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DJ Mark-Lee…Aperture 2 and GarageBand…plus iTunes…how does this fit together? Simple…if you got a Mac then you can do all of this plus…a cool slide show with sound, assembled on the road.
Let
there be visuals with sound...
pure integration &
imagination!
Artwork ©
Mark-Lee Deichmann - Mark-Lee used an old iSight
camera
mounted on the Mac Titanium G4…took a self portrait
of him
& manipulated the image in Photoshop.
Take
an Aperture slide show…you have to make a
presentation while on the road, fine you have the
images and got Aperture
2… but
music…?
In most cases if you using a Laptop for your roadwork
I guess you have GarageBand
and iTunes…iLife installed.
If not,
you better hurry and do it
now…
Here comes the sound, you create a sound mix in
GarageBand or use a short loop (pre-installed with
GarageBand) export the finished track to iTunes and
you’re done.
The only thing left to do… open your slideshow
in Aperture
2 and add
your sound track you created minutes ago,
follow
my instructions below how to get
there, iTunes
is now at your
fingertips find your sound track & add it to your
slide show, sounds almost too easy.
See my
sample screenshots below…
Maybe a bit of practice in GarageBand
will help, but
the rest is easy…
Take
my Son Mark-Lee for example… he is doing some part
time DJ work and he uses my old but still very
functional Titanium Mac G4 Laptop, using
GarageBand
and creating his
own artwork in Photoshop, see above…pretty cool if
you ask me.
There he is sitting with his Numark PHX Headphones
whipping out music on GarageBand
or just mixing
his sounds for his DJ stuff on my old G4.
If you are a music lover and created your own mix, of
course you can use these too...but
please don’t use something from the iTunes Store or
from other sources, Music which does not belong to
you, respect the copyright of others.
GD
When GarageBand opens
you see this screenshot, the small red circle
shows you where to find your loops & Jingles,
now delete/remove the tracks (large red oval)
Select Jingle red circle on
the left then your taste of music e.g..
Blues/Rock red
circle in the center, pick something
which will fit with your timing/lengths of the slide
show, listen to it and if Ok drag it on the the now
empty time line, remember you removed the other
tracks previously.
Select Share a panel
opens up to guide you the rest of the
way...to
iTunes
Back in Aperture 2
select your slide show, a
small panel opens, now click the small
arrow, red circle to go
to all the settings for your slide show
Once
you have arrived here you have many options and
your iTunes
Library is there too, now you find
your sound track which you have created only minutes
before, select it go through your slide show settings
and your done. Your own sound with a cool
Aperture
2 slideshow created on the road.
Of course you can always prepare some music at Home
and later use it for your Aperture Slideshow, I have
created my own tracks when traveling and the weather
was bad, spend my time in the hotel room, mixing
sound tracks in GarageBand... but at least I had some
fun.
APERTURE 2 Tip...iPhoto Library and Aperture 2.1 how well do they work together? Real well...& so useful if you started in iPhoto and switched to Aperture 2...iLike...or is it iLife.
Before the arrival of Aperture some of us used iPhoto but found it had its limitation… now you installed Aperture 2 and keep going back to iPhoto for these older images…Yes?
No need… you stay in Aperture and have access to all your iPhoto images and can leave them there, no need for importing all the high-end stuff, no more switching back and forth.
As a matter of fact you can do this not only with iPhoto but also with your images stored on your external drives from years ago as mention in one of my earlier blogs.
Now back to iPhoto and Aperture 2, because of the integration everything works just so smooth and the cool part is staying in one software instead open up half a dozen or so…
Check out the screen shot below for more details, so there you have it, full access to your iPhoto Library.
I normally use my iPhoto Library for my Blogs and personal images like the kids and family and use Aperture 2 for my Pro stuff, keeping them separate. The choice is yours how you like to manage your images, it is easy to import your complete iPhoto Library and use Aperture 2.1 working with one software.
That is why I love Aperture…given YOU the choice.
A little tip... if you have mixed up your personal images with some others but like to separate them, import the iPhoto Library into Aperture, once that is done delete all the personal images in Aperture and your images are organized, dont worry your personal images are still in the iPhoto Library since you selected in the import panel leave in current location.
Now you can go back to iPhoto and delete the non personal images...
I call this a real spring clean.
GD
Go to
File in Aperture
2 scroll
down and select Import
then
Import iPhoto Library, make sure you
select leave images
in their
current location.
Aperture
automatically creates a new Folder
(see the
red square on the screenshot)
containing your complete iPhoto Library,
Depends on how many images
you have stored in your iPhoto
Library this could take some time
since Aperture
2 creates
Thumbnails and Previews.
This is a screen shot of my iPhoto Library and you
can see (I selected the underwater images) they are
now in my Aperture Library.
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