Introducing AVALANCHE for MacOS
Library transfer at avalanche speed...
Available for Lightroom, Luminar, Capture One
or Apple Photos
supporting exports from Google photo, Aperture or even iView MediaPro
Photo migration made safe and accurate
Let Avalanche help you transfer your managed photos from one application to another without losing any data, while preserving all your edits.*
Avalanche will analyze your existing catalogs and safely migrate all your images, complete with metadata, annotations, custom organization hierarchies (albums, stacks, keywords…) to their new home.
Preserve all your edits
Avalanche uses Machine Learning to automatically adjust the edits you made on a photo to ensure that it looks exactly (* See limitations) the same after migration.
Not all adjustments made to your photos require AI. Some, like geometrical adjustments (e.g. straighten, crop) are carried across very precisely.
Avalanche uses AI for : White balance, Exposure and light, Color and Tint, Highlights and Shadows.
Time for a change?
Whether you want to start using a shiny new Cataloging app, or simply want to ensure that all your cataloged photos travel through time safely, Avalanche is the solution.
Avalanche will analyse your existing catalogs and safely migrate all your images, complete with metadata, annotations, custom organization hierarchies (albums, stacks, keywords…) to their new home.
Preserve your image organization
If you’ve tried other applications and plugins that were designed to export your photos into a new catalog, and are tired of waiting for never ending progress bars, you’ve come to the right place.
Avalanche is fast, because it runs natively on the Mac and has been tuned for performance (*).
Avalanche is safe because it never writes into an existing Lightroom catalog, but creates a brand new catalog ready to be merged…or not.
Last but not least Avalanche has been designed with ❤︎ by the CYME team 🙂
(*) This is actually why our product is called Avalanche : it moves tons of material in a whoossh!. We've benchmarked Avalanche on Aperture libraries up to 100,000 photos, and it typically exports them to Lightroom in less than 1 hour.
Fast…and safe
If you’ve tried other applications and plugins that were designed to export your photos into a new catalog, and are tired of waiting for never ending progress bars, you’ve come to the right place.
Avalanche is fast, because it runs natively on the Mac and has been tuned for performance. We have benchmarked Avalanche on Aperture libraries up to 100,000 photos, and it typically exports them to Lightroom in less than 1 hour. This is actually this why the product is called Avalanche : it moves tons of material in a whoossh!
And it is safe because it never writes into an existing Lightroom or Luminar catalog, but creates a brand new catalog ready to be merged.
(*) System requirements : Mac with macOS 10.14 and higher, 145 MB of free space, 4GB of memory (8GB recommended). Available in English and French (more coming soon!).
Approved by our users
In one evening the migration of 25 200 photos (121GB) to a Lightroom catalog was done and all the photos were right there at my fingertips, organized in the same original folders. Genius! Not only that, the software looks slick and professional, and is easy to use. Amazing product, highly recommended!
Avalanche is an exciting and ambitious tool that is beneficial to photographers wanting to save time when switching between image editing apps - highly recommended!
I have transferred about 28,000 pictures from Aperture to Luminar. Avalanche looks amazing, very professional; migration process was very simple with enough information provided on every step. [...] I believe, Avalanche is the best tool to migrate pictures off of Aperture. It works fast (only took 1hour to move 300GB of pictures and all related metadata!), and it's super easy to use, very nice and intuitive user interface, and most importantly, all my metadata - keywords, star ratings, etc. - everything got successfully migrated to Luminar. I couldn’t be happier!
Easy to use, and yet it talks to the PROs
While we worked hard to make Avalanche simple to use, it was built from the ground up with PROs in mind. Avalanche understands non destructive editing, masters, virtual copies and even PRO features such as RAW+JPEG workflows.
List of Features
Masters
Masters
Masters are recreated in the target catalog with corresponding import sessions.
Referenced files can be copied or left in place.
Versions
Versions
Versions (also called virtual copies) are recreated in the target catalog, with all specific adjustments, metadata and annotations
Albums / Projects / Collections
Albums / Projects / Collections
Simple albums are recreated in the target catalog. Smart albums are not converted.
Annotations and Keywords
Annotations and Keywords
All customs annotations, flags, ratings and color labels are converted.
Keywords are converted with full support for hierarchies.
AI Powered Adjustments
AI Powered Adjustments
WB temperature and tint, exposure, contrast, vibrancy, saturation, black & white levels, highlights and shadows are converted using AI.
Faces
Faces
Faces are fully converted, when the feature is supported in the destination catalog, and the detected faces in all images are properly positioned in the target picture.
Metadata from Files
Metadata from Files
Avalanche can analyze the metadata stored in the images themselves to enrich the destination catalog with metadata that was not extracted in the source catalog.
EXIF and IPTC
EXIF and IPTC
All IPTC and EXIF are supported.
Avalanche even harvests EXIF data from the master files to enrich the target catalog.
Stacks
Stacks
When available, stacks are fully reconstructed in the target album.
Videos
Videos
Videos are fully migrated when the destination application supports them (e.g Lightroom). In all other cases, videos are safely copied into a the destination folder hierachy alongside your Masters, or can be copied in a dedicated folder.
Not sure where your images are stored?...No problem!
Not sure where your images are stored?...no problem!
Avalanche detects all the disks referenced by your catalog and will alert you if some offline devices should be connected for the migration.
Crops and geometric adjustments
Crops and geometric adjustments
Don’t worry about your crops and geometrics adjustments. Avalanche will maintain them as much as possible, depending on the format limitations of your destination catalog.
The case of Aperture
Starting with macOS Catalina (released in September 2019), Aperture won’t launch anymore on your Mac.
While it’s very sad for many of us, it does not mean that migration will be impossible after that date.
Indeed, the good news is that Avalanche will still be able to open your Aperture libraries and migrate them to all destinations it supports.
System requirements
Avalanche for Lightroom, Avalanche for Luminar and Avalanche Unlimited require macOS 10.14 or later and run fine on Catalina.
Avalanche is compatible with:
- Aperture catalogs from version 3.6
- Lightroom Classic catalogs from version 5
- Luminar catalogs from version 4.2
You need around 145 MB of free space, 4GB of memory (8GB recommended) and enough space to accommodate the converted libraries.
A working copy of Apple Aperture or Lightroom is not required to migrate libraries as Avalanche opens those libraries natively.
Limitations of Avalanche
(*) Not all edits can be converted due to the complexity of the proprietary formats of the catalogs. Avalanche will not convert mask based edits, or local adjustments (spot removal, healing brushes, etc…). Advanced color grading is not handled either. All images that have adjustments that are not supported, will be placed in a dedicated album for easy review.
Technical support
We are here to answer your questions. To get support, take a look at the FAQ, send us a ticket, or join the community.
