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Moving stills from video to iPhoto

I have been using iMovie 6.0.3 and captured some stills from my vidoe and was able to drag them into the movie introduction. Now I would like to use the same stills in my Web Gallery page, but I cannot drag or import them into iPhoto. The files are called e.g. Still 01.dv and iPhoto does not recognize these files. What can I do? Thanks in advance.
Geraldine

iMac G4, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 8GB iPhone

Posted on May 31, 2008 7:17 PM

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Posted on May 31, 2008 9:11 PM

Geraldine,

Confusing though it may be, a *Still Frame* is a movie file and not an image file. What you want to do is select the still in iMovie and do File > *Save Frame* (or type Command F). You can then choose jpeg for your file type, set the name, and save to your Desktop. Once on the Desktop, you can import into iPhoto, then delete the Desktop copy. (You can't save directly into the iPhoto Library folder, because iPhoto has to import it.)

Bottom line: use +Save Frame+, NOT +Create Still Frame+.

Regards.
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May 31, 2008 9:11 PM in response to Geraldine Dwyer1

Geraldine,

Confusing though it may be, a *Still Frame* is a movie file and not an image file. What you want to do is select the still in iMovie and do File > *Save Frame* (or type Command F). You can then choose jpeg for your file type, set the name, and save to your Desktop. Once on the Desktop, you can import into iPhoto, then delete the Desktop copy. (You can't save directly into the iPhoto Library folder, because iPhoto has to import it.)

Bottom line: use +Save Frame+, NOT +Create Still Frame+.

Regards.

Moving stills from video to iPhoto

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