developers working at Apple once in a while
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Mid 2010 15" MacBook Pro, 2.66GHz, 4GB of RAM. Very unsatisfied with the following: loading speed of projects with large amounts of photos in it. Flickr integration is a nightmare. Does not retain sorting order upon sync, creates duplicates, crashes often if network connection is interrupted, brings forth an endless stream of error messages upon network interruption, generally less stable than what I am used to (especially since 3.3.). Features I'd like: lens distortion correction, panorama stitching, support for 32bit plugins in 64bit mode, completely rewritten Flickr support that offers the same features as the web version and numerous other small things.
I've been using Aperture daily for almost a year, I'm not just pulling this out of my ass.
That ought to be 'working'. Sorry to hear the experience isn't exactly like that. You're not gonna be 'happy' with the following: thanks for this info; I have read that people are running Aperture 'ok' on a laptop but reading this I'm happy I keep on buying a proper desktop.
Upon that moment it needs to load the thumbnails. I only run Aperture on my Mac Pro with PCIeSSD and remember loading projects while I was still sing HDD was indeed 'not fast'
Knowing Apple this won't improve. Especially because they have their PhotoStream service and now that that's 'working' (kind of replacing Galleries) I don't think the Flicker integration will be retained in a next major release)
expecting this myself
totally not expecting this as they make it clear 'across the board' that Apple is now a '64-bit company'
I sympathize with your experience, certainly hope a next major release will be close to what you're asking for. I do recommend installing a SSD, makes a world of difference. You can even try it out by creating a new library on a (UHS)SD Card and have Aperture store the thumbs on there as well. I believe that would make quite a difference compared to HDD.
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