IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 | Hi! My name is Richard Harrington and today
I would like to show you how to get more
| | 00:07 | done with Apple Aperture,
specifically creating slideshows.
| | 00:12 | Now slideshows are a fun way to share
your images with friends and family, and
| | 00:16 | if you are a professional photographer
it's an essential way to get feedback on
| | 00:20 | your images, it allows you to make
presentations to prospective clients or other students.
| | 00:25 | Slideshows in Aperture are fun and easy
and you are going to find today that you
| | 00:29 | can use easy presets or completely
customize whatever you'd like to accomplish.
| | 00:33 | We have got a lot to cover, so I
would like to welcome you and let's jump
| | 00:37 | right in.
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| Exercise files| 00:00 | You may have access to exercise
files on the lynda.com web site.
| | 00:04 | If you do, just click on the Exercise Files
tab and download them for these exercises.
| | 00:10 | Once you have downloaded the files and
unzipped them, place them on your Desktop
| | 00:14 | and then use the following instructions.
| | 00:16 | You can go ahead and hold down the Option key
and click on the Aperture icon to open it up.
| | 00:24 | When you do, you'll have the choice to
choose a library that you'd like to use.
| | 00:31 | Now I usually click on the Library Name
to make it easier to see all of my options.
| | 00:36 | In this case my default library is
selected, if you've downloaded and opened up
| | 00:41 | the exercise files, Aperture will detect
other Aperture libraries on your system.
| | 00:47 | And you'll want to select the
Creative Slideshows Library 01 Start.
| | 00:53 | When you do that and click Choose,
Aperture will launch and the photos that we
| | 00:59 | are going to use for today's
exercises will be selected.
| | 01:04 | If you don't have access to the lesson
files, you're more than welcome to use
| | 01:07 | your own photos to complete these exercises.
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1. An Overview of Creating SlideshowsWhy create slideshows?| 00:00 | There is lots of reasons to create a
slideshow, for me, one of the simplest is
| | 00:04 | just the act of sharing. Maybe you
want to share a trip you went on or share
| | 00:08 | your photography with friends or family
to help them enjoy it, and to just really
| | 00:13 | get your images out there
to let other people see them.
| | 00:15 | Of course if you're a serious amateur
or a pro photographer, the act of making a
| | 00:20 | slideshow has some other purposes.
| | 00:22 | You are going to want to actually get
feedback on your images and creating a
| | 00:26 | slideshow is a great way to do that. You
could run them back for a client who is
| | 00:30 | sitting over your shoulder and let
them just see a parade of images and see
| | 00:33 | which ones grab them, or how
they react to a particular image.
| | 00:37 | You can also create animated slideshows
with more elaborate features and export
| | 00:41 | those to share with clients.
| | 00:43 | You could put those out to the web, publish
them to an iPod, lots of different things.
| | 00:47 | So the act of a slideshow is all about
sharing, and in the old days, sharing used
| | 00:53 | to just be prints. These days with
the proliferation of electronic devices,
| | 00:58 | laptops, screens, televisions, iPads,
iPhones, slideshows are one of the best
| | 01:03 | ways to hit those devices, because you
could take your images, arrange them to
| | 01:07 | tell a story, put the addition of music,
sound effects and even video, and then
| | 01:12 | publish for all to see.
| | 01:14 | So we have got a lot ahead of us,
let's jump in.
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| Using high-resolution previews| 00:00 | When you create a slideshow you are
going to have several photos, and chances
| | 00:03 | are, those photos are going to
playback in quick succession.
| | 00:07 | Now when Aperture brings in images
chances are you've been working with
| | 00:11 | high-resolution photos, or even RAW
files. These files typically take a couple
| | 00:17 | of seconds to decode.
| | 00:18 | That's just not going to
to work with a slideshow.
| | 00:20 | What happens is that Aperture instead
turns to the preview file, and the preview
| | 00:25 | file is typically automatically
generated when you imported your images.
| | 00:29 | What I want to show you now is how to
setup Aperture to have the highest quality
| | 00:33 | previews, so when you create
slideshows you can actually generate those
| | 00:37 | slideshows with good images that will
allow you to do things like pans and
| | 00:42 | scans, animated moves, or even re-crops.
| | 00:46 | To change your preferences just choose
Aperture > Preferences, and you'll see here
| | 00:52 | that there is a whole
category all about previews.
| | 00:56 | When you click it, there is a
couple of things to think about.
| | 00:59 | First off, I typically recommend that
new projects automatically generate
| | 01:03 | previews. Preview files are just that,
they allow you to quickly browse through
| | 01:09 | your library, apply ratings
and do all sorts of other things.
| | 01:12 | In fact, if you're using with a reference
library approach, one where you have
| | 01:17 | the master files on a drive, maybe an
external drive from my laptop, but then my
| | 01:22 | library is stored on my laptop, I can
actually still see those preview files
| | 01:26 | even if the referenced media isn't attached.
| | 01:29 | This is pretty cool, it allows me to
actually keep a large collection of
| | 01:32 | my images and use them for a slideshow
without having to have my media vault plugged in.
| | 01:38 | So I recommend you leave the new
project's Automatically Generate
| | 01:42 | Previews option checked.
| | 01:44 | If the image has a JPEG
preview in there already, use it.
| | 01:48 | The benefit here by leaving this
option checked, is that the generation of
| | 01:52 | previews will go much, much faster.
| | 01:55 | Many people when shooting raw have a
JPEG file that gets shot as well. It
| | 02:00 | might be because they choose to shoot
it as a separate side file or many RAW
| | 02:05 | formats actually embed a JPEG
preview right inside the image already.
| | 02:09 | I am going to allow these previews to be
shared with things like iLife and iWork,
| | 02:13 | which just make it easier to share my
photos across other Apple applications.
| | 02:18 | The big thing down here is
the Photo Preview quality.
| | 02:23 | By default this is going
to be set to a lower size.
| | 02:26 | Personally, I recommend that you go with
either the Half Size or the Don't limit option.
| | 02:34 | The advantage of choosing one of these
larger previews is that you will have a
| | 02:37 | very high resolution preview image.
This preview image can be used for the
| | 02:42 | slideshow even if your
media vault is not attached.
| | 02:45 | And it's also going to make things a lot
easier as you quickly build the slideshow.
| | 02:50 | The high resolution preview image
can be used with effects like the Ken
| | 02:53 | Burns effect, that allow you to
create animated zooms and pans and scans
| | 02:58 | across your photos.
| | 02:59 | Using these high-resolution
previews really comes in handy.
| | 03:04 | So I have got that set to don't limit.
| | 03:05 | I am going to go ahead and bump this
up to high quality, you don't need to go
| | 03:09 | all the way over, something around
9 will typically work great for most
| | 03:14 | multimedia applications on screen, and
if you want to share to a higher resolution
| | 03:19 | device, like an Apple TV or an iPod.
| | 03:23 | When you're set you just
go ahead and close that.
| | 03:27 | Now any images that you import from this
point forward are going to go ahead and
| | 03:31 | use those high-resolution previews,
but what about images that you imported
| | 03:36 | before? Don't worry, Aperture makes it
easy to update your previews as long as
| | 03:41 | the images are currently online,
either with the connected reference library
| | 03:45 | vault or with the Aperture library itself.
| | 03:48 | If you need to update your previews
simply select an album or a project and
| | 03:53 | choose Photos > Update Previews.
| | 03:58 | What this will do is if the previews
are not at the highest quality setting, it
| | 04:02 | will go ahead and force them
to be re-rendered.
| | 04:06 | In this particular case, the images are
already high-resolution preview, so it
| | 04:10 | doesn't need any work and I could just click OK.
| | 04:13 | At this point we are
ready to build a slideshow.
| | 04:15 | For the rest of this lesson you can continue
to use our exercise files or your own photos.
| | 04:21 | If you skipped the video on how to load the
exercise files, be sure you go back and
| | 04:25 | look at the top of the
outline and have a quick look.
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2. Gathering Your SlidesRating and sorting images| 00:00 | Before we create a slideshow I would
like to take a quick overview of the rating
| | 00:04 | and sorting process.
| | 00:06 | Chances are, you don't want to
show all your pictures to an audience.
| | 00:09 | There might be a few that are out of
focus or poorly composed, you are going to
| | 00:13 | want to go ahead and filter down
anything really less than three stars.
| | 00:17 | Let's take a look at how that works.
| | 00:19 | I am going to go ahead into our
Aperture Library here, and you'll see that we
| | 00:23 | have three projects in
our exercise files library.
| | 00:26 | I am going to go ahead and
select the Red Rock project.
| | 00:31 | Now here I have several photos and
you'll see I've already applied a star
| | 00:35 | ranking to all of them.
| | 00:38 | Let's quickly review how that process works.
| | 00:41 | Let's go ahead and switch
to the Split View viewer.
| | 00:46 | And down below here, I am going to
make sure I am using the filmstrip
| | 00:49 | option, this makes it easy.
| | 00:52 | All of my images are spread out down
here in a linear list, and up here I could
| | 00:57 | see the image itself.
| | 00:59 | If you want to check details on an
image you can go ahead and click the Loop
| | 01:03 | button and this allows you to drag
over and look at details of the photo.
| | 01:09 | This particular one looks pretty good
although it's a little bit soft, and it's
| | 01:13 | a little bit blown out.
| | 01:14 | I am going to go ahead and give it a two-star
rating by pressing the number 2 on my computer.
| | 01:21 | If you want to see a list of all the
ratings just click Metadata and choose
| | 01:27 | Rating, and you'll see it's pretty simple, 5,
4, 3, 2, 1, for five stars through one star.
| | 01:34 | You can also remove a rating from an
image by pressing the 0 key or completely
| | 01:39 | reject an image by pressing the 9 key.
| | 01:42 | The use of star ratings is a simple
process that's been around forever.
| | 01:46 | If you've ever gone to the
movies you've seen stars.
| | 01:49 | Photographers do the same thing. You're
going to want to trust your gut instinct
| | 01:53 | and just quickly apply a rating
based on your impression of the photo.
| | 01:57 | If you're working with a client you
might want to use their ranking as well;
| | 02:00 | but all in all, not a hard process.
| | 02:03 | The key here though is to dispose of
least a few images that don't make the cut.
| | 02:09 | As I continue to go through the image
here, you see I can click on one photo to
| | 02:13 | the next and the use of the loop
makes it really easy to check details.
| | 02:19 | One of the things I'm
looking for is critical focus.
| | 02:22 | I will often judge exposure as well.
| | 02:27 | This makes it pretty simple.
| | 02:28 | If you don't want the loop just
click the button again and it will close.
| | 02:33 | You can continue to go through and change
the ratings of the pictures to your own liking.
| | 02:38 | I've applied my own ratings based on my
own personal opinion, but it's up to you
| | 02:43 | if you'd like to change those.
| | 02:45 | Once you've rated all of the images or
you're happy to accept my ratings, you can
| | 02:49 | go ahead and narrow your view down a bit.
| | 02:53 | If you come on over here and click on the
magnifying glass, you'll see the ability to
| | 02:57 | set a preference for what is displayed.
| | 03:01 | I can go ahead and say, show
me four star or better images.
| | 03:04 | When I do this, I will no longer have
80 images displayed in this project.
| | 03:10 | Instead, it drops down to 72 and
that's a little bit more manageable.
| | 03:17 | Remember, the use of ratings is
completely subjective. For the purposes of today,
| | 03:22 | I recommend you just use my own
ratings that I have applied, but if you would
| | 03:26 | like to be an art critic, feel
free to go through and tear it apart.
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| Creating a Smart Album| 00:00 | Once you've rated images you can actually
save a bit of time by making a Smart Album.
| | 00:05 | A Smart Album is essentially a
collection based on certain criteria.
| | 00:09 | In our previous exercise, we went ahead
and sorted our view here, so that we are
| | 00:14 | only seeing images that
were four stars or better.
| | 00:17 | I would like to make that
a little more permanent.
| | 00:20 | With the project selected I could
choose New and choose Smart Album.
| | 00:27 | The keyboard shortcut is Shift+Command+L.
Doing that will make a new Smart
| | 00:34 | Album for this project.
| | 00:35 | I am going to give this Smart
Album a slightly more descriptive name.
| | 00:43 | Then over here in the criteria, I need
to change what's going to be included.
| | 00:47 | I am going to tell it to just
simply take everything that is rated with
| | 00:53 | four stars or better.
| | 00:57 | Additionally you see you could further
narrow down a Smart Album using keywords,
| | 01:02 | using pics or any color labels.
| | 01:06 | Smart Albums are a very intelligent way
to narrow your focus. Chances are as you
| | 01:11 | build the slideshow you will want the
ability to go through and quickly create a
| | 01:16 | collection that's going to serve
as the basis for what is shown.
| | 01:18 | A Smart Album lets you build upon the
fact that you've already rated your images
| | 01:23 | as part of the editorial process.
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| Arranging the order of your show| 00:00 | When it comes to creating a slideshow,
chances are, you want to play with the
| | 00:04 | order of the slides. This is usually
done for storytelling purposes, perhaps you
| | 00:09 | want to start with a good wide shot
that helps set the location and lets the
| | 00:13 | viewer know what the slideshow is all about.
| | 00:16 | Maybe in the middle you want some great
action shots or really a funny shot to
| | 00:20 | keep them interested.
| | 00:21 | Then at the end you want a nice strong
photo that really leaves them with a good
| | 00:26 | positive memory about you and your photography.
| | 00:29 | Well this is all just simply
putting the pieces in the right order.
| | 00:32 | Think of it a lot like having a bunch
of cue cards on a deck and you go ahead
| | 00:36 | and move those around on the table to
get them organized. Or in the old days, a
| | 00:40 | real light table with photographic
negatives that would get shuffled around.
| | 00:44 | Aperture makes this whole process pretty easy.
| | 00:48 | With a project, album or Smart Album
selected, you can go ahead and switch on
| | 00:53 | over to Browser view.
| | 00:56 | I typically will also adjust the size
of the thumbnails making it easier to see
| | 01:01 | more images at a time.
| | 01:05 | What you're going to want to do now is
drag these images into an order that you like.
| | 01:10 | In this case I am going to start
with a really strong image about this
| | 01:14 | particular location.
| | 01:17 | And I will just drag it up to the top.
| | 01:20 | Now you may need to scroll a little bit,
but if you hold right at the top edge
| | 01:26 | there it should move.
| | 01:29 | You can go ahead and play with the
order and move things around, and simply come
| | 01:35 | up with a narrative that works for you.
| | 01:40 | This process is all about personal
choice. If you see something you don't
| | 01:46 | want to use, you can go ahead and
delete it, or leave it in there and just put
| | 01:52 | it into a different place.
| | 01:54 | And then I am going to play with this
order here and put the climber of the rock
| | 02:00 | so that we see the rocks followed by
close-ups of the climber, and then continue
| | 02:07 | to pull out wider to reveal
the face that she is climbing on.
| | 02:12 | Don't worry about getting this in the
exact same order that I have, this is all
| | 02:15 | about you just finding an order to tell a story.
| | 02:18 | You should go ahead now and work through
this photo album, or your own images, and
| | 02:23 | put them into an order that works for you.
| | 02:25 | Again you're just trying to tell a
story with the photos, so arrange them in
| | 02:29 | anything that feels right to you, don't
worry about matching what I have here.
| | 02:33 | When you're done go on to the next exercise.
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3. Gathering Your SlidesCreating a slideshow with a preset| 00:00 | The quickest way to put together a
slideshow is using slideshow presets.
| | 00:05 | Aperture ships with several built-
in presets for a variety of styles.
| | 00:09 | These can't be customized but they
are super easy to use, here's how.
| | 00:14 | Go ahead and select a project or an album
and select all the images you want to use.
| | 00:22 | If you want to control which images
are in the slideshow, you can go ahead and
| | 00:26 | click on an image, then hold the Command
key to select other images inside the album.
| | 00:37 | If you want to use all images in the
album, which we do in this case since it's
| | 00:41 | a Smart Album based on our ratings, I could
just press Command+A or choose Edit > Select All.
| | 00:51 | Once that's chosen it's
really easy, File > Play Slideshow.
| | 00:57 | The shortcut is Shift+S. When you
choose that, a very simple dialog comes up
| | 01:05 | offering you presets.
| | 01:09 | You can choose from a variety of
options including very tasteful ones like
| | 01:14 | Dissolve or Fade through Black.
| | 01:18 | You can use a Manual slideshow to
control when you go from one image to the next,
| | 01:25 | or take advantage of very fancy
stylized options, such as Scrapbook, which will
| | 01:31 | create animated backdrops.
| | 01:34 | Let's take a look at a couple of these.
| | 01:35 | I am going to start with a manual
slideshow and then click the Start button.
| | 01:43 | The manual slideshow is a great option
if you want to do a review session, or
| | 01:48 | perhaps you're giving it to
a room, a group presentation.
| | 01:52 | Manual will let you control when you go
from one slide to the next and lets you
| | 01:56 | talk over your slides.
| | 01:58 | This is great when you want complete control.
| | 02:02 | You'll see here we are on our first slide.
| | 02:05 | And I can go ahead and press the
Spacebar and it will go in and start to
| | 02:10 | move through our slides.
| | 02:13 | Every time I click the Spacebar it will
dissolve to the next image nice and cleanly.
| | 02:21 | You can also use the right arrow key
to go on to the next image or the left
| | 02:27 | arrow key to go back.
| | 02:29 | When you go backwards in the
slideshow it no longer dissolves or does the
| | 02:33 | animated transition.
| | 02:35 | So try to reserve doing that too often.
| | 02:38 | When you're finished, just press the
Escape key to exit from the slideshow.
| | 02:43 | Let's go ahead and try out a couple other
presets just to have a look at what's possible.
| | 02:49 | Again, I'll choose File > Play Slideshow,
or the shortcut Shift+S. Let's try the
| | 02:58 | popular Ken Burns effect, which is
going to add animated moves on our photos,
| | 03:04 | and I'll click start.
| | 03:08 | (music playing)
| | 03:31 | Notice pressing the Spacebar pauses
the slideshow, so even though it's an
| | 03:35 | automated slideshow, in this case one
with music, you still retain control.
| | 03:41 | Now these presets are pretty flexible,
I want to show you one more and then the
| | 03:45 | rest you can explore on your own.
| | 03:48 | To exit the current presentation, I
am just going to press the Escape
| | 03:51 | key, and then we will use the shortcut Shift+S
to reengage the Play Slideshow command.
| | 03:59 | Let's go ahead and try one of the
most stylized options like Snapshots.
| | 04:05 | Notice it's automatically taking
the text from the smart album name.
| | 04:09 | So if it's not the text you want simply
click over here and customize the text
| | 04:14 | before you engage the Play Slideshow command.
| | 04:18 | Let's go ahead and click Start.
| | 04:22 | (music playing)
| | 04:59 | So you see there are lots of great options.
Let's keep exploring and going forward.
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| Controlling a slideshow| 00:00 | In our last movie I shared several
keyboard shortcuts for controlling a slideshow.
| | 00:05 | I would like to just recap
those here in one quick list.
| | 00:08 | To invoke the Play Slideshow command,
just press Shift+S. While the slideshow is
| | 00:14 | playing if you need to pause it you
could press the Spacebar, to restart it just
| | 00:20 | press the Spacebar again.
| | 00:21 | If you're using a manual control
slideshow, or one that you'd like to take out of
| | 00:26 | automatic pilot, you can use the right
arrow key to advance to the next slide.
| | 00:33 | Pressing the left arrow key will take
you backwards, and when you're all done
| | 00:37 | with the presentation just
press the Escape key to exit.
| | 00:41 | So you see those shortcuts
are pretty straightforward.
| | 00:44 | If you've ever used a program like
Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint, they
| | 00:48 | should seem pretty familiar.
| | 00:50 | Let's go on and talk about customizing
the presets to get a little but more of a
| | 00:54 | custom action that
matches your own personal style.
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| Modifying and creating slideshow presets| 00:00 | Let's go ahead and open up
the Slideshow Preset menu.
| | 00:04 | With a selection I will press Shift+S
to bring up the Play Slideshow window.
| | 00:10 | You will see the list of presets
and at the very bottom is a
| | 00:13 | command called Edit.
| | 00:16 | This brings up the preset list, notice
here that all of the presets from the
| | 00:22 | previous Play Slideshow window are listed.
| | 00:24 | For example, we can go up here to the
Dissolve preset, and right now it's set
| | 00:31 | that each slide is up for 3
seconds with a 2 second transition.
| | 00:36 | Personally I want to change this.
| | 00:39 | So I am going to go ahead and say
leave each slide up for 5 seconds, and make
| | 00:45 | the transition 1.50 seconds.
| | 00:47 | I will leave the transition set to the
default Dissolve, but you see there are
| | 00:53 | lots of other options to choose from.
| | 00:56 | That looks great and if I wanted a store
that, I could just click the OK button.
| | 01:02 | Now when I start the slideshow, you'll
see that the first image stays up for 5
| | 01:08 | seconds and after 5 seconds it will do a
1.50 second dissolve to the next image.
| | 01:20 | Let's go head back to the Preset window.
| | 01:22 | I will go ahead and press
Shift+S and choose Edit.
| | 01:31 | Let's go ahead and make our own preset here.
| | 01:33 | I am going to call this Client Review.
Under Theme I could choose from several
| | 01:41 | different options, we could try a more
stylized one like Reflections, but I am a
| | 01:46 | pretty traditional person so I
am going to stick with Classic.
| | 01:49 | I am going to go ahead here and change
the Slide Duration a little bit higher
| | 01:57 | to about 8 seconds so the client can have a
little bit of time to react and take notes.
| | 02:04 | I'm also going to tell the slideshow to
just keep repeating so the client can watch it.
| | 02:11 | You'll notice we have the options here
of adding music to the preset, to do that
| | 02:16 | I will just click Play music during slideshow.
| | 02:19 | And at this point you can
access any music on your computer.
| | 02:24 | Now for copyright purposes I can't
playback music from my iTunes Library, but I
| | 02:30 | can go ahead in this case and choose
Theme Music and we will go ahead here and
| | 02:35 | select a theme song.
| | 02:37 | Let's use this Endless Summer track.
| | 02:40 | If I'd like to preview it I
could just click the Play button.
| | 02:44 | (music playing)
| | 02:53 | That seems to work.
| | 02:54 | Everything looks pretty good, I just
want to change the background color here
| | 02:59 | and instead of pure black, I am going
to go with a more neutral gray so it
| | 03:03 | doesn't influence the client's
perception of contrast or exposure.
| | 03:09 | That looks great, I will click OK, and
you'll notice that that preset is selected.
| | 03:15 | Let's test it out.
| | 03:19 | (music playing)
| | 03:43 | As you see, it did exactly
what we told it to do.
| | 03:46 | So you can use the built-in presets or
make your own. They are highly customizable.
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4. Setting up a Custom SlideshowCreating a slideshow album and picking a theme| 00:00 | While slideshow presets are great
and save a lot of time, they only
| | 00:04 | offer limited controls.
| | 00:07 | If you actually take the time to create
your own slideshow you have a lot more
| | 00:10 | customization options, let's explore.
| | 00:15 | In our library here I am going
to start and work with an album.
| | 00:18 | Now you can use your own photos or
continue to work with the demo exercise
| | 00:22 | files we have provided.
| | 00:24 | With the Smart Album selected I am
going to make sure that all my images are
| | 00:29 | active in that album.
| | 00:32 | If they're not, you
could choose Edit > Select All.
| | 00:36 | Once you have the desired images selected,
just click the New button and choose Slideshow.
| | 00:44 | When you do this the theme chooser comes up.
| | 00:48 | Let's go ahead and name the slideshow
and audition some of the possible themes.
| | 00:57 | Some are highly stylized, like
Holiday Mobile, others a little bit more
| | 01:06 | traditional, like a Ken Burns, that
puts slow zooms and pans on your photos.
| | 01:15 | Origami is a playful option that
allows you to transition from one photo to
| | 01:19 | another with a folding action and it
often creates a collage with multiple
| | 01:24 | images on the screen.
| | 01:26 | Personally, I like the Origami option,
if I have a lot of photos to show in only
| | 01:30 | a short time to do it, it's going to
create a combination with multiple images
| | 01:35 | and it's a pretty straightforward
collage approach. You don't have complete
| | 01:39 | control over which images get paired,
but it does a pretty good job of analyzing
| | 01:43 | the images for portrait versus
landscape aspect ratios and creates usually
| | 01:48 | pretty visually pleasing pairings.
| | 01:51 | As you go through some of the other
options here you will see a wide range of
| | 01:55 | things like Edges, additional Mobiles,
using geographic maps to tie it into a
| | 02:02 | particular location. In this case, that
one worked really well since all of my
| | 02:07 | places were one place.
| | 02:09 | But if you had several photos from
multiple trips or from a long trip that
| | 02:14 | might work really well.
| | 02:18 | Reflections is another collage approach
and this leaves a high-gloss reflection
| | 02:23 | around the images, and this is very
popular because it matches a lot of the
| | 02:27 | advertising materials that
Apple's produced through the years.
| | 02:31 | If you're looking for a very
traditional approach, Scrapbook is going to
| | 02:35 | go ahead and create an animated
scrapbook approach with animated
| | 02:39 | transitions between the pages.
| | 02:43 | Shatter goes ahead and uses the color
details in the image to create animated
| | 02:47 | transitions based on color and lightness values.
| | 02:52 | You are probably not going to use
Shatter unless you're making skateboard videos
| | 02:55 | or high-impact photo
collages for extreme sports.
| | 02:59 | It's pretty aggressive, but it does
work and Aperture is a flexible application
| | 03:04 | designed for lots of users.
| | 03:07 | To finish out our choices here, Sliding
Panels is another tasteful collage approach.
| | 03:13 | Snapshots, you saw earlier, just creates
a long series of individual photos that
| | 03:18 | slide onto the frame covering up the others.
| | 03:22 | Vintage Prints is another collage
approach, where color images are mixed in with
| | 03:28 | grayscale or sepia tone
versions of other photos.
| | 03:32 | And lastly, watercolor panels is going
to create other options here for animated
| | 03:38 | transitions, using soft pastel colors.
| | 03:43 | For this particular case I am going to
go with a nice Vintage Prints approach to
| | 03:48 | create all of these great photos.
| | 03:50 | I am choosing this theme because it
feels to me the right match for my subject
| | 03:54 | matter. I have a lot of photos of the
desert, Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas
| | 03:59 | Nevada, and this just felt right.
| | 04:01 | But for your slideshow with different
images or even this one using my photos,
| | 04:06 | feel free to try a different theme. In
fact, you could change the theme at any
| | 04:10 | time if you'd like to experiment.
| | 04:13 | When you're satisfied simply click
Choose Theme to apply it, and you'll see that
| | 04:20 | the slideshow album has been created.
| | 04:23 | You'll notice that because the two
elements have the same name, Aperture
| | 04:27 | has automatically added a number to
notate that this is slightly different.
| | 04:32 | You can go ahead and modify this,
I can click on the text here, and
| | 04:35 | single-click, and I'll just rename this,
Red Rocks Canyon Slideshow, and you
| | 04:43 | see that it updates.
| | 04:44 | Now the text over here also updated so I
want to modify that, I am just going to
| | 04:48 | click on the text and delete away
the word Slideshow, there we go.
| | 04:56 | If at any point need to change the
theme, just click the Theme button and
| | 05:00 | you'll see that the chooser comes
back up, you could select a new theme and
| | 05:05 | click Choose Theme.
| | 05:06 | If you want to keep the currently selected
theme, like I do here, I will just click Cancel.
| | 05:13 | So as you see the name of the slideshow
in your library doesn't have to be the
| | 05:18 | same name it displays on screen. We
are going to explore text options more in
| | 05:22 | an upcoming movie.
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| Setting the default settings| 00:01 | When you choose a theme, settings are
automatically applied to the entire slideshow.
| | 00:06 | Those global or default settings can be
easily changed to tweak the slideshow,
| | 00:10 | so it matches your needs. Here's how.
| | 00:14 | With the slideshow selected in my
library, I can go ahead and click the button
| | 00:19 | here to display the settings panel.
| | 00:23 | This brings up the Default Settings.
| | 00:27 | The first thing you're going to choose
is the Aspect Ratio for the presentation.
| | 00:32 | Since I want us to playback on a television,
I'm going to choose HDTV or 16x9 aspect ratio.
| | 00:41 | You'll also see that there's aspect
ratios for iPhone and Standard TV.
| | 00:47 | iPhone will of course work with an
iPhone or an iPod, and Standard TV actually
| | 00:52 | matches the aspect ratio of an
iPad, but I like a big screen.
| | 00:57 | So I'm going to go with HDTV 16:9,
which will also look good on most laptops.
| | 01:04 | You now have the ability to choose
if you'd like the slideshow to repeat.
| | 01:10 | Repeating a slideshow is a useful
option if you want the slides to go ahead
| | 01:14 | and just keep looping.
| | 01:15 | Maybe if you're playing this back in an
office or a retail environment, or at a
| | 01:19 | holiday party, you might want to go
ahead and let it just keep looping, so
| | 01:23 | people as they pass by, can
keep enjoying the show.
| | 01:26 | Now on the other hand, if you don't
want to drive people nuts and you just want
| | 01:29 | to show them once, don't loop your slideshow.
| | 01:33 | All right, I've got the ability
here to put a title on the front,
| | 01:37 | I could turn that off and on, and if I
want to customize that title, I can go
| | 01:44 | ahead here and click to
open up the Font panel.
| | 01:49 | This allows me to change the font
to anything I have loaded on my system.
| | 01:54 | We can also increase the size.
That looks good!
| | 02:04 | And take advantage of other options,
such as drop shadows. That looks good.
| | 02:11 | Let's make sure the text is
centered and I'll close that window.
| | 02:17 | You'll notice in this case that it's
setup for each slide to play for a minimum
| | 02:22 | amount of six and-a-half seconds.
| | 02:26 | If you want to change that you can go up
or down very easily and you'll see that
| | 02:31 | all slides down here are changing.
| | 02:35 | Now different themes will have
different default settings, so as you try out
| | 02:39 | different themes, you may see other options.
| | 02:42 | For example, many themes have the
ability to automatically crop your photos, so
| | 02:47 | that there's no gaps around them.
| | 02:49 | This will change composition, but it
doesn't show that the slideshow is going to
| | 02:53 | be full screen, and it doesn't have
black bars or gray bars on the side.
| | 02:57 | When you're satisfied with everything,
you can go ahead and give it a quick
| | 03:01 | whirl, by clicking the Preview Slideshow
button, and that's going to let you see
| | 03:06 | what everything is going to
look like inside the window.
| | 03:13 | That looks pretty cool and we'll go
ahead on to some more customization options.
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| Choosing a music track| 00:00 | A good slideshow often has music and
chances are, so does your Mac. You can
| | 00:06 | use any music track that you've loaded
on your Mac, provided of course, that
| | 00:09 | you have permission.
| | 00:11 | Now fortunately Aperture includes
several built-in music tracks that are free
| | 00:15 | and clear, licensed for you to use.
| | 00:17 | You also can purchase royalty-free music
from other stock footage or stock audio
| | 00:23 | companies, and of course, feel free to
open up GarageBand and give it a whirl.
| | 00:28 | I do want to make a special mention that
you are not free to use copyrighted music.
| | 00:33 | Now in certain situations, like the
comfort of your own home, you may feel
| | 00:37 | comfortable with that, but I cannot
emphasize enough that do not use copyrighted
| | 00:42 | music to publish slideshows. Don't put
to the web, don't export it and give it
| | 00:48 | to a friend, don't say, oh, this
is just my family photos, it's okay.
| | 00:53 | The recording industry is pretty
aggressive and they will go after people.
| | 00:58 | So now that we have the scary stuff aside,
let's show you how to actually pick a
| | 01:02 | music track that you are allowed to use.
| | 01:05 | In order to access music you'll see
here in the Slideshow editor that there's a
| | 01:10 | little two note icon here which
will display the audio browser.
| | 01:15 | Doing this will take you
to a collection of music.
| | 01:20 | First off, you actually have Theme
Music, and this is music that Aperture
| | 01:25 | includes. You'll notice that there is
actually some music here from popular musicians.
| | 01:31 | I'm a big fan of G Love out of
Philadelphia and Thievery Corporation is actually
| | 01:36 | here from DC, where I live.
| | 01:38 | Now in this case, Apple licensed this
music and included it with Aperture, so you
| | 01:43 | are okay to use anything
from the Theme Music category.
| | 01:48 | If we scale this a little bit,
you'll see the time for the music track.
| | 01:54 | Now you can choose anything from here,
but before we do, I want to show you some
| | 01:58 | of the other categories.
| | 02:01 | If you've added things to iTunes,
you can go ahead and access any of your
| | 02:06 | content, including playlists and Smart Albums.
| | 02:10 | So if you've imported material that you
have the rights to, feel free to access
| | 02:14 | it through the Aperture music browser.
| | 02:18 | You'll also find the Sample Music
category, which may have a few other options
| | 02:24 | and these actually are coming from
iPhoto and its library of music songs.
| | 02:29 | And you can go ahead and choose
GarageBand if you've gone ahead and composed
| | 02:35 | your own music, like I did
here, let's have a quick listen.
| | 02:40 | (music playing)
| | 02:46 | All right, pretty straightforward.
| | 02:49 | I'm going to go ahead and switch on
over back to my Theme Music category, and
| | 02:56 | let's go with a nice long track
here that's going to give us a pleasant
| | 03:00 | slideshow with a relaxed pace.
| | 03:03 | Now that I've got that picked, we
simply need to drag it down to the
| | 03:07 | filmstrip to add it.
| | 03:09 | As we pull down here,
you see how it turns green.
| | 03:16 | Dropping it in the top area
adds it as the primary soundtrack.
| | 03:20 | Dropping down below, adds it to the
secondary timeline, which we're not going to
| | 03:25 | do right now, make sure you
drop it into the upper left corner.
| | 03:31 | When you release, that audio
track has been added to the slideshow.
| | 03:35 | We can go ahead and scroll down
through and see how long that music is
| | 03:42 | compared to our photos.
| | 03:46 | Notice in this case I have more
photos than I do song. This is a problem.
| | 03:54 | You probably don't want the
music to end before your photos do.
| | 03:58 | So you've got two choices, you can go
ahead and drop another song into your
| | 04:03 | timeline right after this one and use
two songs for your slideshow, or you can
| | 04:08 | adjust the timing of your
slides to fit the music.
| | 04:12 | Let's take a look at both options.
| | 04:15 | If you want to add a second song, just
scroll down to where the first song ends,
| | 04:22 | grab it and drag it into your timeline.
| | 04:27 | When you do that, you see it puts it
one after the other and that's great.
| | 04:34 | If you change your mind, you can
select it and press the Delete key.
| | 04:39 | The other option is to
retime your slides to the music.
| | 04:43 | So, if we go ahead and click on the
Settings Panel button, notice, Fit slideshow
| | 04:49 | to main audio track. Clicking that is
going to adjust it so that the slides are
| | 04:56 | correctly timed out to match the music.
| | 05:00 | In this case every single slide is 7.4
seconds long, this is going to ensure
| | 05:07 | that I have complete coverage of
the song from beginning to end.
| | 05:12 | This option works great and it will
ensure that all photos have equal screen time.
| | 05:17 | However, it may make it look like
you're not that musically inclined.
| | 05:21 | There is one cool option here that
Aperture can do to make it look like you
| | 05:25 | spent a lot of time building your slideshow;
| | 05:29 | that option, Align To Beats.
| | 05:32 | Now that we've done that, it's going to
intelligently adjust the photos to fit
| | 05:37 | and match the beat of the
music better. Looks pretty good!
| | 05:41 | Why don't we go ahead and give it a
listen and see how everything times out.
| | 05:47 | (music playing)
| | 06:10 | So, it worked out pretty well, the custom
music is in there, and at any point in
| | 06:14 | time you can easily change things.
| | 06:16 | Remember, deleting the music out of your
primary timeline there, or just going on
| | 06:21 | over to the browser and finding a new
track. Pretty cool stuff, and make sure you
| | 06:25 | try it out with your own music,
and of course, your own photos.
| | 06:27 | And I think you'll see a whole world
of options will be presented to you.
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5. Customizing Individual SlidesApplying photo effects and text to slides| 00:01 | Once you build the slideshow and set
the default settings, you can go in and
| | 00:04 | customize options for
individual photos in your slideshow.
| | 00:07 | Perhaps you want to change a photo to
stay up a little bit longer, or you want to
| | 00:11 | go ahead and modify the
photo effect. Let's take a look.
| | 00:16 | I am going to go ahead here for the
first slide of my slideshow and select it.
| | 00:20 | Over here it'll switch to
the Selected Slide controls.
| | 00:25 | In this case I want to simplify this
slide, so it's easier to read the text.
| | 00:29 | So I'm going to apply a photo effect.
| | 00:33 | I could try options like Antique,
Sepia tone or Black & White.
| | 00:42 | I think Black & White works well here,
because the rest of the images are black
| | 00:46 | & white, and I just want to
recess this photo back a bit.
| | 00:49 | Let's go ahead and click on another slide.
| | 00:54 | Notice in this case since there's not
text on the slide, we can go ahead and add
| | 00:58 | some text, just click the
Text button, and it adds it in.
| | 01:05 | In this case, it puts a little photo
card and the way that this text is handled
| | 01:09 | is going to vary
depending upon what you're using.
| | 01:12 | I'm going to go ahead and
double-click and add that in.
| | 01:21 | If I want to make the text larger, I
could just select it, click the Text button
| | 01:27 | there, and change the size.
That looks good!
| | 01:40 | Click outside and you see it updates.
| | 01:44 | Let's do one more slide, add some more text,
and we'll just bump that point size up a bit.
| | 02:02 | So if you select an individual slide
and you go up to the Selected Slide
| | 02:06 | controls, you can take advantage of photo
effects to stylize a photo, as well as add text.
| | 02:12 | If you are working with the slideshow
that didn't have the duration of slides
| | 02:15 | dictated by the music, you could
actually set the individual duration for the
| | 02:20 | slide there as well.
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| Adjusting a Ken Burns move for an individual slide| 00:00 | You see that using the selected slide
controls give you a lot of options for a
| | 00:05 | particular slideshow.
| | 00:06 | Now those options are going to vary
depending upon the theme that you use.
| | 00:10 | What I would like to do now is
duplicate the current slideshow and switch to
| | 00:14 | another popular theme, the Ken Burns
effect, to create a series of animated
| | 00:18 | zooms and pans across our photo.
| | 00:21 | This is going to also let us explore
additional selected slide controls, let's have a look.
| | 00:27 | I am going to ahead and
select the current slideshow.
| | 00:31 | I will then right-click or Ctrl+Click and
choose Duplicate Slideshow to make a new version.
| | 00:38 | We'll call this Red Rocks
Canyon Slideshow Ken Burns Effect.
| | 00:45 | Now just calling it Ken Burns Effect
doesn't mean it's going to use that effect.
| | 00:50 | To make a global change, I
need to click the Theme button.
| | 00:55 | I can now change the theme, in this case
to Ken Burns, and then click the Choose
| | 01:01 | Theme button to apply it.
| | 01:05 | Notice that the whole slideshow is updated.
| | 01:10 | If I click on the first slideshow,
you'll see it still has the Vintage
| | 01:14 | Prints effect applied.
| | 01:16 | If I click on the second one, it
has the Ken Burns effect applied.
| | 01:22 | Let's go back for a moment to the
default settings just to look things over, and
| | 01:26 | I see that I've told this to go
ahead and fit the HDTV, which is great.
| | 01:32 | I've got my titles applied, this
particular one has transitions.
| | 01:37 | I'm going to go ahead and put in a
slower dissolve, for a global change to
| | 01:42 | about 1 1/2 seconds. That looks good!
| | 01:46 | Let's scroll down to the end of the
slideshow here and play with the slide duration.
| | 01:53 | Notice as we increase that, it's
possible to get to the point where the slides
| | 01:57 | are too long for the song.
| | 01:59 | So I'm going to go ahead and type in
a new amount and it seems like that
| | 02:05 | worked out pretty well.
| | 02:07 | The song is long enough to cover all of
my slides. That looks great, but what I'd
| | 02:13 | like to do is tweak a few
of the individual slides.
| | 02:16 | For example, let's click
on this first photo here.
| | 02:20 | Notice, it's doing the Ken Burns
effect and putting a zoom on this photo.
| | 02:27 | However, what I don't like is how
tight it's getting there on my daughter's
| | 02:30 | face, so we'll go ahead and tweak that.
| | 02:36 | In the Selected Slides tab, I'll just
click Edit, next to the Ken Burns Effect,
| | 02:42 | and you'll notice it gives you two boxes.
| | 02:46 | The green box is the starting position,
so I can adjust the size of that box to
| | 02:53 | better frame our subject.
| | 02:56 | Notice in this case, it's constrained to
the aspect ratio of the master slideshow.
| | 03:02 | I can then click on the red box and
adjust the end position of the zoom.
| | 03:10 | In this case I want to make sure that I
don't pan off of the photo, so I'll just
| | 03:14 | move that over a little bit.
| | 03:19 | You can easily switch between the two
and adjust the starting and end position.
| | 03:27 | Let's go ahead and preview what this looks like.
| | 03:32 | You'll see that the start and end
position are respected, and it does the
| | 03:36 | animated camera move.
| | 03:38 | If you want you can click this double
arrow to swap the start and end position.
| | 03:44 | So now, instead of zooming out, it's
going to zoom in, that works really well!
| | 03:54 | Let's go ahead and try that for one more photo.
| | 03:56 | I am going to go ahead and adjust the
starting position to go really tight
| | 04:02 | on this rock ridge, and then for the end
position, I want it to pull out and tilt upwards.
| | 04:12 | Let's go ahead and click
the Preview button to watch.
| | 04:14 | And you see it does
exactly what we told it to do.
| | 04:23 | You can go onto the next photo by
simply clicking and adjust your composition.
| | 04:29 | So let's go ahead here and go a
little bit tighter on this vegetation,
| | 04:35 |
| | 04:46 | and preview it to have a look.
| | 04:54 | When you're all satisfied with the
transitions and modifying the Ken Burns
| | 04:59 | effect, just click Done.
| | 05:02 | Now tweaking these options is very subjective.
| | 05:05 | You are going to want to experiment and
try different compositions, and you may
| | 05:09 | leave some with the default settings
that Aperture generates automatically, or
| | 05:14 | go through and change every single one.
| | 05:16 | I just showed you how to do it for three photos.
| | 05:18 | If you'd like a little extra practice,
go ahead and continue to explore.
| | 05:23 | When you're all set, go on to the next movie.
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| Adding audio to the secondary audio track| 00:00 | If you'd like, Aperture gives you
the ability to have additional audio.
| | 00:05 | Earlier you explored adding a single
audio file, or multiple audio files, strung
| | 00:10 | one after another, to create a soundtrack.
| | 00:13 | You can also add sound effects or narration
to your slideshow very easily, here is how.
| | 00:20 | You'll want to import an audio file;
| | 00:22 | you can record this using an
application like GarageBand or a standalone
| | 00:27 | video or audio recorder.
| | 00:30 | In this case, I have some sound
effects and I can click on the Audio Clips
| | 00:34 | project that contains them.
| | 00:37 | You see here I have the clip and it's
available, let's have a quick listen.
| | 00:44 | (music playing)
| | 00:51 | What you're hearing there is the wind
noise of the desert, and if you need to
| | 00:56 | you can click the Trim button to
go ahead and perform basic editing.
| | 01:01 | This allows you to trim from the front
or the back of the clip, and then just
| | 01:05 | click the Trim button.
| | 01:07 | If you don't want to discard
any audio, just click Cancel.
| | 01:11 | Now in this case, we need to get
this audio over to the project.
| | 01:16 | What I'm going to do is select the
desired slideshow, then click the Display
| | 01:21 | Audio browser button.
| | 01:24 | In the pop-up menu, you'll see the
ability to browse through and you could
| | 01:30 | choose Aperture Audio.
| | 01:33 | When I do that all of the audio in my
Aperture library becomes available. I
| | 01:39 | could select that and drag
it down into the timeline.
| | 01:45 | Now when you do this you don't want
to drag up to the top where the main
| | 01:49 | music track is, rather, you want to
drag a little bit lower and set which
| | 01:55 | photo has that audio.
| | 01:57 | This is where the audio will start.
| | 02:01 | You could place it starting
with any image in the timeline.
| | 02:04 | I'm going to go ahead and set it there,
after the music's been playing a little
| | 02:09 | bit, and we've gotten into our second photo.
| | 02:14 | To customize this, I will
click on the speaker icon.
| | 02:19 | This gives me the ability
to affect how things behave.
| | 02:24 | I'm going to lower the
volume for that sound effect.
| | 02:30 | I'm also going to put a really long fade,
so the sound effect gently fades in.
| | 02:37 | Similarly, we'll do a long fade out.
| | 02:40 | An important option here is, do you
want the main audio track to dip in volume?
| | 02:48 | If this was a narration track that I
recorded, I probably would tell the main
| | 02:52 | audio track to lower, that way the music would
go underneath my voice, or that of the narrator.
| | 02:59 | In this case, since this is just a sound
effect to add to the overall experience
| | 03:04 | to make the people listening to this
feel like they were in the desert, I'm
| | 03:08 | going to go ahead and leave that unchecked.
| | 03:11 | We'll go ahead and say, do not reduce the
volume of the main audio track, and I can close that.
| | 03:20 | By the way, just as you clicked on
the speaker for the secondary audio, you
| | 03:25 | can click on your primary audio and you'll see
you have the ability here to adjust the fading.
| | 03:33 | I'll put a slower fade out at the end and
the overall volume for that particular clip.
| | 03:40 | Be careful about adjusting the volume
over 100%, if you do, you can introduce
| | 03:46 | additional audio distortion.
| | 03:49 | Now that we've put that sound effect in and
the music track, let's have a quick listen.
| | 03:53 | (music playing)
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6. Working with Video SlidesWhy use video?| 00:00 | If you're using Aperture 3 or newer,
you have the ability to insert video
| | 00:05 | into your slideshow.
| | 00:07 | More and more photographers are
shooting video these days because DSLR
| | 00:10 | cameras have this ability.
| | 00:12 | Now it's not just video that's shot with
the DSLR that works with Aperture, any
| | 00:17 | QuickTime format can come in.
| | 00:19 | You can also take clips from podcasts
or files that have been compressed and
| | 00:24 | optimized for an iPad or an
iPhone and use those as well.
| | 00:28 | Let's explore the process.
| | 00:31 | Inside this library you'll see a project
called Video Clips. If you click on it,
| | 00:37 | there are two clips included.
| | 00:39 | Let's select one here and we'll just mouse
over and you'll see we have basic controls.
| | 00:46 | (video playing)
| | 00:56 | Now in this particular case, nothing
too fancy, just some shots of the desert
| | 01:00 | grass, and in here I'll pull the volume down.
| | 01:05 | You'll see we have some blowing
vegetation, pretty straightforward stuff.
| | 01:14 | I can go ahead and select all of these
by pressing Command+A and then drag them
| | 01:22 | into the slideshow we were working with.
| | 01:25 | The plus symbol over the
green circle indicated a copy.
| | 01:28 | Let's click on that slideshow, and we'll
go ahead and exit the editor here for a
| | 01:35 | second and just go back to the browser.
| | 01:39 | By default the video
clips were added at the end.
| | 01:44 | Let's go ahead and mix those within the program.
| | 01:48 |
| | 01:54 | All right, they're placed.
| | 01:57 | Now the clips are inserted into the
slideshow where I want them and I could run
| | 02:02 | this slideshow as is, but chances are,
there is a little bit of extra work we're
| | 02:05 | going to have to do, and that's called trimming.
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| Trimming a video clip| 00:00 | Let's go ahead and take a look at
our timeline to get an idea how long
| | 00:04 | things are running.
| | 00:05 | I'm going to switch back from the
browser to Split View, and you will see that
| | 00:11 | the timeline updates.
| | 00:13 | Now this particular video shot
we dropped in is 40 seconds long.
| | 00:19 | Even if this was the most interesting
video in the world, it probably doesn't
| | 00:22 | need to be 40 seconds long.
| | 00:24 | In fact, if we watch this, you'll see that
there is a little bit of bobbling in the beginning.
| | 00:29 | (video playing)
| | 00:32 | Let's go ahead and make a few adjustments.
| | 00:36 | First off, I'm going to go ahead and
close the audio browser, and then I want
| | 00:42 | to access this clip to modify it,
so we'll select it down here and
| | 00:47 | double-click on the clip.
| | 00:50 | I can now mouse over and click
at the gear icon to choose Trim.
| | 00:58 | This allows me to grab the handles
and I'm going to drag past the beginning
| | 01:02 | where it was a little bit shaky.
| | 01:05 | And then come down here to the
end and just shorten things up.
| | 01:12 | I could then click Trim and the clip is
made shorter, in this case about nine seconds.
| | 01:20 | That looks good and I'll
just go back to Split View.
| | 01:22 | All right, let's go ahead and click
the Show Viewer for this Browser to take
| | 01:28 | a look at this slideshow, that's
looking pretty good, and let's go down to
| | 01:35 | the next video clip.
| | 01:39 | There it is, select it, double-click
to open it, mouse over and choose Trim.
| | 01:51 | I can now drag pass the bobble in the
beginning as the camera was little shaky
| | 01:57 | and drag the end in to shorten this up,
when satisfied, I'll click Trim and now
| | 02:06 | we have an 8 second clip.
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| Mixing audio and adding effects| 00:00 | Once you've added video to a slideshow,
you're going to need to do some audio mixing.
| | 00:05 | This is because you're introducing
additional sound into the soundtrack and
| | 00:09 | you're going to need to decide if you
want to hear the video clip's sound, if you
| | 00:13 | want to mix it with the music
track, or have one takeover altogether.
| | 00:18 | Let's have a listen.
| | 00:19 | I make sure the slide is selected
and I then click the Settings panel and
| | 00:26 | look at the Selected Slides tab.
| | 00:29 | In this case I'm going to pull the
volume all the way down because it's just
| | 00:34 | wind noise and I don't want to hear it.
| | 00:38 | I also need to reduce the
volume of the main track.
| | 00:43 | Let's go ahead and scroll down to the
other video clip and do the same. There it is.
| | 00:50 | We'll pull the volume down and
uncheck the option to reduce it.
| | 00:58 | Now you can't really adjust the color of
clips inside of Aperture for video, but
| | 01:03 | you can apply photographic effects.
| | 01:05 | So if I want to give these a bit of an
antique look, I could do that as well.
| | 01:15 | There we go, looks great.
| | 01:19 | Let's have a quick listen.
| | 01:21 | We'll just preview the video clip here.
| | 01:24 | (video playing)
| | 01:31 | Worked well, come on down to the next one.
| | 01:38 | (video playing)
| | 01:50 | And that worked well.
| | 01:52 | So the use of video is one
more way to tell your story.
| | 01:56 | If you have a DSLR camera or point-and-
shoot that can shoot video, or you just
| | 02:00 | have video clips that you've gathered, or
even created using animation tools like
| | 02:04 | Apple Motion, you can easily drop
those into any Aperture slideshow.
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7. Adding and Customizing Transitions Setting the default transition| 00:00 | The use of transitions is a subtle art.
| | 00:03 | I highly recommend that
you keep it pretty minimal.
| | 00:06 | You want to create a smooth transition
from one photo to the next to help the
| | 00:11 | audience not feel a jump or a jar.
| | 00:14 | Things like dissolves or fades work
pretty well, and let's go ahead and set a
| | 00:18 | global transition for this slideshow.
| | 00:22 | With all the slides selected, I can
press Command+A, I'm just going to go ahead
| | 00:28 | and click on the Default Settings tab.
| | 00:30 | In here if you scroll down,
you'll see you have a Transition.
| | 00:36 | Different themes will use different
default transitions and some themes may
| | 00:40 | not give you a choice.
| | 00:43 | For this particular show I want to
make a small change, let's go ahead and
| | 00:48 | try Fade Through Black.
| | 00:52 | And you'll see in this case, it
gently dips to black in between each photo.
| | 00:59 | This is a pretty tasteful transition
that might work well, especially if your
| | 01:03 | images are not related from the same subject.
| | 01:06 | A Fade Through Black would be a nice
way to put several of your best photos
| | 01:10 | together while creating some
separation between the individual pictures.
| | 01:17 | If you're creating something a little
more stylized, you can go ahead and take
| | 01:20 | advantage of things like Reveal that
will slide one photo from the next.
| | 01:26 | And you'll notice in this case, you
have the ability to set the direction.
| | 01:32 | Other transitions are available such
as Flip, and again, you could change the
| | 01:39 | direction as well as the
speed of the transition.
| | 01:45 | Now personally, I recommend
keeping it pretty simple.
| | 01:50 | I would never use random, because
random is going to cycle through all your
| | 01:54 | transitions, and at that point it's
pretty much like throwing a bunch of
| | 01:58 | sprinkles on top of ice cream and
expecting it to be a work of art.
| | 02:02 | I'm going to go instead in this
case with the Fade Through Black.
| | 02:06 | And I'm going to set it
for a 1 1/2 second transition.
| | 02:14 | In this case, it's going to do that
transition throughout the slideshow.
| | 02:18 | Let's go ahead and preview.
| | 02:20 | (video playing)
| | 02:30 | And you see with each transition
it's doing a slow fade through black.
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| Customizing transitions for an individual slide| 00:01 | While the use of default settings is
a quick way to get everything setup,
| | 00:05 | chances are you may want to go ahead
and customize individual slides to use
| | 00:09 | their own transitions. Let's have a look.
| | 00:13 | In this particular slideshow I have a
series of slides that are interrelated.
| | 00:18 | I want to go ahead and take these
photos of the climber and make sure that they
| | 00:22 | stay together with a dissolve,
instead of a dip-to-black.
| | 00:28 | Let's go ahead and click outside here
to deselect all images, and then I'll
| | 00:33 | click on the first one.
| | 00:35 | I can then hold down the Apple or the
Command key and click on the other images
| | 00:40 | that I want to choose.
| | 00:43 | In this case the transition is applied
leaving the previous slide, so I'm going
| | 00:49 | to select the first three
slides and set it to dissolve.
| | 00:54 | This way it will dip to black, leaving
this previous slide up here, dissolve
| | 01:01 | from slide number one, into slide
number two, dissolve from slide number two,
| | 01:07 | into slide number three, and dissolve
from slide three, to slide 4, but then,
| | 01:14 | still dip-to-black, as it
goes into another image series.
| | 01:19 | Remember, when you apply a custom transition,
it is attached to the end of that slide.
| | 01:24 | You can always drag through the
timeline to preview the effect, and if it's not
| | 01:28 | behaving the way you expected, you
might need to select the previous slide and
| | 01:32 | adjust its transition to
get the desired animation.
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| Timing transitions to music| 00:01 | For ultimate control over transitions,
you can manually set them and even tap
| | 00:05 | out to the beat of the music.
| | 00:07 | Let's take a look at a new slideshow
where we go ahead and we get highly
| | 00:11 | customized to be very precise
with our rhythmic transitions.
| | 00:16 | In the library here, I'm going to go
ahead and duplicate this current show.
| | 00:21 | I just right-click or Ctrl+Click
and choose Duplicate Slideshow.
| | 00:28 | We'll single click on the name, we'll
rename it, Red Rocks Canyon Slideshow Fast.
| | 00:34 | With it selected I'll click the Theme
button and I want to change the overall theme.
| | 00:39 | I'm going to go with the Reflection
transition, and then click the Choose
| | 00:48 | Theme button to apply it.
| | 00:51 | I'd also like to change the music here,
so let's click on the music track and
| | 00:57 | press Delete to remove that.
| | 00:59 | I'll then click to access the Audio
Browser and go to my Theme Music category.
| | 01:10 | In this case I'm going to
choose a slightly faster song,
| | 01:18 | and drag that into the timeline.
| | 01:22 | I'm also going to select the
sound effects and press delete.
| | 01:27 | What we've now done is just
reconfigured the slideshow with a different theme
| | 01:33 | and a different cut of music.
| | 01:35 | I did this because I want to keep the
other options I've created and instead
| | 01:39 | make a new one that's quickly
cut to the beat of the music.
| | 01:42 | That's a much faster show for posting
on my web site, let's see how it works.
| | 01:49 | Let's go ahead and customize things here so
the slideshow times out better to the music.
| | 01:53 | I'll go ahead and click the Settings
panel and then choose the option to Fit
| | 01:59 | slideshow to main audio track.
| | 02:02 | When I do this I can also choose Align To Beats,
and what this is going to do is pretty cool.
| | 02:09 | You'll notice as we drag through here
that the timing of the slides is a bit
| | 02:13 | random, and this is because it's
automatically adjusting the slides to fit
| | 02:19 | the beats of music.
| | 02:21 | Let's see how that looks from the beginning.
| | 02:25 | (video playing)
| | 02:48 | Now that worked pretty well, but
the truth is I have a better sense of
| | 02:52 | rhythm than my Mac does.
| | 02:54 | I can actually find those
beats and pick it out.
| | 02:57 | Now, not every theme supports manually
setting beats, but if you want to make
| | 03:02 | a really precise slideshow that
cuts on the beats of the music, or has
| | 03:06 | transitions on the beat of the music,
you can do that and manually trigger
| | 03:09 | them with your own finger. Let's have a look.
| | 03:14 | I'll go ahead and duplicate this one more time.
| | 03:18 | We're going to call this one Manual,
and we'll change the theme to the nice and
| | 03:31 | simple Classic, and we'll apply it.
| | 03:37 | Now in this case everything is pretty
straightforward, but what I want to do
| | 03:42 | is adjust the timings.
| | 03:45 | You'll notice this little stopwatch,
and again, it's available for some
| | 03:48 | themes and not others.
| | 03:51 | Clicking it will toggle the option
to record the duration of each slide.
| | 03:58 | Let's go ahead and press the Spacebar to
begin and then the Return key to switch
| | 04:03 | where the transition occurs.
| | 04:04 | (video playing)
| | 04:43 | And I can press the Spacebar to pause
that, and you'll notice that all the
| | 04:47 | slides in front of that have had
their timings adjusted to match when I
| | 04:52 | press the Return key.
| | 04:54 | In many cases this is a similar duration,
but it does more precisely match the audio.
| | 05:00 | If you need to pick up where you left
off, you could just simply select the
| | 05:04 | slide you want to work with, re-click
the stopwatch and keep going, using the
| | 05:09 | Return button to trigger the
transition; Spacebar will begin playback.
| | 05:15 | (video playing)
| | 05:29 | And you get the idea.
| | 05:32 | So you've got lots of ways to
time a slideshow out to music.
| | 05:36 | You can let Aperture go ahead and
automatically adjust the duration of the
| | 05:40 | slides to fit the song, so you hear
the whole song, have complete photo
| | 05:44 | coverage with no gaps.
| | 05:45 | You can go ahead with some themes
and tell it to attempt to automatically
| | 05:49 | timeout and match the beat of the music.
| | 05:53 | And if you're control freak, you can
go ahead and actually dig in for many of
| | 05:56 | the themes and manually trigger
exactly where those transitions occur.
| | 06:01 | Remember, once you've triggered those
transitions, it's easy to go back and
| | 06:05 | change the default transition to be a
dissolve, or another effect and that will
| | 06:10 | actually happen at the point you specified.
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8. Sharing a Slideshow Movie Playing back from Aperture| 00:00 | So, we're just about done.
| | 00:02 | Now comes the fun part,
actually sharing your presentation.
| | 00:06 | I just want to quickly review how you
could publish your presentation right from
| | 00:10 | Aperture to show it to an
audience nearby. Let's have a look.
| | 00:14 | First off under the View menu, you might
want to take advantage of the secondary viewer.
| | 00:19 | If you have an extra monitor hooked up
or you have a projector, you can actually
| | 00:25 | target that as an additional monitor source.
| | 00:28 | If you're working with just a single image,
then you're going to use the Main Viewer.
| | 00:32 | You then have two options that really matter.
| | 00:36 | Down here when in this slideshow, you
could choose to preview the slideshow.
| | 00:41 | What this is going to do is play it back
in the window itself, so you can get an
| | 00:46 | idea of how it's behaving.
| | 00:47 | And that works fine, this is that
slideshow where we customize the timings.
| | 00:55 | If you want to publish that for
everyone to see around you, I recommend you use
| | 01:00 | the option here that says
Play slideshow in full screen.
| | 01:05 | Clicking that is going to go ahead
and run the slideshow full screen.
| | 01:10 |
| | 01:16 | And you get the idea.
| | 01:17 | I've left the music muted, so I could
just walk you through your options here.
| | 01:22 | When done, pressing the Escape
key will take you out of this.
| | 01:29 | If you'd like to connect your Mac to a
device like a projector or a television
| | 01:33 | you may need an adapter.
| | 01:34 | This particular one, I like
because it's multifaceted.
| | 01:38 | It goes from the mini display port that my
Mac has, which also works with Thunderbolt.
| | 01:43 | In this case to a DVI connection and that
allows me to plug-in to most modern projectors.
| | 01:49 | You can also get a display port to VGA
adapter to use with older projectors.
| | 01:53 | Another cool option though is that some
of these can be split apart, and in this
| | 01:58 | case, it's actually HDMI, which is the
common technology used by broadcast TVs.
| | 02:04 | So I could take my Mac, whether it's a
laptop or desktop, and connect it to a
| | 02:08 | television and play this
back for a large audience.
| | 02:12 | So if you're in a conference room or
your home theater or just your living room,
| | 02:16 | you can go ahead and run this back
for everyone in the audience to see.
| | 02:20 | Connecting your computer to a bigger
screen is a great way to run a slideshow
| | 02:24 | and really lets everybody get in on the action.
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| Exporting for iOS devices| 00:00 | One of the coolest things about Aperture is
its ability to export slideshows to movie files.
| | 00:06 | This is really cool because you could
actually even send the movie to others to view.
| | 00:10 | One of the broadest categories, Apple
IOS devices, so let's see how to go ahead
| | 00:15 | and publish if you're targeting
an iPad, an iPhone, or an Apple TV.
| | 00:21 | I'm going to go ahead and
select one of my earlier slideshows.
| | 00:24 | You can use any slideshow that you've created.
| | 00:26 | I'll then choose the Export
button up here in the Slideshow Editor.
| | 00:32 | This will bring up a file navigation dialog box.
| | 00:36 | I'm going to go ahead and target my
Desktop as a selected destination and make a
| | 00:41 | new folder called Exports,
and we'll click Create.
| | 00:50 | I've got the name here and I'm just
going to add an extension that says iOS, so
| | 00:55 | I know a little bit more about the compression.
| | 00:59 | Notice, you'll see presets
here for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV.
| | 01:06 | It's really up to you which options you choose.
| | 01:10 | In this case I'm going to go with the
Apple TV and iPad setting for HD video.
| | 01:14 | I'll also tell it to automatically put
it into my iTunes library, and show me an
| | 01:22 | alert when it's finished, so I know
that I can go onto the next thing.
| | 01:26 | If you look right here
you'll see an estimated file size.
| | 01:30 | You can go ahead and click
Export to write the file.
| | 01:36 | Now while that's exporting you can
actually continue to do other things, you're
| | 01:40 | not completely locked out.
| | 01:42 | So if you want to go ahead and set up
another export option, you could do that.
| | 01:46 | For example, I can click Export,
leave the same target here.
| | 01:54 | I'll make one for the iPhone, but
I'll tell it not to go to my iTunes
| | 01:59 | library. I'll add the name iPhone up
here, and click Export and you'll see
| | 02:07 | that that queues up as well.
| | 02:08 | If you'd like to check progress of your
exports, just click on the spinning gear
| | 02:13 | here and that will open up the Activity monitor.
| | 02:17 | This allows you to see what's
happening with your file exports.
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| Exporting for Keynote or PowerPoint| 00:00 | Another common scenario is exporting
a slideshow from Aperture for use in
| | 00:04 | presentations software like Apple
Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint.
| | 00:09 | Fortunately, you can spit out a movie
file that will work well on your Mac with
| | 00:13 | either of those applications, here's how.
| | 00:17 | First select a slideshow that
you want to export in your library.
| | 00:23 | Once it's loaded go ahead and click the
Export button. You could then target a
| | 00:30 | folder or any location on your hard drive.
| | 00:37 | I recommend that you choose the HD preset.
| | 00:42 | This will create a file that's high
quality, but also works well in a slideshow.
| | 00:49 | For most users, the 720p option is
going to be more than large enough.
| | 00:53 | However if you're working with a
particularly high resolution display, you can
| | 00:58 | go with the 1080p option.
| | 01:01 | If needed, you can always choose Custom,
and this will open up all of your options.
| | 01:07 | For example, you could
choose between MPEG-4 and H.264.
| | 01:14 | MPEG-4 is an older format, that's not
as efficient at compression, but does
| | 01:19 | offer broader compatibility.
| | 01:21 | So if at first you export an H.264
file and you get compatibility issues with
| | 01:27 | your software, try the older MPEG-4 format.
| | 01:31 | You can also lower the frame rate if
you're working with a slower computer.
| | 01:35 | For example, I can go for 24 or 15
and that will be less taxing on the
| | 01:40 | computer during playback.
| | 01:43 | I can also customize the width and the
height to a desired size and choose a
| | 01:50 | playback quality, going down to high or
medium might be necessary if working with
| | 01:55 | an application like Microsoft PowerPoint.
| | 01:59 | Now personally, I go with Keynote,
just a little bit more robust and in that
| | 02:03 | case the 720p option is great.
| | 02:07 | Remember to name your slideshow and
then just click the Export button here
| | 02:14 | and it will queue up.
| | 02:16 | If you have multiple exports going
you'll see the indicator here spinning, and
| | 02:20 | you can always click on that to check
the progress of all of your exports.
| | 02:25 | If needed and you want to move one up,
you can go ahead and select them and
| | 02:30 | choose Pause, and you'll notice that
the other movie will start up shortly.
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| Exporting for the web| 00:00 | Our last export option is putting
the file out for web. It's a pretty
| | 00:04 | straightforward process and it really
depends what your goals are. Are you
| | 00:08 | trying to hit a broadband audience
or a lower quality?
| | 00:11 | Let's take a quick look through.
| | 00:14 | With a slideshow selected, you can
go ahead and click the Export button.
| | 00:21 | I would then recommend the following presets.
| | 00:25 | Apple TV is going to be broadly
compatible with sites like YouTube and Vimeo.
| | 00:31 | If you're trying to target a much
lower connection audience, drop on down to
| | 00:35 | Custom, and this is where you
can change the width and height.
| | 00:41 | For more compatibility on the web,
you'll probably drop down to MPEG-4, and lower
| | 00:46 | the quality into the range of medium or low.
| | 00:51 | Again, if going for YouTube or
Vimeo, stick with the Apple TV preset.
| | 00:57 | Otherwise go ahead and drop down to
Custom and load in MPEG-4 and reduce
| | 01:04 | the height and quality.
| | 01:06 | If needed you could even drop the frame
rate to give a much smaller file. When
| | 01:12 | you're ready, give it a name,
target a destination and click Export.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | I would like to thank you again for
joining me today, as we explored slideshows
| | 00:03 | with Apple Aperture.
| | 00:05 | I personally find Apple Aperture very
versatile with great options there for
| | 00:09 | creating attractive slideshows.
| | 00:11 | I invite you to continue to explore on
your own some of the great other options
| | 00:15 | with themes and custom transitions that exist.
| | 00:18 | I think you'll find it's very
versatile and very pleasing to your audience.
| | 00:23 | Thanks again for joining us,
my name is Richard Harrington.
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