iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, Keynote, Pages Updates

[Zaty]

In your SWU:

iPhoto 5.0.2
iPhoto 5.0.2 addresses issues with iPhoto book layout, multiword searching, iDVD slideshow integration, and slideshow performance and photo editing on G3 systems.

iMovie 5.0.2
iMovie HD 5.0.2 Update addresses issues related to video and audio synchronization for DV projects and other issues. These include:


Audio in PAL widescreen
Sharing (exporting) HDV to videocamera tape
Synchronizing with HDV 720p content
Importing video from a DV videocamera when using analog passthrough or recording live video
Compatibility with some analog-to-digital converter boxes
Capturing video with Hi-8 (Digital 8) devices
Placing titles over DV content
Playing iPhoto slideshows that include protected content
Opening iMovie 4 projects that use speed-adjusted clips.



This update is recommended for all users.

You must have iMovie HD 5.0 or iMovie HD 5.0.1 installed in its original location to update to iMovie 5.0.2.

For more information on iMovie HD, please visit this website:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie.


iDVD 5.0.1
iDVD 5.0.1 addresses issues related to general stability and compatibility with iPhoto slideshows and iMovie HD.

[Update] iSight Update 1.0.3The iSight 1.0.3 update improves the iSight's audio performance. This update is recommended for iSight users running Mac OS X 10.3.7 and later.

[PlaceofDis]

guess ill get updating, thanks for the heads up!

[Zaty]

Updated, no problems so far.

[iGary]

Hope this does something for iPhoto 5, which so far....BLOWS.

[Daveway]

Hope this does something for iPhoto 5, which so far....BLOWS.
iPhoto 5 is still slow :( Not much of an update IMO.

[SpaceMagic]

I suspect there's some code change to make the apps compatible with the latest Pro apps coming out sunday?!

[iGary]

iPhoto 5 is still slow :( Not much of an update IMO.

Blah.

Putting it on the G5 iMac right now.

If this doesn't speed it up, I'm buying Extensis Portfolio.

I can't deal with it anymore, seriously.

[powerbook911]

I want 10.3.9. When will it arrive?

[PlaceofDis]

I want 10.3.9. When will it arrive?

if it ever arrives.......

[SpaceMagic]

I want 10.3.9. When will it arrive?

Again, i guess alongside the new Pro apps.

[sjpetry]

They all work fine. :)

[Doctor Q]

It seems that only iMovie HD has new features. The rest are patches.

[AndrewMT]

iPhoto still needs the ability to share albums across users on the same computer.

[ZildjianKX]

Can someone confirm an iPhoto bug for me?

Select some photos in your library, go to share-> Export, click the quicktime tab, make sure "Add currently selected music" is checked, and clicked on export.

The movie doesn't have any music. Even after I select a song in the normal slideshow feature in iTunes, and go back to the library and do an export, no music.

Of course I can just create a new slideshow, go to share, but it ends up being too large with all the transitions...

Why can't I export a normal slideshow like iTunes 4 with music? :(

[andrewfee]

iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, Keynote, Pages Updates
I've only got the updates for iDVD, iMovie and iPhoto? Keynote/Pages aren't showing up here.

[billyboy]

iPhoto still needs the ability to share albums across users on the same computer.

When in doubt use OSX? Quit iPhoto, and drag your iPhoto library to the shared folder in HD>users.

Go to Get Info and change the permissions for access (underneath Group) to read and write, and change permissions on access under Others to read and write as well.

Go back to the iPhoto library folder and create an alias to put back in your own Pictures folder.

Log into the next user account and create an alias of the iPhoto library folder in Shared and put it in the users home>pictures folder. Change their current iPhoto library name by adding a 1 or something, and job jobbed.

I would advise logging out of both accounts and log back in, as until I did that performance was a bit grim.

Not exactly the click of a button, but it works fine

[The Truth]

Yeah, you're right ZildjianKX, looks like a bug.

[GregA]

iDVD 5.0.1
iDVD 5.0.1 addresses issues related to general stability and compatibility with iPhoto slideshows and iMovie HD.I haven't looked up if iDVD 5.0 had this already - but anyone know about support for dual layer DVD+R media? Would that lead to >2hrs on a DVD for instance?

[zellin]

Can someone tell me what the "original location" of the programs is? I moved them a while ago before I realized that SU worked that way. Right now it is in Applications>iLife and I'm not getting anything.

[Dagless]

brilliant. the first time i use a PC since feb (meaning my PB is off) and they go and release updates... :)

[Makosuke]

Ooh... I take "Placing titles over DV content" to mean that Apple has fixed the tremendously annoying bug that would screw up the interlacing on any clips you applied something to if the first thing you did after opening the project was apply a title.

The workaround, applying a transition or effect before doing any titles, borders on bizzare, so I'll be really glad if this does indeed fix this issue.

I'll be tryin' it tonight!

[phd]

Blah.

Putting it on the G5 iMac right now.

If this doesn't speed it up, I'm buying Extensis Portfolio.

I can't deal with it anymore, seriously.

Extensis Portfolio Sucks even more!

Do yourself a favor and check out iview media pro.

http://www.iview-multimedia.com/

A much better idea.

[torn80]

Can someone confirm an iPhoto bug for me?

Select some photos in your library, go to share-> Export, click the quicktime tab, make sure "Add currently selected music" is checked, and clicked on export.

The movie doesn't have any music. Even after I select a song in the normal slideshow feature in iTunes, and go back to the library and do an export, no music.

Of course I can just create a new slideshow, go to share, but it ends up being too large with all the transitions...

Why can't I export a normal slideshow like iTunes 4 with music? :(

It's not very intuitive, but you have to click the play button, select a song, then do the Export, etc for it to work. Just selecting the photos without first hitting the play button for the slideshow (so you can re-select a song) always makes my slideshows come up without audio as well (even though I have previously selected a song). Hope this helps.

[dont24]

Importing video from a DV videocamera when using analog passthrough or recording live video

Does this mean this couldn't be done, prior to 5.0.2? I plan on buying a Digital camcorder soon and plan to import my analog tapes through the Digital camera.

[ZildjianKX]

It's not very intuitive, but you have to click the play button, select a song, then do the Export, etc for it to work. Just selecting the photos without first hitting the play button for the slideshow (so you can re-select a song) always makes my slideshows come up without audio as well (even though I have previously selected a song). Hope this helps.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think you're referring to making a slideshow by hitting the slideshow button. I have gotten that to work fine, and it exports with music fine.

The problem I'm having is highlighting photos and choosing to export them as a quicktime movie with music (not in slideshow mode).

Doing the above doesn't have any transitions and makes the quicktime movie very small, it also lets you scale up the movie super large.

[ClarkeB]

There are no Keynote or Pages updates (at least my SU isn't picking em up...and I've scanned about 10 times already).

[jakemikey]

Downloading right now....

...so help me, if this doesn't fix the iDVD widescreen issues I'm going to go INSANE!!!

[torn80]

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think you're referring to making a slideshow by hitting the slideshow button. I have gotten that to work fine, and it exports with music fine.

The problem I'm having is highlighting photos and choosing to export them as a quicktime movie with music (not in slideshow mode).

You're right, just choosing export will not have the audio attached, but I was referring to is you can "force" the audio to work if you just hit the play button to "reselect" the audio (without actually going into slideshow feature), then I get my slideshow to show up with the audio, it must be a bug, but that is the work around I found that works for me.

[ZildjianKX]

You're right, just choosing export will not have the audio attached, but I was referring to is you can "force" the audio to work if you just hit the play button to "reselect" the audio (without actually going into slideshow feature), then I get my slideshow to show up with the audio, it must be a bug, but that is the work around I found that works for me.

Thanks for the help, but quick question, where are you going to choose the audio song without going into the slideshow feature? That's the only place I've found it in iPhoto.

Many thanks.

[PlaceofDis]

Can someone tell me what the "original location" of the programs is? I moved them a while ago before I realized that SU worked that way. Right now it is in Applications>iLife and I'm not getting anything.

they need to be in the Applications folder, not in a subfolder of Applications

[torn80]

Thanks for the help, but quick question, where are you going to choose the audio song without going into the slideshow feature? That's the only place I've found it in iPhoto.

Many thanks.

In the lower left corner of the program next to the PLUS (+) is the right arrow button (>) (play button), hit that button, select your song, you don't necessarily have to preview your slideshow, but you can if you want to, then go to export.. quicktime, etc. You will then get your pictures in a slideshow in Quicktime in the smaller size you want (as you're right doing it in Slideshow itself creates HUGE files). I do this frequently for emails. I think this will work for you.

[ZildjianKX]

In the lower left corner of the program next to the PLUS (+) is the right arrow button (>) (play button), hit that button, select your song, you don't necessarily have to preview your slideshow, but you can if you want to, then go to export.. quicktime, etc. You will then get your pictures in a slideshow in Quicktime in the smaller size you want (as you're right doing it in Slideshow itself creates HUGE files). I do this frequently for emails. I think this will work for you.

Dude, I owe you a beer.

Thanks so much for your help, that has been driving me nuts since January...

[torn80]

Dude, I owe you a beer.

Thanks so much for your help, that has been driving me nuts since January...

If you're ever in Fargo (ND) I'll take you up on the beer! :) I'm glad it worked for you.

[WM.]

Importing video from a DV videocamera when using analog passthrough or recording live video

Does this mean this couldn't be done, prior to 5.0.2? I plan on buying a Digital camcorder soon and plan to import my analog tapes through the Digital camera.
I never tried it myself, but I understand that 5 and 5.0.1 had a bug that prevented this from working properly. It did work in prior versions, though (4.0.1 and older).

I think. :)

WM

[jakemikey]

...and iDVD 5.0.1 still flaky on the widescreen. Man, Apple came up with the most retarded way of setting widescreen bits!! Arggghhh!!

Well, thank goodness for DVD SP. I think Apple needs an FCE-level app for DVD authoring. iDVD sucks and there's no other option unless you want to shell out the bucks for DVD SP.

[clayj]

After I installed these three updates, I then got an update for iSight 1.0.3. Has anyone else seen this?

[Doctor Q]

iSight Update 1.0.3 (also in Software Update)The iSight 1.0.3 update improves the iSight's audio performance. This update is recommended for iSight users running Mac OS X 10.3.7 and later.

[SAukland]

HOLY BUSY WEEK :eek:

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Capturing video with Hi-8 (Digital 8) devices


I didn't know this is possible... isn't that with some sort of external a/v box?

[broken_keyboard]

Did the iPhoto 5 update make it as good as iPhoto 4?

Man, I am in a bad mood today...

[mad jew]

I really haven't noticed all that much of a difference. iPhoto is still the mediocre performer it has always been, and it's a bit the same for iMovie. :(

[cin]

I ran Software Update and got the "New software is available for your computer" screen (as opposed to the "No new software" message) but the list is empty?!

Anyone else having this problem?

[SurfAddict]

Well hopefully this fixes the issue when I try to burn dvd's I have created between iMovie and iDVD. It sucks up all my rescources for about 40 mins to render a 6 min DVD with menus and everything and then when it goes to burn it always tells me it had an error during track initialization and that I have to delete all encoded assets and retry. Its only worked once and the movie stopped working after a min and a half POS. If anyone knows if i'm just doing something else wrong feel free to let me know :mad:

[Some_Big_Spoon]

probably been said, but iphoto 5's still too buggy to rely on for any photo editing. it's also just very slow no matter what system I use it on. I like the some of the organizational aspects of it, and it's great for just keeping pics in order, but it's in real need of a X.1 update. I'm sure it's in order.. this is Apple we're talking about. :o

[pioneerMT]

Whatever the problem had been with iPhoto 5 on the G3, this was a desperately needed update. I immediately noticed significant speed improvements on my G3 iMac. Nothing earth-shattering, but it seems about as fast as iPhoto 4 had been. My wife had been pissed at me because for installing iPhoto 5 because it was so slow as to be practically unusable.

[jerryny]

These was a reference to "Capturing video with Hi-8 (Digital 8) devices". I still have ilife 4. Was there a problem in that as well? I have some digital 8 tapes that I need to import and am wondering if there is a problem with imovie 4?

[rendezvouscp]

This is of note: the iSight Updater has been available to Tiger ADC users for a few months now (I submitted a rumor about it but it never made it online). I'm guessing it has to do with the introduction of Tiger, but I'm not sure. Could anyone tell me how many bytes the folder is with 1.0.3? I'd like to compare it with the Tiger beta.
-Chase

[aprilfools]

iSight Update 1.0.3 (also in Software Update)The iSight 1.0.3 update improves the iSight's audio performance. This update is recommended for iSight users running Mac OS X 10.3.7 and later.

I have been using my isight with the 1.0.2 update and have not had any problems at all. I updated today but I see no real improvement/performance difference. I am wondering exactly what is different about the 1.0.3 update? the description from Apple about the update is vague as usual. It mentions Audio Improvements. Well.....I never really had any audio probs before the update.Whats the Dealee-O ? :confused:

[Rian]

Go here:

http://www.apple.com/isight/download/

And you'll see that where it asks you to select your operating system for the download, it lists this as one of the two options:

iSight 1.0.3 for Mac OS X v10.3.7-v10.3.9

Does this point to an immenent 10.3.9 release? :D

[adam1185]

Extensis Portfolio Sucks even more!

Do yourself a favor and check out iview media pro.

http://www.iview-multimedia.com/

A much better idea.

Even better, check out Shoebox and organize your photos easily and quickly!

www.kavasoft.com/shoebox

[MXDT]

Thank you Apple!!
iPhoto is more bearable on my iBook G3 900!
Thanks for not forgetting all of us who still have G3's!!!!
:rolleyes:

[aprilfools]

Go here:

http://www.apple.com/isight/download/

And you'll see that where it asks you to select your operating system for the download, it lists this as one of the two options:

iSight 1.0.3 for Mac OS X v10.3.7-v10.3.9

Does this point to an immenent 10.3.9 release? :D

I bet your right! Apple is getting everyone (Panther 10.3.7-10.3.9 users) up to speed for iSight/iChat in Tiger. It was an iSight firmware update anyway(1.0.3)

[SpinUp]

Big speed-up on my G3 266 - I no longer regret the upgrade to iLife '05.

[aprilfools]

Big speed-up on my G3 266 - I no longer regret the upgrade to iLife '05.

G3 266? man that thing came over on the Mayflower! Time for a new Mac! :)

[shidoshi]

Ability to properly search in iPhoto 5 using multiple terms fixed - sweet.

Still can't select keyword and then refine search more with search terms - booo!

[CaptainCaveMann]

How do i get these updates? :confused:

[SpinUp]

G3 266? man that thing came over on the Mayflower! Time for a new Mac! :)

Ay, the Mayflower was a fine ship, and the beige boxes she brought was a spoil of riches to us in the colonies.
Seriously, though, you're right - I've held out for too long and Tiger is a great excuse.

[chevyorange]

This is of note: the iSight Updater has been available to Tiger ADC users for a few months now (I submitted a rumor about it but it never made it online). I'm guessing it has to do with the introduction of Tiger, but I'm not sure. Could anyone tell me how many bytes the folder is with 1.0.3? I'd like to compare it with the Tiger beta.
-Chase

I believe it was 930.

Adam

[nagromme]

I must be the only one who thinks the slideshow/other organizational changes in iPhoto 5 make perfect sense :)

If it wasn't for GarageBand, iPhoto 5 would be my favorite iLife app. Either of the two is worth the price of the bundle. (And so are iMovie and iDVD, probably, but I don't really use those much.)

PS, iPhoto 5 supports my camera's AVI format movies! :)

[Diatribe]

I must be the only one who thinks the slideshow/other organizational changes in iPhoto 5 make perfect sense :)

If it wasn't for GarageBand, iPhoto 5 would be my favorite iLife app. Either of the two is worth the price of the bundle. (And so are iMovie and iDVD, probably, but I don't really use those much.)

PS, iPhoto 5 supports my camera's AVI format movies! :)

I don't find iPhoto to be that bad either. But there are two things that just annoy me(besides a couple of other things that I think Apple could do better with iPhoto):

1. You cannot search for albums or folders. Once you have a lot a gets tedious if you only know the album name but not the picture name.

2. You cannot sort by size or resolution. These two sorting options I am missing now for almost a year since I got my mac. These would make my life so much easier.

Anyway, I hope iPhoto 6 will be THE update that makes everyone happy. So far iPhoto 5 was a nice but rather minor update imho, considering it took them a year to do it and that half the new functions don't work properly.

[aafuss1]

I bet your right! Apple is getting everyone (Panther 10.3.7-10.3.9 users) up to speed for iSight/iChat in Tiger. It was an iSight firmware update anyway(1.0.3)
I bet 10.3.9 is to be released very soon-but why would Apple list 10.3.9 on the page , if it's not been made public yet?

[mdetry]

iPhoto still needs the ability to share albums across users on the same computer.

That is a MUST!!!! and it would be nice to be able to share within user local network via rendovous (sorry: Bonjour!) like Itunes does...

In this way i would buy a Mac mini...justo for Audio and Photo Streaming....

[Applespider]

I don't find iPhoto to be that bad either. But there are two things that just annoy me(besides a couple of other things that I think Apple could do better with iPhoto):

1. You cannot search for albums or folders. Once you have a lot a gets tedious if you only know the album name but not the picture name.

2. You cannot sort by size or resolution. These two sorting options I am missing now for almost a year since I got my mac. These would make my life so much easier.

I quite like iPhoto 05 - I use it more than iPhoto 04 and find the editing etc tools much faster to use than opening it in Elements to make a minor fix and sending it back again. It's never crashed on me either (touch wood).

Those two features would be good - I don't need to search for folders quite so much since we could have subfolders. I've started using keywords more which is helping me.

I'm assuming that the second option will come with Spotlight. It does mention being able to search on files which were taken with a specific camera so searching on resolution or size should be a piece of cake. ;)

[JupiterTwo]

Yay. Even doing the simple things like rotating aren't a chore anymore with this iPhoto update.

Plus, nice to have a few updates that don't require a restart :rolleyes:

[mdetry]

Whatever the problem had been with iPhoto 5 on the G3, this was a desperately needed update. I immediately noticed significant speed improvements on my G3 iMac. Nothing earth-shattering, but it seems about as fast as iPhoto 4 had been. My wife had been pissed at me because for installing iPhoto 5 because it was so slow as to be practically unusable.

I can Imagine. I have 7000 photos and a Imac G5 with 1 Giga of ram and it nearly unusable...I really can´t imagine what is like in a G3....

Come on Apple...this is one of the Flagship products for the new computer at home experience...a great need of this times...even my grandma needs it...the software design is very very good....you should only speed it up....if you can make Spotlight that fast you should do Iphoto at least usuable with 7000 photos.

[SpinUp]

Those two features would be good - I don't need to search for folders quite so much since we could have subfolders. I've started using keywords more which is helping me.

Have you discovered Keyword Assistant?

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22383

Good integration with iPhoto - I never used keywords before, but now that I do I barely need to make albums.

[techgeek]

That is a MUST!!!! and it would be nice to be able to share within user local network via rendovous (sorry: Bonjour!) like Itunes does...

In this way i would buy a Mac mini...justo for Audio and Photo Streaming....

Do you mean a shared library you can all write to?
iPhoto already allows you to view other peoples libraries/albums on either your local machine or your local network as long as they have iPhoto running. It's just like iTunes does it. You can even take copies if you want.

[Platform]

Well good to see updates but iPhoto 5 still needs a lot of working with the speed.......maby it will be better with Tiger :rolleyes: ;)

[VespR]

Has anyone else noticed that when you launch a slideshow it doesn't put the image on the full screen. You get like a border now around the images. Which is a pain in the arse for me coz I've got a stunning 23" and now I'm losing an inch at the bottom and top of the screen and at least and inch and more on the sides when I launch the slideshow.

Anyone know of a way to disable this?

[zac4mac]

All I got was the iSight updater, last night, but unsure if it worked. Console>/Library/Logs>Directory Service>iSightUpdater.log shows:

iSightUpdater was launched by iChat.
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: iChat BundleVersion: 153
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: iChat ShortVersionString: 2.1
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Auto update feature on.
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: iSight Updater will install firmware version: 1.0.3
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: DEVICE DISCOVERED:
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Product: iSight
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Serial Number: W93306QHMZL
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: GUID: a27000401ff88
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Firmware Version: 1.0.2
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: iSight device count: 1
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: UPDATING DEVICE:
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Product: iSight
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Serial Number: W93306QHMZL
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: GUID: a27000401ff88
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Firmware Version: 1.0.2
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Initiating software installation...
2005-04-15 05:50:57 -0600: Software installation terminating with error 00000000.
2005-04-15 05:50:58 -0600: Flashing firmware onto iSight...
2005-04-15 05:51:26 -0600: Flashing iSight terminating with error 00000000.
2005-04-15 05:51:27 -0600: iSight Updater quitting...


Same result as last night, even re-ran 1.02 updater all with same end result. Doesn't seem good to end with an error...

Z

[ct77]

That is a MUST!!!! and it would be nice to be able to share within user local network via rendovous (sorry: Bonjour!) like Itunes does...

In this way i would buy a Mac mini...justo for Audio and Photo Streaming....

This is easily done with a 3rd party app called iPhoto Buddy (http://nofences.net/iphotoBuddy/). I use it, and it does nothing more than let you work with multiple iPhoto libraries.

The basic idea is this: you put your iPhoto Library in /Users/Shared, then use iPhoto Buddy to point iPhoto in each user account to the new location of the iPhoto Library that iPhoto will use with it starts up.

[aprilfools]

I bet 10.3.9 is to be released very soon-but why would Apple list 10.3.9 on the page , if it's not been made public yet?

Option #1 - I have a hunch 10.3.9 is coming today via update (Friday 4-15-05). Either that or Option #2 - Apple is getting real lazy and doesnt want to revisit the iSight info webpage once they actually do release 10.3.9 update. Or....... or........ Option #3 - they just plain screwed up. I go with option #1 :)

[aprilfools]

All I got was the iSight updater, last night, but unsure if it worked. Console>/Library/Logs>Directory Service>iSightUpdater.log shows:

iSightUpdater was launched by iChat.
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: iChat BundleVersion: 153
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: iChat ShortVersionString: 2.1
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Auto update feature on.
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: iSight Updater will install firmware version: 1.0.3
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: DEVICE DISCOVERED:
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Product: iSight
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Serial Number: W93306QHMZL
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: GUID: a27000401ff88
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: Firmware Version: 1.0.2
2005-04-15 05:50:15 -0600: iSight device count: 1
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: UPDATING DEVICE:
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Product: iSight
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Serial Number: W93306QHMZL
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: GUID: a27000401ff88
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Firmware Version: 1.0.2
2005-04-15 05:50:31 -0600: Initiating software installation...
2005-04-15 05:50:57 -0600: Software installation terminating with error 00000000.
2005-04-15 05:50:58 -0600: Flashing firmware onto iSight...
2005-04-15 05:51:26 -0600: Flashing iSight terminating with error 00000000.
2005-04-15 05:51:27 -0600: iSight Updater quitting...


Same result as last night, even re-ran 1.02 updater all with same end result. Doesn't seem good to end with an error...

Z

First. Make sure your iSight is pluggged in. than go to the Apple menu > About this Mac. > More Info button > Select "FireWire" from the contents list. Locate the iSight Camera and it should tell you the revision that you have installed and active. It should be 1.0.3. If it is not, than it didnt work or maybe you are using OS 10.3.6. The iSight 1.0.3 update needs 10.3.7+ another thing, It is worthless to do the update if the iSight is not actally plugged in.

[Diatribe]

I quite like iPhoto 05 - I use it more than iPhoto 04 and find the editing etc tools much faster to use than opening it in Elements to make a minor fix and sending it back again. It's never crashed on me either (touch wood).

Those two features would be good - I don't need to search for folders quite so much since we could have subfolders. I've started using keywords more which is helping me.

I'm assuming that the second option will come with Spotlight. It does mention being able to search on files which were taken with a specific camera so searching on resolution or size should be a piece of cake. ;)

I guess I should start using keywords, I have just never gotten around to use them. I hope thats a possibility with Spotlight, it would really help finding and sorting things. I guess I'll start with the keywords.

[Applespider]

Have you discovered Keyword Assistant?

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22383

Good integration with iPhoto - I never used keywords before, but now that I do I barely need to make albums.

Nope... but will definitely investigate it! Thanks

[danr_97070]

Well hopefully this fixes the issue when I try to burn dvd's I have created between iMovie and iDVD. It sucks up all my rescources for about 40 mins to render a 6 min DVD with menus and everything and then when it goes to burn it always tells me it had an error during track initialization and that I have to delete all encoded assets and retry. Its only worked once and the movie stopped working after a min and a half POS. If anyone knows if i'm just doing something else wrong feel free to let me know :mad:

I had another problem (it's been a while ago, so I'm not sure it's the same problem) which I was able to workaround.

iMovie 5 no longer breaks clips into 2 GByte chunks. So, if you're picking an iDVD theme and then dragging and dropping the movie onto the menu, it won't render/burn correctly because the movie is too long.

If this is what's happening, try splitting the track first (you just need a cut, you don't need to make any other alterations to the movie).

Hope this works for you...

[iGary]

iPhoto 5 still sucks wind, but yay. I can use type 1 fonts in my albums now. :rolleyes:

[Yvan256]

Ooh... I take "Placing titles over DV content" to mean that Apple has fixed the tremendously annoying bug that would screw up the interlacing on any clips you applied something to if the first thing you did after opening the project was apply a title.

The workaround, applying a transition or effect before doing any titles, borders on bizzare, so I'll be really glad if this does indeed fix this issue.

I'll be tryin' it tonight!

I went to my brother's house (he's the one with a miniDV camcorder) so he could try iMovie and iDVD, and the first thing he notices is this weird, crappy bug. I sure hope that's what they fixed.

There's also a similar bug with iPhoto slideshows (transitions between photos, like cross-fading).

[danr_97070]

In your SWU:

...

iMovie 5.0.2
iMovie HD 5.0.2 Update addresses issues related to video and audio synchronization for DV projects and other issues. These include:

Audio in PAL widescreen
Sharing (exporting) HDV to videocamera tape
Synchronizing with HDV 720p content
Importing video from a DV videocamera when using analog passthrough or recording live video
Compatibility with some analog-to-digital converter boxes
Capturing video with Hi-8 (Digital 8) devices
Placing titles over DV content
Playing iPhoto slideshows that include protected content
Opening iMovie 4 projects that use speed-adjusted clips.


This fix to iMovie fixed problems I had moving to iMovie 5 with my Formac video converter. When I movied to iMovie 5, I could no longer import video directly into iMovie. That's fixed now. Thanks Apple!

[powerbook911]

Why does this topic say Pages update too? Pages hasn't been updated, for an entire month, or at least sometime in March. Right?

[Yvan256]

I guess I should start using keywords, I have just never gotten around to use them. I hope thats a possibility with Spotlight, it would really help finding and sorting things. I guess I'll start with the keywords.

The keywords in iPhoto are quite useless. I mean, you have to have a LIST and then you use checkboxes for the keywords?! How stupid is that!

iTunes already has something better, i.e. "grouping". You can type anything you want, and it auto-completes with the current bank of keywords you've used so far (so there's no mistakes possible).

iPhoto really needs to work the same way for "keywords" as iTunes does for "grouping". :(

[virividox]

installed and runnin smoothly

[gopher]

iPhoto still needs the ability to share albums across users on the same computer.

It has this ability. You just need to do a bit of file management to make it work. The trick is to move the Pictures folder to the Users -> Shared folder while iPhoto is not running. Then make aliases back to each user's home folder of the Pictures folder, and renaming the alias Pictures

iPhoto will still end up reading from the same library.

[TVGenius]

Looking at that update list, it seems like iMovie 5.0.1 was a complete and utter piece of crap.

Three days 'til NAB! Woo-hoo!! :D

[zac4mac]

"It is worthless to do the update if the iSight is not actally plugged in." Seeing as how this is a "Firmware Update", obviously the software is for the camera, not the Mac.

Initially the iSight was plugged into a FW passthru on an external HDD. This morning I retried with the camera plugged into the front panel of my G5. Same results.

Could some of you that ran the updater check your logfiles, where I specified in my post on page three of this thread, and see if is is indeed normal for this updater to end with "error 000000", or at least a common occurrence.

Thanks
Zack

[johnpg]

I guess I should start using keywords, I have just never gotten around to use them. I hope thats a possibility with Spotlight, it would really help finding and sorting things. I guess I'll start with the keywords. Unfortunately none of the iPhoto metadata (keywords, etc) is searchable with Spotlight. iPhoto stores that stuff in its own database and not in the image files. Spotlight (as of now) has no way to query the iPhoto database. I was really hoping that this update would address this, but it has not. What's worse is that the Preview app in Tiger CAN and does handle keywords, and adds them to the file. I was sure that that was a clue that they'd update iPhoto to do the same, but apparently not (or not this time at least). I suppose it's possible that iPhoto will work differently under Tiger than 10.3, but that seems unlikely. Oh well, we'll find out in two weeks I guess.

Cheers,
John

[SpinUp]

The keywords in iPhoto are quite useless. I mean, you have to have a LIST and then you use checkboxes for the keywords?! How stupid is that!

iTunes already has something better, i.e. "grouping". You can type anything you want, and it auto-completes with the current bank of keywords you've used so far (so there's no mistakes possible).

I hate to be repetitive, but I highly recommend you check out Keyword Assistant if you haven't already. It's just a textbox that stays hidden until you hit cmd-opt-k, and then you start typing and it auto-completes from your current bank of keywords.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22383

[mowogg]

"It is worthless to do the update if the iSight is not actally plugged in." Seeing as how this is a "Firmware Update", obviously the software is for the camera, not the Mac.

Initially the iSight was plugged into a FW passthru on an external HDD. This morning I retried with the camera plugged into the front panel of my G5. Same results.

Could some of you that ran the updater check your logfiles, where I specified in my post on page three of this thread, and see if is is indeed normal for this updater to end with "error 000000", or at least a common occurrence.

Thanks
Zack

DId you try a back port? I have heard that the front port can be flaky.

Nobody has really addressed the system requirement change brought about by this update. 1.02 required 10.2.8 or higher, 1.03 requires 10.3.8 or higher. If anybody shares their iSight between multiple Macs, and any are at 10.3.7 or below, this update will render the iSight unusable on that machine unless the system is brought up to specs. Also, probaly a dangerous update if your main Mac is at 10.2.8 and you don't want to upgrade (for $129) to Panther, you shouldn't run the upgrade (but I guess it wouldn't show up in SWU)

[Applespider]

Unfortunately none of the iPhoto metadata (keywords, etc) is searchable with Spotlight.

Darn... perhaps I'll slow down on the adding of them. That does seem odd though that they're not using it. Perhaps in iPhoto 5.1?

I assumed it was covered since in the Spotlight demo on the website, you could see keywords associated with the images. Does Spotlight display them in the results but not actually use them to search on?

[devman]

"It is worthless to do the update if the iSight is not actally plugged in." Seeing as how this is a "Firmware Update", obviously the software is for the camera, not the Mac.

Initially the iSight was plugged into a FW passthru on an external HDD. This morning I retried with the camera plugged into the front panel of my G5. Same results.

Could some of you that ran the updater check your logfiles, where I specified in my post on page three of this thread, and see if is is indeed normal for this updater to end with "error 000000", or at least a common occurrence.

Thanks
Zack

update installed fine for me and I have the same log as you. the log for my 1.02 update is the same as well.

[johnpg]

Darn... perhaps I'll slow down on the adding of them. That does seem odd though that they're not using it. Perhaps in iPhoto 5.1?

I assumed it was covered since in the Spotlight demo on the website, you could see keywords associated with the images. Does Spotlight display them in the results but not actually use them to search on?

Spotlight uses all of the metadata that's stored inside the actual image files, including keywords. The problem is iPhoto doesn't store it's metadata (including keywords) in the files, it stores it in its own database. The latest update doesn't change that unfortunately. If you were to use Photoshop, or Preview (in Tiger) and add in some keywords or other data to the file, then Spotlight will find those images just fine. The problem is with iPhoto, not Spotlight.

John

[Fredstar]

not really noticed much difference in iPhoto or iMovie, idvd 5 is slightly better but it is still so so slow and unresponsive. I try to change a theme and it stone cold freezes my iMac for a good 20 seconds. V annoying.

[gopher]

not really noticed much difference in iPhoto or iMovie, idvd 5 is slightly better but it is still so so slow and unresponsive. I try to change a theme and it stone cold freezes my iMac for a good 20 seconds. V annoying.

If you get any kernel panics, you may have a hardware issue causing these freezes:

http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html

A 20 second freeze is not normal. The other thing that can cause this is an overfull hard drive or a directory which needs repair:

http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html

[Fredstar]

If you get any kernel panics, you may have a hardware issue causing these freezes:

http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html

A 20 second freeze is not normal. The other thing that can cause this is an overfull hard drive or a directory which needs repair:

http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html

I have never had a kernal Panic and this happened with both idvd 4 and idvd 5. I have run fsck and that and i have 100Gb free on the hard disk.
It only happens the first time i start up idvd and try to change the theme, after the first freeze of 20 seconds (it is consistent) theme's change normally. I am going to check out that directory thingy now, thanks.
I have also only ever had to force restart my iMac once so i think the directory is fine, all my other apps work just fine it is just idvd 5 that freezes everything for about 15-20secs.

[Rod Rod]

It seems that only iMovie HD has new features. The rest are patches.
The iMovie HD update is also a patch. It restores features that were in previous versions of iMovie (versions 3 and 4) but which were mysteriously absent (or didn't function properly) in 5 and 5.0.1.

I didn't know this is possible... isn't that with some sort of external a/v box?
All Digital8 camcorders can play back video8 and Hi-8 tapes AND convert them from analog to digital so that a DV signal goes out their FireWire port. Many miniDV camcorders also operate as analog to digital pass-throughs.

These was a reference to "Capturing video with Hi-8 (Digital 8) devices". I still have ilife 4. Was there a problem in that as well? I have some digital 8 tapes that I need to import and am wondering if there is a problem with imovie 4?
There is no problem with iMovie 4, but iMovie 5 and 5.0.1 had trouble with Hi-8 capture from Digital8 camcorders.

I can Imagine. I have 7000 photos and a Imac G5 with 1 Giga of ram and it nearly unusable...I really can´t imagine what is like in a G3....iPhoto 5 still sucks wind, but yay. I can use type 1 fonts in my albums now. :rolleyes:
Just turn off the default Drop Shadow in iPhoto Preferences>Appearance. You'll notice a HUGE speed improvement.

[zac4mac]

Thanks devman - good enough for me. :D


Z

[brentonbrenton]

to the fellow iphoto 5 users who find it slow; i'm assuming this is when your quickly scrolling through your library?

i read around the internet that when in your library, pressing option+2 helps. the image previews are a little larger, but i can now scrolll from top to bottom and back, like a knife to butter. let me know if that helps

[jerryny]

Thanks for the info Rod Rod

[deathb]

As with many other people who have posted, my iPhoto is extremely slow. I have a 9,000 photo library. I see the 30 second freezes, and loooong wait times to start up and shut down. The problem is the amount of memory iPhoto is using. I only have about 850MB RAM free on my machine for programs to use, and iPhoto uses as much as 2GB on a bad day. At the moment it is using 800MB and a ton of swap on my machine. Once a program hits swap, it means that it is using the hard drive as memory (where a hard drive is more than 1000x slower than DRAM).

Can anyone else verify the memory usage they're seeing from iPhoto? Apple has completely ignored me on this bug (which I started reporting the day iLife 05 was released).

DeathB

[deathb]

Just turn off the default Drop Shadow in iPhoto Preferences>Appearance. You'll notice a HUGE speed improvement.
After seeing this, I'm really frightened to know what my performance would do if I ever tried turing this on.

DeathB

[johnpg]

Spotlight uses all of the metadata that's stored inside the actual image files, including keywords. The problem is iPhoto doesn't store it's metadata (including keywords) in the files, it stores it in its own database. The latest update doesn't change that unfortunately. If you were to use Photoshop, or Preview (in Tiger) and add in some keywords or other data to the file, then Spotlight will find those images just fine. The problem is with iPhoto, not Spotlight.

For the three of you who care...A little bird told me that Tiger does indeed index iPhoto metadata with the new version. But it doesn't write that data to the file, so there must be some kind of importer or something that reads the iPhoto database. In any case it's the same effect.

Cheers,
John

[AppleMatt]

iPhoto and iMovie updates installed fine, don't notice any changes though.
I'm doubting it, but are there any other changes to the iSight except audio that anyone has noticed?

AppleMatt

[7on]

Here's another iMovie update info...

[GregA]

...so help me, if this doesn't fix the iDVD widescreen issues I'm going to go INSANE!!!I haven't had a chance to try the iDVD widescreen yet - what are the issues? (and have they been fixed?)

[Rod Rod]

Thanks for the info Rod Rod
You're welcome.

(the following is re: turning off drop shadows)
After seeing this, I'm really frightened to know what my performance would do if I ever tried turing this on.

DeathB
If you're ever in a masochistic mood you might try it out. I hope you find a solution to your problem. I suppose you've already tried trashing iPhoto preferences?