jonoslack
Veteran
HI there
I don't want to be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs, so, for whom this is really obvious - apologies! I just thought that it might be helpful to someone!
Having re-evaluated the situation too many times, I do know that Aperture is the photographic program for me, there's no question about it.
However, as usual, Aperture have been slow to provide support for the X100, and I thought it might just be worth sharing the way I deal with this issue.
I'm always a little worried about using proprietary RAW formats anyway, so I don't have a problem about converting to DNG - fortunately the Adobe DNG converter is free, and you can get it from here:
Adobe DNG converter 6.4 for mac
Okay - this is what I do
First of all - I shoot RAW - then I insert the SD card into the computer and load DNG converter:
You can see that having set it up once, it defaults to using the folder in the SD card with the images:
/Volumes/Untitled/DCIM/100_FUJI/
The target location I've set up is a transit folder called
/Volumes/....../fujidng/
Again - having set this up once it will default to this folder each time you load DNG converter
Here's how it looks:
Having clicked the Convert button and put the kettle on, I remove the SD card, load Aperture and click on Import - I'll then choose the local drive and go to the
/Volumes/....../fujidng/ folder, which will then have all the DNG files ready to import.
I set Aperture to MOVE the files to the correct end location (I have a default project for each month, with a matching folder).
Like this:
After doing the import, the temporary fujidng folder is empty (the files having been moved), So there is no duplication of files and everything is neat and tidy.
. . . . . . . of course, I also have a backup routine which runs each night to backup the new files.
I hope this is helpful to someone!
all the best
I don't want to be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs, so, for whom this is really obvious - apologies! I just thought that it might be helpful to someone!
Having re-evaluated the situation too many times, I do know that Aperture is the photographic program for me, there's no question about it.
However, as usual, Aperture have been slow to provide support for the X100, and I thought it might just be worth sharing the way I deal with this issue.
I'm always a little worried about using proprietary RAW formats anyway, so I don't have a problem about converting to DNG - fortunately the Adobe DNG converter is free, and you can get it from here:
Adobe DNG converter 6.4 for mac
Okay - this is what I do
First of all - I shoot RAW - then I insert the SD card into the computer and load DNG converter:
You can see that having set it up once, it defaults to using the folder in the SD card with the images:
/Volumes/Untitled/DCIM/100_FUJI/
The target location I've set up is a transit folder called
/Volumes/....../fujidng/
Again - having set this up once it will default to this folder each time you load DNG converter
Here's how it looks:
Having clicked the Convert button and put the kettle on, I remove the SD card, load Aperture and click on Import - I'll then choose the local drive and go to the
/Volumes/....../fujidng/ folder, which will then have all the DNG files ready to import.
I set Aperture to MOVE the files to the correct end location (I have a default project for each month, with a matching folder).
Like this:
After doing the import, the temporary fujidng folder is empty (the files having been moved), So there is no duplication of files and everything is neat and tidy.
. . . . . . . of course, I also have a backup routine which runs each night to backup the new files.
I hope this is helpful to someone!
all the best