Tethered Shooting


In a tethered shooting setup, you connect a camera to your Mac using a USB or FireWire cable. As you shoot with the camera, your images are automatically transferred to your computer via the connecting cable. You need special software to run this kind of rig, which many camera vendors include on their higher-end cameras. Often, the software lets you control the camera directly from the computer, allowing you to create time-lapse sequences and more.

Using a special application included on the DVD for this book, you can configure the remote-capture software that runs the tethered rig so that images it captures are automatically imported into Aperture.

To do this, you need to be able to specify a custom folder to hold the transferred images. The Create Aperture Hot Folder application included with the DVD watches that folder and automatically tells Aperture to import each new image that appears in it.

Note that, in theory, the scheme you'll learn here will work with any remote-capture program that can save images in a specific folder. However, some remote-capture programs export extra, custom files that Aperture doesn't recognize. The Create Aperture Hot Folder application tries to filter out these custom files. At the time of this writing, the application has been successfully tested with all popular Nikon and Canon SLRs. It might also work if you're using a different type of camera. There's no risk in trying it out with an unsupported camera, so go ahead and follow along with the directions presented here.

1.

Copy the Create Aperture Hot Folder application from the Lesson 12 folder on the DVD to your Applications folder.

2.

Create a new folder on your desktop and call it Remote Capture.

Note

You can, of course, name the file anything you want and locate it anywhere. For the sake of this exercise, it's probably easiest to use the same names we do.

3.

Configure youre remote-capture software to save images into your new Remote Capture folder. If you're not sure how to do this, consult the documentation that came with your software.

4.

Open the Create Aperture Hot Folder application.

The program gives a short explanation of what to do next.

5.

Click Continue.

6.

In the next dialog, select the Remote Capture folder that you created on your desktop, and click the Choose button.

If it's not already running, Aperture will open.

7.

Aperture will prompt you to enter the name of a new project into which your remote-capture images will be imported. Enter Remote Capture and click OK.

8.

Next, choose whether you want to import the captured images as referenced images or directly into the Library as managed images.

9.

Now take a shot with your camera. If everything is configured right, your remote-capture software should automatically download the image to the Remote Capture folder. Aperture should then begin importing it.

Note

There can be a slight pause between any of these steps.

Aperture will continue to import any images placed in your Remote Capture folder until you quit the Create Aperture Hot Folder application. To quit it, just select it in the Dock and then choose File > Quit.

You can also drag images into the Remote Capture folder, and they will automatically be imported into Aperture.




Apple Pro Training Series(c) Aperture 1.5
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5
ISBN: 0321496620
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 190

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