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iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, Keynote, Pages Updates
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Makosuke said:
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).
Zaty said:
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!
Why does this topic say Pages update too? Pages hasn't been updated, for an entire month, or at least sometime in March. Right?
Diatribe said:
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".
AndrewMT said:
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.
Thanks aprilfools but -
"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
"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
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.Diatribe said:
Cheers,
John
Yvan256 said:
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
zac4mac said:
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)
johnpg said:
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?
Applespider said:
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
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.
Fredstar said:
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
gopher said:
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.
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.Doctor Q said:
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.SAukland said:
There is no problem with iMovie 4, but iMovie 5 and 5.0.1 had trouble with Hi-8 capture from Digital8 camcorders.jerryny said:
mdetry said:
Just turn off the default Drop Shadow in iPhoto Preferences>Appearance. You'll notice a HUGE speed improvement.iGary said:iPhoto 5 still sucks wind, but yay. I can use type 1 fonts in my albums now.
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
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
iPhoto slowness
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
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
johnpg said:
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