[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3 & still photo issues

[Scott Baldwin]

Kunga,

Yes the display triangle runs in steps rather than continuous.  The 
movie however plays fine, and you can drag the triangle to a precise 
spot if needed.  I guess I haven't yet come across a situation where 
this mattered for me.   However, the night is young.........

Scott

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 08:43 PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> 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
>
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