Q: storing presentations in Aperture?

can anyone give me a little advice as to how to manage "presentations" on the Mac and in Aperture?

i have gotten started with putting together little "slideshows" in Aperture that i can also post to something like Vimeo on the web and I have also done a more formal KEYNOTE presentations. i also have pdf versions of this which i 'digitally printed' but i now know that Aperture does not like multi page pdf files.

so in addition to .key files that i cannot seem to import into Aperture i am also noticing that i have .avi and .mov and 3gp file types as well that are already in Aperture.

three questions:

1. is there a "best" way to handle the avi or mov or 3gp files such as exorting them and then re-importing as some kind of mac "standard" file type?

2. can i get the keynote presentations into aperture or do these have to stay in a folder in finder somewhere?

3. any other advice on organizing this sort of "presentation data" on the mac?

THANKS for any help on this.

Jon

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), with 64 bit Win7 in Parallel

Posted on Oct 17, 2012 9:28 AM

I have this question too

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léonie

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Jon, I am afraid you will have to find out on your own.

The other communities will not know, what Aperture can import, only what their applications can export.

Try to find applications that can import your movies (Quicktime 7 Pro can import and convert many formats) and then export to a format Aperture can import - I posted a list. Besides the camera specific formats Aperture can read some Quicktime movies, depending on the codec. Your best bet would be to convert whatever you have to mp4, to get rid of the quicktime wrapper and the separate media fork.