Here's another guy without the performance problems! Formerly: iMovie 3 & still photo issues

[Geno Kearney]

Scott says below he is also not having performance problems. Some do. Some
don't. Why? Puzzling isn't it.

Geno

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Baldwin" <sbaldwin at san.rr.com>
To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:16 PM
Subject: [MacDV] Re: iMovie 3 & still photo issues


> 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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