Paul Inskip Photography

Hopefully Aperture 3 will be upon us (maybe even tomorrow! - wishful thinking) but in the mean time I was wondering whether other Aperture users fancied getting together to establish some benchmarks for Aperture to fins out what difference HDs, graphics cards, processor, RAM etc actually make. I’ve never found anything similar to this for Aperture, lots for Photoshop but nothing for Aperture.

What I’m proposing is this.

A set of 50 Canon 5DmkII RAW files
one aperture project with a RAW file in it with a set of adjustments to lift and stamp onto the other 50 images.
exported as full quality jpegs & tiffs and 1024 web ready jpegs.

Timings done for the following:

import time
thumbnail update time after stamping
time to click through the images any “loading” time seen
Adjusting 5 set images by a certain amount to time response and slider responsiveness
export time

We will then provide:

OS version
Aperture version
machine type
RAM installed
graphics card
OS hard drive speed
library HD speed

This way if we get a few people involved we should be able to build up a picture of what really affects Apertures performance meaning hopefully we can all then maximise our machines to get the best performance out of Aperture before version 3 comes out, and then run the tests again on 3 to give us a baseline for performance increases.

If anyone would like to get involved please do contact me and I will start to get together the necessary files. Please suggest any specific adjustments, setting or additions to the list above to give us a baseline.

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