Adding Pictures from a Web Browser, an iOS Device, or Photos app
Multimedia Items Are Added to Records, Not Fields
Preferred Pictures
Removing Multimedia Items
Opening/Editing Multimedia Items in Other Applications
Revealing a Multimedia File in the Finder
Sorting and Rearranging Multimedia Items
Copying Items To Other People and Apps
Copying an Image to the Clipboard
Duplicating Multimedia Items
Sharing Multimedia Items (Printing, Emailing, Copying)
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Working with iPhoto or the Photos App
Reunion provides rich multimedia features to enhance the documenting, displaying, and sharing of your family information. You can work with a variety of files: pictures, movies, sounds, PDF files, RTF files, Word documents, and text files.
Multimedia files can be linked to people, families, or sources (or any combination). You can link one person, family, or source to many multimedia files, and you can link a single multimedia file to many different people, families, or source records. (In this case, only one copy of the multimedia file is necessary.)
Working with multimedia items in source records is explained here.
The heart of multimedia in Reunion is the Multimedia sidebar, which appears when you click
in the Sidebar list.The Multimedia sidebar is divided into three sections to show thumbnails for the husband, wife, and "family" multimedia items.
In the bottom bar, under the Multimedia sidebar, are several buttons whose functions are described in this chapter.
The contents of the Multimedia sidebar are updated as you navigate to different people in the family file, reflecting the media items linked to the husband, wife, and family appearing in the family view.
Tip: If any multimedia items are linked to the current husband, wife, or family, the icon in the button in the Sidebar list will give you a clue: it will contain an image.
Similarly, if any multimedia items are linked to the current "family," an icon will appear inside the marriage field. Learn more.
Here are four ways to add, attach, or import multimedia items to a person or family (such as pictures, photos, movies, pdf files, etc.)...
Dragging and Dropping Multimedia Items Into the Family View.
Using the Multimedia Sidebar to add Multimedia Items.
Using the Media Window to add Multimedia Items.
Using a (built-in or USB connected) camera with your Macintosh.
Adding Pictures from a Web Browser, an iOS Device, or the Photos App
Pictures can be dragged and dropped from a web browser (like Safari or Firefox) onto...
When an image is dragged from your web browser (or Apple's new Photos app) and dropped on a person in Reunion, the image file will be saved in a folder called Imported Media.
Similarly, if you add photos to people using an iOS device, ReunionTouch will sync them with your family file in Dropbox and the new image files (for the photos you linked on the device) will appear in the Imported Media folder.
This folder is, by default, located here: user/Pictures/Reunion Pictures/Imported Media. However, you may change the location where these image files will be saved. To do this...
Another way to change the location of the Imported Media folder (or to verify that Reunion knows the location)...
This preference only applies to the currently active family file.
The Imported Media folder can have any name, whether is it renamed in the Finder or changed by selecting a different folder in the Sharing Status window. "Imported Media" is simply the default name assigned by Reunion.
Imported image files will be automatically named by Reunion; however, you may rename or relocate them in the Finder.
Multimedia Items Are Added to Records, Not Fields
Multimedia items are linked to records, not fields. For example, photos can be linked to people, family, and source records; however, you can't add a picture to a birth event, or a note field, a place field, a fact field, etc.
If a birth certificate is linked to Leroy, it's obvious that the image relates to Leroy's birth. If a death certificate is linked to Leroy, it's obvious that the image relates to Leroy's death. Clarifying comments, if any are needed, can be stored in the memo field for an event; or, in the Comments field associated with the image. Or perhaps in the Misc. Notes field.
Although many pictures may be linked to a person, only one picture can be "preferred" for each person.
In the family view, and in most reports and charts, only the "preferred picture" is automatically included for each person. Preferred pictures apply to people, not families.
Here's the easiest way to designate a picture as a "preferred" picture...
As you can see, Control-clicking a thumbnail image in any person's button in the family view will show the Image Tools menu, with several items described elsewhere...
Here's another way to designate a picture as a "preferred" picture...
To remove a multimedia item from a person or family...
To open a multimedia item (display a picture, play a movie or sound, open a PDF file, etc.)...
Tip: another way to show a multimedia item is to Control/right-click a thumbnail and choose .
Opening/Editing Multimedia Items in Other Applications
As explained elsewhere, a variety of multimedia file types are supported in Reunion.
If you need to edit multimedia files (such as a PDF, RTF, PNG, movie, or audio file), you'll need to have and use the appropriate application software. For example, to lighten or sharpen a picture, you'll need to use photo-editing software. To edit the PDF file (such as annotate, truncate, etc.) you'll need to use PDF-editing software. Etc.
Chances are, you're more likely to edit image files more than any other type of file. To edit image files...
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
Note: When both the original multimedia file and any associated thumbnail are missing, this feature will be disabled and renamed "Open in External Application."
To edit other types of items in the Multimedia sidebar, such as audio or video files, find the file on your hard disk and then open it in the appropriate editing application. Reunion has a nifty feature to make this easier. (Keep reading.)
Revealing a Multimedia File in the Finder
To see the original multimedia file in the Finder...
This will switch you to the Finder, and open the folder containing the multimedia file.
Note: This feature is disabled if the original multimedia file is missing.
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
Sorting and Rearranging Multimedia Items
Thumbnails in the Multimedia sidebar (or Media window) can be dragged and dropped to change their position/order. The order of items here determines the order that the images will appear in a slideshow.
To sort items automatically...
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
Images may be rotated 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees. To rotate an image that appears in the Multimedia sidebar...
If a picture is already selected in the Media window, just click the icon in the bottom bar. Learn more.
Note: This feature is disabled if the original multimedia file is missing.
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
To copy a multimedia item from...
...just drag the thumbnail from one section of the Multimedia sidebar to another. For example, drag an image from the husband's section to the "family" section or vice versa.
If you have a census image and you spend some time scaling and cropping the census image, you can then copy the scaled/cropped image into other records to whom the image refers.
When you drag and drop an item between people, another link to the image is created; the item is not unlinked from anybody. And the original multimedia file on disk is not duplicated.
To copy a multimedia item from...
Another way to copy a multimedia item from one person to another...
Thumbnails in the Multimedia sidebar and Media window can be dragged and dropped...
Thumbnails in the Multimedia sidebar and Media window can be copied to the Clipboard and then pasted into charts or other documents, such as word processing documents or email messages.
To copy a multimedia item to the Mac Clipboard...
Copy Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
As described above, copying a multimedia file (via drag/drop) between people duplicates the link, not the actual file on disk. Here's another way to duplicate an item...
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
Note: This feature is disabled if the original multimedia file is missing.
Sharing Multimedia Items - Printing, Emailing, Copying
To share pictures (print, email, or copy), select a thumbnail in the Multimedia sidebar or the Media window and click the button in the bottom bar. This opens the Share window with the following options...
To print a picture...
This will open the image in Apple's Preview application where you can print a single page including the picture, description, and comments. The picture will print at the maximum size allowed by one page. If it's too big, the picture will be scaled down to fit on a page.
Other ways to print pictures:
To email a picture...
Copying an Image to the Clipboard
To copy a multimedia item to the Mac Clipboard...
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
For convenience, the feature appears when clicking the or buttons.
More explanation and examples of copying/pasting appears earlier in this chapter.