IMovie is annoying the heck out of me - mostly iPhoto videos acting up and
i recently got the 27 inch iMac i7 - and I migrated most of my photos and videos from a time machine backup. I haven't had any problems until recently (this was about three weeks ago), I notice when I am working on a project (with mostly iPhoto video clips and clips from a Flip Mino, that if I add scenes in between others, it gets temperamental and those scenes start acting up and freezing while the audio continues and then it gets locked on that frame.
I have deleted the preference file and rebuilt it two or three times, it works for a while, now it does weird stuff like not letting me mute clips.
I did have a theme set and automatic transitions and that seemed to have something to do with that, so I removed them, deleted the preference file, now it is letting me do most stuff, but it is just really really weird. I am also up to date.
anyone have any ideas? I thought at first it was something to do with the iPhoto clips and then having moved from a time machine backup, but then why would it work all the sudden when it rebuilds the preferences.
Very aggravating and not what I expect from apple.
Any suggestions?
It is in Library - Preferences, then it should be com.apple.iMovie8.plist, to be safe, I just moved the file to the desktop. Close iMovie first, then move it to the desktop or delete it (it won't hurt anything), then open iMovie again and it will rebuild your preference files. It takes a couple minutes, and then it searches for your iPhoto videos again.
It's work a few times for me, it seems to happen only after I make changes to a clip or audio, then I have to close it and reopen the program it and it works fine, which leads me to believe the actually iPhoto videos are not corrupted. It's iMovie goofing up.
Hopefully this is something an update will take care of.
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IChat freaks the heck out when external non-iSight camera is connected.
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Anyway Glad you found a solution.
I was under the impression these cameras did not work in iChat
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Tried to duplicate the situation.
Most probably I got it wrong but when adding in
• a photo in 16x9 then I get a black letterbox-ing
• an 16x9 video taken from a small compact digital Camera and in wrong frames per seconds (30fps) in a PAL (25fps) project - I get this gray banding too. Strange
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Someone with clear knowledge on this - Please feel free to fill in and correct.
Yours Bengt W -
Any thoughts on what's happening and how I can fix?
Thank you!
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Wish me luck?
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http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08tricks
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Some of the audio out of my mac sounds as if there's a reverb effect on top
Mostly on videos, using VLC and quicktime it sounds as though there's a reverb/delay effect on top of the audio.. it's really annoying... haven't noticed it in any DAW's such as Ableton Live/Reason or Logic just in things like itunes,safari,vlc,quicktime.. it's quite strange
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I just did a test two seconds ago.
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ugh.. hope there isn't some sort of sound card related dilemma..
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1. There's something wrong with my internal sound card
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How can I get iMovie to recognize the external camera?
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I have a date '12/02/1989'. how do i get the year out of this date.
or take a sysdate and get the year out of it.
Thanksthis?
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 SELECT EXTRACT (YEAR FROM TO_DATE('12/02/1989','mm/dd/yyyy')) year
2* FROM dual
3 /
YEAR
1989
or this/
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 SELECT to_char( TO_DATE('12/02/1989','mm/dd/yyyy'),'YYYY') year
2* FROM dual
SQL> /
YEAR
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HT1454 How can I disable the TV Out, so I can watch my TV shows on my ipod?
I want to watch my TV and movies directly on my ipod.
For instance, if I am on a bus and don't wish to connect my ipod to a big screen TV, or any other type of video monitor; I just want to view the TV and Movies on the little screen provided on my ipod classic.
I read the manual, but the instructions make no sense. It says to go to VIDEO> SETTINGS> then turn TV Out to ASK or ON...
But, there is no actual "VIDEO." Instead, there is MOVIES, TV SHOWS, MUSIC VIDEOS...
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Going to SETTINGS on the main menu is fruitless, as well.
Please... someone, please, help me?
LilyAngelDear planb77,
I can't thank you enough... and yes; there was no, "Video" on Main Menu. But there is now. I would have never thought to reset the settings for that result... Duh.
Anyhow, I sincerely thank you.
LilyAngel
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