[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3 & still photo issues

[Thubten Kunga]

Scott,
Is your playback frame display triangle going across the bottom of your 
display window running smoothly or jerkily?

k

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 08:16  PM, Scott Baldwin wrote:

> To import still photos, it works better to put them first  into a 
> folder in iPhoto, and then use the photo button in iMovie.  Clicking 
> on this button immediately shows you the contents of iphoto, without 
> actually importing the still photos. You can access any folder in 
> iphoto.   You still can import photos to the "clips" window, as in the 
> previous version  but this is where you begin to have difficulties.   
> It gets messy.
>
> By using the iphoto route you can set the duration of the photo and 
> the zoom effect  before you actually drag it to the clip viewer.  The 
> zoom effect is not the default setting when using this method (at 
> least in my system!).  Picture duration defaults to 3 secs.  If you 
> change the duration of any one picture, all the subsequent pictures 
> have this duration.
>
> I agree though, I still would like to be able change the duration of a 
> photo after it is in the clip viewer.  Sometimes you want to play 
> around with this to get it right.
>
> On my G4 dual 500 OS X.2.3,  I do not see the latency that others have 
> mentioned.  Transitions seem to render faster as well.
>
>  When I upgraded my system software from 9.1 to 10.2, I installed a 
> new hard drive in my machine and did a fresh install of 10.2 on this 
> drive.  I seem to have far fewer problems with 10.2 and iapps then 
> other people on this list.  I think this fresh install might have made 
> a difference, or I'm very lucky.  The weekly sacrifices to Pele 
> probably help as well...........
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
>
> On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 01:15 PM, hawkgx at planetkc.com wrote:
>
>> I've been watching a friend suffer through iMovie 3. Makes me glad I 
>> have
>> not *upgraded* to it myself.  Here's a couple of issues/questions we 
>> have
>> about it so far:
>>
>> 1) The Ken Burns Effect. Is there an easy way to make the iMovie
>> application default to NOT applying the Burns effect to a still photo
>> you've imported?  My friend was getting exasperated because every 
>> JPEG he
>> imported, started rendering with the Burns effect applied.  We 
>> discovered
>> that if you reset a still photo's properties... i.e. remove the zoom
>> settings, then each photo imported after that inherited the latest
>> settings. What a PITA! I can foresee just importing the first still,
>> re-setting its properties, and THEN importing the rest of my photos so
>> they'll inherit the *non-Burns effect*, but it still seems like a 
>> lousy
>> approach.
>>
>> 2) On the subject of still photo rendering... we noticed each still 
>> photo
>> begins rendering after it's imported.  Someone on the Apple discussion
>> boards speculated that iMovie is creating a reference file of each 
>> still
>> photo in order to deal with it more efficiently.  Anyone have the 
>> scoop on
>> why iMovie is rendering each still photo as it is brought in?
>>
>> 3) Re: changing clip duration:  We just finished importing 2 JPEGs 
>> onto the
>> clip shelf. The first one began rendering so we hit command-period to 
>> stop
>> it. We could then double-click the clip and change the duration in 
>> the Clip
>> Info window.  The second photo we let render completely. When we 
>> viewed the
>> Clip Info, the file size went from approx. 120k to 17mb.  Also, after
>> rendering we could see no way to change to the still clip's duration.
>>
>> Any suggestions, complaints or comments about any or all of these 
>> issues is
>> appreciated.
>> Randy