Can't set times or edit photos

Question

Hi all.
I am havig an issue with iMovie HD6.0.3 I am currently running on a fresh 10.4.8 install and the apple apps are the only ones installed at the moment. no codecs, flip for mac or plug-ins etc-.. the movie has been moved into the movie folder from an external hard drive via fw400.
Regardless of how the photo is imported, drag from finder, iphoto list in iMovie, "apply" i cannot control the time. The latest default on import regardless of settings comes in with 00:02 time settings and no ken burns effect. I am unable to do anything with them. Any changes results in a 09:29 time setting and any undo of the changes result in the loss of the ability to edit these photos (I have not emptied the trash)
TIA
Whacked1
Macbook Pro 2.16 GHz ICD   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Answer 1

Hi Karl
Hence the name. Please excuse my slow response as I had not noticed you had posted back.
Once upon a time the slider was the method around the madness but now there is even more madness to this method as it no longer works. I am very familiar with this long-standing issue. -.. and what it could lead to.
http://www.megimage.com/easyupload/picstore/200612/200612000000515.tiff
It seems to me, by reading some of your other posts, you may be a bit familiar with iMovie/OS X below the GUI and maybe even beyond the scripts and strings. Am I correct in that assumption? And if so is this something you care to assist someone with? As I read the various posts and rummage through iMovie's and QT Pro's "framework" it seems that a lot of issues that appear, on the surface, to be unrelated indeed are and it seems to occur within the various communications pertaining to the all new media browser and other iM frameworks permeating throughout the OS, iLife and iWork suite of products.
One question I can't seem to find the answer to is if I am correct in assuming that in the second line below, the between values appear to me to be identical (= and not<) I get this error message quite often even when input is within this range regardless of how it is set (slider or textbox) and the message displays 00:03 and 60:00 when the dialogue appears on the screen. I am aware that this is a script for displaying an error message but it has to be compared somewhere as it produces a calculated or called value and I haven't figured out exactly where all these places are-.. yet.
/* number formatter error dialog (P&Z duration, ClipInfo panel) */
InvalidValue = "Invalid Value";
InvalidValueErrorFormat = "%@. The value must be between %02d%@%02d and %02d%@%02d.";
SecondsAndFramesFormat = "Invalid timecode. Please use only numbers in the format “00:00” in seconds and frames. (There are %d frames in a second.)";
One other thing I have noticed as well is that QT (stand alone and iM frameworks) uses a decimal point in the frame count calculation and it's references appear to be easy to locate throughout always referring to time 00:00:00:00.00 (hr:mn:sd:fr.fr) (%d: like not zeros) where iMovie is typically 00:00 (sd:fr) (again written in gibber) I have not located anything indicating a maximum of a 60 min movie in iM but because of the time parameters that are listed above-.. and then when this post popped up
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=749957&tstart=30
which again lead me right back into the Frameworks of iMovie and I noted the time at which it hung and it made me even more suspicious. Then at second glance I realized that according to this dialogue it appears to be iM is referring to 60 what? seconds and frames? yet could only really be 59.29. sd:fr, 59:59 mn:sd. So am I really just a fruit off the vine or do I make any sense? The 24 hour clock doesn't use 60 anywhere. 60 could only be used as a tenth or a fraction of a frame.
And then there are posts like this for which I can replicate things that would appear to cause this.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=753853&tstart=15
http://www.megimage.com/easyupload/picstore/200612/200612000000553.tiff
Note the timeline on the **** right in the below link the clip duration and the duration of the previous clip which you can see is below the min 00:03. Aside from extended durations there are also those who lose the last few seconds or so and am wondering if it has to do with the fact that iM simply does not calculate properly nor does it read the last frame. Select any clip and play or go to the end of the timeline to see.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=443294&tstart=45
Can you help shed any light on anything?
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Thanks
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