birdwocha
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Q: Adjusting aperture video clips in imovie - not seeing change in Aperture

I've opened imported aperture video clips by Clicking on Aperture Videos in iMovie.

I've successfully adjusted the movies and can see the improved exposure etc when I view the video in the iMovie playback screen (right hand side).

BUT the adjustments don't show when I access the video in Aperture. Even the version with the dot and circle which shows it has been updated in iMovie.

I have set a preference to enable edits in iMovie within Aperture.

 

Do I need to export/import the clips back into Aperture? Surely not?!

 

Or what am I doing wrong or omitting?

 

Many thanks

BW

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Apr 20, 2012 9:52 AM

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Q: Adjusting aperture video clips in imovie - not seeing change in Aperture

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  • by Frank Caggiano,Helpful

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Apr 20, 2012 10:22 AM in response to birdwocha
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    Apr 20, 2012 10:22 AM in response to birdwocha

    Not sure if this applies to your case but Aperture 3.2.3: Viewer does not update after editing an image in external editor is a know bug Apple is working on.

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    birdwocha birdwocha Apr 20, 2012 11:13 AM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Apr 20, 2012 11:13 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

    Thank you for trying. I am in 3.2.3 but resizing the video clip didn't work. I wonder if this is also a bug tho as it is so similar to the still pic issue. Bw

  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Apr 20, 2012 11:39 AM in response to birdwocha
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    Apr 20, 2012 11:39 AM in response to birdwocha

    I wonder if this is also a bug tho as it is so similar to the still pic issue. Bw

    I think this is not a bug, but a conceptual problem.

     

    The clips you see in the iTunes Event Library behave very much like the Master image files in Aperture. If you adjust an clip these adjustments are not applied to the clip stored in the library. (You may check this by ctrl-clicking the clip in the event and selecting "reveal in Finder"). You will only make the adjustments permanent and create the adjusted clip when you add the clip to a project and export or share a rendered project in one of the export formats. Maybe there is another way, but sofar I never managed to get the iMovie edits back to Aperture other than rendereing and exporting a movie.

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by birdwocha,

    birdwocha birdwocha Apr 21, 2012 12:09 AM in response to léonie
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    Apr 21, 2012 12:09 AM in response to léonie

    LeonieDF

     

    Thank you for another very helpful answer. I'll do it the long way.

     

    The wierd thing is, in Aperture, by it enabling you to prepare the video clip via 'Edit with iMovie' - it suggests this preparation is creating some kind of link that was designed to mean that import/export shouldn't be necessary.

     

    BTW - my previous problem.... 'disappearing' thumbnails. I found that the first aid repair would lose my edits of the 'missing photos' but that the 'missing photo' edited versions showed up in the slideshows I'd already created (minus thumbnails). So I decided to simply reimport as and when I ever need to re-adjust any of my original pics, which are still in iphoto. Thanks for your help and support with this tho'.

     

    Kind regards

    BW

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 21, 2012 12:56 AM in response to birdwocha
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    Apr 21, 2012 12:56 AM in response to birdwocha

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    The wierd thing is, in Aperture, by it enabling you to prepare the video clip via 'Edit with iMovie' - it suggests this preparation is creating some kind of link that was designed to mean that import/export shouldn't be necessary.

    Yes, that is misleading, and wasteful . Aperture creates a new quasimaster wasting lots of disk space, but the changes are not written back to that new master. I suspect that has also to do with format incompatibility, frame rates etc. My iMovie projects all use framerates different from the clips in iMovie and at some point of the workflow a format conversion takes place.

     

    But if you use Quicktime 7 as external editor, the changes are applied as they should, if you edit by modifying the Video settings; then you see the changes in Aperture as expected. And it used to work with Quicktime Player as well, but right now I do not get it to work properly - my Aperture crashes, if I edit a movie with Quicktime Player as external editor (appending a second movie) and Aperture tries to create a preview for that movie.

     

    I edit my Aperture movies like this right now:

    • I use iMovie, but do not send the movies from Aperture to iMovie, but open them in iMovie from the Media Browser - The Aperture Movies show in the Aperture section of the event Library.
    • Then I apply the motion stabilizer, apply effects, etc, and render a new movie
    • When I need it in Aperture I reimport it.

     

    Regards

    Léonie