Question about Aperture slide shows

Question about Aperture slide shows. How can I eliminate banding in a blue sky when photos are displayed in Aperture Slide shows?

What kind of banding? Do you have a screenshot?
It could be jpg compression related, I think the previews are all jpgs.

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Hi,
I use keynote for my live presentation slide to slide...sometimes i need to jump the slide to the other slide immediately by hit the number of slide that i wish to jump to (say from slide 2 i wish to jump to slide 26 for the next slide ,i just hit the number 26 and enter i'll be there on the spot)
Question,
when i hit the number of the next slide as the above example, keynote will show a slide bar on the top that will show on the screen that i projected as well...how do i avoid the "slide bar" when i hit the number26?
Sorry for the complicated description above...cause,i really don't know how to descript the situation that i facing...haaaa...hope you all can understand..and give me some tips to solve it!!!!
Thanks and appreciate!!!

Question 1 - Yes, exactly.
Question 2 - Rehearse Slideshow mode shows you what the Presenter Display will look like when you are in Play Slideshow mode, but for situations when you only have one monitor. A good example use case is when you are on an airplane and you want to rehearse your slideshow (hopefully not out loud) and you obviously only have your laptop monitor to work with. This way you can get used to working with the Presenter Display. When you go to Play Slideshow mode, it will look exactly the same, only your audience will be seeing your finished slideshow without the notes, Slide Browser, etc. from the secondary display output.

In the middle of my Aperture slide show the color set on the custom text has locked to an old color I was using and will not go to a new color (white)

In the middle of creating my second Aperture slide show I find I cannot change the color of the text (even though I select it in selected slides & default slides and in various colors choices) to a new one. The first color that I was using keeps appearing. Where is the solution please ?

I personally like to Crop, and then use PNG for my screen-caps. If I need more images, say to show other Palettes, etc., then I do one each for those shots.
We see a lot of full-screen caps posted, where aggressive JPEG is used, and nothing can be read. That is especially true with images, like Adobe Encore's Flow-chart, where there is a lot of text and linking being shown.
Just my personal preferences.
Hunt

How to arrange photos in Aperture slide shows to the beat of the music?

Is there anyone that knows how to arrange photos to the beat of the music in Aperture slide shows? I have tried to do a search for this topic, looked at "help" and still can get things to work properly. The "beat of music" command seems to be grayed out. Is there a bug in the software? Any help would be appreciated.

I have been following this thread with great interest. I have tried to do this in Aperture as well. Jumping ahead just a bit to what might be David's next issue, once we figure out why the option is not available to him.
For me once the music has been added the " Align slide to the beat" is available. However it doesn't seem to do anything.
I have accomplished this in iMovie and Final Cut Express. In both of these programs you have to actually mark the beats for things to work. You mark the beats and the software sets the play duration to match. This is pretty easy in iMovie. I am hoping for a similar or better interface in Aperture 3. How is this accomplished in Aperture?

Several Questions about Aperture Problems

Having used Aperture for some time, and being a Mac user since 1985, I have a list of questions about Aperture that I need help with.
1. Periodically operating the sliders will make an image turn black. Sometimes this is early in a session, sometimes late. Various workarounds will bring the image back, but once this starts, quitting seems the only option. Can anyone help me with why this happens and how to stop it?
2. About 20% of the RAW files from my supported camera display the Unsupported Image Format error screen. These files operate perfectly in the manufacturers software and in other image management software that does not use the OS RAW libraries. Can someone help me with the cause of this and the solution (not a "workaround" but a way to make it stop happening).
3. ALL of my RAW files from my supported camera, when I try to lift metadata, return the error message that there is no metadata to lift. But in fact, the metadata inspector displays metadata. How can I stop this from happening and experience normal metadata lifting?
4. When I use the DNG format from my supported camera, a great many EXIF fields do not display, such as lens data. Can someone help me with DNG files, since these never generate the UIF error screen (cf. #2 above) as the manufacturer's RAW files do. I'm forced to use DNGs to have all my shots, but the EXIF data is not fully displayed.
5. Today I opened Aperture and no previews would display. Aperture froze while updating thumbnails. I'd not done any non-routine edits or imported any unusual files or formats. Aperture then would not quit. Is it safe to attempt to restart Aperture?
6. At times Aperture slows to the point of not working at all. Long pauses simply in trying to enlarge the selection circles for redeye removal, for example. What would cause Aperture to slow down without warning at any point in the workflow? How can I experience a more consistent operating speed from Aperture.
7. How do other image management programs like Lightroom compare on these points? Is Aperture typical or should I seek a change in my workflow, improvement in my hardware, or some adjustment in my installation?
Info: MacBook Pro, 4 GB RAM (apple), 320 GB drive, 45 GB free on drive; library of 3800 images. Fewer than 12 projects.
Thanks for your assistance.

n #3. It looks like you're absolutely right on this. I went back and checked on photos I'd edited and there was the altered metadata. +Many thanks for dispelling that concern!+ I love being a happy camper. Check that one off the list!
On 1, I've followed the black-screen issues and pretty much all we know is that a workaround exists--usually selecting the crop box restores the picture, but a lot of times it blacks out again. Having used Apple products over 25 years, all of which was in my adult professional life, I haven't seen Apple willing to just let users tolerate an irritating "workaround." I think this is something that needs fixing.
On 6--I don't understand how the rotational speed would produce erratic performance issues. I can go a month of reasonable performance, and then suddenly things bog down. Also, if that is the reason, this really ought to be part of the System Requirements, or at least, a recommendation. Maybe it is already--I should check to be sure. I confess this is one aspect I had not thought about.
Thanks so much for thinking about these. I love my Apple products and have owned almost every generation of Mac since the "Fat Mac" (512K RAM! 800Kb Floppies!) and hate to stare at the screen and think I've been given a truly poor product--not in my DNA--but these things break my heart.
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I made a 46.5 min aperture slide show and tried a number of times to Export it so I can burn it to DVD to be viewed on an HDTV, so far with no success! I set computer sleep to 3hrs and let it export over night and the furthest i've gotten is 66% Exported

I made a 46.5 min aperture slide show and tried a number of times to Export it so I can burn it to DVD to be viewed on an HDTV, so far with no success! I set computer sleep to 3hrs and let it export over night and the furthest i've gotten is 66% Exported! Why is it taken so long and seem to stop but the activity status goes up ever so slowley???? Im using an iMac 7,1 2.4 GHz with 6GB of memory running 10.8.2 what am I doing wrong???

Rendering will take a very long time - I once needed 6 hours for a shorter high definition movie with plenty of effects.
What theme are you using and what settings?
The "places" theme needs a good network connection.
And the finished movie will need plenty of disk space.
And the finished movie will need plenty of disk space. Have you checked the available space on your disk?
What exactly happens when Aperture fails to render the movie? Are there any diagnostics, error messages in the console window, that relate to Aperture? Does Aperture alway stop at the same image or video clip?
if all fails, you could render your slideshow in two parts and combine the two videos on your DVD.
Regards
Léonie

Glitches in Aperture slide show playback

I am using my MacBook Pro to present a 38 minute Aperture (3.3.2) slideshow with a projector. My slide show includes a few video clips and overall the images and video are sized at 1280x720. The show has about 40 audio clips of mostly narration but also some music. Mostly the show runs very well and I think it's great. Occasionally there are glitches in the playback. Video stops moving during a transition (1 second dissolve) or the last word in an audio clip will be cut off. This is the most important issue to fix. Some image transitions stutter a bit before continuing as usual.
The weird thing is that these problems are not consistent. They don't always happen at the same place. I am wondering if I might be taxing the limits of the system. I make sure to shut off everything not needed, such as any other applications, unneeded menubar monitoring items, etc. The show runs perfectly in the preview window or just on the MacBook Pro screen. It is just when I connect it to a projector or TV that I have problems.
If I run Activity Monitor during the show preview I can see Aperture usually running over 85%, often over 95% and it shows virtual mamory usage over 1.35 GB. I just have 4MB of RAM. Do you think not enough RAM is the issue?
Another thing I notice is that I have 2 types of video clips in the show. I have completed time-lapse videos, usually about 1.5 minutes, and these run perfectly, audio & visual. In other words these are the product of video export from a completed video project. The other video parts are short video clips from my video library, usually less than 10 seconds, some with built-in audio. These are regular QT movies. Most were 1080 HD clips converted to 1280x720 when I found the 1080p clips wouldn't play well. Is there any particular type of video clip that requires more intense work on the part of the processor in order to play well? What type would be best? Maybe a lower quality setting? I probably used a high quality setting.

I'm a bit surprised to see no responses to my question. But for anyone else who looked at the question, here's how things progressed. When I am presenting I am doing so directly within Aperture and not by playing a slideshow movie. However, I learned that Aperture makes the necessary resolution previews at the time of rendering the movie so I made a slideshow movie even though I had no use for it. After I exported a slide show movie the show seems to run better within Aperture. Less glitches, etc. I present this show twice a week at Fundy National Park during July & August so getting it running flawlessly is my goal..
The next step was increasing my RAM to 8GB and this helped another level. Now the show runs quite well. No more dropped words at the end of audio clips. Almost all of the image transitions work well. It is just when going through movie sections that playback sometimes stutters a bit.

Aperture Slide Shows vs iPhoto?

Is their a difference between the two slide shows...iphoto vs Aperture?

Hi there, there is actually quite a substantial difference in how slideshows are "approached" inthe two applications.
In iPhoto you can easily select images, set a transition and a music track and "save" that slideshow for later use.
In Aperture, I do not think you can save the slideshow in such a way, but when you select an album or some images to show them as a slideshow, you pick a slideshow preset. You can have as many as you like, and also chose to show for example four images at a time (as opposed to iPhoto's 1).
Why would you want to do this, some may ask - well, you can get some benefit by doing so if you have a large monitor and see a slideshow more as a prettier preview/comparison tool for image impact. Aperture let's you add music to your slideshow presets as well.
So, depending on how you look at it and what your preference is, it is either more flexible or less comfortable
Hope this answers your question.
Jonas

Blue question marks for slide shows buttons.

Good day iWeb list,
All of a sudden the Play/Pause, Back and Forward buttons for my slide shows have turned into a generic looking blue question marks.
I noticed one other user having a similar issue a while back, and I believe the remedy was to re-publish the entire site. I've tried that to no avail. Resetting cache has not affect as well.
Any thoughts?
You can witness this issue by going to my web site below and then click on the "Woodworking" page to view the slide show.
http://doodsie.com/
Thanks as usual, Gramps.

Gramps-
I've noticed that safari 4 sometimes does the ? thing with images... almost like it doesn't finish loading sometimes. Not sure if it's provider traffic or safari related but it can be annoying.
Lisa

How do I edit out the first 20 seconds of music in an Aperture slide show?

I don't want to use the first 20 seconds of a piece of music in a slide show. How do I start the music 20 seconds into the song? Thanks.

Since no one else has answered, here is my solution:
I use a free program called Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net
I export the track from iTunes, trim with Audacity and then re-import the new version back to iTunes (".trimmed)" so that it appears in Aperture music selection.
(I have no connection/investment whatsoever of any kind in the developer of Audacity!)

Aperture slide show - very sluggish start

I have the most powerful Mac ever (MBP Retina 2,6 GHz) and to start a slide show looks not very impressive - that dreadful rainbow circle for 10-15 seconds every time and then waiting for another 10-15 sec. (+ two aperture crashes during one day). All fresh installations. It does not look very great .. Still something to be improved from the Apple part ?

How large is your slide show? A moderately sized slideshow on my MBP starts immediately, unless I use the "Places" theme and Aperture needs to connect to the internet to download maps. What theme are you using for your slideshow and how many images are in the slideshow?
Do the images in the slideshow have high quality previews?
two aperture crashes during one day)
Have you done any trouble shooting after the crashes? The reason for the crashes may be the same, that is causing the slide shows to start up so slowly.
Regards
Léonie

Wmv to be play on a mac question; MS Photostory3 slide show usability

There was a woman who posted this note... and before I could answer, somebody set the note to "answered" so I couldn't reply. It was certainly not answered. The text was:
My son's school has started using Microsoft's Photostory3 to convert school event images into slide shows. As Photostory3 apparently uses an Image codec, Flip4Mac can't run the resulting wmv file. Craig on the Telestream forum says, 'Nothing on the Mac can play Image or Screen codec.' I can't see another save option on the staff member's pc that would allow any other save format. Does anyone know if there is an easy (and free?) software they could use that would be cross platform?
My answer is: It's true you cannot play a wmv file on a mac. A workaround is to use a free converter to convert it to a usable format, for example a Quicktime movie which has the extension .mov
One such converter is called FLV CRUNCH. google for it and give it a try. Good Luck!
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If the person has an up to date system, they probably have the flip4mac plug-in, which allows macs to play most WMV files. Older macs may or may not have WMP. If they don't have it, I'm not sure you can still download it-Microsoft has stopped issuing it and recommends flip4mac instead. You will aslo find a fairly substantial number of mac folks who will not do Windows media under any circumstances whatsoever, I'm afraid.
All macs can play QT files, but again, if you want to use H264, the person would need to have a fairly recent version of QT installed.
A potential problem is that macs last a long time, so there are still many people using the old OS 9 operating system from 8 or nine years ago, and apple stopped issuing updates for that system a long time ago. Also, there are some WMV codecs that have never been released for anything but windows.

Exporting aperture slide show

Trying unsuccessfully to export a large slide show 435 scanned slides to an external drive at approx 50% I get error message Unable to export Slideshow " A volume could not be found"
Any suggestions

When you exported your slide show what option did you select, when you view it on your computer what app are you using to view the slide show. Try importing it into iTunes if you have not done that then try to watch it via Apple TV, Or you can make a DVD or the show in iDVD.

How to get the best iPhoto/Aperture slide shows on Apple TV

Hi. I'd like to do very simple slideshows on Apple TV 2nd generation for friends and family, but haven't been able to get it to work very well. My needs, I think, are simple:
No gimimick transitions, e.g. no Ken Burns. I don't mind an ultra-brief fade in/out, but that's about it. I found Classic, and that seems to work. I'm only mentioning it as it might have a bearing on the next two.
I'd like complete control over advancing slides using the Apple Remote, or the Remote app on the iPad. No auto-advancing. If we're all enjoying, talking about a memory, the last thing I want is that memory suddenly yanked away to the next slide. When I try to pause, it pauses the music instead of the slides.
I'd like the photos to have 720p resolution, which is what the Apple TV 2nd generation is capable of. All the originals are higher resolution (typically 3000 vertical, varying widths depending no how I've cropped), but sometimes the Apple TV decides to make them much grainier than one would expect from 720p. Other times they look fine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

No there is no way to Mirror full screen from an iOS device to the Apple TV. iOS devices are not 16:9 like your HDTV so the mirrored image appears as the size your iOS device would be if it were the size of your TV. Hope that makes sense.

Actually this is a question about Aperture

I know this post is in the wrong place, but I though someone discussing iPhoto might have some info on Aperture....
I am VERY excited about the new product I see APPLE are advertising called Aperture. This is just what I need. I am not a professional photographer. But I am a surgeon who uses photographs extensively - both in treatment planning and in professional presentations. The extensive archive functions are excatly what I and other colleagues have been looking for for quite some time now.
BUT ---- Does anyone know what will be the compatibility of these RAW files with Powerpoint and with the Adobe CS programs that I use in making presentations and in creating figures for publication??????
This is a key issue that I want understand before I drop $500.00 on this program

Dr. Rontal
I share your enthusiasm for Aperture (see my post in this forum on Aperture and RAW files). I would have to think, from what I've picked up off Apple's Aperture website, that if you saved your finished files in JPEG format they will work fine in Powerpoint. JPEG files are pretty universal. I noticed in that site that Aperture is advertised as working with Photoshop 7 (and I think CS), so you shouldn't have any problems there, either.

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