15 fps avi from still camera…

[Chuck Reti]

[mortimer heathcliff] “1) iPhoto never imports any of the avi movies from my CompactFlash camera card, but it does import the stills quite well. any ideas why it won’t import avi’s?;

But it does. As a photo app, it’s not going to play it natively, but, this, from iPhoto help and personal experience (just did it):
The first frame of a video clip is shown in your library with a camera icon and its total running time displayed on the bottom of its thumbnail. To play a video clip you’ve imported into iPhoto, double-click it. The movie opens in QuickTime Player. You can use the QuickTime controls to play and pause your movie, step through the movie frame by frame, fine-tune the sound, and more.

I generally don’t import directly into iPhoto, but rather use Image Capture, which will import both stills and camera videos to the folder of your choice for later disposition

2) i was wanting to shorten one of these crappy little avi’s (without losing any more quality), so wanted to import it to FCP, shorten it, then export as an avi again. when i do this, the resulting avi is quite a bit worse than what i started with. so i tried exporting it as a QT, which looked great, but was huge. any ideas here?”

Haven’t tried it, can’t answer that one.

[J. Tad newberry]

hmmm….

1) i looked in my iphoto library folders, and they are full of jpg images, but no avi’s, nor even the first frame of the avi’s.

[Daniel Low]

I always edit my still camera movies Quicktime Pro. Then just Save As Self contained.

I’ve found that iPhoto is pretty unreliable when it come to importing clips, most of the time it does it ok for me but occasionally it won’t, I call that having a Windows moment.