How to Switch from Aperture to Lightroom

This video tutorial shows you how to get your pictures from Aperture into Lightroom. It was made with software up to date as of 1/5/13. (LR 4.3 Aperture 3.4.3)
This video is basically just a walkthrough of this great walkthrough here;

http://lightroomsolutions.com/article...

I've walked you through it. You'll see a couple pop up screen you may not have expected.
I have more written about this process in a blog post I did to accompany this video here;

http://wp.me/p2ynGJ-76

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  Film & Animation

[Nicolas Mango]

Hello Mark,

Very nice video. I'm migrating from Aperture (MAC) to Lightroom (PC)

The problem is that I have around 50,000 pictures divided with folders by country (i'm a traveler), then city, then events.

Can I still have this order in Lightroom?

I'm asking you, because when I want to export files, it creates folders only by PROJECT, and not by country. Example.

USA -> Florida -> Miami -> Beach with friends

It only creates "Beach with friends"

Thank you!!!! :) Great work!

[Mark Treen]

Nicolas, when you say your pictures are divided with folders, do you mean Aperture folders, or hard rive folders.

If it's hard drive folders then yes. LR doesn't hold you photo's, it can just see them where they are and catalog them ("Add"). It has other import options that won't help you here.

If you mean a structure inside Aperture then that dat will be lost.

If you take the time to location tag your photo's you can make a saved custom Library filter in LR for country/state/city/sublocation­.

[vevolander]

hi,

thank you for the video. i got a question i hope you could help.

does lightroom work faster and crash free editing on external drive library?

and does it store images like aperture library, capable to export, consolidate part of library?

i use aperture 3.4.3 on 2007 macbook pro and i have to keep mini library in main drive to work and main library on external firewire 800 drive. if i work all on external library, my mac would crash.

[Mark Treen]

I don't think either works extremely faster than the other in all cases.

Aperture is faster at download (3 times faster)

LR appears to handle larger libraries better.

LR only stores files outside library. Aperture can store them inside library or outside. Either program can have external files be stored on external drive that disconnects. LR 5 actually allows you to edit pictures stored externally when they aren't connected.

[Nilan Kanax]

just switched - tock me about 2 days because of the number of photos but as a long time Aperture user (from version 1) Lightroom is so much better than Aperture.

[Mark Treen]

Yeah, I can't link you to my article I answer that question but just go to my blog and type in aperture in search and you'll see it. It's called

LIGHTROOM VS APERTURE – ALL THEIR FEATURES COMPARED

[GustavoNungarayTV]

I'm usually into anything that has to do with photography i'm just trying to identify what are the big differences between the two different programs.

[Mark Treen]

No it's not better.

It's not a Picasa vs. Photoshop, it's oranges vs limes. Oranges are better if you are making orange juice. Limes are better if you want to flavor your salsa.

So the question isn't which is better, the question is which is better for you.

I take a lot of time on my blog to give you all the info to make the decision.

What are you into? Let me know and I may be able to give you some other insights.

[GustavoNungarayTV]

Is Lightroom really that much better then aperture?

[Mark Treen]

One thing that works well with separate Aperture Libraries is to make them capture time dependent. Name them as such. I have; "Master Aperture Library 2012".

Let me know what else I can do to help.

[vevolander]

hi Mark, thanks for being thorough. i made two library because my 5 year old mac just turn rainbow wheels after 3 minutes opening external library (even on firewire 800). so i create separate library on main drive, i'll just have to just merge library later. its not big deal i guess. thanks for the comparison offer. maybe my system just go agent murtagh on me. (lethal weapon "im too old for this sh*t)