Library Preview window

In the upper left hand side, there is a small display box that will show a preview of whatever is highlighted in the library. Whenever the library item is a text sequence, the font/animation begins as "Script" from the LiveFonts and also includes the text sequence that is highlighted. Thus, you can barely see what is going on because the text always starts as script and it begins its animation at the same time as the highlighted animation.
Hopefully you can understand me!
Appreciate the help.
Tom

If I understand your problem correctly, the issue is that your text tool is set to Live Fonts therefore the preview of sequence text animations is showing the currently selected live font.
To change this, select the text in your project. Or if you have no text yet, then select the text tool (T) and click in the canvas to create a text object.
Then go to the text tab in the inspector and switch the font type back to System Fonts rather than Live Fonts.
Now your text animation previews will display whatever currently selected system font you have in the preview window.
If you need to be using Live Fonts, just change the font type back to Live Fonts when you've found the text animation you're looking for.
Andy

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Make the Library Preview Windows Larger?

Is there any way to make the Library Preview Window larger? When I'm working at a high screen resolution, the previews are just too small to see.

You can also turn on zoom in System Preferences/Universal Access, then use *cmd opt =* (that's holding down the command or apple key, the option key, and the = key) to enlarge, cmd opt - to shrink back down.
Patrick

Library Preview Window size

I sent feedback about this 2 years ago and it seems Apple didn't listen to me.
Look at the size of that tiny preview window in the Library tab. On my 24" iMac, it's smaller than the screen on my old RAZR. On my 30" Cinema Display, it's almost the size of a viewfinder.
There needs to be a setting to allow a size adjustment for the preview window depending on what resolution you're running. Why bother having one if you can't see what its previewing?

That's a good idea. In the meantime, you can always double-click any media to open it in it's own viewer at full resolution, which I find very helpful...

IMovie 11 projects no longer working, preview window is glitched or black, event library not playing imported vids

I am having a lot of trouble with iMovie 11. I bought a new MacBook Pro 15" for the sole purpose of editing surgical videos for work. iMovie 11 was working great initially for me (taking full length surgical video - up to 2 hours) and editing these down to anywhere from 5 to 30 min videos highlighting crucial steps for the surgeries along with transitions, ken burns, etc (with the plan of overlaying narrative voice-over later). I had about 15 of these videos edited sitting in my Project Library and multiple imported videos (dvd to m4v via handbrake then imported via iMovie 11) in my Project Library. Now none of my projects play in the preview window, it's either black or a weird glitchy picture (like messed up pic of my doc or desktop... really weird) and only about 2 of my imported videos play in the project library, otherwise they are just black when I roll over them. My projects are still intact as far as edited clip lengths and transitions, but nothing plays, even in full screen mode. I tried making a new project and the imported video shows in the event library but when I add it to a project it's black (but does play in full screen mode, but impossible to edit this way). I think the audio is actually intact although i'm not positive because these videos don't have any audio (there's some baseline level that fluctuates on the audio bars).
I tried finalizing and exporting a project as an m4v (one that was a combination of two edited imported videos - one of the source imported vids working in the event library and the other not working) and the first half is all glitched up with no surgery video, but the second half is there with the transitions and everything (the half that is working in the event library). This part does not show up when I am trying to edit the project.
fyi - I had deleted some of the videos from my event library to unclutter a little some time ago, the projects were still working after that.
I can find all of my imported videos (in .mov format) that should be working in the event library when I look in the folder:
users/me/movies/iMovie events
If someone could please help me resolve this issue, I would really appreciate it. I put a lot of work and time into these videos and it would be near impossible to start from scratch (which would probably be on some other movie editor like windows movie maker since my iMovie is not working properly even for new projects). I'm hoping this is just some sort of glitch that can be fixed and my projects are still salvagable. I can't remember if this started after I did a system software update or not. This will be a huge dissapointment for me in the Apple platform if I have to scrap my projects because I had just switched over from the PC platform.
I even got Norton antivirus and internet security to make sure I don't have some sort of weird virus.
I have a Feb 2011 15 in MacBook Pro 2.2 Ghz, 4 g RAM, 750 g HD, 1 g vid card. iMovie ver 9.0.4. Lion 10.7.2

Did you by any chance upgrade your Mac OS from version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to 10.7 (Lion) during the time you were working in iMovie on all these projects?
If not, start by deleting the iMovie Preferences file.
Go to the Desktop
Hold down the Option key and choose the Go Menu > Library
Go to Preferences > com.apple.iMovieApp.plist
Move the .plist file to the trash and restart iMovie
See if the Project files react any differently. Failing that try doing a Repair Disk Permissions:
Restart the Mac, hold down the Option key continuously until 2 hard drive icons appear
Choose the Recovery Volume as your startup disk and let it run until you see the Desktop
Choose Disk Utility from the Recovery Menu
Run Repair Disk Permissions in Disk Utility
Reboot the Mac and when you see the Desktop appear launch iMovie
See if the Project files are the same or different. Next step after this is to one at a time take the Project folders out of users/me/movies/imovie projects. Move one to the desktop and start iMovie. Try skimming the projects that acted up recently. Moving one project at a time might help isolate which project may be causing problems. You can also place project folders back in their original location after doing this testing and iMovie will recognize them on the next relaunch. It won't hurt anything.

Preview window in Library is not working....

Hi all,
The preview window in the library is no longer working for about 50% of the items that I select. It used to work just fine, now I get nothing but a black screen at least half of the time. If I actually apply the item (behavior, filter, generator, emitter, etc....) to the project, I see the item working properly... just no thumbnail preview in the Library... any thoughts?

Well, I just seemed to have solved the problem...at least as I was experiencing it. As mentioned, I have my Motion content on an external drive, so I decided to revisit this.
I had installed all my Final Cut Studio content on the external drive using the "Content Installer" (after first installing the apps to my laptop). When opening Motion for the first time, it couldn't find the content so I manually typed in the appropriate path...or so I thought:
250GB Drive : Final Cut Studio Content : Motion Content.
Oddly enough, a few things worked this way, but not everything. It turns out I had to specifically point one folder deeper:
250GB Drive : Final Cut Studio Content : Motion Content : Motion
After doing this, all my content seems to preview, although there still are a few anomalies. Some things have to be clicked on more than once to preview, or sometimes I must preview something else first, then try the desired effect a second time. In some cases waiting quite a while produces something.
I'll try moving the cursor about as Mabou suggested and see if that makes any difference.
At least I'm getting somewhere!
Thanks,
Doug

Library Preview displays at lower resolution than Develop Preview

I recently bought a Nikon D7100.
I took some test shots and imported the images to Lightroom 4.4, then generated 1:1 previews for all the images.
Previews zoomed to 1:1 in Library Mode are noticeably soft. The image below is a screen shot of the Library preview:
Moving to Develop View produces a higher-resolution 1:1 preview. The image below is a screen shot of the Develop preview:
Look at the bricks and window screens to see the difference.
This difference occurs immediately after import (with a User Preset applied during import). Once any Develop work is done, the Library preview updates and displays at full resolution.
This problem makes doing initial editing/selection of images time consuming, because I can't determine the sharpness/quality of imported images until I've done some kind of Develop adjustment on each image.
If anyone has a circumvention or solution to this problem I will appreciate receiving it.
Thanks,
Brett Rowett
Sacramento CA

BRSac wrote:
I recently bought a Nikon D7100.
I took some test shots and imported the images to Lightroom 4.4, then generated 1:1 previews for all the images.
Previews zoomed to 1:1 in Library Mode are noticeably soft.
This difference occurs immediately after import (with a User Preset applied during import). Once any Develop work is done, the Library preview updates and displays at full resolution.
You said "then generated 1:1 previews for all the images," so I assume you manually selected Library> Previews> Render 1:1 Previews from inside the Libray module. Selecting 'Render Previews : 1:1' in the LR Import module under 'File Handling' will automatically render the previews on import.
There are two possibilites why you are seeing low-res 1:1 Library previews:
1) The Previews were still being created in the background after import, and you are trying to edit images that do not yet have a 1:1 preview.
2) You inadvertently cancelled the 1:1 preview rendering process by a) closing the progress bar in the upper lefthand, or b) closing LR before completion of 1:1 Preview Rendering.
I would NOT reccomend discarding 1:1 Previews since that will create the very situation you are complaing about in this post. If you are low on hard drive free space then this recommendation would be helpful.

Preview window has no text

since installing the worst upgrade ever, maverick, mail no longer displays the mail's text in the preview window - it is simply blank. it also has killed firefox, but that's another problem....

Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens (command-V), then press return.
A Finder window will open with a file selected. Move the selected file to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Other files in the folder may have names that begin with "Envelope Index". Move those files, if any, to the Trash.
Log out and log back in. Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is damaged and that Mail has to quit. Click OK.
Test. If Mail now works as expected, you can delete the file you moved to the Desktop. Otherwise, post your results.

Print Templates print preview window closes unexpectly when printing document

This is a cross posting from Internet Explorer Web Development after a suggestion that this forum would be a better location. See
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/351e1245-b606-4467-9f3c-1c72f9cdf9ea/print-templates-print-preview-window-closes-unexpectly-when-printing-document?forum=iewebdevelopment.
I have raised an issue through Connect for this:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/1134168/ie9-to-ie11-print-templates-print-preview-window-closes-unexpectly-when-printing-document, but I would like some more visibility of the issue as my customers thought my application was closing when
they printed a document. I also don't know if an issue in Connect gets any priority support via MSDN, but this forum does.
This looks to me like a problem in the IE Print Templates startDoc API call, but if there is a more appropriate forum to raise this issue in please let me know.
In the application where I use print templates, the window closing is not in it self a problem because the Javascript that is calling startDoc also closes the Print Preview window when the print is finished.
The fact that the application looses focus and can be hidden by the windows of other applications when the Print Preview window is closed by startDoc is the issue noticed by our customers, so I need a fix preferably, or a work around at a pinch.
Details of the issue reproduced below.
When using IE Print Templates, the startDoc function is causing the print preview window to close. This behaviour started with IE9, and is still present with IE11.
When an application is using print templates (see
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753279(v=vs.85).aspx) for print functionality, this has the effect of causing the application to become hidden by any other application window once printing from the print preview window has started. It is
actually this behaviour that started me looking at this issue as the users thought the hosting application had closed.
Print Templates are not accessible by using IE as a web browser, but only when using the WebBrowser Control to embed IE in an application. The reference for this feature is available from this url:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753279(v=vs.85).aspx
and a sample Microsoft application that demonstrates the use of Print Templates can be used to demonstrate the problem (required for the reproduction steps). The application is available via this article and searching for "download spiffy".
Steps to reproduce the problem:
To see the full effect of the issue, first ensure there is a window from another application (like Windows Explorer) that will cover the sample applications window if brought to the foreground (making the Windows Explorer window full screen works).
Start the sample application (and ensure that the full screen Window Explorer is the next application to activate).
Then in the drop down box in the top right corner of the UI select Template8.htm.
Click the Print Preview button that is just below the drop down box (this will open a new Print Preview window).
In the new window click the Print… button (this will open a Print dialog).
Click the Print button at the bottom of the Print dialog.
The Print dialog closes (expected) and then the Print Preview window also closes (not expected), however the document is still printed successfully.
When the Print Preview windows is closed unexpectedly, the Windows Explorer window is brought to the foreground (obscuring the sample applications window).
If you reselect the sample application and click the Print Preview button again, the Print Preview dialog is not displayed unless you restart the application (this looks to be a symptom of the same issue, not a separate problem).
To see that the Print Preview window appears to be closed by the startDoc call, use the resource editor in Visual Studio (the exe can be opened directly by File | Open | File…) to edit the HTML resource "TEMPLATE8.HTM" (I found I needed to delete
it and add it back in for the change to stick), find the startDoc call and add two alerts, one on the line before and one on the line after. When IE is accessing the template, it is being done using the name of the executable (so do not rename the modified
version of printtemplates.exe, make the changes to a copy in a different directory if you don't want to change the original). Start the modified version of the application and follow the same steps as in the reproduction. This time, after clicking
the Print button in the Print dialog, the dialog will close, the first alert will pop up, then the Print Preview window will close, then
the second alert will pop up.
Thank you,
Warren.

Hi Shu,
I have noticed that the print templates API is listed as part of the Legacy APIs.
Is this just because it hasn't changed or is not new? Or does this mean that it is no longer maintained and may be removed (or at least deprecated) at some point in the future?
It would good to know if we should start planning for the implementation of a different method of printing.
I understand that the sample application is no longer maintained, but I also think that the Print Template API that it uses has not changed, and so should still work (and it does mostly).
If the Print Preview window was being closed as a result of using the Print dialog (and if it had behaved the same way with IE8) I would be willing to go with the by design argument.
I have found that the Print Preview window is not closed until startDoc is called, and it closes before control is returned from the startDoc function.
Just as part of investigating and try to find a workaround, if I call window.close(), any alert calls made no longer display the alert window after the close call.
Alert still functions after startDoc has closed the window however.
The is not the sort of consistent behaviour I would expect from something that is by design.
Also while investigating, I found that calling startDoc after calling window.close() results in an exception with the error code -2147467259 (0x80004005), this is probably quite normal and expected, but does indicate that the Web Browser Control should
not be closed till after printing.
I had found that old thread, and I had concluded it was the same issue, but it was also aimed at different aspect of the problem (which I see in the sample application, but not my application).
The visible issue I have is that my users think the application has been closed because after clicking print (on the Print dialog) the application gets hidden by other windows from other applications.
This aspect affects the sample in the same manner and so it was a convenient way to demonstrate the problem.
If IE connect do not look at this issue any time soon, do I have any other avenues to resolve this issue?
Thank you,
Warren.

Designer Control automaticaly opens its Preview Window

Hey Guys
I am having a problem and hope you can help to fix it up
Here is the code i use to open a new Report Using RDC XI with VB6
Set m_Report = Nothing
Set m_Report = m_Application.NewReport
CRDesignerCtrl1.ReportObject = m_Report
The Above Statements work fine when New Report is created for the first time.
The Problem is at run time, when i create another new Report (Using Statements above mentioned) Designer Control automaticaly opens its Preview Window tab "Main Report Preview".
As I am using My own Viewrer Control, I don't want this Tab to be opened. I have searched a lot but yet to find any help
Kindly let me know what can i do TO NOT LET IT OPEN
Your Cooperation will be very much appreciated!

Thank Ludek for your responce..
Let me explain code
Referecnes Added:
Crystal Reports Active X Designer Design And Run-Time Library 11.5
Embedable Crystal report Designer Control libaray 11.5
Crystal Active X Report viewere Library 11.5
Code
Dim m_Application As New CRAXDDRT.Application
Dim m_Report As CRAXDDRT.Report
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Set m_Report = m_Application.NewReport
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CRDesignerCtrl1.ReportObject = m_Report
More to add, if i click New Report Button again, it raises error "Index out of range".
If hope this explain my situation, if there is anything else, let me know.
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Preview window gone

When I open preview the window never appears. The Preview menu is present. the four-finger swipe down will show me all the files I have opened previously. But when I select one, nothing happens. Every now and again, I can get a document to open but generally I give up. This has been going on for a while.
Anyone have any ideas?
I've tried menu file>open , option-click - file open with in finder, I've tried pdf documents etc.
The other thing that has been bugging me is the inability to close files. When I do actually get a preview window to display, the side bar includes a variety of files I have opened previously. Actually, I think it has kept every last file I have ever opened in preview....disconcerting actually.

I've been messing with this for hours now. I've tried many renaming, deleting plist files related to preview in various folders
(for example: ~Library/Containers ; ~Library/preferences; _Library/ApplicationSavedStates)
Also tried clear recent files, removed from dock etc.
Results have been the same, open a document (specific text file created today using automator) and every file I have ever previewed with "Preview" opens.
Number of windows depends on preview preferences selected (open group of files in one window or single window for each files.) You can imagine the horror, when the latter preference selected and "all" previous previewed files open!
Something is definitely wrong. I have long since trashed many of those files (and emptied trash as well.) Well over 82 files!!!!
I quit preview and then selected it from the dock - no window just preview toolbar appeared. File>open said text file. Result = Same...82 files open...
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([1587]) Preview(1587) deny system-socket
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sandboxd
([1587]) Preview(1587) deny file-write-data /
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The following was attached As an attachment listed after "sandboxd ([1587]) Preview(1587) deny system-socket" line
Preview(1587) deny system-socket
Process:         Preview [1587]
Path:            /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview
Load Address:    0x10f320000
Identifier:      Preview
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [249]
Date/Time:       2012-06-12 20:56:33.520 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 7
Backtrace:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib
0x00007fff948fde76 socket + 10
1   SystemConfiguration
0x00007fff9482f692 checkAddress + 762
2   SystemConfiguration
0x00007fff9482e9ae __SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags + 322
3   SystemConfiguration
0x00007fff9483347f __SCNetworkReachabilityScheduleWithRunLoop + 1974
4   SystemConfiguration
0x00007fff94835b47 SCNetworkReachabilityScheduleWithRunLoop + 114
5   Foundation
0x00007fff92efcefe +[NSURLConnection(NSURLConnectionReallyInternal) _resourceLoadLoop:] + 118
6   Foundation
0x00007fff92ef172a -[NSThread main] + 68
7   Foundation
0x00007fff92ef16a2 __NSThread__main__ + 1575
8   libsystem_c.dylib
0x00007fff983b88bf _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib
0x00007fff983bbb75 thread_start + 13
Binary Images:
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Upon submitting job from FCP 5 to compressor I cannot get the preview window to work. The job will sit in the compressor queue but I cannot preview the clip in the preview window. Compressor will also not give me back control so I can return to FCP and submit another sequence to be compressed. This has happened after the last update. I have already re-installed compressor as per Apple instructions but to no avail. However when I submit the job it does run fine, I just don't want to do jobs one by one.
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Movie does not fit preview window

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I cannot figure it out.
I made a short movie clip with my iPhone 5. Imported it into iMovie (it looks perfect when I preview it from the event library) and then dragged that clip to a new project. Then when I play the video from within the project, it has been heavily cropped, ie the movie does not fit in the preview window.
I have tried changing the aspect ratio of the project and this made no difference. I also change the setting File > Project Properties > Initial Video Placement to Fit in Frame.
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A lot of people who shoot video on the iPhone will hold the phone vertically oriented (portrait orientation). For shooting movies, you will get the best results when you rotate the phone 90 degrees to landscape orientation.
iMovie will always edit in landscape orientation (long side on top and bottom, short side on the sides) because this is the way TV screens work.

Audio Disappeared in iMovie Event Preview Window

I've been using iMovie 09 for about 2 years with no major issues. Today I added some new clips, and for some reason I can no longer hear audio in ANY of my "events" in the preview window (or whatever it's called--I'm talking about the box where you look at your clips and decide which parts to add to your project). If I select a section and add it to a project, it plays fine (ie with audio) in the project window, but nada still in the preview window. Anyone know what's going on?

Are you able to check the Volume setting for those imported clips? I've had clips that I've dragged from the Event Library into a project suddenly lose their audio. When I looked at the audio waveform it was flat. But I could drag the volume up to get it back to 100% where it should have been when I dragged it originally.
Try this: Click on the clip in the Project time line, where the little 'gear' icon appears on the clip. From that pop-up menu choose Audio Adjustments:
You will see the iMovie Inspector window open with a whole series of audio adjustments you can perform on just the audio track iself. The one you want is Volume, near the top of the window. That should always be 100%.

IMovie + Preview Window = Garbled GUI

Hey everyone
Lately, I've been experiencing an issue with iMovie in which the preview window suddenly becomes a randomized mess of images from elsewhere on the screen (stuff from the menu bar, text, dock icons, pieces of the wallpaper, etc.) This is usually accompanied by a system freeze. After this occurs, it happens not only in iMovie, but any time I use quicktime (not VLC, just quicktime, so it's an apple-related issue). However, I've recently noticed that it also causes GUI issues, such as folder stacks and file icons also becoming garbled (there was even an instance where the address book icon ENGULFED HALF MY SCREEN).
A restart usually solves this, but does anyone know a permanent fix for this? Do I need to reinstall iLife?

I see you've had 50 viewers look at this question, but no one has answered it. No one commented on my post on the same subject two days ago either, but we both have a similar problem. Here's my situation:
I am not able to see my movie in the "Preview Window" of iMovie, after creating a project and event. I had just erased my hard drive, installed a new system directly from SnowLeopard and added iMovie09 (then updated it to v. 8.0.6). Before opening and importing photos to iPhoto, however, I downloaded a DEMO VERSION OF APERTURE, to see if I wanted to purchase that instead of using iPhoto. Next I opened iMovie and imported some photos from Aperture. Everything worked fine. After a few days of working with Aperture I decided to delete it and use iPhoto09. Here's where the problems started. I could bring photos into iMovie from iPhoto but when I tired to make them run as a movie, nothing appeared in the Preview window. I've made dozens of iMovies before, so I expected it to work as it always had.
I deleted everything I could find about Aperture, even the Library/Cache of Aperture. I deleted everything I could find about iMovie even the Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovie08. I reinstalled iPhoto09 and iMovie09. I've emptied the iPhoto libraries and started over there too with photos only, no video even, but I still can't bring in even a simple photo and have it appear in the Preview window of iMovie.
There must be a bug somewhere. I'd just like to make simple old iPhoto work with iMovie without the ghosts of Aperture interferring.
I know I haven't answered your question or helped you with your problem, but by combining our efforts and complaint, maybe someone will help us both.
Best wishes.

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