Aperture 3 changes things. You now tell Aperture what images to import by checking them much as you would if you were importing video from a non-tape-based video camera in iMovie. There are Check All and Uncheck All buttons and the sole import button is Import Checked. At first I though that this would be terrible if I wanted to import just the last 50 images shot when I have 50 images on a card (checking/unchecking 50 items!) but I found a shortcut today that I wanted to share.

Aperture will toggle the checked status of all selected images when you check/uncheck any selected image. This makes it very easy to select only the very specific images you may want – especially if they’re noncontiguous. Let’s say that you want to select the last 50 of 100 images. Easy. Uncheck All, select from image 51-100 and check any one of those images’ checkbox. Viola all 50 are ready for import!

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It has a great section on the new nondestructive brushes with nice examples of what the brushes do. More helpful, most brushes have a ‘why not do it another way?’ section. For example, the contrast brush has an entry “Why Not Use the Enhance Adjustment?” which, surprise of surprises, has a good reason to use the brush instead of the adjustment brick.

Anyhow, it is a good read. Certainly better than watching Angels and Demons. I really hate books/movies that feature a Bad Guy plot that is far too complex to ever possibly work. But I digress…

I guess I don’t get to play with the lens focus microadjustments in my camera. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad the autofocus is on, but it might have been fun to fine tune things.

I expect it to take some time.

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35 second video clip from 7D set at 1080p30- raw size 168MB

Final Cut Pro 7.0.1 running on 10.6.2 Mac Pro 2×3GHz Dual core 6GB RAM. Video on non-boot 1.5TB SATA HD.

Cross dissolve cannot be done in realtime renderer.

Compressor converted to ProRes 422 (HQ) size 814MB. Final Cut Pro can easily do realtime render of cross dissolve.

Video quality indistinguishable to my eyes.

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Sometimes getting out stupid early can be rewarding

Turns out that I turned them off in my theme. Oops.

This is too dangerous for me.