[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3 & still photo issues

[Thubten Kunga]

I agree it is mostly aesthetic. But I went back to iM2 and that slider 
moves smoothly across the bar revealing every frame number as it goes. 
I don't understand why it should need to jerk in iM3. I reported it to 
Apple.

k

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 10:21  PM, Scott Baldwin wrote:

> 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