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Modifying Individual Slides and Transitions
An Overview of Modifying Individual Slides and Transitions
After specifying the basic settings for a slideshow, you use the Selected Slides controls to modify
or accentuate specic slides and transitions. You can set the length of time a specic photo
appears onscreen, change the background color for any slide, modify the border width and color
for individual slides, modify the space between a photo and its border, and set how a specic
photo is cropped when it is set to ll the screen. You can also apply a Ken Burns eect to a
specic slide and set where the panning begins and ends within the photo, apply or change an
existing transition and its duration, and apply titles to individual slides.
Note: The availability of controls in the Selected Slides pane of the Slideshow Editor depends on
the theme applied to the slideshow.
For more information about working with the default settings for a slideshow, see An Overview
of Modifying the Entire Slideshow on page 463.
Working with Video Slides
In Aperture, you can add video clips as individual slides in your slideshow. You work with video
clips in the Slideshow Editor and Browser in the same way that you work with photos. However,
there are additional controls in the Selected Slides pane of the Slideshow Editor for specifying
the volume settings of the video clip. For example, you can mute the audio clip in the main audio
track so that it doesn’t drown out the audio in the video clip while it is playing in the slideshow.
You can also set duration of the fade-in and fade-out of the video clip’s audio to smooth out
abrupt transitions between the video clip and the audio clip in the slideshow’s main audio track.
Note: To trim a video clip or duplicate a video clip so that you can use multiple portions of it in
the same slideshow, see Working with Audio and Video in the Viewer on page 109.
To set the volume for a video slide
1 Select a video clip in the Browser.
2 If the Selected Slides pane of the Slideshow Editor is not shown, click the Selected Slides button.
Note: The video controls appear in the Selected Slides pane only when a video clip is selected in
the Browser.
3 Specify the volume of the video clip as it plays in the slideshow using the Volume slider and
value slider.
To add a fade-in to a video clip
You can set the volume of a video clip to smoothly increase over time by applying a fade-in.
Adding a fade-in to a video clip helps prevent an abrupt transition from the audio clip in the
slideshow’s main audio track to the audio in the video clip.
m In the Selected Slides pane of the Slideshow Editor, specify the duration of the fade-in, in
seconds, using the Fade In slider and value slider.