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In this movie, I'm going to talk about Shooting Tethered. Some photographers, particularly studio shooter doing commercial work for art directors like to shoot Tethered. Basically what this means is that the camera is connected to the computer so that as soon as you take the shot, it appears within Aperture in full screen on your monitor. That makes it easy to see instantly whether you need to modify anything about the shoot. Tethered shooting can be equally handy for teaching photography or just for immediately examining your photos to check out the detail while you're still set up to shoot. Basically all you do is connect the supported camera via a USB or FireWire cable. In fact, the only tricky aspect to this is that most recent Canon cameras are not supported because they use a non-standard protocol. This is a list of the cameras that are supported at the time I'm recording this movie. However, there are some cameras that will work even though they're not on the list. For example, an iPhone will work. Some cameras need to be set to specific communication protocols to enable tethered shooting. Others require that you use Mac OSX 10.5, also known as Leopard. When you want to shoot tethered, you'll begin by setting up a new Project. I've set up a Project called Tethered iPhone. So I have the Project selected and then you come up to File, Tether, Start Session. You can opt to save the files as Managed Files in the Aperture Library or as Referenced Files just as with any other import. You can set up separate Folders, etcetera. But for this example, I'm going to leave it in the Aperture Library and just as with any other import, you can choose to rename the files upon Import. I'm going to use the Custom Plus Master Preset that I created earlier and the particular name I'm going to give it is Test. I'm going to opt to add metadata from one of my presets called Basic Information, which contains my contact and copyright information. I'll describe how to create those templates in a different movie. When I'm ready to start shooting tethered, I'll click Start Session, turn on my iPhone, select the camera and I'm going to take a shot of what's outside my window right now. You can see that the number of shots that I take is listed. Take a second shot and there's just a short delay before they appear. Then you click Stop Session. Before I click Stop Session, I want to point out to you that when you're in the middle of shooting tethered, a Camera Icon appears by your Project. So I'll click Stop Session now. Right now you're probably noticing that there's a moirŽ pattern. That's just the screen and the way the iPhone captured the screen that's there. With a digital SLR camera, I don't think you'll have that kind of problem. If your camera isn't supported, you may still be able to shoot tethered by first having the files go into the camera manufacturer's proprietary software such as Canon's Digital Photo Professional and then setting up a hot Folder. Alternatively, you can use an automator script that was set up for this purpose. We'll talk about using automator scripts in another movie. Let me go back and I will give you the URL that you can download a script right now if you're in a hurry to try and be able to do that. That's www.Apple.com slash Downloads slash MacOSX slash Automator slash ApertureHotFolder.html. Go to that link and there's a script that will help you be able to shoot with some of the cameras that are not currently supported. However, if you have a supported camera, the procedure for shooting tethered is extremely simple.