Titles
still finding my way around Aperture 3 having migrated from Studio on a PC. Can Aperture handle scrolling titles in a slideshow?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1), User gradually emigrating from PC
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still finding my way around Aperture 3 having migrated from Studio on a PC. Can Aperture handle scrolling titles in a slideshow?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1), User gradually emigrating from PC
Can't do scrolling titles. For that you'll need to export the slideshow and take it over to iMovie (or Final Cut or any other video editor).
Can't do scrolling titles. For that you'll need to export the slideshow and take it over to iMovie (or Final Cut or any other video editor).
I think Keynote will do scrolling titles as well (and a good bit of other presentation tricks).
That might be true, haven;t used Keynote in a while. But its a bit cumbersome to use to create straight sideshows (at least for me).
If I was doing a straight sideshow I'd definitely go with one of the video options, either opening Apertures .mov file in one of them or else doing it all in the video program.
I never did get use to presentaion software, but that's just me.
Thanks Frank. I'll have to play with it I guess. Used to having a one-stop facility on my old PC. Can it be that Apple is NOT the answer to everything? Heresy!
Thanks Kirby for your input too. Two Level 5 Masters at my beck and call. Can't be bad! See my response to Frank also.
The most versatile professional tool I know to create animated titles is Life Type. It comes with the extended Final Cut Pro Package, and offers not only many beautiful fonts but a plethora of animation patterns for scrolling titles or animated sets of letters - dancing or dropping down or spiralling to form a title.
Did you mean LiveType? If so you're right it was a nice bit of software. I got a copy when I got Final Cut Express way back when. Unfortunetly it stopped being included in the Express versions of Final Cut some time ago.
Now with all the changes to Final Cut I don't know what you get anymore.
LiveType?
Yes, that is what I meant; it was included the last time I bought Final cut, but my version dates from 2007. so no chances for an upgrade?
For high quality video you might try Quartz Composer to overlay animated tiles on your slideshow. It comes free with the Developer Tools. But you would have to know a little bit about stream oriented programming to use it efficiently.
To summarize the options:
Pros and Cons:
My favorite approach is a mixture of 1 and 4; I like to insert text slides with a little text animation and use a ray tracer like quartz composer or POVray to create advanced animations that I import as video clips into the slide show.
Did I forget something?
-- Léonie
From a beginner's point of view, it seems fairly comprehensive but presently largely out of my reach, but thanks for the thoughts Leonie.
Take a look at Keynote. _I_ like it. After having to remove my brain, roll it into doughy lengths, tangle them all up, and then put it all back in order to make a slidehow with iMovie, Keynote was very much a refreshingly direct "chute, splash, done". It is -- like iPhoto -- not comprehensive -- but it is -- also like iPhoto -- within reach, straightforward, and well-stocked with standard effects.
You don't need (or least didn't need last time I used it) a video processor or ray tracer to use any of the many and satisfactory built-in animation effects. If your slideshow is mostly static slides of photographs, Léonie's #4 sounds like a very good (and simple) way to go. If you are creating a presentation to accompany a talk/lecture/lesson, then I would craft the whole thing in Keynote as it allows much more control of the audience's attention.
Cheers Kirby
Leonie
A whole year ago you gave me advice on animated titles within Aperture and suggested using a mix of Aperture and Keynote. Well I have finally got round to trying to sort out some of my photos with slideshows and animated titles and have produced titles with which I am happy in Keynote (thanks for this so far!). Now I have problems in trying to import these titles into Aperture. HELP!!
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