Re: Camera Profiling Software
Re: Camera Profiling Software
I spoke at length with the lead tech on the Aperture product yesterday.
Some of the info provided previously is
errant. I guess that the junior tech did not have his facts right.
In concept, Aperture is using the steroids of a quad processor G5 and
beefed up display card to do tricks with
chunks of data.
RAW files are converted to floating point temp files for display.
Edits are recorded into a XML file, but not applied until the file is
exported
Only when the files are exported, does ICC enter the processing stage. Any
working space can be selected for a
target destination.
Input is not profiled in the ICC sense, but rather characterized in the
Adobe Camera RAW sense. These camera
characterizations are part of the OSX/updates. (Which presumably means that
Apples smart OS will see RAW files in
other apps in the future).
Display profile is of course in play throughout the process.
Softproof profile can also be enabled throughout the process.
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While Aperture will run on a Powerbook 1.67 GHz, it will not be real time
in keeping up with instructions.
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For those who remember $10,000 Fx and Quadra 900/950s, this is not a big
deal to get an optimized G5.
$6000 buys a quad processor, 4GB RAM, 500 GB HD, and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
512 MB card. The demonstrations
were on this spec.
Apple suggests that a dual processor/2GB RAM/250 GB HD and NVIDIA 256 MB
will do the job. $2800.
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- Jon
Original Message:
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> If Apple is simply using ColorSync technology (ICC profiles, the
> Apple CMM, etc.), fine. If they're using the ColorSync Utility to
> set CM properties for Aperture, I'll groan.
Richard,
Yes, I certainly share your concerns. But I don't get the impression that
Aperture is going the "ColorSync Utility" way, judging from the literature
so far. But one may still be surprised to learn otherwise, since few of us
know enough yet about Aperture at this stage (I certainly do *not*).
Marco Ugolini
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