Tip: iLife including Aperture 2 using the Themes from iDVD plus a little help from Snapz Pro X…of course the ever so cool GarageBand with iMovie, creating simple 15 and 30 second Video clips on the fly…or just having fun on the Mac
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
iWorks’08 and APERTURE 2… Keynote, Pages & Numbers how useful are they for Professional Photographers? Do we really need iWorks’08 or can we do with out it? You be surprised…
article how useful iLife’08 can be…lets see how we go with Keynote’08
for starters…
See below a small presentation created for this article, how long did this take? About half an hour…uploading usually takes a lot longer and depends on your connection.
QUICK TIME MOVIE the
Colors of Mumbai
Say,
your on the road shooting a resort and your client
requests a presentation the day before you
leave…launch Keynote, without any doubt my
personal favor, pick a Theme from the
Theme menu, go to your Media Browser select the
images direct from the Aperture 2
Library (iPhoto is also there) add
text, some animation and your almost done.
But if you really like to impress your client…go back
to your Media Browser and choose some Music, I always
have some sound tracks prepared in iTunes, multiple
tracks of 30 sec., 45 sec., and 2 min. or create your
own in GarageBand.
Now you add the sound track and you have a great show
in a few minutes, but it gets a lot better…Keynote
gives you some amazing export options,
like
Send to:
iDVD, iPhoto, iWeb, iTunes, GarageBand and direct
to
You Tube,
yes you have heard right… to
You Tube direct.
But Keynote doesn’t stop here, see the
screenshots
below for all the option you have
on the
Export Panel and a lot more in Quick Time
(QT Pro is required for all the options) I just love
Keynote for my presentations, the Web or sending a
quick preview to clients via mail.
If that
is not integration then I don’t know what
is!
Export
Panel...
Oh I
almost forgot…the Built-in voiceover
recording (very cool) and Import from and export to
Microsoft PowerPoint and other formats.
You might notice I have not left Keynote, it is the
perfect integration on the Mac which makes all of
this possible.
In short, you work with Aperture
2, edit
your images, make the necessary corrections and
impress your friends and clients with a cool Keynote
presentation.
Direct
to You Tube...
How do I use
Pages’08…
very simple, start with one of over 100 templates to
write letters, reports, business forms, and more.
Create newsletters, brochures, flyers and posters
with ease. Create a simple layout in Pages using the
Media Browser to access your Aperture
and iPhoto
Library.
Dont underestimate
Numbers’08 in
iWorks’08 it is an innovative
spreadsheet application great for your invoices or
other related forms such as travel planners plus a
lot more. If you need some images for your
Numbers then go to your Media
Browser, Aperture
2 and
iPhoto is right there.
But my
favorite is
Keynote’08 an amazing and easy to use
application, don’t know what I would do with out it…I
just love it and my clients too;
Keynote’08 alone is worth every penny
spent on iWorks’08.
GD
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