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I’d like to join the discussion as I just finished transferring my main Aperture lib to the new Mac and the new C1 structures of lib and keywords. A lot of work and questionsmarks for the future but some things went really well. In comparison I liked Aperture’s way to handle, edit, find and tag keywords to images a lot better than C1’s. A main reason for that was: If I discover a typo or misspelled keyword in AA’s keyword list, I could alter/correct it and the images already containing that specific keyword will also benefit from my (too late) correction work – no additional work needed. Nitro doesn’t do so, that’s unfortunate: I then would need to first find the images with the wrong keyword/s, remove it and add the corrected ones. A lot of fuzz including intelligent albums, static albums to correct mistakes and these kind of mistakes are kind of an unwanted hobby of me.
May I also suggest you check the volume of your voice, Nik? I had to increase the volume and use airpods to get your comments which brought some side noises, mostly resonances, into the soundtrack. After the video another YT video from somebody else was rather loud.
Now, the AI part, as interesting as it is in terms of technology, is useless to me as my standard keyword list is in German. And will remain in German, as I don’t intend to sell my images internationally. What I also will not do is mixing the languages. There are few words similar in both languages with a different meaning, like “hose” which in German is “trousers” and the English “hose” is “Schlauch” in German. I don’t need to confuse my small brains more than I already done. Or words with more than one meaning in one language and then it depends on the hierarchy.
Nonetheless I appreciate your approach to use Apple’s AI as I constantly use it to look to species of plants and aninmals and then tag it with my keyword list. I also bought an Excire license which is close to unusable, except for the search for similar images and faces.
One super-feature of AA was (and still is, imo) “faces”. Before I transferred the AA lib into C1, I used faces which in my 35k images lib consisted of more than 450 named faces (although often less than 10 images/face).
All keywording strategies fall short/will fail on the same topic: Merging the new strategy with an existing one and I reckon it to be a nightmare to merge unknown, not very logic, not very consistent strategies into the one the developer/s is focused on. I think it’s like building the tower of Babylon.
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This reply was modified 1 week, 3 days ago by
Joachim Jundt.