Cannot see iPhone movies within Aperture

Question

Movies just show up as black fields and a warning that it is a unsupported video format. But I only use the iPhone 4 at the moment. That should be no problem at all -- right? Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Hi Kai,
Yes, that's the same problem I had. My iPhone was importing into a directory that my wife had access to.
I discovered that you can keep a single Aperture library, but it needs to be in a directory that is not permissioned, or is only permissioned for your use alone and is owned by you.  If any of the movies or the library itself are downloaded into a directory that is in any way shared with another user, or created outside your user directory, or the movies are initiallially imported by another user, you may get problems.
The way you can check if this is your problem or not is to create a new library in your personal user directory, move one movie into that same directory. Then import it as normal, and see if you have the same problem.  If you do, then you must have a different issue and you can point Aperture back to your current library. But if it works, you have the issue I recently solved.
If you only use the library yourself, you can simply move it and the location your iphone imports to, to your personal user directory.  You might have to reimport all the movies, but I didn't have to rebuild my entire library.
If you want to share the library with another user, the solution is more complicated.  Create a new partitiion in Disk Utilities, I named it "Shared drive". Then in Finder, select Get Info on the new drive. select Ignore Permissions on this drive, and then move the library and movies over.  It should now work fine.  Note that any user will be able to see files put into the new partition, and the only way to avoid that is to use an ACL using Terminal, but that didn't work for me and is above my pay grade!
Good luck,
Dale