Differences in Media Browser behavior in iWeb and Pages

In Pages, you can drag any folder into the media browser to add content other than that in iPhoto's library (if you have photos or scans in other folders) or outside of iTunes (if you have audio files not in iTunes but in some other folder), for example.
However, this can't be done in iWeb... (or I'm missing something?).

I forgot to mention I was talking about Pages 2. Actually, I tried Keynote 3, and the media browser behaves as in Pages 2. I believe Apple left in iWeb 1.0 the old code for the media browser found in previous versions of iWork.
Hopefully they will release an update soon. I would certainly like to have the flexibility of inserting any graphic/sound/media from the media browser, not only those I have in my iPhoto or iTunes folders.

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Share: what is the difference between media browser and apple div.?

fcpX: in share this options: mediabrowser and apple divices.
They look exactly the same.
I can 't find the diff. in the help to know when which to use.
Any tips?
Thanks,
bruce

Apple devices will either go to iTunes or a designated location. Media browser will go into the project folder and accessible by other applications such as iDVD and GarageBand.

Still can't see iPhoto in iMov Media Browser after deleting "&'s" and prefs

Combed the discussions - many references to this problem - I tried deleting ALL question mark symbols "?" from ALL my iPhotos - an arduous task but I know I got them all - then deleted the preferences and rebuilt iPhoto with command option - everything in it... Still no luck viewing my iPhoto libraries in iMovie - so can't increase duration times because "show photo settings" grays out - does ANYbody have a fix?
thanks!
iMac G4 superdrive Mac OS X (10.4.5) iBook G4

I saw your post earlier when I was having the same difficulty. A recent post suggested rebuilding the iPhoto Library using Shift Option when opening the application. I tried that and it created a new iPhoto Library_2 folder. That folder showed up in the Media Browser, so I just imported all the photos in my previous iPhoto folder into the new one. It worked for me; I hope it works for you.

IWeb and Pages

A piece of text set using Pages 2.0.0 was appearing correctly when transferred to iWeb V1. It was correctly converted when the html file was created.
Now it "seems" the text is still well represented when transferred but not well converted. Ie the text indents are no more taken in account.
Let's pray for some one at Apple does something to take care of that... Before version 3 !

Chant08:
You can do a Print to PDF and select the option to Send PDF to iPhoto. That will create a jpg file for each page in Pages. From iPhoto you can send the files to an iWeb photo page and you will have the pages available there either as individual photos or as a slideshow. I did a similar thing with a book I created in iPhoto. You can see the results here. You can do the same for any Keynote or Powerpoint presentation (without animation) or from any application.
OT

Media browser and video

For some reason, video, even after shared to media browser in iMovie, will not show up in the media browser sidebar on iWeb. Not sure why.
I can still just drag and drop it but was wondering why this is.
Also, is there anyway to get a video to open open automatically when the page is openend, as oppsed to having to click the control bar.
Finally, any suggestions on iWeb type website software packages? I need something that is quick and easy to update like iWeb but that has a little more versatility and options. I looked briefly at Rapidweaver, any other suggestions?

downwindnc wrote:
...any suggestions on iWeb type website software packages?
Web-based apps have the advantage of being able to update your site from any Mac or PC. One such free app is...
http://www.weebly.com
http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/05/announcing-weebly-e-commerce-features.html

Media browser does not show photos

The media browser in iDvd & iWeb does not show the photos in my iPhoto library. It does show the tunes in my iTune library but not the photos in my iPhoto library. When I click photos in the browser, the browser says, "Open iPhoto2 or later or Aperature1.5 or later from your iPhoto or Aperature library in this list."
I have iPhoto6.0.6. When I made a DVD two months ago everything worked okay. I suspect that I am missing something very obvious, but to date it escapes me. Does anyone have some experience with this problem? Please help.

One thing that you can try is the often used maintenance of deleting preferences and doing a permissions repair. To delete preferences, close iMovie and iPhoto and trash the files named com.apple.iMovie.plist and com.apple.iPhoto.plist found in User (the house icon)/Library/Preferences. Then restart your computer and do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app found in HD/Applications/Utilities. In the left hand pane of the Disk Utility window select your hard drive icon and then click on repair permissions. Takes about 3 minutes to repair. Then relaunch iMovie and iPhoto and see if you still have the problem. Those applications will recreate the .plist files that you deleted.
However, this might be an iPhoto issue, and I would suggest that you post your question in the iPhoto forum as well.
Have you updated iPhoto recently? Have you made any manual changes to your iPhoto library? Do you use keywords? Is your iPhoto library stored on an external drive where possibly iMovie can't locate it?
It could be that you just need to rebuild your iPhoto library. You can do that by holding down the Option and Apple keys while launching iPhoto. Then chose the first 3 selections in the drop down menu. But be sure first to back up your iPhoto library to guard against power outages or other probs during the rebuild process. As I say, check with the iPhoto forum if deleting preferences and repairing permissions does not work.
See if anything in this thread helps:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8450454&#8450454
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Aperture 3 not available in media browser

I downloaded the trial version of Aperture 3 and bought a downloaded license to upgrade my Aperture 2 installation. However, Aperture no longer appears in the media browser in any application (and not just the images, Aperture isn't even an option, just iPhoto is there). I read online about iLife Support 9.0.4, but it doesn't appear for me in software update, and it isn't listed in the Apple Support Download page or on the iLife support page.
Does anyone have any idea how I can get Aperture back into the media browser?
Thanks

Add me to the list too. No more mediabrowser.
I am also wondering, in case of multiple libraries, which one does Aperture pick ?
The one that you last worked with ?
Maybe this is what is causing this. Since Aperture 3 is unmanageable slow on my (3 months old) MBP, I began splitting up my library into multiple libraries to see if it would help.
I'm still in the process of exporting so no idea yet on snappiness, but maybe there is a difference for the mediabrowser for people with only one library, or multiple libraries ?

Using 'Share with Media Browser' gives all movies the same name

I'm having a huge problem exporting in iMovie as it relates to iWeb. Every movie I 'Share with Media Browser' is named after the size I choose instead of the name of the project. So one project named 'Sunday' will be exported as "medium.m4v", then a different movie called 'Baseball' will be exported as "medium.m4v" but in a different folder.
The problem is, when I try to use them in iWeb, all of the pages reference the movie named "medium.m4v", but they upload the movies and rename them "medium.m4v", "medium-1.m4v", "medium-2.m4v" and so on, but all of the pages display the first "medium.m4v" video.
I went to "Reveal In Finder" in iWeb and I can see the movie, but if I rename it, it disappears out of the Media Browser in both iMovie and iWeb. I can then import it by dragging it in from the Finder, but then I lose having iMovie know it's there for freeing up space later. For something that is supposed to be simple, this is certainly not. Is there a way to initially override the name of the movie from within iMovie?

Well yes, that was how I was doing it with th previous version of iMovie. But this is Apple!! Putting these movies in iWeb has to be one of the primary functions that this "Media Browser" was created for, how can it be completely broken?

Media Browser just a blank box

Hi,
When I click on the Media button at the bottom of my iWeb page, just a blank white box opens. Nothing inside. Can you help me solve this?
Thank you!
Jude

Jude ~ Welcome to the Support Communities. When viewing your post, at right you'll see a section "More Like This". You can also search for "media browser" in the iWeb Community HERE. And there's this free iMedia Browser:

RAID DRIVE WON'T WORK IN LINK MEDIA BROWSER

I have a RAID 5 drive connected to my MACPRO (MacPro5,1), OSX 10.9.2. Its working fine on OS. In Premiere Pro CC I can import files from it no problem, everything seems to be fine until I try to link media from it. The link media browser won't access it. I can see it, I can see the RAID drives icon, but it won't access the files.
In the link media browser it won't show on the Local Drives list on the left pane. When I double click on local drives, on the right pane I can see the RAID HD icon, but when I click on it it won't open it. It knows its there but can't access it. I don't get it. I can import files from it, etc, but not link files. I would have to redo the whole sequence with files from that RAID drive and its days of work.
I would appreciate enormously any help with this issue.

Adobe CC 2014 v8.1
iMac 27" 3.4GHz w/12GB Ram.
OS 10.9.5
OWC Mercutry ELite Pro Dual.
RAID 0
Thunderbolt.
No adapters or daisy chaining going on.
The RAID is new and only has about 700GB of data on it.
I read on Creative Cow that alexojedav522 was able to figure out that the size of the drive was his issue:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/954245
After reading that I tried repartitioning my RAID into two sections of 2tb each (let's call them Partition1 and Partition2).
So Partition1 is just the original partition (which was 4TB) shrunken down to 2TB.
Partition2 is the brand new partition.
Oddly enough, I can access Partition2 via Media Browser just fine.
And when I move media onto it I can relink it as well).
But Partition1 is still not accessible via Premiere at all.
I am currently moving everything off of Partition1 and onto Partition2, so that I can at least relink my project and get to work.
But obviously that isn't a permanent solution.

Keynote 3 - media browser crash

I just installed iWork '06. While in Keynote, each time I launch the media browser and attempt to select a photo, the app "quits unexpectedly." I have used the media browser in other apps and, so far, have only experienced this in Keynote 3.
Is anyone else experiencing this and possibly have a fix? Am I missing something?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...JD
Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1.67 - 1 mb RAM

There are two possible solutions. First, if you have lots of movies in your movies folder, try moving them elsewhere. The media panel often dies when if finds lots of movies. Second, if you installed Flip4Mac, make sure it is the most recent version - and if it is, uninstall it.
My two work desktops are running Panther whilst my PowerBook and home desktop are running Tiger. I have had no trouble with Flip4Mac on my notebook or one of my work computers. On the other two I had to uninstall it. Go figure.

IPhoto Images Showing Up in iLife Media Browser, Desktop/ScreenSaver, Etc.

Like others, I'm having the problem where my iPhoto library/images are not showing up in the iLife Media Browser in other iLife and iWork applications. They are also not showing up in the Desktop & Screen Saver system preferences.
I've read a lot of posts on this problem and have tried the remedies that others have described - to no avail. It seems others have reached a dead end as well.
I even upgraded my entire machine with the purchase of a new iMac this week (to replace a non-Intel G5 running Leopard). I completed the Setup Assistant and all files transferred fine. I thought surely this would solve the issue, but to my surprise it continues on the new machine.
Any ideas?
On a side note, my Faces tags didn't transfer to the new machine. I posted about that issue here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10680823
Not sure if that secondary problem is in any way related to the iLife Media Browser issue.
Thanks for any new light you're able to shed on the issue.

Try applying or reapplying iLife Media Browser Update and iLife Support 9.0.3.

Media Browser without iPhoto or Aperture

I gave up on using iPhoto a little while ago because of how the library was built and the rather rigid means of editing photos and working with files. So I switched over to a more manual setup using photoshop and bridge.
Of course now when I want to use the media browser in the iWork suite, my lack of an iPhoto library leaves me with no options. Granted, I can always search for the file in finder and drag it over - but the media browser feature is fantastic and I'd hate to go without it.
Aside from reinstalling iPhoto and needlessly taking up space with a new library, do I have any other options to get the media browser back on its feet?
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Sorry, I should have elaborated on that. I do not own Aperture; purely an Adobe user. But I assume it would be compatible with the iWork suite since it is an Apple application. Just hoping to keep things as simple as possible while still allowing me to use the programs I prefer.
Thanks.

Exporting to Media Browser & Chapters etc

Hi People,
I just finished editing my wedding video in iMovie 08 and everything looks great. I need to add chapters so that my relatives can skip to different locations in the movie. I read that the only way to add chapters is to add it to the media browser and then send it into garage band.....create the chapters there and then export it to iDVD. I tried this with a short test movie with only about 2 minutes of footage and it works fine. When I try to add my wedding video to the media browser it starts off and says it will take about 350 minutes to export...it exports for a few hours and then fails with an error (I think the error code might have been -43 but cant remember..and refers to startup disk, I think being too full..)
My wedding video is huge.. being 3 hours the raw files were about 50 or 60 gig. I have done all of my editing from an external drive that has about 70 gig free and ideally this is where I would want to export the finished movie to. I do not have more than about 6gb left on my MacBook Pro...
1: Is there a way to make chapters without using media browser?
2: If media browser is the only option for chapters how can I get media browser to use the external drive when it is exporting.
Thanks - Justin

1: Is there a way to make chapters without using media browser?
Yes. Garageband should be able to chapter any QT compatible video you can bring into it whether brought in via the Media Browser, the Finder, or "drag 'n dropped" from the desktop. Further, the Media Browser employs H.264/AAC compression as the export default, so while the files are small, it can take hours to compress very long files. You could, for instance, export your project to your hard drive via the "Using QT" export option to a less compressed format such as DV or AIC to your 70 GBs space with an AIC/Linear PCM probably requiring 30 plus GBs or a DV taking closer to 40 and I would normally expect this export to be quicker than H.264/AAC. However, if you still prefer the H.264/AAC built-in preset, use the "Export Movie..." option to select the same size file using the same Media Browser settings, but place the file on your external drive where you want it.
2: If media browser is the only option for chapters how can I get media browser to use the external drive when it is exporting.
Media Browser files are stored in a folder within a project's "package." Since these files are stored on the start-up drive by default and there is no user preference to relocate them, I would not normally recommend the average user attempt to set up the console workaround described elsewhere in this forum when so many other easier solutions are open to you in this case.
ADDITION NOTES: Don't know if you are burning to dual-layer device or not. (I.e., iDVD will not write a single-layer 3-hour DVD.) If not, you will need to consider burning you DVD content in two parts or using an alternate allowing longer burns and use of AC3 audio rather than iDVD's PCM.

Keynote 09 crashing when in photos in media browser

Hey guys. Got a really weird one here I'd love your help with.
Just started using Keynote 09 in anger, but it's started crashing on me whenever i go into the 'photos' section of the media browser. It seems to be looking for photos for a few seconds, then a message comes up saying Keynote has encountered an exception and should be restarted. I do this, but the media browser is still open, and it immediately crashes again.
I'm running the latest version of Keynote and 10.6, I've fixed my disk permissions, I've got plenty of disk space. Music and movies in the media browser both seem to work fine. Also Keynote 08 seems not to crash at all in browsing photos in the media browser.
Weird, huh?
Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be going wrong?
Thanks!

Actually - technically all of these clips are in the project. See I have a lot of unlogged clips in my project. I'm having another editor log the clips on a different computer, then I'm bringing the logged clips back into the project, and then just double checking the file count of the original folder and the file count of the new folder to see that they match up.
Does this shed any more light? The fact it's not consistent is what is weird. Is it possible maybe the clips that are already in a project and in a sequence somewhere don't get imported?
Any thoughts on how I can make the process smoother given the work flow? Thanks.

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