Feel like experimenting? Taken advantage of the iDVD Themes in a different way, this is a simple work-around very basic but fun and if you use Snapz Pro X for your screenshots then why don’t you try the Movie capture option, this option can give you some very cool results, it is fast and easy to use.
I only used a couple of Themes but in iDVD you have so many to choose from…try experimenting and you find there are a lot of cool things you can do. The Titles are: The Commercial - Our Marine Life - Tropical destination
Please note: You might have to refresh your Browser to see the new Video Clips. Click the link or the image below and View the three (3) 15 and 30 sec. Clips., or go to Music/Video Podcast

© Gunther Deichmann - Composite, Mumbai India April 2008

How to do it…open iDVD choose a Theme go to your Media Browser and here you have your Aperture 2 library.
Pick a couple of images drop them into your iDVD Theme and you almost there, if you using Snapz Pro X choose the Movie option and record your iDVD theme.
Make sure you have the Drop Boxes enabled otherwise they become part of your recording.
The rest is pretty much automatic, once Snapz Pro X has finished the recording (depends on the lengths of the clip) it prepared also a QT file for you, I usually save them on my desktop easy to find later. (This file can be from 50MB plus in size)
The only thing left to do is drag the Movie clip into iMovie open your Media Browser for the Music and pick anything you have created on to the timeline.
Fine-tune and make your soundtrack fit, add a fade in and fade out, or what ever you like (lots to choose from) now you can export everything to many different file formats.
You have different options for exporting your Movie file, there is also Share available. If you have Quick Time Pro even better there you have all the conversions you ever going to need, plus you can do some editing too, but you have to have QT Pro.
How long does this take…not very long at all, I guess the hardest part is the Music, which I created from scratch in GarageBand, but since I had already a good selection of soundtracks the whole operation took only one hour for all three clips.
Of course you can create more than one recording/clip with Snaps Pro X and join them together later in iMovie creating a short presentation or demo, great for the web.
PS. I kept these files very small for easy viewing on the web, however you can leave them in their original size that is good enough for your desktop and TV.
GD

Tags: Snapz Pro X, Video, Apple Mac, iDVD, Quick Time, Capture, Tips, Web , Photo Composite, iMovie

You might remember my son Mark-Lee from one of my earlier Blogs… how he uses GarageBand for creating and mixing his DJ stuff…
I have added a new Music Video/Podcast Gallery (upper left) from now you find the latest Podcast here, with the exception of today.
Direct Link http://www.deichmann-photo.com/page4/page4.html

“Time to Remember” © Mark-Lee & Gunther Deichmann -
(click on the link below or the image for the 1 min.Video, approx.2.5 MB)
Podcast

The other day Mark-Lee borrowed my small Sony Video Cam and took some cool footage at this Disco… and I was trying to relax that day after some editing in Aperture making up some more soundtracks for future presentations. But honestly… I was just messing around relaxing with GarageBand when I looked over to the Mac my Son was working on…hey cool footage son, please let me have some of this stuff…OK Dad... I whipped it into iMovie and about half an hour later had this little Video up and running.
It just gets to show you how easy it is sometimes…of course you need to have a Mac where everything just works so well together, including the transfer of the Video file from his G5 to my PowerBook Pro via Wi-Fi network, super fast...
Cant beat this integration, he,he….plus NOW in YouTube @ http://www.youtube.com/user/TIMEJOURNEY
By the way the still shot at the start of the Video came straight from the Aperture 2 Library using the Media Browser in iMovie, the same with the Soundtrack created only hours before in GarageBand.
GD

Tags: Time to Remember, YouTube, Video Cam, MTV, Mark-Lee Deichmann, Disc DJ, Video, Sony

For those who have never been to Cambodia and for those who like to be part of my PhotoWorkshop in September I have produced a small

Podcast. Only 6MB this one was created entirely with Aperture, Keynote, Quick Time and using GarageBand for the sound.
Enjoy this small clip and get a glimpse of Angkor Wat, Siam Reap Cambodia.
You can download the high quality QT file below:

Podcast link

For more images on Cambodia please go to my web pages @ http://www.deichmann-photo.com

GD PhotoWorkshop @ http://www.gdphotoworkshop.com

Photos © Gunther Deichmann, Cambodia 2007

Part 2 “and then there was light”
AUPN and Aperture, and then there was Light.

I could not leave it alone and decided to create part two of “and then there was light” OK. have to admit, it is a bit larger about 17MB but I hope you like it, this one will play even on full screen size, this is a great way showing your work, burn it on a CD or make a cool DVD, and believe me, it is not that difficult. Check it out if you have the patience and down load it, either on your desktop or into your iTunes. Enjoy it, I really had a lot of fun doing it, same procedure than part 1 but have thrown in some images to spice it up.
Click this link for the Podcast.
G.D.

www.deichmann-photo.com

www.gdphotoworkshop.com

“Journey through Colour and Time”
for the first time available as Pod cast,
by © Gunther Deichmann


Journey through Colour and Time

From the book launch presentation by Gunther Deichmann
for the first time available as Pod cast.

Time has gone by, but the color is still around me, I have decided to Pod cast the presentation I used during the launch of my book “Journey through Colour and Time”

Created on a Mac, using Aperture, iMovie, GarageBand and iWeb

Music composed and re-mixed in GarageBand with tracks from Sounddogs and Freeplay Music, created and edited in iMovie then published to iWeb.

Sit back and relax, have a cup of coffee and a brandy, then check out the images and enjoy the sound, but make sure you have some good speakers hooked up.
Enjoy the “Journey through Colour and Time” for 10 min.

Let the Journey begin. click this link

Please forgive me if you should encounter any problems, this is a very long and complex presentation, or blame your connection.

Thank you.

Subscribe to my Pod cast and enjoy it in your iTunes Library.


Gunther Deichmann’s Web site, please click the link below:
deichmann-photo.com

Dear friends and participants,

As promised here is the short Pod cast from our Seminars at the Power Mac Center in Makati, Manila on the 25th and 26th of May. Photography, Aperture and the Web.
Thanks to my Assistant Hermes Singson for shooting some video behind the scene.
A quick edit in iMovie –then the music- which had been entirely created in GarageBand
from here to iWeb and it was done.
As mention during the seminars the total integration of iLife, Aperture, Keynote, Pages etc., etc. makes all of this possible in a very short time, besides it is a lot of fun.
Enjoy the Pod cast and don’t forget to subscribe for the latest news.

For more Pod cast episodes please click this link: gdimages

I like to thank all the participants who attended the seminars and we hope to see you again.

Cheers,
Gunther Deichmann

APERTURE, iLIFE AND THE WEB
Just click the link above, thank you.