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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

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léonie

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Oct 20, 2012 2:01 PM in response to hotwheels22

can i please just ask you why i only see /one/ video listed under my aperture "Slideshow" section?

The "Slideshow" section shows the slideshow projects you have created in Aperture, not the rendered slideshow movies that you import. Any movie will appear in the projects, wheer imported media are stored.

If all your imported slideshows are videos, why not simply create a smart album (this can show up in the "Albums" section of the library) with the single rule "File Type is video". That will collect all videos in one album.

ideally, i'd love to have a central place to organize these and if there is an option in addition to iMovie - say one that would let me gather up pdf's and keynote presentations - this would be nice for me to research a little more.

Why not keep your pdfs and Keynote files in a set of folders? These are documents that you need to access from the Finder, and Aperture cannot do anything with them.

Léonie

hotwheels22 Author

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Oct 20, 2012 3:56 PM in response to léonie

hi leonie.

thanks. really great help as always. these are very helpful.

so, if i wanted to /convert/ some of my video media to media that aperture can see - because storing them in aperture makes a lot of sense to me - do you know where i would post questions i had about this? would it be the imovie section?

i surely have some windows formats but also some mac format videos that are not currently being read by aperture and this link i found seems helpfull in getting QUICKTIME to open these by downloading various applications but i wonder if there isn't some (bulk?!) way to convert videos that aperture cannot see for some reason to videos that it can see.

any thoughts on this?

again a big thanks.

léonie

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Oct 21, 2012 3:18 AM in response to hotwheels22

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.

Léonie

hotwheels22 Author

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Oct 21, 2012 7:44 AM in response to léonie

hi leonie.

thanks for an always great explanation of sometimes very tricky topics. codecs have always been a bit of a mystery to me. i know i hear terms like "wrapper" and now "fork" which in an ideal world i should research a little more.

in any event - am i correct in hearing that /buying/ Quicktime 7 Pro should let me open and SAVE OUT almost anything i have in a video format (mp4) that is readable by Aperture? i mean, it sounds like /purchasing/ something may save me a lot of time on this issue or am i not understanding this?

i am on QT Player 10.1 and the link i posted seems to give suggestions for downloading software such as Flip4Mac that adds to the functionality of 10.1 whereas Pro will do all of this out of the box?

ALSO, is there an Adobe product that you are aware of that would do the same thing that you know of? i am using some creative suites software and it might be good to continue on that path.

THANK YOU.

jon

babowa

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Oct 21, 2012 9:15 AM in response to hotwheels22

I haven't hear anyone mention MPEG Streamclip which is what I use when I get videos in a format not readable by iMovie (or whatever else I'm using) - it's an excellent video converter.

Being woefully ignorant about Aperture's (non)capabilities re. videos, I'd have no idea if it would work, but you might want to check it out. My experience with videos is that choosing Export to Quicktime with the following settings makes it a) readable with all apps I use and b) produces a really good quality:

MPEG Streamclip is free; but, depending on your OS version, you may need the MPEG2 Playback Component from Apple (read the instructions on MPEG's website).

http://www.squared5.com/

léonie

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Oct 21, 2012 10:36 AM in response to hotwheels22

Jon, I use QuickTime 7 Pro, because I bought it long time ago, when there was nothing else. It gives more edit and export options then QuickTime Player.

For your purposes the free MPEG Streamclip probably will suffice - try it first,

To get more video codecs, I have flip4mac and perian installed. Both are free and seem to work well on my system, but occasionally I have seen problems posted here.

hotwheels22 Author

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Oct 21, 2012 10:47 AM in response to léonie

thanks. you're awesome.

hotwheels22 Author

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Oct 21, 2012 10:50 AM in response to babowa

thanks babowa. great help.

also a big thanks for contributing your thoughts on workflow. i am finding this sort of discussion very helpful as i try and pull it all together.

regards,

jon

babowa

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Oct 21, 2012 11:19 AM in response to léonie

I have flip4mac and perian installed

So do I - that's a must with a Mac......

@ hotwheels..

glad I was able to contribute; everyone has a different idea or workflow that works best for them; so one has to find whatever it is one feels most comfortable and easy to work with for them (not necessarily for everyone else).

hotwheels22 Author

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Oct 21, 2012 11:29 AM in response to babowa

ok. i had just d/l'd flip4mac before posting.

what is perian going to do for me? i had it at one point for legacy software i thought and i see i don't have it installed...

hotwheels22 Author

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Oct 21, 2012 11:31 AM in response to hotwheels22

http://perian.org

babowa

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Oct 21, 2012 11:34 AM in response to hotwheels22

From my Perian Preference Pane:

About

Perian aims to provide a single package for all your playback needs. It is a collection of QuickTime components incorporating several libraries:

• libavcodec, from the ffmpeg project, along with code from the old FFusion component:

• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2

• DivX

• 3ivx

• H.264

• Flash Video

• Flash Screen Video

• On2 VP3, VP6, VP8

• H263I

• HuffYUV and ffvhuff

• Indeo 2, 3 & 5

• MPEG-1, 2 & 4 Video (in supported formats)

• Fraps (up to v4)

• Windows Media Audio v1 & v2

• Flash ADPCM

• Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska)

• MPEG Layer I and II audio

• DTS Coherent Acoustics audio

• Snow wavelet video

• DosBox video

• Nellymoser ASAO audio

• libavformat, from the ffmpeg project. along with AVIImporter.component:

• AVI file format

• FLV file format

• NUV file format

• libmatroska, along with matroska-qt.component:

• MKV file format

• Subtitles:

• (Advanced) SubStation Alpha

• SRT

• SAMI

• VobSub

• liba52, via A52Codec:

• AC3 audio

hotwheels22 Author

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Oct 21, 2012 11:54 AM in response to babowa

ok thanks, so basically for viewing and saving videos i have QT that came with my mac, i d/l and install Perian and Flip4Mac and then i also d/l MPEG Streamclip and i should be able to view and possibly save out in different formats for various mac and non-mac video media, is that about right?

hotwheels22 Author

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Oct 21, 2012 2:09 PM in response to babowa

AOK, re-reading my print out here.

got it and THANK YOU for the settings...

jon

babowa

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Oct 21, 2012 2:36 PM in response to hotwheels22

I've not come across a lot of things that I can't view - but...... I don't download videos or deal with Windows or other stuff that I don't know what it is.

storing presentations in Aperture?