Using Vaults in Aperture

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'll be showing you how to use Apple's Aperture program for the Mac. Now, for one of my favorite feature, it's the vault. The way vaults work is, you see on the bottom left hand corner it says vault, will sync arrow set, show or hide as the--so I'm going to show my vault and what--your vault is an exact copy of your entire Aperture library. The one thing to note, though, is that referenced image files don't get stored in there. What that means is that if you choose not to consolidate your library, then it's not going to store your--it's only going to store your Aperture photo library in it. So if you keep referenced files out there, you can't keep back ups of those. But if you those a consolidated library like I do, this is really a great feature. You'll see as you'll notice right now, the arrow is red. Red means that a master image has been changed or edited, or removed or something, and that I need to update it, because I'm out of sync. Yellow means that there's been an adjustment made and if it's black, you'll see it's up to date. So I'm going to click on this to sync my vault, and it's going to do it's thing. So it takes a few minutes. I currently have a pretty small hard drive hooked up just to back up my vault. And so I may run out of space, I don't know, we'll see. But that's that. The good thing about this is, I can move my vault to any--it's going to ask you if I want to update it. Yes, I want to update it. I can move my vault to other machines, as long as they have the same photos--for example, if I had 2 different machines both with the same photos set on 'em and I wanted to keep that photo set up to date, between them I can do it that way, or if I kept different photo sets, like if I kept a set at the office and a set at home, then I could actually have multiple vaults. I could have a vault just for work images and a vault just for--at home images, I could have a vault that includes all my external stuff while it's plugged in. So it's a really great feature. But like I said, the one thing it will not do is, you cannot back up referenced images. So that's something to keep in mind when using Aperture. Right now, you can see it's comparing the library to the vault, it's going to do this for a few minutes, and it's going to sync it up and pretty much all you have to do."