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Use iPhoto '05 as a general media organizer
Authored by: smkolins on Mar 23, '05 09:49:00AM

It seems to import fine but exports are far and few between. Specifically the export to web simply bypasses any movies selected and if only a movie is selected that export option is grayed out. In fact the only options appear to be burn to cd and export direct to a homepage online in .Mac and then you are limited to one page, and upto 48 graphics.

I just came back from Ukraine with an adopted daughter and have tons of pictures and movies and have spent hours and hours working with web exported folders of iPhoto pictures having to hand add the movies (and shrink the jpeg resolution though now I can at least use the Smallimage2 app to batch process all those!) I was so excited to hear about dealing with movies it never occured to me it would be so unusable as a feature.

While we're at it I wish iPhoto would look at an exported folder of an album and allow adding to it as the album grows rather than doing a complete fresh export (which then requires the above steps all over again.)

And yes - why not incorporate the abilities of Smallimage2 into iPhoto?

But some questions too - In iPhoto movies show up as a still image of the first frame - does that become the "thumbnail" of the movie in a Homepage? Sure would be nice if that worked when exported to web works if it ever does.

And then there's the ability to enhance movies as well as photos... Seems to me the only option is to convert the mpg files to dv ( I use MPEG Streamclip to convert to dv, import to iMovie which has basic contrast/brightness controls) but talk about going around your elbow. I would be fine if iPhoto would just deal with the little movies of digital cameras and iMovie handled "real" movies.

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