Aperture and iPhone? No way…
06 juin 2008 20:05 Par : T
Why oh why?
I was using iPhoto, as I told you earlier and I was so happy with this fantastic iApp. But iPhoto suddenly decided not to let me apply “reduce noise” or “sharpen” effects on my photos. After lots of efforts and time lost, the only solution left was to switch to Aperture.
Well, ok, why not…
There are quite a lot of issues, the main one being it’s quite slow on my iMac G5 and making the need for a new machine even more obvious.
Another one is the following. And it drives me mad.
While the iPod Touch or iPhone synchronisation with iPhoto’s Library was easy and perfectly working, the synchronisation between Aperture’s Library and the iPhone (or iPod Touch, you got it now, I won’t use both names each time) is simply bugged beyond all you can imagine.
I’ve searched the web around, to find out if there was a solution. And it appeared that some people suggested that Aperture needed to finish generating the preview for the photos for them to appear in iTune’s Photos synchronisation tab.
Ok, well, I let Aperture work (a long time) to generate the previews for my 36,580 photos. And guess what? It only proposes me 111 photos in iTunes! Yes, out of more than 30,000! And only a few of my hundreds Albums and Projects. This is insane. Unacceptable from Apple.
In fact, before it finished generating all the previews, it allowed me to see much more photos from my Aperture Library. This is insane.
I was using iPhoto, as I told you earlier and I was so happy with this fantastic iApp. But iPhoto suddenly decided not to let me apply “reduce noise” or “sharpen” effects on my photos. After lots of efforts and time lost, the only solution left was to switch to Aperture.
Well, ok, why not…
There are quite a lot of issues, the main one being it’s quite slow on my iMac G5 and making the need for a new machine even more obvious.
Another one is the following. And it drives me mad.
While the iPod Touch or iPhone synchronisation with iPhoto’s Library was easy and perfectly working, the synchronisation between Aperture’s Library and the iPhone (or iPod Touch, you got it now, I won’t use both names each time) is simply bugged beyond all you can imagine.
I’ve searched the web around, to find out if there was a solution. And it appeared that some people suggested that Aperture needed to finish generating the preview for the photos for them to appear in iTune’s Photos synchronisation tab.
Ok, well, I let Aperture work (a long time) to generate the previews for my 36,580 photos. And guess what? It only proposes me 111 photos in iTunes! Yes, out of more than 30,000! And only a few of my hundreds Albums and Projects. This is insane. Unacceptable from Apple.
In fact, before it finished generating all the previews, it allowed me to see much more photos from my Aperture Library. This is insane.
They have hired people from Microsoft or what?
Just to be sure and since I still haven’t deleted my damaged iPhoto Library, I switched the sync to that iPhoto and it shows me the whole Library and all the Albums I’ve got. Works perfectly as it should.
So what? I will have to maintain two photo librairies to be able to sync my iPhone correctly? It’s not acceptable. This is a major bug and it has to be solved.