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iLife '08 for Aperture Users with Joe Schorr

Inside Aperture Podcast 18

by Derrick Story
08/16/2007

Apple recently released iLife '08 with a truckload of goodies for Aperture users. In this podcast, Joe Schorr tells you how to use some of these new tools and discusses the latest Aperture update (1.5.4).

One of the big iLife improvements is the new Media Browser that lets you quickly find and use images from inside of Aperture and iPhoto. Shown here is the Media Browser inside of iMovie '08. Notice that you can see your Aperture images and the Project and Album structure is preserved.

iLife's new Media Browser makes it easy to bring Aperture content into iMovie and other iLife apps. Photos provided by The Digital Story members.

The new iMovie is a tremendous application for creating top-notch slideshows with your Aperture content. We talk more about this in the podcast.

(Inside Aperture, Aug. 16, 2007: 23 minutes, 29 seconds)

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Derrick Story is the digital media evangelist for O'Reilly. His experience includes more than 20 years as a photojournalist, managing editor for O'Reilly Network, and a speaker for IDG, PMA, and Santa Fe Workshops. He is the author of Digital Photography Hacks, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed., and his latest, The Digital Photography Companion.

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2007-09-01 11:44:45 MacNik [Reply | View]

Hi Derrick and Joe,
1.: I like your podcasts very much! First due to the themes, second as I understand you very well (I'm German) cause of your clear wordings.
2. Your podcasts about aperture are too seldom
3. My question: a lot of people scanned their old slides. These slides get metadata with the wrong date and time. Although you have in Aperture an input field for the data you can't make any input. Yesterda I received my german iLife '08 and tried iPhoto and ....... oh wonder ! I can mange this within iPhoto. I can change the date field !! Afterall one possibility. But I want to change a bunch at the same time not foto by foto :-).

Have you a solution for this need ?
Thanks
Hans Schreier
Germany

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2007-09-09 16:30:55 MacNik [Reply | View]

Me again,

unfortunately, the changed "date" data, which will be used by iphoto 08 will not be used by Aperture ?
I hope this theme will be covered in one of the next podcast :-).

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2007-09-09 16:30:36 MacNik [Reply | View]

Me again,

unfortunately, the changed "date" data, which will be used by iphoto 08 will n ot be used by Aperture ?
I hope this theme will be covered in one of the next podcast :-).

Media Browser Maintains Image Order in iLife 08
2007-08-31 21:24:38 KNM [Reply | View]

The Derrick Story/Joe Schorr "Inside Aperture" podcasts have been great. I was excited to hear that the media browser in iLife 08 would maintain the image order when referencing a smart folder with a customized layout. I can't get it to work. I have images in a smart folder in Aperture that have a custom order such that the dropdown menu shows the "Custom" option. When I open the media browser in iPhoto 08, the photos are in the proper order. Yet, when I drag all of the highlighted images into a folder in iPhoto (so I can put them in my Web Gallery), the order reverts back to the original order. Can you give me any suggestions? Thank you very much. Kevin Miller

i 08 & Aperture
2007-08-26 18:17:48 Ferrariman [Reply | View]

Brilliant. Thanks for a most informative podcast.

Great Stuff
2007-08-17 11:10:07 Scotmandu [Reply | View]

Great interview Derrick and Joe. Man, I could listen to Joe for hours. I always learn so much.

Please encourage Joe and his team to keep up the great work, especially as it comes to communicating with, and educating users in as many ways as possible.