Consolidating Masters for a Project


If you've created a project with a mix of managed and referenced images, like the one we created in Lesson 8, there might come a time when you want the images all in one place. Aperture provides a simple Consolidate Masters command, which gathers up all of your master images and puts them in the Aperture Library.

1.

Select the Lesson08 First Import project in the Projects panel.

2.

Choose File > Consolidate Masters for Project.

Aperture presents you with an option to either copy or move your masters.

If you choose Copy files, then your master files will be left in their current location, and a copy will be made in your Library. If you choose Move files, then the masters will be copied and subsequently deleted from their original location.

The dialog also warns you that if you move the file (thus deleting the masters from their original locations), any other projects that point to those images will have their links broken. In our case, this project is the only one linking to these images, so we don't have to worry.

Our masters are on a nonrewritable DVD, so choose Move files.

3.

Click Continue. Aperture will display a progress bar while it copies the referenced images into its internal Library.

When it's finished, none of your images will have a reference badge attached to them, since they're no longer referenced files. Now your entire project is in the internal Library.




Apple Pro Training Series(c) Aperture 1.5
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5
ISBN: 0321496620
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 190

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