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Fun with Aperture & Final Cut Pro filters
Many of us already own the other Apple professional applications like Motion, LiveType, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro...Here's a way to use Final Cut Pro powerful filters made for video on your Aperture photographs!
There are different ways to achieve this, one way would be to set Aperture's External Editor as Final Cut Pro but this will not update automatically just send & open your Versions in Final Cut Pro saving a few steps, or, another way would be to make all adjustments in Aperture first then export the Versions (photographs) using a high quality tiff setting
If Final Cut Pro is not set as the External Editor in Aperture then after the export from Aperture import the photograph(s) into Final Cut Pro's Browser. Once in Final Cut Pro, double-click the photograph to send it into the Viewer & now use FCP's Viewer to place the desired filter onto your photograph! Use Broadcast Safe Filters, Chroma Key out a green or blue screen...also works with 3rd party FCP video filters
When you are finished with the photograph perform an Export from FCP using QuickTime Conversion.../Still Image, Format: TIFF, Options...Millions of Colors+
Regardless of how you took your photographs (Versions) to Final Cut Pro you'll have to reimport the photograph into Aperture as Store Files: "In the Aperture Library" or "In their current location" (latter as a Managed Reference). Using Final Cut Pro video filters on your photographs open many interesting workflow & delivery possibilities!
Below are a few examples of the many filters Final Cut Pro has to offer. A tip — you can mix the filters & add them to each other to achieve different looks
Normal No Filters — Pond Ripple — Invert UV
Replicate — Negative — Emboss
Chroma Glow Purple 50% — Mirror — HSL Balance
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— Thanx to Adam Green from Apple for helping me fine-tune this tutorial :)
