TidBITS#729/10-May-04
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After spending nine days in Hawaii with his PowerBook, cell phone,
digital camera, and iPod, Adam muses on how taking a vacation is
affected by technology and how well today's technology meets the
needs of vacationers. Celebrating the release of his latest book,
Jeff Carlson offers some tips and techniques for iMovie 4. In the
news, if you're a Now Up-to-Date & Contact user (or want to be),
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iMovie 4 in the Viewfinder
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by Jeff Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
When I wrote about iMovie 3 last year, I was less than enamored of
Apple's digital video editor (see "iMovie 3 Tips and Gotchas" in
TidBITS-697_). It was slow, buggy, and frustrating. Apple released
iMovie 4 shortly after this year's Macworld Expo in San Francisco,
and I'm happy to report that the new version is much improved -
not to the extent that I'd prefer, but iMovie no longer feels like
it was rushed out the door.
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07356>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07500>
Peachpit Press has just released the third edition of my book on
iMovie, which not only includes almost 100 new pages of material
(thanks in part to the addition of iDVD coverage) but also has the
longest title of anything I've published: iMovie 4 & iDVD 4 for
Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide (I get tired just typing it).
In this short article, I want to share some worthwhile tips and
iMovie improvements. I'll look at iDVD 4 in a future article.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321246632/tidbitselectro00/ref=nosim>
**Direct Trimming** -- iMovie gains an important structural
overhaul in version 4. Apple calls it Direct Trimming, but video
editors know it better as non-destructive editing. In earlier
versions of iMovie, you trimmed a video clip by lopping off
portions that you didn't need - the last 10 seconds, for example.
If you later realized you need to use that footage, the only ways
to retrieve it were to use Undo (but only if the edit was made
within the last 10 actions), or by restoring the entire clip to
its original state.
With Direct Trimming, that deleted footage is always available.
If you decide you want your clip to be two seconds longer, you
simply grab the right edge of the clip in the Timeline Viewer and
drag it to the right to expose the footage you want. When trimming
clips down, just drag the right edge of the clip and move it to
the left, hiding the frames you wish to remove from view.
The only exception to the advantages of Direct Trimming is if you
empty iMovie's trash: iMovie rewrites the media files stored on
disk to match the edits you've applied, deleting the footage
you've hidden. (I recommend not emptying iMovie's trash at any
point while editing; if you need more disk space, you're better
off buying an inexpensive external FireWire hard disk and moving
your project there.)
**Keystrokes Make Editing Easier** -- Using keystroke shortcuts
doesn't sound like a sexy new feature, but I rely on them to speed
up my work and reduce the amount of mousing I do. iMovie 4 added
a few keystroke shortcuts that I use constantly.
* Press Command-E to switch between the Clip Viewer and the
Timeline Viewer (the two timeline views that occupy the same
space at the bottom of iMovie's screen).
* In the Timeline Viewer, press Command-Option-P to scroll to
where the playhead is located, or if a clip is selected but
currently off-screen, press Command-Option-S to jump to that
clip.
* Also in the Timeline Viewer, press Command-Option-Z with a clip
selected to zoom in on just that clip so that it takes up most of
the timeline. For a quick way to zoom out to see your entire movie
without leaving the keyboard, press Command-A to select all clips
in the timeline, then Command-Option-Z to zoom to the selection.
* Press Command-B to create a bookmark, a marker used only
for your own navigational use. Press Command-[ or Command-]
(the bracket keys) to jump to the previous or next bookmark.
* iMovie 4 features timeline snapping: as you drag the playhead
through the movie, it snaps to the nearest edit point (helpful
when matching audio and video clips). You can turn this option
on or off in iMovie's preferences, but there's a better way: keep
it turned off in the preferences, and hold down Shift as you drag
the playhead to temporarily enable snapping.
**Catch a Wave(form)** -- iMovie 4 finally adds visible waveforms
to audio clips, so you can see the peaks and valleys in the sound.
Waveforms are especially helpful when you're trying to line up a
song or sound clip to match action in the video. To turn on
waveforms, go to iMovie's preferences and enable the Show Audio
Track Waveforms checkbox. It helps to zoom in on a clip to see
more waveform detail. You can also press the up and down arrow
keys in a selected audio clip to raise or lower waveforms
temporarily to see them better (this changes only the waveform
display, not the audio levels themselves).
Unfortunately, you can only view waveforms on audio clips, not
video clips, even though in iMovie the video clips also include
an audio track. To view the waveforms for a video clip, you must
extract the audio (press Command-J with a clip selected, or choose
Extract Audio from the Advanced menu).
iMovie 4 also added the capability to scrub audio, which plays
audio as you drag the playhead, not just when you play back the
movie in real time. Hold down Option, then drag the playhead to
scrub. However, this feature is such a performance drain that
I find it unusable: the playhead lags behind where I've dragged.
**Sharing Is Caring** -- One last nifty feature before I roll
credits is the capability to export selected clips from your
movie, rather than the entire movie itself. In earlier versions,
if I wanted to export a specific scene to a QuickTime movie, for
example, I needed to move all the other clips off the timeline
before exporting, a real hassle. In iMovie 4, simply select the
clips you want to export, choose Share from the File menu (or
press Command-Shift-E), and click the checkbox labeled Share
Selected Clips Only.
**A Word about Performance** -- I mentioned earlier that iMovie 4
is improved, but not as much as I'd like. One thing about iMovie
(and, it seems, all of the iLife applications except iTunes) is
that they greatly benefit from faster hardware, but even then
performance can vary between similar Macs. Some people export
movies with no problems, while others tear their hair out
due to audio problems or stuttery playback. In my experience,
iMovie 4 has been quite stable on my 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4,
though it's a dog when running on my older 400 MHz PowerBook
G4 Titanium.
I can't offer a sure-fire solution, but I can point you to a
great resource: Dan Slagel's "Unofficial" iMovie FAQ. For other
information, I also maintain a companion Web site to my book,
where you'll find iMovie-related news, tips, and links to other
resources. And lastly, you might want to check out a recent
TidBITS Talk thread, which was spurred by the latest iMovie
4.0.1 update.
<http://danslagle.dvmix.com/mac/iMovie/>
<http://www.necoffee.com/imovievqs/>
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Technology on Vacation
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We're finally caught up from our vacation on Kauai, Hawaii, and
as much as I wish I could say that it was a truly relaxing and
wonderful time, in reality I was utterly sick for all but the last
few days, which put a major crimp in affairs. Nonetheless, if you
have to sit around doing nothing, Kauai is as nice a place as you
could imagine for that, and I'd recovered enough by the end to
enjoy a few days in the sun, sand, and surf.
But that's not what I'm here to tell you about today. For many of
us, vacations are no longer technology-free zones. I travel with
quite a lot of technology these days, and I found the ways in
which I used the various devices quite interesting. I'm not sure
there are any big conclusions here, but perhaps you can draw a
few lessons from my experiences.
**Westernmost Wi-Fi** -- We stayed at the Waimea Plantation
Cottages, a resort built from the simple cottages of sugar
plantation workers, and although the cottages themselves were
rustic, the resort's courtly main building offered free wireless
Internet access. Since neither Tonya nor I was comfortable being
entirely away from email for nine days, we were happy to toddle
over to the main building's common area, settle down in a
comfortable chair in a shady breezeway, and take advantage of
a high-speed Internet connection. Given that Waimea is on the
western coast of Kauai near the end of the road that snakes around
Kauai, and Kauai is the westernmost of the Hawaiian islands (other
than the "Forbidden Island" of Niihau, which is privately owned),
this may be the westernmost public hot spot in the United States.
<http://waimea-plantation.com/>
<http://www.hawaiian.net/~niihauisland/island.htm>
We preferred not having the Wi-Fi access in our cottage, since
that ensured that our Internet use was extremely discreet. It
also meant that one of us had to stay with our son Tristan at all
times, so we couldn't both be off working for any amount of time.
**Yet Another Spam Problem** -- The high-speed Internet access
turned out to be essential for getting anything done, for the
simple reason that the amount of spam I receive has grown to the
point where a modem connection simply wouldn't be sufficient.
I'm averaging over 700 spam messages per day now, and although
SpamSieve continues to do an excellent job of keeping more than
99.7 percent them out of my In box, it's still a ton of data to
transfer. I was checking mail about once per day, and Eudora never
downloaded fewer than 1,000 messages in a mail check.
<http://www.c-command.com/spamsieve/>
It's clear that as much as SpamSieve is a great tool, I have
to start working on server-side solutions that work with our
Web Crossing mail server to manage the ever rising flood of
spam. Confusing the issue are all the worm messages sent to me
by others, and the bounces from worm messages that forge my
address.
**Digital Images** -- For the trip, we bought a Canon PowerShot
S400 to supplement our aging PowerShot S100, and as much as
I liked the PowerShot S100, I like the S400 even more. It
improves on the S100 in a variety of ways, upping the pixel
count to 4 megapixels and the optical zoom to 3X, and adding
movie and panorama modes. It's faster to start up, faster between
shots, and works better in macro mode, all of which were slight
frustrations with the S100. In fact, the only thing I don't
like as much about S400 is that the mode wheel often turns in
my pocket, so I can never be sure exactly what mode I'm in
when I pull it out. (Even the S400 has been supplanted by the
5-megapixel PowerShot S500, but that camera wasn't worth the
extra $150 when I was ready to buy).
<http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/s400/>
<http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/s500-410/>
I've become inordinately fond of the tiny movies the S400 takes,
which remind me of nothing so much as the old home movies of
yesteryear. They're short and grainy, and I don't care one bit.
There's something about being able to take a movie of Tristan
rolling down a sand dune that just can't be captured by a still
image. Although a digital camcorder would of course have done a
better job, I don't believe any of the current models will fit in
my pocket, nor will any take still photos as good as the S400.
Plus, the limited space for movies on my S400's 256 MB Compact
Flash card ensures I won't just spend the entire day behind the
lens, looking for that perfect clip.
I eagerly await the day when processing power and storage have
become so commonplace that we'll be able to extract still images
from video without a loss of quality. So many pictures are lost
because the shutter snapped at just the wrong moment, but if every
photo could actually be a few seconds of video, it would be much
easier to avoid the closed eyes or the goofy expression.
**iPhoto Limitations** -- I hadn't quite internalized the level to
which one of iPhoto's limitations can be annoying if you use your
camera for movies as well as still images. iPhoto handles only
still images, and if you make it your default hot plug application
(the application that launches automatically when you plug in your
camera), it's easy to forget that you have movies on the camera.
That's especially problematic if you don't use iPhoto's "Erase
Camera Contents After Transfer" option when importing photos.
I've seen that setting cause problems in previous versions of
iPhoto, so I always used to recommend erasing the card in the
camera after you were sure that iPhoto had downloaded everything
properly. Unfortunately, that technique, coupled with forgetting
about movies, meant that I accidentally erased a really nice
movie I took during my sister's wedding ceremony. iPhoto won't
erase movies, so it's actually safer to let it erase photos if
you trust it in general.
Image Capture, Apple's other application for downloading photos,
will properly download movies to your Movies folder (yet another
way, along with selective import, that it beats iPhoto for
importing), but it's annoying to have it be the hot plug
application if you don't take movies all the time. [You can
change the default hot plug application using Image Capture's
preferences. -Geoff] A partial solution comes in the form of
the free Camera Helper utility from the folks at Script Software;
Camera Helper sets itself as the hot plug application and
displays a dialog of applications to launch, so you can easily
choose between iPhoto and Image Capture for any given import
action. I'd like to see Camera Helper launch Image Capture and
have it automatically download movies, then launch iPhoto and
have it automatically download photos.
<http://www.scriptsoftware.com/camera_helper/>
**Photo Recovery** -- I was so annoyed at myself for erasing that
movie accidentally that I spent some time trying to figure out if
I could recover it. My efforts were in vain, since I'd taken quite
a number of photos since erasing, but I tried the demos of a pair
of applications that claimed to be able to recover deleted (though
not overwritten) photos on memory cards.
If you find yourself in this situation, give both PhotoRescue and
Don't Panic a try. I preferred PhotoRescue, since its demo showed
you what it could recover, and you could then buy the full $30
program if it was going to help. Don't Panic was clumsier and
cost more at $40, but it seemed that it would have worked as well,
had I not already overwritten the movie I wanted to recover.
<http://www.photorescue.info/products/rescue/photorescue.htm>
<http://www.imagerecall.com/software.asp>
**Different Perspectives** -- Now that the S100 is no longer our
only digital camera, we started letting Tristan use it. He's over
five years old now, and with only a small amount of training, has
proven capable of being sufficiently careful with the camera so
we're not afraid of him destroying it. It's fascinating watching
him take pictures and immediately look at them on the LCD; in
another technological shift, people of his generation won't really
understand what it was like to see photos only after developing
the film days, weeks, or, for people like my parents, months
later.
His perspective is also completely different. His pictures of
people often don't make it up to the face, perhaps because when
you're 43 inches (1.1 meters) tall, you don't see faces nearly
as much. He's also much more likely to take extreme close-ups of
commonplace objects, and he has little concern for keeping the
camera straight. And yet, his sense of composition is often quite
good; I wonder if we'll see a shift in photographic approaches
as young photographers who grew up with the freedom of the
digital world start entering the field.
**Better Photo Sharing** -- iPhoto 4 added Rendezvous photo
sharing, which is a step in the right direction, but doesn't
quite meet a need I've run into on several occasions recently.
Most of my relatives have digital cameras as well, so at any
family gathering of any significance, it's likely that several
people will bring their cameras and take photos that we'd all
like to share. I always have a media card reader that accepts
all the different media card formats, but it's sufficiently slow
and involved to dump the photos into iPhoto (or any other program;
both USB and the media cards are quite slow, though I'm not sure
which is the bottleneck) that it seldom works out well to collect
everyone's photos into a single place.
I don't have any great solutions here, since trading photos around
on the spot would often intrude upon the event, even if the speeds
were faster and everyone had brought laptops. Perhaps an iPod with
a Belkin Media Reader would work, since it could just download all
the photos with a minimum of fuss. Or perhaps the trading should
happen after everyone has gone home and winnowed out the mistakes;
if iPhoto's photo sharing could operate over the Internet as well
as a local network, at least those people with Macs and high-speed
Internet connections could trade photos back and forth with ease.
<http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=158350>
Of course, if I were to start storing photos on the iPod, then I'd
really begin to long for an iPod with a color screen that could
display those photos as well, perhaps even with a FireWire to RCA
composite video for connecting them to television screens. Tonya's
mother is organizing a reunion for her high school right now,
and I can just imagine an iPod-based photo viewer being just
the thing for a proud grandmother to show off photos of her kids
and grandkids. But Apple has resisted such enhancements so far,
merely making it possible for third parties to extend the iPod's
capabilities for storing photos and recording sound.
**iPod Irritation** -- One of the reasons I was enthused about
joining the ranks of iPod owners was that my old iBook's hard disk
wasn't large enough to hold much music at all for listening to on
planes or in hotel rooms. At the time, I addressed the problem by
burning an MP3 CD of some of my favorite songs; it was more than
enough for almost any trip. But even though I'm now using a 12"
PowerBook with a much larger hard disk, I figured the iPod would
let me bring my entire music collection without worrying about
wasting disk space at all.
However, there was a problem. I could listen to the iPod through
its earbuds, which I hate because they hurt my ears, or through
a pair of Koss headphones that are somewhat less uncomfortable
(maybe I just have weird ears, but I've never found a pair of
headphones comfortable), but I couldn't just play it through my
PowerBook's speakers. And since my iPod normally connects to my
Power Mac G4, it wouldn't even show up in iTunes on the PowerBook.
I wasn't annoyed enough to trek over to the Wi-Fi connection to
research solutions on the Internet, but when I came home, I found
an answer in the fourth edition of Chris Breen's excellent book,
Secrets of the iPod. An $8 utility called PodMaster 1000 from
Flying Mouse Software lets you copy music from your iPod back
to a Mac, and better yet, it lets you play songs from the iPod
through the connected Mac's speakers.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321245644/tidbitselectro00/ref=nosim>
<http://homepage.mac.com/podmaster/>
**Personal Communication** -- Cell phones don't work terribly well
in many parts of Ithaca, so we use ours much less than we would
otherwise. Nonetheless, Tonya and I still have our landline
phone numbers forward to our cell phones on no answer or busy,
ensuring that we always receive calls no matter where we are and
eliminating the need to check multiple voicemail services. Our
cell phones proved their worth on this trip in particular, though,
since our first flight from Ithaca to Pittsburgh was delayed for
90 minutes due to thunderstorms in Pittsburgh. Unfortunately,
that 90 minute delay meant there was no way we could get to Kauai
in one day, since we had missed the necessary connecting flights.
Faced with the need to try again the next day, we decided it made
more sense to start over from the west coast. The US Airways
people in Ithaca were more than accommodating (it probably helped
having a cute kid announcing to everyone in sight that he was
going to his aunt's wedding to be the ring bearer) and so when
we suggested that perhaps we could fly through Seattle, they made
it happen even though it was more flights than were strictly
necessary.
But that meant an opportunity to arrange a dinner with old
friends, some of whom we hadn't seen in years. I spent most of
our layover time in Pittsburgh and Chicago on the cell phone,
calling friends and having conversations along the lines of this.
"Hi, this is Adam. Up for dinner tonight?" <Insert a brief pause
to enjoy some incoherent stammering as the person on the other
tried to overcome the geographical head rush.> "Where am I?
Chicago at the moment, but we'll be in Seattle for dinner soon,
so we hope you can meet us at the Red Robin by the University
Bridge at 7 PM." It's fun to pretend to be in the jet set.
Our friend Lauren picked us up at the airport, and we were
overjoyed to eat and catch up with 12 other friends before heading
home with Brady (our attorney in the spam lawsuit) and his wife
Karen, who works at Apple and could take us to the airport the
next morning since she was flying to Cupertino at the same time
we were set to pick up our trek to Hawaii again. We've never had
such a good time as a result of a delayed flight.
Even after we landed in Kauai, the walkie-talkie nature of cell
phones turned out to be incredibly useful, given the number of
relatives present for the wedding and the need to coordinate
activities and locations on a constant basis.
**The Mac Connection and the Blue Room** -- As our relatives
dispersed after the wedding, we had two days to ourselves, so we
spent one playing on the beach at Polihale at the end of the road
on the west end of Kauai. It was the classic day at the beach,
walking on the sand, playing in the waves, building sand castles,
and burying Tonya to her neck (she loved the warm sand). The next
day, however, we changed gears and drove up to the north end of
the island to meet up with Julian Miller, who runs the Macintosh
software publisher Script Software (which is how I learned about
Camera Helper, mentioned above). I've known Julian slightly from
Macworld Expos for years, but Tonya had never met him and it was
pure happenstance that I learned that he lived on Kauai - when I
was interviewing Bruce Horn several months ago, Bruce was actually
on vacation on Kauai, visiting Julian as well.
<http://www.hawaiiweb.com/kauai/html/beaches/polihale_beach.html>
<http://www.scriptsoftware.com/>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07516>
In between the necessary geek talk (Kauai isn't a high-tech kind
of place), Julian showed us the beach at Hanalei, and when it
started to rain, convinced us that we really did want to drive the
last 15 minutes to the end of the road on the north side. We ended
up at that beach, which was a good beach, even a fine beach, but
the brief stop on the way was what was etched in our memories.
At some point on the road, Julian told me to park, and led the
way up a steep and rocky path, then helped Tristan down into a
huge cave entrance. At the bottom of the cave was a massive pool
of fresh water, and if you braved the chilly temperature and swam
out to the back of the cave, the light from outside filtered
through the clear water, producing an astonishingly beautiful blue
light. The Blue Room, as it's called, is reportedly the end of a
two-mile long lava tube once explored by diving legend Jacques
Cousteau, though I could find no confirmation of that on the Web.
Nevertheless, it's wonderful, and if you ever find yourself on
Kauai, don't miss it.
<http://www.bestplaceshawaii.com/tips/hidden_places/blue_room.html>
Unfortunately, the Blue Room was so large that my S400's flash
couldn't begin to light it, forcing me to hold the camera very
still for a slow shot. And without the optional waterproof case
(which a friend used recently on a snorkeling trip), I didn't
even consider taking the camera to the back of the cave to see
if I could capture the intense blue color filtering through the
water. You can see my semi-successful attempts (Tonya wasn't
about to stand still in that frigid water) and other pictures
from those last two days, if you like, on .Mac. Beware that if
too many people visit the page, it may be shut down temporarily
for going over the bandwidth allocation - I figure that our
vacation photos are of less general interest than some other
pictures I've posted.
<http://homepage.mac.com/adamengst/PhotoAlbum29.html>
Nonetheless, some things weren't meant to be recorded by
technology, and we'll have to rely on our memories of the
Blue Room and of a truly enjoyable day with Julian, proving
once again how enjoyable Macintosh folks can be.
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/10-May-04
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by TidBITS Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The second URL below each thread description points to the
discussion on our Web Crossing server, which will be much
faster, though it doesn't yet use our preferred design.
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/>
**iTunes 4.5** -- More discussion of the latest version of iTunes,
including frustration outside the United States and how music
is being shared via Rendezvous. (17 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2225>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/90>
**Liability** -- If you run an open wireless network and someone
hijacks it to send spam or engage in otherwise illegal behavior,
are you liable? (11 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2217>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/79>
**iMovie 4.0.1 Improves Performance** -- The latest update
to Apple's movie editing software is an improvement, but
frustrations remain. (1 message)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2227>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/92>
**.Mac email problems** -- Some readers find that getting email
via Apple's .Mac service is flaky, while others report no
problems. (5 messages)
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