Sound Effects cont'd

[David]

On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 02:18 PM, Macintosh Digital Video List 
wrote:

> 10.2.3 volume->Users->your account name->Library->iMovie->Sound
> Effects->

First of all, thanks to all for your patience in enduring my quest to 
get the sound effects thing working in iMovie3. I really AM computer 
literate, trust me! :)  But...

I got two different path suggestions for putting the Sound Effects 
folder (which I had to create, there was no default folder there after 
downloading and installing iMovie 3 from the net).

This one doesn't work for me:

~/Library/iMovie/Sound Effects/Animals

This one DOES work:
~/Users/username/Library/iMovie/Sound Effects/Animals

Within that "Sound Effects" folder, I created more folders with sound 
types ("Animals", "Aircraft", etc.) as was suggested. When I opened 
iMovie 3, VOILA! There they were! I had originally put a bunch of misc. 
sounds ALL in the "Sound Effects" folder and it wasn't working. They 
MUST be in sub-folders with names. Those sub-folder names will then 
show up alphabetically in iMovie under "IMovie Sound Effects", after 
"Skywalker Sound Effects" and "Standard Sound Effects", with your 
sounds grouped by  the sub-folder names: NICE!

The only downside I can see to this arrangement is that other users on 
this computer will have to install and maintain similar or duplicate 
sound effect libraries. As the administrator of this computer, I was 
hoping to install and organzie ONE library for all to use. Would an 
alias in the other users Library/iMovie folders work to solve that or 
is that my OS 9 brain thinking?

Thanks again to the list for your help!

-DC