“Take Control of Your Digital Photos,” Chapter 4
Moving photos from a camera or memory card to the computer seems like mere transportation: bits captured and stored in one location are copied and saved to a new location. But your computer can do more than just shuttle files from one location to another. By taking advantage of software’s capability to assign metadata during the import stage, much of the drudgery of organizing photos is handled upfront with minimal interaction required by you.
Isn't the Aperture option for Raw and JPG ambiguous or am I overanalyzing this? If I only want Raw if I took Raw+JPG, but also want JPGs for which there is not matching Raw, what do I select? What does matching Raw files mean?
For the images shot in Raw+JPEG, you can choose to import only the raw file and ignore the JPEG. However, other JPEGs on the card would be imported normally. That setting applies only to how Raw+JPEG pairs are handled.
Thank you.
I've since realized that when you have Raw only selected, videos are hidden. Not good. Bad on Apple.
In Aperture you can keep your pictures outside the library using referenced mode. You get to choose the folder structure you want to have, and you can automatically, make a backup copy of the photos on import as well.
Joseph Linaschke from apertureexpert.com has a great ebook about it: http://www.apertureexpert.com/storedetails/apertureexperts-15-tips-on-file-management-in-aperture-3.html