Aperture 3.0 - June 2009 Pro App Release at the Apple WWDC? More importantly - What are we going to get?

    

Recently I have read a number of articles regarding the likely upgrading of Apple’s Pro Apps in June at the WWDC. There seems to be lots of excitement and discussion around Final Cut Studio, Logic Pro etc. But nothing about Aperture 3.0 - Even though this too is anticipated to be launched at the event.

Why is this I wonder? Given that Aperture is one of Apples flagship apps and a definite entry excuse to the world of Mac. I seriously would have expected a lot more buzz with only just over a month to go.

Now, Aperture 2 is a wonderful application and has served my business extremely well - Especially with regards to large catalogues of work. It has it bugs and gremlins just like any other application. A fair number of which have been ironed out along the way with the updates. But there are still some fundamental elements lacking. And ones I would love to see in an Aperture 3.0 release.

There have been a few clues as the updates shipped over the last year or so. And if you have a peek at what the developers are revealing about Snow Leopard, the interface changes to iLife and the inclusion of the ‘Events’ Style interface quietly introduced to Aperture 2.1.3 last month. I am beginning to think we are possibly about to see something quite significant appear out of the ever secretive gates of 1 Infinite Loop, Redmond.

But, I’ll come back to that later...

First - What I would love to see above all else in the upgrade from Aperture 2 to Aperture 3 are the following:

Totally non-destructive workflow for everything - Plugins, roundtrips to editing software like Photoshop.

Complete DAM (Digital Asset Management) included. eg. If I archive a project, gallery album, whatever, I can keep low resolution copies in Aperture for reference and search. And if I ever want to retrieve them, it will tell me where they are. Archive 4, Disc 6.

Speed & Efficiency - On a MacBook Pro, your battery life will be sucked down to nothing and your thighs will burn while beads of sweat drip from your nose to provide additional cooling as it seeps between the keys into the carcass of your notebook. What the hell is it doing in there?! To use 140% of processing power and three giga watts of heat generated to build previews and thumbnails... The OS that it runs on seems to achieve the same super efficiently with the power drain of an LED - and yet Aperture seems to require it’s own nuclear power station with supporting cooling towers to achieve the same task - Very confusing and the most important fix in my book.

Theft of some of the goodies in Lightroom - Everyone seems to steal Apples ideas in the pursuit of ‘cool’. So when someone like Adobe get something right in their implementation of tools within Lightroom - let’s just hope that the Redmond guys don’t get too moral on us, tear that thing apart and steal the good stuff and leave the rest for the wolves. Then pop it all in Aperture 3.0.

To be honest - If they just fix these four elements - I will be a very happy man and get my pre-order in just as soon as I read from from one of the journalists who gets their hands on it early, confirming that this has happened. 

Or, Steve, if you’re reading this while your chilling out and getting yourself back on an even keel. Feel free to send me a copy and I’ll happily give it a good thrashing for you.

Anyway - Back to the ‘Sexy’ changes...

If I am totally honest, I don’t think there really will be any - At least I hope not as I would rather they sorted out the biggies, just as they are doing with Snow Leopard and left the sexiness to the minimum for now. This, after all is a Pro App and takes its interface largely from the OS. And I for one will not be disappointed if it remains that way.

What I really want is the same tool, to do the little extras that I want to help me me more efficient, organised and have more control to enable to focus that much more on the creativity. Rather than the desk work.

And you know what - I for one think tat is exactly what is going to happen...

What do you think?

Comments

[Steve]

hmmm.. Redmond Guys, I think you mean Cupertino Guys.

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