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Apple Releases Aperture 3.0.2 and iMovie 8.0.6

Thursday March 25, 2010 2:25 pm PDT by Eric Slivka

Apple today released a pair of software updates, offering improvements for Aperture users while also updating iMovie to improve its ability to use video from Aperture.

- Aperture 3.0.2 weighs in at 69.83 MB and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.2. It offers a significant number of improvements throughout the application.

This update improves overall stability and fixes issues in a number of areas. The key areas addressed include:

- Upgrading Aperture 1.x and 2.x libraries
- 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

Full details of the over 65 changes included in the update are available in the release notes.

- iMovie 8.0.6, weighing in at 35.84 MB and requiring Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later, "improves reliability when working with videos from Aperture" and is recommended for all iMovie '09 users.
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dwd3885
25 months ago
gawd they released aperture 3 too early.
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Marsil
25 months ago
May be they will continue to update it every second month :)
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Snowcat001
25 months ago
Yes :-) nicely fixed some bugs that were annoying me (import bug, faces naming)

Thank you Apple!:D
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daneoni
25 months ago
What a bloated app. Over half a GB...ONE app!
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cosmokanga2
25 months ago

What a bloated app. Over half a GB...ONE app!


The resource folder accounts for 85% of the size. Saw an article, Mac Create I think that detailed the size.
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jll62
25 months ago
Faces is definitely improved in 3.0.2. The initial recognition is better and I'm not getting bombarded by the same rejected images over and over again.
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Cynicalone
25 months ago

The resource folder accounts for 85% of the size. Saw an article, Mac Create I think that detailed the size.


Indeed it is huge.
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CrackedButter
25 months ago
Cool, just bought the boxed copy which is on its way.
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Winni
25 months ago

What a bloated app. Over half a GB...ONE app!


Aperture is the only reason why I'm still using a Mac. But when you're talking about bloat... Please let me know why that word processor Pages is so huge. Or Photoshop.
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goodcow
25 months ago

Aperture is the only reason why I'm still using a Mac. But when you're talking about bloat... Please let me know why that word processor Pages is so huge. Or Photoshop.


Pages is full of templates.
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