Sound Effects cont'd

[David Cole]

Sorry if I'm new to the list format and how it all works. I was just 
copying what I thought was relevant to the already lengthy discussion 
and pasting it in, giving it a new subject name. I was also copying 
from two different responses and covering them both in one reply. No 
offense was meant and I'll try to do it right next time. Thanks again 
for all your input to this list and to my problem in particular.

Kindest regards,
-DC


BTW: this is what "Mail" puts at the top of  my reply:

On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 06:22 PM, Macintosh Digital Video List 
wrote:

I reply to the list by highlighting the text I'm referring to, hit 
"reply" and type my reply. Any insight here?


>
> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 17:38:22 -0800
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: Sound Effects cont'd
> From: Thubten Kunga <Kunga at FutureMedia.org>
> Message-Id: <2E293C86-3718-11D7-BA89-003065E5AA00 at FutureMedia.org>
>
> Yes alias the other user's accounts.
>
> BTW Your replies are deleting my credit for sending you this path
> solution. Why does your reply generate a report of a generic "Macintosh
> Digital Video List wrote" instead of "Kunga wrote"?
>
> k
>
> On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 05:24  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