As a volunteer for a hospice organization I take a lot of pictures for family members (making memories). I then give the still photos to the family. I would like to move beyond the still photos to a slideshow … DVD (with music background) that can be played on a DVD player on a television. Any suggestions?
Aperture 3, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
You can export the slideshow from Aperture as a video, just press the "Export" button in the Slideshow panel and be prepared to wait for a few hours for the export to finish.
That will save the slideshow to a folder in the Finder. You can play it on a computer.
However, you will need additional software to burn this video to a video DVD to be played in a DVD player. It would be perfect, if you still had iDVD from an older iLIfe installation. But there are also free programs, like "Burn".
See this User Tip: How to create a video-DVD? (Macs without iDVD): Apple Support Communities
And for Background reading: Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac?: Apple Support Communities
Leoni - maybe I'm getting to creative with my first attempt. Lets try this. New Imac i7 - bought in Dec. I would like to take 40-60 still photos in Aperture - turn them into a slide show - and put that slideshow on a flash-drive that can be seen as a slidshow on a windows or mac computer. Adding background music would be a big plus. Thanks. Bob
I would like to take 40-60 still photos in Aperture - turn them into a slide show - and put that slideshow on a flash-drive that can be seen as a slidshow on a windows or mac computer. Adding background music would be a big plus. Thanks. Bob
To play your slideshow on a different computer from a thumbsdrive export a video from Aperture and copy it to your thumbsdrive.
In Aperture:
To share your slideshow as a movie
- In the top-right corner of the Slideshow Editor, click the Export button.
- In the dialog that appears, give the slideshow movie a name in the Save As field, then select a location to save it to.
- Choose the viewing platform for your movie from the “Export for” pop-up menu.
- If you want to export a slideshow movie in a custom size, choose Custom from the “Export for” pop-up menu, choose a codec from the Codec pop-up menu, enter the number of frames per second in the Frame Rate field, enter the width and height, in pixels, in the Width and Height fields, then choose a compression setting from the Quality pop-up menu.
- If you want Aperture to automatically send a copy of the slideshow movie to iTunes, select the “Automatically send slideshow to iTunes” checkbox.
- If you want to be notified when the export process is complete, select the “Show alert when finished” checkbox.
- Click Export.
Leonie - thanks - I 'm getting the hang of it. Once I get the photos and music loaded on the jump-drive I have NO idea what system (mac, windows, ipad, etc) they will be using to view the photos/music. I know when I plug in the jump drive my mac uses quicktime. How can I be sure they can open and play thre slidwshow?
You are welcome. 🙂
Once I get the photos and music loaded on the jump-drive I have NO idea what system (mac, windows, ipad, etc) they will be using to view the photos/music.
Could you ask them? No format will be perfect for all, and it takes a long time to render the video.
You will get the best quality with the HD formats, but for windows systems the setting "Custom" with mpg4 might be better. But as I do not use PCs, I am not sure at all. To be on the safe side, render several versions.
Thanks again for your help. bob
Apple hs a version of QuickTime for Windows see QuickTime 7.7.4 for Windows - Apple
It would be easiest for you and better all around if you can convince them to install it if they don;t have it installed already. This way you just need to make one version of the slide show.
Also keep in mind that Windows will not read OS X formatted drives so you will need to take that into account.
regards
Aperture slideshow to DVD for TV
