iMovie can't see ALL photo contents of Aperture projects. Why?

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iMovie can't see ALL photo contents of Aperture projects. Why?

What do I have to do to make iMovie see ALL of the photos in an Aperature project instead of just the unedited ones? I have approx 230 but just half of them show up in iMovie media browser. Doesn't say much for 'seamless integration'. I've tried 'repreocessing masters' (which doesn't sound like it's going to affect the versions, in any case) and I've updating previews. Neither has made any difference.

As of now, I'm glad this is a 30-day trial and, without any kind of clear instructions from Apple on how this simple and obvious task should be performed, I have to say I'm less than bowled over by the idea of 'upgrading' from iPhoto.

any suggestions or advice greatly welcome.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jun 9, 2011 1:39 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 9, 2011 1:52 PM in response to baldoyler

If you have images in stacks in Aperture you'll only see the stack pick other than that I can't think of any reason you wouldn't be seeing your images in iMovie.

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Jun 9, 2011 3:30 PM in response to Frank Caggiano

Frank, thanks for taking the time to post. In fact I don't have anything in stacks (not yet, at least) so it's got to be something else.

Seems somewhat confusing to say the least. But thanks in any case! We fiddle on.

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Jun 9, 2011 3:34 PM in response to baldoyler

Are you certain because you're description of the problem, only show unedited images, almost makes it sound like you have Preferences->General; Automatically stack new versions set.

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baldoyler Author

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Jun 9, 2011 3:49 PM in response to baldoyler

Frank, my apologies. Indeed you are right! Though I hadn't set it (not yet quite understanding what it means) 'Automatically stack new versions' was indeed set (automatically?), is now unset, and, hopefully, the problem is solved. Go raibh mile maith agat. (Irish for 'many thanks').

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ypgu

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Aug 20, 2013 8:55 AM in response to baldoyler

Oops. meant to send to Frank...

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ypgu

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Aug 20, 2013 8:56 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Hi there Frank,

So, I've tried the Preference thing (it was already unset for "Automatically stack new versions" in Aperture).

I've also tried deleting (per some other threads) the com.iMovieApp.plist as well as the com.apple.iApps.plist.

Even now, I can see some of my photos, but not all of them in an Album that I created in Aperture.

The photos that I cannot see were taken with the same camera (and thus all the same metadata) as other photos that I can see. I have not changed the names of the photos (per another thread that said to take out the "&").

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Thanks much!

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