razmaspaz

I upgraded to Snow Leopard this week, and was rudely greeted by an error message when booting Aperture for the first time yesterday.  Aparrently Aperture 1.5.6 is no longer supported under Snow Leopard.  I have been holding out upgrading to Aperture 2 because I am hoping Aperture 3 will have some features like non destructive dodge and burn, and I can pick it up without grabbing Aperture 2. I was content to limp along hoping all would be fine, but then Apple cut me off at the knees.  Its so bad that I can’t even open the app to read my projects to get export the pictures.

So here I am stuck in roadmap limbo. With no smoke signals coming from Cupertino, I have 30 days to run the trial of Aperture, after that I have to have all of my projects converted, so that I can get my pictures out of Aperture libraries.  Then its on to Lightroom. Its a shame, because despite the risk of having a file format go obselete (see the above paragraph) I much prefer my files stored in databases rather than on the file system, and I really like the way Aperture feels.  But despite all of that my next chunk of change will go to Adobe.  At this point I know Adobe is behind their product, that they will continue to release updates, and whatnot, plus I have the comfort of knowing I’m on the industry standard platform.  I can’t say a single one of those things about Aperture.

If anyone has any experience migrating and how to get some of the data off the platform and into Lightroom (as if I would get any of my edits…) I would love to hear it.