Lesson 5. Building a Dynamic Slideshow


Lesson Files

Lessons > Lesson05 > Start_Birthday_Project5 > Birthday Party

 

Lessons > Lesson05 > Sgraffito Script.txt

Tools

iPhoto, iMovie

Time

Approximately 90 minutes

Goals

Customize slideshows in iPhoto

 

Learn the Ken Burns Effect

 

Control slide durations

 

Get familiar with iMovie

 

Bring still photos into iMovie

 

Add photos to a movie as either still or moving images

 

Adjust durations of shots in the slideshow

 

Add dissolves and other transition effects between shots

 

Add music to your dynamic slideshow


As you've seen, in virtually no time you can make a slideshow in iPhotoit's a quick and clean process. But what do you get if you're willing to spend a few more minutes messing with your slides?

If you have a little more time, you can take control of when and how each image appears onscreen, producing a nuanced and professional presentation. One of the coolest features of iPhoto is that it lets you make a dynamic slideshow that, until recently, was possible only with video-editing software like iMovie.

Christopher made a quick slideshow for his daughter Jessica and her friends at the birthday party, which was fun and easy. But now that he's home and has a little free time over the weekend, he wants to make a more interesting slideshow for Jessica's grandparents to watch. iPhoto can help him do this. In the first part of this lesson, we'll go through the advanced features of iPhotomanipulating not only collections of images, but also image timing (duration) and motion (pans and zooms).

iPhoto is so advanced that it overlaps in interesting ways with iMoviewhich starts with still images and moves into video. iMovie isn't just for editing video from a camcorderit can also make real videos from your iPhoto still images. So in this lesson, we'll also work with Jennifer, the business owner. Her marketing and training needs often go just beyond what iPhoto can do, so she delves into iMovie territory. This lesson will show why and when one application is more appropriate than the other.




Apple Training Series iLife '06
Apple Training Series: iLife 06
ISBN: 0321421647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 142
Authors: Michael Rubin

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