Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Use iPhoto '05 as a general media organizer' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Use iPhoto '05 as a general media organizer
Authored by: renderhead on Jan 21, '05 11:28:39AM

I assume this can only be used to play back quicktime-compatible movie files, but is is possible to catalog non-quicktime compatible movies along with them, playing them back in another application? Even if it only displayed a "cannot be displayed" icon in place of a thumbnail, it would be nice to see that I had a .wmv version of a particular music video along with all of my quicktime music videos.



[ Reply to This | # ]
types of files
Authored by: earthsaver on Jan 21, '05 12:23:27PM

So far as I can tell, iPhoto only supports AVIs, which I'm pretty sure is the only type of standard movie file used by cameras. That's too bad. I, too, was hoping to organize my movie collection (such as Apple commercials) in iPhoto, but it won't accept them. Doesn't seem to like MOVs or MP4s. Oh well.

---
- Ben Rosenthal
Q16 1.25 - Panther



[ Reply to This | # ]
types of files
Authored by: foobar104 on Jan 22, '05 03:00:41PM

I don't know what you're doing wrong, but for me, iPhoto accepts any file that QuickTime can interpret. That includes Movie files (.mov), AVI files and MPEG-1, -2 and -4 files.



[ Reply to This | # ]