Yet another iMovie 6 bug-Crashing!

Why did I have to upgrade on both my drives? Buggy, buggy, buggy. Transitions don't work properly, neither do video effects and it has a tendency to crash. But, hey, great-looking box!
I wish instead of coming out with all these fancy new features, they'd concentrate on making the software stable.
But, hey, that's just me.

These are projects started in iMovie 6. Yes, I'm having some issues with 3rd party plugins. But they worked fine with the previous version. And, anyway, so few transitions and effects come standard with iMovie—what else are we supposed to do? I'm finding the new preview irritating. It decides for itself when it loops and when it doesn't—so I have to keep turning it off. Sometimes the update feature doen't work. Sometimes I get white frames at the end of pictures placed in the timeline so I have to go back in and clip them off. Updating clips sometimes causes transitions to re-render funny and the whole block has to be removed and recreated. And, in general, the new interface seems fancier but is more cumbersome to work with and takes longer to do projects. I've also had issues exporting finished movies.
In general, it feels like a beta version and I didn't have the sense to wait until the bugs got worked out. My bad. Each first effort seems a little buggy, but this one is the least stable yet. It's almost like the marketing people are telling the programmers when the product is ready rather than the other way around.

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Yet another JDeveloper (10g) bug...

I had a VO and related java files that I have removed from my project and workspace. Then the project is commited in CVS and thereafter checked-out on another computer. When tried to compile, compiler is missing the files I have deleted. I did a search and cannot find a place where is the LIST of files needed to sucessfully compile the project?!

Hmmm I think I found it in .jpr file as an <item> entry. Why is this jpr keeping old not needed entries?

Another iPhoto 6 bug

Amusing but yet another iPhoto 6 bug (6.0.2). Boy, does this program need some work.
I created a new library, set alias on so it loads from my iView MediaPro layout, and am busy importing. In the information tab on the bottom left, it tells me its busy importing 1595 photos with a total size of 15066192772 GB. I wish.
iBook 14" 1.42 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1.5GB

Paul:
Did it finish loading the iView files? If so check the size at the bottom. If it's still incorrect and extremely large try rebuilding the library, launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed, follow the instructions to rebuild the library, while selecting only the database option. That may clear up the problem.
I didn't note the size when I was importing my iView collection but iPhoto does reports the correct size now.

Is this yet another problem with 7.5 or is it just me . . .

Upgrade seemed to be fine, at first . . . now I keep getting distortion on songs. It seems to be quite random and just because a song has been distorted when I've listened to it once doesn't mean it will be when I listen to it again! It's driving me insane. Is this yet another bug or have I done something wrong (apart from upgrading to 7.5).

Hi Emlou,
If you have a Windows based operating system such as XP -
It seems to me that you are suffering what I am having the same problem with - the program takes up to much of your computer's processing usage. If you go into your task manager and watch performance as ITunes runs - you will see how much of the total computer usage it is taking at any given moment - that's why your songs are distorted, slowing, garbled, etc - the usage on mine spikes from 11% - 93% AT ANY GIVEN MINUTE! I have no idea why, but I have found that by going to your "Control Panel" and clicking on Quicktime you can adjust audio output to help. Click the audio tab, click Safe Mode Wavout only (checkbox) / Then adjust the "Rate" to 96kHz / Then adjust the "Size" to 16 bit. Close that and shut down and restart Itunes - it might help a little for you.
Maybe someone out there can help us find out why we are suffering with all the CPU usage trouble and how to adjust that spiking.
Thanks!
Paul

Another XAV-72BT BUG

I've checked the format of the JPG files that don't display when playing the MP3 files in the same folder. None of them use the progressive JPG format. And these same JPG files do display if I select 'Images' instead of 'Audio' from the XAV72bt user interface. This appears to be a software bug to me. I'd very much appreciate it the appropriate support team would take a look at this.
Thanks

I've discovered another design problem withthis unit. I recently ripped a video from a music DVD to an MPEG4 file. The format of the file is well within the limits given in the user's manual but this head unit will not play it I read the disclaimer in the user's guide indicating that there is no guarentee that a file can be played even if it is within the limits given.
The real problem is with the USB menu. The USB drive contains many audio files and this one video. From the menu I selected video and the unit quickly responded with "no playable media found". The problem is that there is no immediate recovery for using this USB. There is no way to go back and select for audio files. No user menu options appear. If I unplug the USB and plug it back in, nothing is changed. The unit recognizes that a USB device has been reconnected but it remains in video mode. I can probably take the USB back to my computer and delete the video file but that seems to be a poor solution. This is yet another example of how this unit seems to have gotten to the market before it was ready. See my other posts in this forum.

Yet another export issue with Aperture 3

Judging by a search of topics, there seem to be a myriad of problems associated with getting files out of Aperture, some of which represent occult setting issues, others which seem to be actual bugs. I've run into an issue which seems to defy categorization, and I'm not sure if it's me doing something wrong, or if it is actually yet another bug with this software. I've been an Aperture user since 1.0 and I have to say the current version I'm running (3.4.3) is by far the worst yet. Anyway, enough whining. Here are the issues:
I'm running Aperture on a 6 core Mac Pro with Lion 10.7.5. There are two thing happening.
1. Exporting JPEGs is INCREDIBLY slow - perhaps as long as 4 or 5 minutes for a 3MB file.
2. This is the one driving me batty right now. Tried exporting a batch of images as JPEGs at the 50% original size setting. The master files are large 16 bit TIFF images from Nikon D800 RAW files, post-processed in Nik HDR Efex Pro 2. They are 80-100MB in size. When I export the images to a file on my Desktop, it consistently exports 6- 10 KB thumbnails. I've checked and rechecked my export settings and can find nothing amiss there. Has anyone else had a similar experience? Could the view I'm working in have anything to do with this? I work 95% of the time in split view.
Thanks,
Russ

I agree that there re a lot of posts about exporting, but a very large number of them refer to the same thing, and it's not a bug, but rather a misunderstanding.
For instance:
Tried exporting a batch of images as JPEGs at the 50% original size setting.
Okay.
The master files are large 16 bit TIFF images from Nikon D800 RAW files, post-processed in Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Not relevant.
They are 80-100MB in size.
Not relevant either.
Why?
Because size refers to the dimensions of the image. So a 1,000 x 1,000 pixel image exported at 50% will turn out as 500 x 500 pixels.
Were you expecting a jpeg between 40 and 50 MB? That's Jpeg quality or the amount of compression applied to the image. And as you're compressing a lossless format (tiff) to a lossy one, and one with an aggressive compression algorithm, he resulting Jpeg, even at high quality, will be much, much smaller, more likely in the 6 - 8 MB range.
That's the nature - and indeed the point - of Jpegs.
So, if you're getting 6 - 10 kb images, you're exporting at a very low Jepg Quality.
This may also explain why it's taking so long to export. Getting rid on 99.99% of the data and compressing into 10kb is always going to take time.

My Imovie'09 keeps crashing everytime i try to export my 2:30 movie.

My Imovie'09 keeps crashing everytime i try to export my 2:30 movie. i've tried several different ways. it worked when i eported it to youtube in the smallest option but nothing else works.

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Yet another Itunes won't open, but shows in TAsk Manager

Yesterday I was loading some new music into itunes (6.0.1 I believe), when the application froze. I ended task on it and tried to restart. I got busy and forgot that I opened it, but when things slowed down I noticed that the GUI was not in my taskbar. My computer was REALLY slow, so I check Task Manager and it saw Itunes listed, taking 40meg of memory and 99% of the CPU. I could do nothing to get it to work. THERE IS NO ERROR MESSAGE DISPLAYED! I get the agreement screen, and a quick hourglass, but then nothing except a very slow system.
Steps taken so far:
- Removed Itunes and quicktime using recommended method from apple.com. This invloved deleting temp files, itunes and quicktime folders, etc.
-Reinstalled both quicktime and itunes 7.0.1.
-Searched for malware with AVG spyware remover.
-Scraped registry after YAU(yet another uninstall)
-REmoved music folder of the album i was loading.
I am running Win2003 Server with Network Associates Virus Scan Enterprise edition. I do have admin rights on my local machine, even though it is a work machine.
Please, any help would be appreciated. This is really swinging the love-hate Apple relationship back to hate.
Not really, but I am sad.
hp Other OS 2003 Server

I solved this myself. Very strange...but the CD I was trying to burn the itunes first crashed was still in the CD drive. So I guess it kept trying to read it...and locked up.

My iMovie keeps on crashing

Hi,
My iMovie keeps on crashing liek everery 3 mins. I've looked up ways to get around this and I have tried to delete the com.apple.iMovieApp.plist files but their aliases cannot be found/i cannot delete them...What do i do?!

Same here. Apple experts, aren't. I haven't seen anything worthwhile yet. Mine keeps not showing the movie. I haven't heard about anything that helps that either.

Yet another case of new type[array] and parametrized type

I suppose this is an often asked question, to which I seem not to be able to find a simple answer. I know of the "incompatibility" of arrays and generics, and yet in such a seemingly simple case I run into a mystery, or a compiler bug. Look at this warning:
Set<Integer> C[];
foo/bar/some.java:1148: warning: [unchecked] unchecked conversion
found   : java.util.HashSet[]
required: java.util.Set<java.lang.Integer>[]
                C=new HashSet[H-L+1];So far so good, but precisely this *"Set<type>[]"* does not exists, does it? When I try to add a parametrized type to this new statement, compiler says:
Set<Integer> C[];
foo/bar/some.java:1148: generic array creation
                C=new HashSet<Integer>[H-L+1];
                  ^
1 errorIn a regular case we can easy deal with the "unchecked" warnings, e.g. Effective Java 2nd Ed, Item 24 discusses this, but all this seem to be ignoring this case. When generic array creation is not permitted, than why this warning stating that *"java.type<typeparam>[] required"* appear, and how to resolve this for safety and correctness? Of course, I can still ignore the warning and do a few instanceof checks and casts, like before, but I am really curious how to transfer this into the new paradigm.
As much generics improve and help in many cases, I regret their arcane complexity. To paraphrase C.A.R. Hoare, the Java language itself becomes now the problem, not its solution.
Thomas

I wonder if we have someplace recent measure just an array stack against a current implementation of a set in Java? In JDK1.4 I remember array was several times faster, 350% faster if my memory serves me, and I do have the classic "inner loop" operation, very repetitive. I can live with the warning, what's the problem?
Of course all this are considerations fully aside of the issue at hand, that the JDK1.6 compiler prints a nonsense warning message that a parametrized array is expected, what is in fact illegal in current implementation of generics. Which is in my eyes severely faulty, but that would be yet another assault on the Braha Ivory Tower, wouldn't it?
Thomas

Endless "Stream Overlap" Error Loop Bug Crashes Encore

Endless "Stream Overlap" Error Loop Bug Crashes Encore.
This is the 4 th time I have reproduced the bug.
I burn a Disk image .. and upon completion the "Disk Info" resets to zero bytes under the Build Menu and when checking the Timelines Window the Dialog Box pops up with the "Stream Overlap" Error.
Has anyone else had this issue?
I have read other forum post .. and there is nothing relevant.
I had to rebuild the project twice from scratch.
I'm waiting for my Master Collection 5.5 .. maybe it is fixed in it.

NOTE: There is a issue with Premiere Pro Dynamically Linking with After Effects with file corrupting I am experiencing as well.
Someone offered a solution to rename my files to just words. ( No numbers or other characters )
It still crashes .. and there is still file corruption ... but a "Linked Composition" can be found by "Edit Original" .. whereas it was not found before I changed the filename.
This is a beginning to find the source of the nested bugs.
I am wondering if this filesystem problem is core to the "Stream Overlap" problem noted here.
I have have not reached tech support on the Encore side of this problems as of yet.
This type of file system also has a terrible result for dated files:
On the Mac ( Standard Finder ) :
2011.1.1
2011.1.2
2011.1.9
2011.1.10
2011.1.11
is treated in Adobe Encore as well as other Adobe Suite Master Collection Apps ( On the Mac Platform ) as:
2011.1.1
2011.1.10
2011.1.11
2011.1.2
2011.1.9
This make NO logical sense at all .. and must be some old DOS filesystem?
Timecode
Datestamp
Numbered Outlines
Are all very important ways to organize files / video.
I am surprised that Adobe did not address this years ago.
I have had two Adobe users mention a file system problem that has been known.
Maybe it is the cause of my issues? ... Adobe is mixing two incompatible filesystems on a root level on the Mac platform only. ( Doesn't work with the Mac Finder? )

Problems pasting clips into another imovie

I am trying to paste a clip from one imovie project to another. I copy the clip from project A, open project B, and hit the paste command. I get the importing files box and the preparing message, but it takes forever and I am just trying to import a 6 second clip. If I force quit imovie, when I reopen it, it has placed a 9.24 GB file in the trash of the project B, called clip01_1. This is not what I copied or tried to paste. Why does it do this? What needs to be done to correct this situation? I have tried pasting with no clips in the timeline, several clips in the timeline, one clip in the timeline. I have successfully moved clips in the past, but I can't do it now!

Thanks. Your description helps.
I converted and imported dozens of analog video tapes
into iMovie. They contain various events in a
disorganized manner, as I would leave the same tape
in and just keep recording different events, until it
was full. My goal was to open each imported "tape"
in iMovie, edit and sort out the clips, name them,
and place them in various folders on my desktop.
If the suggestions made in a moment don't work, please answer these questions to make sure I "get it"...
1. Each imported analog tape arrived in one very long clip, right? And you want to split up that clip into several smaller clips, and keep just some of those clips?
---Keep and name accordingly, yes.
2. Will you have gazillions of small clips in the project, or just a few? (If there are many, many clips you need some sort of automatic method for handling the clips. If there are only a few, a manual method will work.)
--Many clips. I will put this in caps just to emphasize my goal. It will be a common theme throughout. I JUST WANT TO SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP.
3. Are all the tapes in one iMovie project or did you import each tape to its own project?
--Each tape is in its own project. and there are numerous clips of my dog (as an example) spread over all the tapes. This is why I JUST WANT TO SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP.
4. Do you have QuickTime Pro? If not, are you willing to buy it? ($30 from Apple.)
---I would rather not add yet another layer of convoluted nonsense and expense to this situation, if I can help it. What will QTP do that QT 7.03 can't?
5. Is it crucial that you end up with one file for each clip, or is a collection of topic-related clips sharing the same iMovie project sufficient?
---1 file for each clip is necessary. As an example, on 1 analog imported tape, I may have video of my dog, video of a friends BBQ and a fishing trip. Within each "theme" (BBQ, fishing trip etc..) , I may want to split up the video of my dog into various clips and name them accordingly. Such as "dog chasing ball", "dog swimming". The friends BBQ might have clips such as "friend puking", "friend stepping in puke", "friend putting cheese on burger" etc... On my Desktop I would have folders called "Dog", "BBQ", "Fishing" etc.. As I go through each project, I would extract and name all clips and either "share, export, massage, excise, resect, snip, cut, paste, incise, remove, chop, crop, trim etc..." or whatever magic word it takes to get that F^&%ing clip, AS NAMED, into a folder on the desktop that I choose. This, I was silly enough to think, could be done with a simple "Save As"/Desktop/<Folder> command. So, after wasting my money on iLife '05 which is supposed to "simplify my digital life", I now need to find some way to engage in a frustrating game of software masturbation, and possibly, additional cost, to accomplish this otherwise simple and benign task. How might I proceed?
Basically my destop folder structure should end up looking like this.
DOG STUFF FOLDER
dog running clip
swimming
dog chasing ball clip
playing with frisbee
in car
playing guitar
VACATIONS FOLDER
FISHING
big fish
small fish
stupid fish
MEXICO
drinking tequila
drinking more tequila
falling down
getting up
....and so forth
Now, all I would have to do is import DOG STUFF FOLDER clips into a project called DOG PROJECT. Then, go to VACATIONS FOLDER and import FISHING and MEXICO into their own, or the same, iMovie projects, depending on space. Etc...
Here's the big problem: unlike digital video, analog video may not have a timecode. Without a timecode, iMovie can't separate it into clips when you import it to a project. As important here, you can't define the clips, export the project to the camera, then re-import it without losing the clip separations.
--Not my goal anyway to re-import anything to tape. I don't mind large 40 minute clips, as long as I can break them up as I see fit. And.. SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP.
If it's okay to lose your clip separations, then that's an easy solution. Split the large clip into smaller ones, discard the clips you don't want to keep, export to the camera, then re-import to a new project. Discard the old project. The new project will contain only the video you want to keep.
---I could do the same with a VHS deck and my camcorder. So, what do I need iMovie for? Again, not my goal. I just want to SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP.
Instead of exporting to the camera you could export to a Full Quality DV QuickTime movie that you either store on the hard disk or import to a new imovie project.
--This doesn't work well if I want to first parse all my clips from all my tapes that contain my dog in them and then import them all into a new project all at once. Or am I missing something?
There is a way to convert each (split) clip into its own Media file. When you apply a special effect to any clip iMovie creates a new file containing just the special-effected clip. If doesn't matter what the effect is. So, try this: Select a clip, activate the Effects tab, configure a Sharpen filter with the minimum sharpening, then Apply. Double-click on the sharpened clip and note it now has its own file. When you Copy and Paste that clip THAT's what gets copied, not its original source file.
---Ok..but I don't want effects on the clip. I just want to SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS, AS IS, TO A FOLDER ON MY DESKTOP
You can apply a special effect to all the clips in the whole project at the same time. Drag all the original clips to the Clips pane. Option-drag each back to the timeline, which copies it (without duplicating its source file.) Split the timeline clip as you like. Discard the parts you don't want to keep. The timeline now contains all the clips you want to keep.
Select All the clips and apply the minimum Sharpen filter to all together. Wait. Rendering will take a while. Save. Now Copy and Paste the clips to whichever projects you want. A single file will arrive with each Pasted clip. Or you can drag them to Finder folders.
--Precisely.. This is another form of wasted time, effort and software masturbation that I was describing. I do not want to sit for hours while my clips render, just to accomplish something else that had nothing to do with applying effects to the clips in the first place. Once I have all the raw clips in a project, I plan on giving them to a professional video person to make a video. That's why, ALL I WANT TO DO IS SAVE INDIVIDUAL CLIPS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FOLDERS ON THE DESKTOP.
Karl, I do appreciate your help and my tone has nothing to do with you. I'm just hoping you might be able to help me. I'm just steaming out of my ears that I gave up the PC world to use Macs precisely for the very reason of getting away from all this crap of doing a million stupid things to accomplish a goal. It's like scratching my right ear with my left foot. If I wanted to do that, I would stick with a PC!! At least, this way, I can be just as frustrated for a lot cheaper.
(Be sure to pretest this method to make sure the video you create with the special effect is okay. If a DVD is your goal, burn a DVD of the special-effected clips. You want to make sure the special effect doesn't change the appearance of the clip.)
Karl

Yet another dimension of Yahoo IMAP suckage

Just when I thought I'd had all the frustration I can handle with the terrible integration of IMAP support for Yahoo accounts (and as stated before I really have no idea if the problem resides with AT&T/Yahoo or Palm), I discovered today that there's yet another possible weirdness that can happen -- duplication of the entire inbox. What I had happen multiple times is that a new message would come in, and when it went to fetch it, it would also fetch all email again from the last 7 days (the cutoff I have set, because as often as I have problems and have to delete the account, there's no point loading any more than that), such that I had 2 copies of every message. Then if I manually refresh (sometimes I had to leave the inbox and go back, sometimes not) it would properly remove the duplicates and set the message count correctly again.
Here's the part that has to be a bug on the Pre, well-documented on this forum by now -- every time this happened, even once the message count was back to the proper value, the disk space used for email grew. So those duplicate messages were being orphaned in /var/luna/data/emails every time, taking away valuable application space made critically important by the failure/extreme delay in addressing the app space limitation issue.
I have no idea if it's done doing this yet. I just sent a test message and it didn't happen that time. I have already deleted and re-added the account once and it happened again twice after that, so it's not some weirdness with the account unless it recreated itself again right away.
We really ought to be past this type of issue by now. IMAP email is not exactly brand new technology, and plenty of folks are having issues with POP as well. We ought to be reaching a point of maturity in WebOS and the core applications that makes it a solid foundation on which to add features and develop apps for. But it's just not. Every new update, while it fixes some things, breaks others, and some of these systemic and long-standing issues have yet to be addressed (again, except for the disk space growth, I don't know for sure that the Pre is doing anything wrong, but that alone is still a huge issue that doesn't seem like it would be hard to pinpoint). I said from the beginning I was willing to wait for this phone to grow into its potential, and I still am, but I expected more progress by now.
-- robert
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

Just an update. The loading of duplicate messages appears to have stopped, at least for now, but things are still not working normally. Some messages are simply missed until I do a manual refresh. In other words, say I get message A at 1pm. I can see it in my inbox via webmail, but it's not on the Pre. Then I get message B at 1:30. I see it after message A in my inbox in webmail, but on the Pre, I get a notification for B, and see B in my inbox, but A is not there until I do a manual refresh, and at that point the order even on the Pre confirms that A arrived first. This has happened twice this afternoon, and I can't say as I've every seen that behavior prior to today. I really am beginning to wonder if email is ever going to work properly on this thing...
-- robert

After having yet another problem with my MacBook Pro and having to wipe the drive, I am now unable to sync my iPhones etc without erasing all the music on them. Is there a way around this? I have no other library!

After having yet another problem with my MacBook Pro and having to wipe the drive, I am now unable to sync my iPhones etc without erasing all the music on them. Is there a way around this? I have no other library!
iTunes is a mess! It couldn't find it's own libraries and I was forced to create a new one. Now I don't know where my music is or if any's missing.

columbus new boy wrote:
How crap is that?
It's not crap at all.
It's not that simple. For example, I've 3500 songs on my MacBook but don't want them all on my phone, so I have to manually select each song again???
There has to be a solution.
Why not simply make a playlist with the songs you want on the iPhone?
and maintain a current backup of your computer.

How can I get the background music from iMovie trailer, "Romance"to be used in another imovie?

Is there any way to download the background music from the iMovie trailer template "Romance" to be used in another iMovie of greater length than that of a trailer?

In addition to Tom's good advice, another method is to access the audio file in iMovie's package contents folder.
In Finder, in the Applications folder, right-click (or control-click) on iMovie.app and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Open the folder Contents>Resources. In that folder you will find components for each Trailer, including the soundtrack. The file you are seeking is named "SoundTrack - Romance.m4a".
Copy then paste the file to your Desktop (don't otherwise mess with items in package contents folders!). Open the file in QuickTime - it is titled "Love Story FC2". Opening the Inspector in QuickTime (Window>Show Movie Inspector) reveals it as AAC format. If you wish, as Tom indicated, you can Export the file from QuickTime in other sound formats, such as AIFF. If preferred, you can import either the AAC file or the converted file to iTunes (or other audio apps) for use as required.
John

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