Well, since Apple's Photos really does suck (except for the selfie-obsessed, for whom it will be wonderful no doubt), I have begun to investigate C1 v8 as the alternative (as I am no fan of Adobe). I've watched some videos, but none address some basic concepts when comparing and contrasting the two, so allow me to ask in an attempt to wrap my head around these ideas (and thank anyone who answers in advance for their help and patience):
1) Catalogs and Sessions as compared to Aperture's Projects - which is what? More to the point, will C1 enable me to continue my current practice - I have various projects set up in Aperture that span years. For instance, Malibu Beach or Descanso Gardens (a botanical garden in SoCal). I visit Descanso every month or so; each time I rename the files with a shoot-date-Descanso-NNN scheme and load them in a folder for the current year and month, then import them into Aperture as referenced files. As a result, my Descanso project has hundreds of shots from 2008 to last month, where the originals are located in a dozen or more folders on the external drive. Does C1's catalog allow me to do the same thing (and if I import will all this hold together the same way)?
1.1) I gather the way to handle an event I might shoot (a party, corporate event, whatever) might be best handled by importing into a session (since this is a one-time kind of thing) - would that be correct?
1.2) With Aperture, I see all my projects in the Library view, and can select the Project "Descanso" or "2014-Company-XMas" or whatever to view the images therein. It looks to me that C1 will allow me to select among the dozens of Catalogs I will have via a drop-menu, but it won't display a listing of everything at once, correct?
1.3) Aperture allows you to reject an image or images and eventually send them (versions and referenced files) to the Mac OS X trash for elimination. Does C1 do the same thing?
2) Does C1 "play well" with DxO? Depending on the lens used, I often use DxO on the NEF files I shoot to make corrections en masse and generate either JPEG or TIFF files. I import these into Aperture (with RAW+ JPEG as pairs, JPEG as master, for that matter). How can I continue this, if at all, with C1?
3) In general, does C1 allow that "import as pairs" concept at all? Or is it really designed to take just the RAW files and work its magic accordingly (which would seem to make DxO out of step)?
4) Another external program I use is PortraitProfessional - if I import RAW files into C1 (as a referenced catalog) and then open PortraitProfessional and work on some of those RAW files directly, creating TIFFs as output, would I then import the TIFF versions into C1's catalog as a way of keeping track?
The UI and tools themselves all seem to be things I can get used to, but these catalog and workflow related things are areas I have not seen compared anyplace thus far, so thanks to anyone who can help clear it up.