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Slide Presentation Workflow Help

I need to put together a slide presentation and have not done this before.

Can anyone help with details regarding a workflow and other items?

1. For instance, can I gather up all my images in Aperture, move these in some manner that retains the resolution and put them in Keynote?

2. Is there a minimum resolution for images looking good for projection on a screen?

3. Is there a way to see this in some manner as an "actual size" or otherwise check this globally?

4. Is there a way to manually do a slideshow in Aperture instead of Keynote?

Any other technical help would be greatly appreciated.

I will be working on my MacPro where my Aperture Library resides but I will be presenting on the MacBookPro laptop.

Also, I am new to Mac.

Thanks,

Jon

macbookpro and macpro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), parallels VM

Posted on May 30, 2011 6:49 AM

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Neil G

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Posted on May 30, 2011 7:46 AM

I've never used Keynote, so I'll stick to your question #4...

An Aperture "slideshow" is exported as a video. Yes, you can set a style, and add titles and music, but the pace of the resulting show is set when you create the show.

Keynote produces the more typical click-the-buttone-to advance show.

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Neil G

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May 31, 2011 8:57 AM in response to hotwheels22

(Agreeing with Frank on the level of detail you're expecting from 'us' out here.)

You need to take a handful of YOUR images and go thru the exercise of creating a show. PNG, PSD, and TIFF bring nothing to the table for a projected presentation -- except for increasing the JPEG file sizes six to twelve times and (with PNG) *reducing* the color gamut of photographs. (Go look up PNG on Wikipedia.) Exporting a JPEG at "12" doesn't make it look better than "10" on your Mac or a projector. Sure, it's a 30-foot screen but your audience is sitting 30-60 feet away. (Insert "This Is Spinal Tap" reference here.)

My attempt at sarcasm was missed... By 'bring a second MacBook' I meant that a dozen things (like a crashed MacBook) can ruin a presentation, no matter how good your images are. Number One is having the wrong cable to connect to the Projector. Number Two is creating a wide-screen presentation and using a 4:3 aspect projector which cuts off the sides (or vice versa).

Find out some details about the projector. Creating images that are much sharper than the projector can create nasty shimmering artifacts like a bad suit on a TV announcer.

Slide Presentation Workflow Help