I use a lot of scanned film images in my work. At 800 - 2400 dpi the files are between 300 to 700 mb. These are impossible to work with in Aperture. Is there anyone that has a work around for working with large files? Tif or jpg extension seem to perform the same.
Dave
At a guess, turn jpeg quality down from 12 to say 8. I don’t think you’ll see any difference. Also is your scanner really capable of working to 16-bit depth?
What size of film are you scanning - 10x8?
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I am scanning 120 medium format. What I may be able to do is to keep the current bit and dpi but scan to a smaller target size than 11 x 17. I haven’t had too much time to experiment since switching over from CS 4 and PC. I just don’t know what that will do to print resolution. Much of what I am doing gets printed up to 20 x 30. So working with a smaller target maybe prohibitive.
When I do get a print from this setup I get truly awesome detail for film. Hence the 16 bit grayscale mode from the scanner.
Don’t hesitate to let me know if you can think of anything else.
DB
Hi, Dave
I have the same problem. I use scanned film images, and some of them have between 300 to 700 mb. It´s olds photos from 6x9 films with high definition and very good optics.
When i try to have it in Aperture, its impossible work with it. Spend more of 1 h for load it!! If I try to do something more before load it, Aperture stuck and I need kill the process. Afeter that, it´s necessary repair the library… and so.
But if I tray edit some of this images with PS 3, load in few minutes, and a can retouch it, re-size it, etc, without any problem.
Aperture it´s a lot inefficient working with large files, and Apple need work about it pro fix this problem.
Please, Apple, do something about it!!!!
GSG