Aperture 3 to AppleTV 2

I've scanned a few thousand slides, and I found the editing and ajustments in iPhoto somewhat crude. PhotoShop and PhotoShop Elements are too complext to use, so I signed up for the Aperture 3 trial. The only way I will ever view these slides are on my Apple TV but I'm having trouble. It looks like I can still only access my iPhoto library. I've read what other people say on the matter, and tried the various hints I found, but I still seem to be unable to figure out how I can access the Aperture library from my ATV2.
Thanks in advacne for your help on this matter.

Frank,
Appreciate your reply. I cannot see the Aperture library in iTunes and I don't understand where to look for it. Both Share previews with iLife and iWork and New projects generate previews is set.
There is a "Show Aperture Library" in iPhoto, but it does just that - show the library in a pop-up window - and nothing more. I can drag the photos from this pop-up to iPhoto and then they copy the photos, not the links.
Please let me know what I'm missing.
Per Sjofors

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Hopefully this forum will work for me...
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THEN..... when I get the Aperture/MobileMe albums to show up (because I published one from iPhoto), AppleTV won't allow me to view them because it keeps telling me the login-in formation is incorrect--but it's not. I have the albums protected and locked on MobileMe and that's why I have to enter it on AppleTV. Whatever, I cannot view my MobileMe albums on AppleTV at all, no matter what I do. I will also post to the other forums, but I wanted to see if anyone here is familiar with this issue.
I hope this makes sense. Any help, anyone?

Not 100% about this solution but from what I've read this could be one solution if it's more important to show the images on TV more immediately.
1. Eye-Fi cards all now have direct mode which enables them to automatically transmit jpeg (Connect X2) and jpeg / RAW (Pro X2).
2. If you had a Nikon D7000 with dual card slots, you could save a RAW file to one card for importing into Aperture later and save a jpeg to the Eye-Fi card slot for wireless distribution.
3. You can wirelessly send the jpegs to an iPad2 from the Eye-Fi card using Direct Mode.
4. With an iPad2 you can mirror the iPad's screen onto an Apple TV (the small black ones) and therefore as soon as the jpeg is sent to your iPad it can be viewed instantly and automatically on your Apple TV.
5. This should also work for jpegs if you have a D90 but I'm not too sure about what happens if you shoot RAW and jpeg on the D90.
It's a possible solution and food for thought anyway...
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I'm wanting to understand if it would be possible to shoot remotely tethered with an Eye-Fi card using Aperture's hot folders. Where it gets tricky is that I would like to have this folder shared to my AppleTV.
Here's what I need to work:
I need to be able to walk around a party and shoot JPEG+RAW files from my Nikon D90. I would like to transmit the JPEG (or JPEG+RAW) files to my laptop running Aperture 3. Then I need Aperture to import the files automatically as they are being shot. Then at the same time, I need my AppleTV to play a slide show that is updated as the pictures get imported.
I'm not dead-set on this work flow, so I'm open to suggestions. I posted this to Aperture 3 forum because I know the hot folders are supposed to work with the Eye-Fi.
Anyone tried this before? Thx.
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Not 100% about this solution but from what I've read this could be one solution if it's more important to show the images on TV more immediately.
1. Eye-Fi cards all now have direct mode which enables them to automatically transmit jpeg (Connect X2) and jpeg / RAW (Pro X2).
2. If you had a Nikon D7000 with dual card slots, you could save a RAW file to one card for importing into Aperture later and save a jpeg to the Eye-Fi card slot for wireless distribution.
3. You can wirelessly send the jpegs to an iPad2 from the Eye-Fi card using Direct Mode.
4. With an iPad2 you can mirror the iPad's screen onto an Apple TV (the small black ones) and therefore as soon as the jpeg is sent to your iPad it can be viewed instantly and automatically on your Apple TV.
5. This should also work for jpegs if you have a D90 but I'm not too sure about what happens if you shoot RAW and jpeg on the D90.
It's a possible solution and food for thought anyway...
Clown Guy

Aperture & Iphoto & Iphone & Appletv

hello, I'd like to use only aperture and not iphoto. Is it possible? But how I can see photos on appletv and on iphone without syncronizinig with aperture?

I agree. Syncing Aperture to AppleTV works like a charm and you can set up some real sweet smartfolders to do so. Personally, I select all two star images and above and have them colour adjusted, cropped and sized to 16:9 1080 and be ready for syncing by iTunes.
My image library is now front and center on the big screen TV an being enjoyed by the whole family.
When it comes to syncing, I have two smartfolders called "Best new, iPhone" and "Best old, iPhone". That way I can control how many images are stransferred and how they look.
This technology is really great and has put new life into our photo collection.
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Best practice for viewing short home videos on AppleTV?

Please help me find a simple way to view short home videos taken on a digital video camera, photo camera or cell phone on my Apple TV.
I've been using AppleTV to showcase my photos for a couple months now, but all the short little videos I take along the way have been gathering dust in a general folder. None of them are significant enough to warrant building a full on iMovie, and all are in Nikon's AVI format. To date I have about 300 of them, hoping that one day they won't just gather dust.
As I understand it these are the recommended steps that Apple encourages:
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2) Import all movies into iMovie
3) Export for AppleTV (creating new projects for each video, individually!)
4) Import into iTunes
5) Sync with AppleTV
This is awful. For comparison, here is my current workflow for photos to get them to show on AppleTV...
1) Import photos into Aperture.
Assuming iTunes is already running (and it mostly is), there's not even a step two. iTunes is set up to sync a "Recent Import" smart album from Aperture to AppleTV so everything else is behind the scenes. A few seconds after importing I'm viewing new photos on my AppleTV.
Since AppleTV is actually built for video, I'm hoping for a revised workflow that can showcase my movies as quickly as it does photos.
I'm currently not running a hacked version of the AppleTV OS, but would consider it if it simplifies the process. Automator workflows, Finder Folder Actions, and AppleScripts are also fair game.

Thanks pvonk. I get that video is more complex than photos, but Apple still wrote its photo applications to accept all sorts of photo file types (even the many proprietary RAW formats). So I don't think it's crazy to question why this workflow isn't easier for video. Especially when Apple is the biggest champion of integrated video solutions.
Right now, here's my best guess at a workable solution. Care to weigh in?
Setup:
1) Attach a folder action to a folder (let's say ~/Movies/Imported/)
2) Folder-Action runs shell script that converts videos to mp4 via HandBrake's command line tool
3) Shell script triggers another folder action upon HandBrake completion to pushes the completed file to a new folder (let's say ~/Movies/Converted/)
4) "Converted" folder action to import to iTunes (perhaps Applescript? Automator?)
~ if one could automatically add a meta tag (let's say "AppleTV") they could be added to a smart album on iTunes that is set up to sync with AppleTV
*Workflow after Setup:*
1) Import all movies to a folder (~/Movies/Imported/)
Does this sound about right? My shell scripting skills are less than adequate for this, so if there is a way to accomplish this with AppleScript, that'd be ideal.
Any other suggestions to simplify the workflow? The setup here still seems overly complex for a normal user. I can't imagine the folks at Apple really excited about the hurdles involved in this either, so I hope that they're working out a solution already.

Aperture to apple tv

I photograph in raw format and would like to show the pictures through my Apple TV. Does anyone know of a convenient way to convert raw images to jpeg images within aperture so i needn't export them to the desktop and then reimporting them back into aperture. Thanks

You probably already have the previews generated. Unless you've taken an action to turn it off. The default is previews generated. And you do not want to manually move the previews - which is inside of your Aperture Library.
There is nothing to do, per sa, to share with iLife programs. If you open iPhoto, for an example, there should be, under "File", show Aperture Library. It will bring up all of your projects/albums/smart albums, as you have them in Aperture, and you can select any to see the images in your Ap Lib. If not, start Aperture, goto the menue "Aperture>Preferences" and look at the bottom part of the Preference pane and you will see the preview settings, including an option to share with iLife.
The same Ap Lib will show up in iTunes, when you are selecting what to do with AppleTV.
You can always create a smart folder(s) in Aperture for AppleTV (I did for iPhone) or simpley select one of he existing albums.
Not as complicated as might sounds. Just try it and see...
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I currently stream content from itunes to ATV and use iPhoto. I am considering purchasing Aperture. Will I be able to stream photos from Aperture to ATV or will I have to put them in iPhoto first?

I have been using Aperture with AppleTV. It is nice to be able to show off your photos in the living room on a big screen HDTV instead of having to huddle around the computer in the den. The only downside I can tell you is that AppleTV ignores any folder/project structure you set up and brings in each album separately and in no particular order. Also, whenever you add a new album or project it goes to the bottom of the list. All the effort of organizing my thousands upon thousands of photos was all for naught. It would be nice if AppleTV would recognize the database structure of Aperture the same way it does iTunes.

Optimal quality of previews

I originally set the preview quality to maximum and limited to 2560x2560.
That because I read that Aperture would use previews only to comunicate to ilife and for Apple TV.
In reality I very soon stopped to use the slideshows of Aperture in AppleTV (Ap. slideshows in AppleTV are really poor: you cannot even control the sorting of the images ..) and I use now FOTOMAGICO professional, which I find an excellent solution for professional slideshows (I have a 1080p projector and the pictures are awesome).
So what use remains for my previews? If I need a picture I export it from Aperture; no need to drag it out of Aperture.
Now I am thinking of dramatically lowering the quality of my previews rebuilding them.
Any suggestion why I should not do that?
Thanks
Loris

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I have some stuff on my site regarding previews and just wrote a post regarding managing them:
[Aperture Previews|http://photo.rwboyer.com/2009/01/aperture-2-quick-tip-managing-preview s>
RB

Problem viewing albums on AppleTV via MobileMe/Aperture

Hopefully this forum will work for me...
Anyone else having issues with Aperture images published to MobileMe that don't show up on AppleTV? Or at least gives you trouble on AppleTV?
First of all the MobileMe albums don't show up UNLESS I publish an image via iPhoto. It's like iPhoto "pushes" the Aperture images through. When I publish one photo via iPhoto, my Aperture/MobileMe albums show up. Un-publish the iPhoto image and the Aperture albums disappear from AppleTV.
THEN..... when I get the Aperture/MobileMe albums to show up (because I published one from iPhoto), AppleTV won't allow me to view them because it keeps telling me the login-in formation is incorrect--but it's not. I have the albums protected and locked on MobileMe and that's why I have to enter it on AppleTV. Whatever, I cannot view my MobileMe albums on AppleTV at all, no matter what I do. I will also post to the other forums, but I wanted to see if anyone here is familiar with this issue.
I hope this makes sense. Any help, anyone?

Only publicly available albums are shown on the AppleTV with any Mobileme account you add to it. If you don't have any publicly available, you won't even be able to add the account. That's why it's telling you the login information is incorrect. Apple should change the error message to be more accurate but it doesn't matter because you wouldn't be able to see anything anyway.

Not able to select Aperture library in iTunes to share on AppleTV

I moved the Aperture Library (107Gb) to an external disk that is mounted to the iMac. In order to view the photo's on the AppleTV I need to change in iTunes in Home sharing the setting for the new location of the library. In Photo Sharing Preferences it is possible to see the new location and the aperture library. However it is impossible to select the new location on the external drive because it is greyed out. And now it is no longer possible to view the photo's on AppleTV. Is it only possible to view photo's when they are on the iMac where iTunes is installed? What do I miss?

Might be a Safari extension causing this ..
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.

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I'm not able to see my Aperture photo library using AppleTV or iTunes.
It worked a few days ago but it doesn't now.
File > homesharing > choose photo to share with AppleTV opens a blank box with a rotating wheel.
Trying to sync an iPhone works fine for music but 'PHOTOS' opens a blank box with rotating wheel.
The AppleTV unit won't access my photos at all.
I'm using the latest OS on a decent mac and the latest version of Apereture. I have run the photo library first aid > repair permissions and repair database.
I have noticed that some apperture actions have been slow recently.
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I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Without the original music files or access to the laptop with the original music files what you ask can't be done.

AppleTV: sharing aperture library on external disk

I moved my Aperture library from the iMac to an external hard disk in order to free memory capacity on the iMac. Adjusted the settings in iTunes in order to instruct AppleTV to use the Aperture library on the external HD. It fails completely. Checked the permissions of the library on the HD and they are R/W, so that cannot be the issue. Anyone familiar with what I have missed?

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Hard drives slow as they fill above 40% or so. Take enough data off the internal drive to maintain at least 100 GB free space and keep the Aperture Library on the internal drive with Referenced Masters on external drives.
In the future buy large hard drives (currently the 1 TB size is cost effective) that have multiple connectivity methods that include Firewire800 and eSATA. One good source is OWC: <http://www.owcomputing.com/>.
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how do I recover photos from my AppleTV photo stream? when I reset my iPhone, I did not get all of my photos back. How do I get these photos off of my Apple TV?

Hi MrRhea,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
It sounds like you have photos in your Photo Stream that you would like to download. The photos are not actually stored on your Apple TV, it sounds like they are being displayed from your Photo Stream. Please read over the attached article for information on your Photo Stream and how to download these photos.
My Photo Stream FAQ - Apple Support
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Hi. Longtime user of Aperture, since v 1.5, and iOS, since the very first iPhone. I'm currently on the latest versions of all software, for Aperture, Mavericks, iOS and AppleTV.
I have several hundred projects and several hundred smart albums in my Aperture library, and I've always enjoyed being abe to display my photography by syncing to my iPhone, my iPad and AppleTV. I have never found the iPhone and iPad syncing to work to my satisfaction, but ultimately I've been able to get it to pretty much work. I'm now struggling with an issue that I cannot resolve.
Everything syncs fine with Apple TV.
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I've done the following to try to resolve the problem:
-rebuild Aperture library
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-completely restore iPad and iPhone to factory settings and start again.
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Don't have any solutions to offer, but I sympathize, because I have had that occur in the past. A few images simply refused to sync from Smart Albums, for reasons which completely eluded me. Very frustrating!
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Incorrect Photo Orientation - Aperture 3 to Apple TV 2

About a year ago I imported my iPhoto library of about 23,000 photos to Aperture 3. The iPhoto library had some small corruptions in it and I was hoping the more robust nature of Aperture 3 would fix these, but the import made the corruption issues significantly worse. Old Events from iPhoto (now Projects in Aperture 3) were randomly split up all over the place, duplicates of many photos appeared and many photos seemed to have lost the EXIF(?) data indicating which way photos were taken (landscape or portrait mode). As a result of the last problem many photos were on their side or upside down. Applecare were no use at all, claimed they had never heard of such a problem and had no idea how to solve these issues.
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I believe that iTunes/Aperture keeps a cache for the photos shared with AppleTV. Those need to be updated. If you can figure out where the cache is and delete it, iTunes/Aperture should regenerate it in the correct orientation. Unfortunately I don't have the time now to figure out where it is.

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