∞ Apple updates Aperture and iMovie

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Apple on Thursday released updates for its pro photography workflow application and its consumer-focused iMovie, according to MacUpdate.

Aperture 3.0.2 fixes over a dozen issues, fixing some of the most common problems users have found, including importing Aperture 1.x and 2.x libraries. Other problems fixed in this release include:

  • Importing libraries from iPhoto or from earlier versions of Aperture
  • Importing hierarchical folders of photos into a library
  • Adding names and confirming matches in Faces
  • Reordering snapshots on the Faces corkboard
  • Creating and saving print presets
  • Duplicating metadata presets
  • Adjustments using Curves, Straighten and Retouching
  • Navigation of photos in the Viewer using scrolling
  • Importing ratings, color labels and GPS data from XMP sidecar files
  • IPTC metadata compatibility
  • Deleting photos when emptying the Aperture Trash
  • Exporting versions and libraries

iMovie 8.0.6 includes one fix and it has to do with Aperture as well. According to Apple, the new version of iMovie improves reliability when working with videos from Aperture.


  • Ashley Baldry

    I bought aperture thinking it was supposed to be a professional programme, however it will not read the raw files from my Mamiya ZD camera. Until it can read raw files from a professional camera how can anyone like myself take it seriously, a real let down considering how wonderful the i mac is for the uses I put it to.
    Yours Sincerely a very disillusioned customer considering Lightroom will read the files Ashley Baldry.

    • Claudio Capitani

      Hi Ashley
      Join the club of frustrated photographers. When I bought my Nikon 300s I had to wait several months before Apple provided a RAW decoder for this camera thereby paralysing my work flow. Excellent software is being let down by very tardy responses to new camera releases. If you look at various Mac forums there are many complaints of this nature but little response from Apple. Unless Apple responds with RAW decoders in the same time scale as Adobe does (i.e, days rather than months) they will continue to loose out to Lightroom.