iPhoto 5: avi support

[jxyama]

i can't find this info at MR (well, i didn't read through 6 pages of discussions on iLife 05, sorry...) or apple.com...

anyone know what movie formats are supported in iPhoto 5? i saw mpeg being mentioned... my camera (canon s230) takes movies in avi format. (but a weird avi since QT has no problem playing it...)

i can't see iPhoto 5 not supporting a format used by one of the most popular digital camera makers, so i assume it's supported... but i appreciate any help.

 

[mrgreen4242]

i can't find this info at MR (well, i didn't read through 6 pages of discussions on iLife 05, sorry...) or apple.com...

anyone know what movie formats are supported in iPhoto 5? i saw mpeg being mentioned... my camera (canon s230) takes movies in avi format. (but a weird avi since QT has no problem playing it...)

i can't see iPhoto 5 not supporting a format used by one of the most popular digital camera makers, so i assume it's supported... but i appreciate any help.

Well, .avi files are really just "wrappers". That means that it's a just a single file that includes both an audio and video track. The two streams could be in a large variety of formats... for example it could be uncompressed PCM audio and (one of the many variants of) MPEG4 video; or MP3 audio and one of the older Windows Media Video (before WMV8, I think).

So, the answer is a definate maybe. I'm not sure what kind of formats your camera records in, there should be someway to get file information about the clips and then checkto see if that is supported.

Rob

 

[iJon]

If so, this will be great news for the porn community our there

jon

 

[Blackheart]

If so, this will be great news for the porn community our there

jon

Hey, if that's what it takes for people to switch, right?