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Using Slideshow Presets with Apple Apeture

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This Aperture tutorial titled Creating a Slideshow Album and Picking a Theme is from chapter four of the Creative Slideshows with Aperture course presented by lynda.com author Richard Harrington. This specific tutorial describes how to create a custom slideshow by picking different themes for your photo album. The complete Creative Slideshows with Aperture course has a duration time of 1 hour and 19 minutes and describes how to use Apple Aperture to quickly and efficiently create a slideshow to impress any audience, from family and friends to colleagues and potential clients.

To view more of this course on lynda.com, click the link above.

Creative Slideshows with Aperture table of contents:

  • Introduction
  • 1. An Overview of Creating Slideshows
  • 2. Gathering Your Slides
  • 3. Gathering Your Slides
  • 4. Setting up a Custom Slideshow
  • 5. Customizing Individual Slide
  • 6. Working with Video Slides
  • 7. Adding & Customizing Transitions
  • 8. Sharing a Slideshow Movie
  • Conclusion

How to Create a Custom Slideshow with Apple Aperture

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  • Watch more at Here

This Aperture tutorial titled Creating a Slideshow Album and Picking a Theme is from chapter four of the Creative Slideshows with Aperture course presented by lynda.com author Richard Harrington. This specific tutorial describes how to create a custom slideshow by picking different themes for your photo album. The complete Creative Slideshows with Aperture course has a duration time of 1 hour and 19 minutes and describes how to use Apple Aperture to quickly and efficiently create a slideshow to impress any audience, from family and friends to colleagues and potential clients.

  • To view more of this course on lynda.com, click the link above.
  • Creative Slideshows with Aperture table of contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. An Overview of Creating Slideshows
  • 2. Gathering Your Slides
  • 3. Gathering Your Slides
  • 4. Setting up a Custom Slideshow
  • 5. Customizing Individual Slide
  • 6. Working with Video Slides
  • 7. Adding & Customizing Transitions
  • 8. Sharing a Slideshow Movie
  • Conclusion

Managing Media in Final Cut Pro X

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Final Cut Pro X has several tools that let you sort, sift, filter, and find the perfect shot. You can use embedded metadata as well as attach powerful keywords to improve your ability to locate the perfect shot. In this chapter you'll learn the many ways to organize your media.

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The act of video editing is not really about learning which buttons to push. The hardest part of editing is learning how to cull through large amounts of footage to find the “good parts”—the best sound bites, the most expressive b-roll, and the shots that just work. Of course, you then have to figure out how to put all of those pieces together.

In a sense, the act of editing video is much like having ten different jigsaw pieces mixed together. You have to find the right pieces and figure out how they go together while ignoring the pieces you don’t need.

Let’s just say that getting organized will be a critical step in your journey to a compelling story. Fortunately, Final Cut Pro X has several tools that let you sort, sift, filter, and find the perfect shot. You can use embedded metadata as well as attach powerful keywords to improve your ability to locate the perfect shot.

In this chapter we’ll explore the many ways to organize your media. Although you may want to skip ahead, we encourage you to tough it out. Learning how to organize an edit will make the whole process run faster and ensures that you’ll have the best shots at your fingertips.

Read the whole chapter here – http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1822623

How to Buy Multiple Copies of FCPX without Multiple iTunes Accounts

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One of the initial concerns with Final Cut Pro X was how to actually purchase more than one copy legally, without setting up multiple iTunes accounts.

I recently had a chance to catch up with a member of the Final Cut Pro team and he pointed out a useful link to me.

The Apple Store for Business DOES sell Final Cut Pro X, and you can get as many licenses as you need.


How Many of These Apple Gadgets Did You Own?

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I enjoyed a great article over at MacLife magazine on 11 Apple gadgets that faded into history.

Have a read, it's quite fun. I owned or used 7 of these at my jobs through the years…. How about you?

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"All around Apple’s Cupertino campus there are people working on the Next Big Thing: it could be the iPhone 5 or an iPad 3, a proper Apple TV or a new kind of Mac. It may even be something you could never imagine. And that happens all day, every day. And it’s been going on since Apple was founded.

Of course, not all of the products Apple has come up with over the years have been successful. For every iPhone there’s been a G4 Cube. Or even a Flower Power iMac come to that. But it’s by experimenting with new ideas, coming up with different kinds of products, and learning from each failure that has made Apple the company it is today. It’s only by delving into its past that we can understand its present and future. As Apple proudly declared ahead of the iPhone’s launch in 2007: the first 30 years were just the beginning."

Keep reading it here – http://www.maclife.com/article/gallery/11_apple_gadgets_time_forgot

Final Cut Pro X Update Released + FCP7 Project Converter

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Apple delivered on its promise of an update to Final Cut Pro X this morning. They released Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3 (Full Specs). The update fixes SEVERAL glaring gaps that users have been asking for.
The major features include:

  • Multicam editing with automatic syncs up to 64 angles
  • New chroma keying
  • Enhanced XML for interchange with third party apps that can include color grading and audio keyframes
  • A BETA driver for broadcast monitoring that supports Thunderbolt devices as well as PCIe cards.
  • Layered Photoshop graphics support
  • Manual media management with the ability to relink

Pricing:

  • The application still costs $299.99 (US) to new users.
  • The update is free from the Mac App Store
  • A 30-day free trial of Final Cut Pro X is available at www.apple.com/finalcutpro/trial.


Apple has also taken down their FCPX FAQ document (http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/faq/) which is too bad. I liked the company communicating status on what was coming next.

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Third-Party News:
Intelligent Assistance releases 7toX for Final Cut Pro, a lightweight application for translating Final Cut Pro 7 projects to Final Cut Pro X.
The application sells in the Mac App Store for $9.99 (US). The application looks to rely on the new XML features released today in the free update.

  • 7toX for Final Cut Pro translates Final Cut Pro 7 Bins to Keyword Collections in Final Cut Pro X,
  • Converts Sequences to Compound Clips that can be browsed and edited.
  • Metadata and log notes from Final Cut Pro 7 are migrated to Final Cut Pro X.
  • Motion tab settings and keyframes are translated into equivalent parameters in Final Cut Pro X.
  • Layers from Photoshop files are properly preserved
  • More than 30 Transitions and 70 Filters are matched and applied — with detailed reporting in context in the Magnetic Timeline
  • 7toX also allows editors to migrate their Final Cut Pro 7 multicam projects to the latest version of Final Cut Pro X.


I have not been able to test the above, but I know this company well. This is a HUGE accomplishment and I commend them. Apple, buy this code and put it into Final Cut Pro X. This fills in critical holes.
 

What's Next?
I am happy to see that many of the problems have been addressed. There is still work to do however.

  • Non-beta broadcast monitoring
  • The option to see a second window when working (I find it impossible to line up a 3 point edit with one window).
  • Ability to switch to a track-based timeline
  • Support for raw workflows
  • Support for several missing codecs


A great detailed article from my friend Gary Adcock at Macworld Magazine

Meet Sydnee – The iPad Accessory Even My Wife Approves Of

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I just got back from Macworld Expo in San Francisco. While there, I came across this device from Kanex – Sydnee (http://www.kanexlive.com/sydnee). It's essentially an iPad charger for a family or small office.

With one plug in the wall, you can set up to three iPads (or other iOS devices). You also can plug in a fourth device. You can keep things nice and neat without having a total cable nest in your family room. The system will auto-detect when devices are charged and then shut off the individual port (while other devices keep charging as needed).

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The device is supposed to start shipping in March (at least according to the booth person I talked to). You can sign up for early info on the product's page. It's list for $149 at this time.

A Two Part Fix for a Corrupt Mac Drive

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Photo — iStockPhoto.

Yesterday while in the middle of a huge back-up, the power went out.

My drive (which was not on an Uninterruptible Power Supply) went down…. hard.

After a reboot... things did not look good. The Drobo Dashboard saw the drive… but my Mac wouldn't mount it. No disk repair program would bring it to life…

Disk Warrior – Fail

Drive Genius – Fail

Disk Utility – Fail

Four more other apps… nope.

Then I had an idea.

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I used Drive Genius to reparation the drive. I told it to just create a new partition that was the exact same size as the current volume.

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When that was done… I was able to use Disk Warrior to rebuild the drives directory.

In about 12 minutes, all 8 GB were recovered (with zero data loss).

Whew…

Hope this helps some of you… especially when all seems lost.

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