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Aperture 3 – New Feature – Sticky Selections?
It might be me, I could be getting senile or something but I just noticed what I think is a new feature that does not seem to show up in the list of 200+ new features. It is one of those little things and this one although quiet is actually really cool. After pushing Aperture 3 and putting a lot of new features through their paces to discover depth (I love Aperture’s depth – there is always more than meets the eye), I stumbled onto “sticky selections”
It seems that Aperture three retains image selections individually for every single browser view for every single object. Project, album, smart album, everything. If you make a selection and click somewhere else on the library and go back your selection is still exactly what it was before. You can make a selection in one project, jump to another album in another project, make a new selection, etc, etc. Every single one of them will still be there when you go back.
What’s more is that these selections are all persistent even if you exit Aperture and get back in. Very very handy. I actually noticed this when stress testing the heck out of the new project/library merge features and I have a lot of good news on that front. I think I will write up some of my findings today or tomorrow. Just one or two other things that crossed my mind to finish figuring out.
RB
Hello RB,
I found a non so great new feature: the disappearance of “New xxx from selection”.
No more shortcut, nothing….just a checkbox in the “New album” to include selection. The annoying thing is that, in this little panel, after typingthe name of the new album, the “tab” key does not put the focus on the check box to include the selection.
I find this quite annoying and irritating, because a single shortcut before is now replaced by a shortcut, put the hand on the mouse, click the checkbox, click OK…not very efficient…
Am I missing something or is this really screwed up now?
Thanks for your insights on Aperture 3, they’re really pertinent and useful, as usual
Looking forward to your insight on library merging, this is a must for me. I maintain a travel library on the MBP and then (for A2) export the projects then import them into the main desktop library. Too be able to drag the travel library on to the main and get a seemless merge??? is a great feature.
Jeremy,
I thought the same thing with the new Album functionality but I gave it a chance and I am okay with it now. The checkbox seems to be sticky. So…
What every you do the most – or actually last time is what happens next time. In other words I almost always create albums from selections hence:
Command+L, Type name, enter (box was already checked).
The only time I need to futz with it are rare occasions where I make blank albums from the start and the very next time I want to create a new album.
I think the idea was okay – make things work the “same way” all the time but I do understand what you are talking about. Believe me when I complain bitterly (like the sort of modal-ness of some of the new features) I really really try to see a way to be productive – I am a little better now that I set up my series of view shortcuts but still come on does apple really think I want Aperture to boink at me when I hit the V key in Places?
RB
Paul,
I am really giving it a run for it’s money and there is the good, the bad, and the ugly but for the most part 90% good – 9% bad and 1% ugly.
RB
Ps. As usually I don’t really get a charge out of regurgitating the manual – that is usually not even a good base for really getting to know Aperture and how things play together to make it great.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the posts about Aperture 3.
Dale,
You are welcome – more to come – I really like to use the heck out of things before I go way out there on a limb. I have been beating Aperture 3 senseless 24 by 7 since about 15 minutes after it’s release.
RB
I discovered this today and was totally happy. A2 was horrible with this kind of thing, even jumping to random places in the browser after a version was deleted, and other craziness.
RB,
Yes, I try to see the positive, but many steps to do what one click did in A2 is akin to iPhoto-type functionality. I posted the following to the Apple A3 discussions:
“In A3, How Do I Show or Hide Empty Metadata Tags?
Posted: Feb 22, 2010 12:09 AM
When creating metadata views for various workflows, I would decide whether or not to include a particular tag based upon that tag either being empty or having a value.
As some photos in that workflow did not always have a value in said tag, I would click several photos in succession to look for tags that had values, and would then check or uncheck that tag. This was especially useful when cameras added new info.
In A3, it seems that I have to go through many steps to turn a tag on, go to a photo to see if it has a value; if it doesn’t, then go back through the same steps to turn it off, etc. … In other words, a one-click toggle in the A2 Metadata interface now requires many, many steps in A3 to accomplish the same thing …
… unless they put the Show/Hide Empty Tags somewhere else …
Does anyone know where?”
And:
“In A3, How Do I Apply One Of My (many) Custom Metadata Views To The Viewer?
Posted: Feb 22, 2010 12:30 AM
In A3, it appears that both the Viewer and Browser are limited to just 2 views: Basic and Expanded.
In A2, I had many custom metadata views that I could easily change via the Metadata-pane (now gone) in Prefs. depending on the type of workflow, customer needs, etc.
Now, if I’m limited to just 2, I’ll have to go in and manually change the composition of A3′s 2 views for each workflow. If this is the case, I see it as a big step backwards. This is the type of limitation that iPhoto often has, and flexibility is what I expect from a Pro-App.
I spent a great deal of time developing custom metadata views for various workflows so that I could align the various displays in Aperture to each workflow. What do I do now?
MBP 2.6GHz 17″ Mac OS X (10.6.2) Aperture 3.0, DVDSP 4.2.1, FCP 6.0.5 ”
I thought that the Metadata editing from the bottom (now replaced by the Places ‘map’ though there’s plenty of room for both) of the Metadata Inspector was rather innovative, fast (far fewer clicks), and easily alerted me to new metadata populated by a camera manufacturer that I would otherwise easily miss. Now, metadata editing isn’t in (that I know of) either the Metadata Inspector or Prefs (I look for global settings in Prefs — and since metadata views affect many parts of the display, isn’t a global-settings location where one would expect to find them?).
Any ideas on how to do these without many tedious steps?
Thanks.
Jeremy & RB, New Albums: Cmd-L for a new album with selection (“Add selected items to new album” checked); cmd-opt-L for a new album with no selection (“Add selected items to new album” cleared (i.e., no new items added despite any selection, no fiddling with a mouse)). This functionality was true for A2 also, and was documented in the “File>New…” and “File>New from Selection…” menu commands, which have disappeared in A3 (now simply “File>New…”), but still function. Checking the “Aperture>Commands>Customize…” panel can help map out all these extraneous keys, and let you build your own (assign it a key command to get it quickly and add changes).
Inspirator: Very true—this change bothers me also…leaving me with a list of custom workflow metadata groups that I can’t use easily, and four simplistic ones that are hard and tedious to modify.
Great site, turned onto it from Apple Discussions. Look forward to visiting often.
Another new feature allows one to create a JPEG image from a video frame.
So, I ask, how do I:
1. apply the version name of the video to the JPEG, instead of the (external) source file name?
2. when generating multiples from the same video, get unique names?
If something like timecode could be used, the JPEG name would be both unique and I could later locate that source frame (among many thousands).
Possible? It is, after all, a Pro app.