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Farewell Drag-n-Drop
Apple, inventor of “drag and drop” ( (or at least populizer of it–not a word, I know) has seemingly killed this feature with the update to iPhoto’08.
I do a lot of documentary-style work and often have a lot of photos to work with. I would organize these photos–sometimes hundreds for a project–in iPhoto. It made browsing and organizing them much easier than trying to do it in FCP’s browser. Then, when I found a photo I might want to use, I dragged it to FCP.
Recently, I opened an older project, where I had dragged these photos from iPhoto into FCP, but it couldn’t find the images. When I tried to relink the pictures, the pictures couldn’t be found.
What I discovered was the new version of iPhoto puts the photo library into a “package”. At the finder level I can look at packages contents and navigate to the photo, but from FCP, there’s no way to tell it to look inside the package content and have it find all the photos–it can be done, but it’s a tedious, one image at a time process now.
Unless there’s some little iPhoto or FCP checkbox/preference that you guys know of, dragging and dropping from iPhoto into FCP may be a thing of the past.
My guess is, I have to upgrade to Aperture to restore this functionality. (Wrong forum, but does anyone know if Aperture uses folders or a package?)
Side note–I’m looking forward to when the FCP video footage can be organized and browsed like photos can in Aperture and iPhoto.
Anyway, farewell Drag-n-Drop… Farewell.
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Red Balloon
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Well, that’s lame, but here’s your workaround:
1) Go into iPhoto’s prefrences and go to Advanced. Un-check the “Copy items to the iPhoto Library.”
2) Start a new folder for all your photos. Every time you import photos from a camera, just put them in a folder in this folder. Name them something simple like
2008-001
2008-002
2008-003
etc.So each photo represents 1 import session. You’ll never have to look in here for anything, just keep it neat enough that it’s not a huge mess.
3) After you’ve copied the photos to the computer, select all the photos and drag them to iPhoto. It will import them to the library and organize them, but the links will go to the actual photos without moving them.
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This solves your problem from now on. For work already done I’m not sure…you can make a new folder for each event you have, drag them out and then re-import them, I guess. I don’t know how many photos you have and if that’s practical or not.
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Here’s someone describing making an alias to the package contents in Iphoto ’08. I don’t know if this will help your situation:
https://theappleblog.com/2007/11/06/how-to-access-your-iphoto-08-library-from-your-browser/
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Drag-n-Drop works fine for me.
I was working on a doc when I updated my iphoto. All image files went offline and my stomach dropped as I had nearly 120 photos in the project at that time. I closed my project and let the update complete. Quite iphoto opened FCP and to my surprise all was linked backed perfectly.
Finished the project by my normal drop and drag. It works the way it always has for me. I pull them right from the iphoto window to my FCP bin.
I should note that this was with iphoto 08 and FCP 4.5 although I don’t know why this would work in an older version of FCP and not a new one. OS 10.4.11.
I do hate that the photos are stored in the package and the folders are created by dates anymore. Sucks for when I want to quick grab a photo in photoshop and all I know is the date it was shot.
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