Mike said: Also, isnt Adobe's XMP sidecar file similar to the XML sidecar file Aperture is creating? I think some of wording on their advertising implies that Aperture somehow creates a digital master file that is different from the raw file that is downloaded.
I do like the "versioning" function they mention. Which sounds like more than one XML file or XML fields are created for the raw file. Roger replies (sorry, our email system doesn't handle quoting from digests well!): Yes, it's similar in concept; I don't have my copy of Aperture yet but I'd assume Apple is using a variant of their plist format, while Adobe uses XMP (which is XML-encoded RDF)... it's not clear yet (to me) what is actually stored in Apple's sidecars - it's apparently used as a static backup of the binary database (much like iTunes and iPhoto both use XML documents as mirrors of their binary database). But yeah, conceptually they are similar at least. I'd grafted on versioning support for XMP a couple years ago for my own personal workflow, as I often render multiple renditions of my raw files... ugly but it works. -R --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
