[MacDV] Sound Effects cont'd

[Granville Kennedy]

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I guess there's a difference between being computer literate and 
understanding unix pathnames...

the ~/ is short for your home directory, which on these machines 
running OS X is /Users/username.

Let's hope it doesn't get any worse than this...  I've had a home 
directory on a Sun server that was a few more steps removed from the 
root directory.  At least OS X gives you the nice little home icon to 
click on for us graphically oriented folk :-)

Cheers,

		Joey Kennedy.
On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 08:24  PM, David wrote:

>
> 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

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