Friday Morning Release Party 104
usermilk writes "Apple has released an update for iMovie 3. It provides improved performance and stability, you can get it from the Software Update preference pane." Hopefully this resolves many of the complaints about what could be a really cool program. maxentius writes "The beta .7 version of
Camino has been released. Once Chimera, this tabbed browser and Apple's Safari might start a real browser war. Which one do you prefer?" And on that note, an anonymous user writes "Safari v64 is making the rounds according to macrumors. Safari v62 brought us Tabs, and this new version (v64) appears to provide increased stability, improved tab appearance, loading status for tabs, and enhanced autocomplete."
Imovie performance, camino... (Score:3, Interesting)
Also I used camino exclusively and have switched to safari after the advent of tabs, anyone with me?
FIRST POST hahaha suckaz
Re:Imovie performance, camino... (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Imovie performance, camino... (Score:3, Informative)
There is a way to do this - it's a bit clumsy but does work. The key is to use still frames as shims between KBE shots, and to alternate between doing KBE animations forward and in reverse to avoid having to re-zoom and re-position the photo.
So, if you want to, as you say, scan from face to face, you can create a KBE zooming into the first face, then save that clip. If you preview the clip in the main screen, when it gets to the end of it (the zoomed in face) you can create a still frame of that (if it takes a still frame of the wrong thing at first (for example, the unzoomed photo), keep trying - it can be finnicky). You can then drop that frame into your timeline after the first KBE and it will hold the shot on that face for a few seconds with the exact zoom and positioning settings you initially set. Then go back to your photo, and you will notice that it remembers your KBE settings. What you must do now is leave the end positioning the same, but alter the begin positioning to move on to the next face you want to show and tell the KBE to animate in reverse. This will leave your zoom and positioning settings for the beginning of the next KBE to be exactly where your last frame ended, and you will have a nice pause in between animations. You can repeat this process over and over, and while it may be a bit tedious, it does give you the exactness you desire. You do not have to approximate anything, and it will look clean.
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Ken Burns Effect and How to Turn it Off (Score:5, Informative)
Mac OS X Hints has this well documented. You can change two settings in the KBE settings, or you can disable auto-application of KBE to stills with a plist change.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20
or
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:1)
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:2)
Ken Burns makes a lot of historical documentaries for PBS. Since most of his source material is old photographs, he pans over the pictures while zooming in and out to make the TV a little less lifeless while the narrator is speaking. It actually helps you keep your attention span up fairly well, but gets annoying if it is overdone.
What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:1)
OK, slap me for my ignorance; but being as I'm just a lowly programmer and I don't have a digital camera, nor do I have a mighty digital video thing -- I've never used iMovie, nor have I even fired it up.
But, I keep hearing about this reviled "Ken Burns Effect". All I can do is guess it's like Homer star-wiping those handicam shots of Flanders when he was trying to pimp him out to the singles scene.
So, anybody care to educate me on this one? I'm baffled.
And, is it Ken Burns Effect (no apostrophe, as in : Ken is burning) or Ken Burn's Effect (with apostrophe, as in belonging or pertaining to Ken Burns)
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:5, Informative)
It's "Ken Burns Effect." See, there's this guy, Ken Burns. You may have heard of him. Made a couple of documentaries or something, including one about a war. Didn't have any video of the war-- I guess it happened before CNN or something-- so he had to use lots of still photos. The way he used them, panning across them while telling the story, got him some kind of recognition or something. So now whenever anybody pans across a still photo in a movie, it's called the Ken Burns Effect.
(Sorry for all the snideness. Up late last night, up early today. Bad combo.)
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:1)
I don't mind the snideness so much -- but, you should consider that not everybody watches everything on TV which you have. I never saw that documentary; & I pretty much don't watch television (barring simpsons reruns and conan o'brian). I certainly don't have cable, nor have I ever.
Anyway, thanks for the explanation. Also, now I realize that the slideshow screensavers must use this "ken burns effect".
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:1, Insightful)
And the effect was highly effective.
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:5, Interesting)
If you do have a presentation and want to keep people's attention, it really does work.
As for *why* it works, I actually think that it probably comes from our primitive past when we noticed motion as a possible preditor ready to attack us or possible prey ready to feed us. Our eyes and brain are trained to focus more on change than stasis.
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:2)
The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, et cetera. He's completely different from but right up there with Errol Morris, in my opinion.
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:5, Informative)
That is a little harsh. One of the reasons the effect is so appealing is that human vision is tuned to picking up motion. The other thing is that a TV is not designed to display still pictures, so a moving still picture will look better on a TV than a stationary one.
And yes, it is the same Ken Burns of "The Civil War" et al. "The Ken Burns Effect" was the developmental name for Apple's pan & zoom effect, but when they showed it to Ken Burns himself, he gave his blessing to use his name in the finished product.
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:1)
The thing is many non-Americans are already hacked off about the wastebasket being renamed 'trash', and more seriously, about the lack of offline printing support for iPhoto. You know, those nice bound photo albums you can order if you live in the States? Can't get 'em where I live. My PC owning friends can order something similar even if they are using crappy PC software. Grrrr...
I'm not anti-American, just a little peeved ;-)
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:2)
It seems to me that many non-Americans need to get a hobby or something. Sounds like they don't have enough to worry about in their lives.
What lack of offline printing support? Export your JPEGs from iPhoto and send 'em to the printer of your choice through whatever means that service provides.
Safari v64 Download (Score:5, Informative)
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Dumped IE and then went to download safari with...........? How did you end up figuring that one out ; )
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Re:Safari v64 Download (Score:5, Informative)
and then use curl or wget in terminal.
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In OS 10.2.X, however, they changed over to curl (which I think was a good move, but others may disagree).
Thus, if you upgraded from 10.[0|1].X to 10.2.x, you have both curl and wget. Otherwise you only have one of the two, as outlined above.
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I was kinda wondering if others would have better solutions -- at the time I thought to myself, "what if I didn't have this PowerBook? -- which is why I was cagey about it to begin with :)
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love you too (Score:2, Offtopic)
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Re:Safari v64 Download (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.deepapple.com/downloads/index.phtml?
and once again if you haven't enable the debug menu, quit safari, open terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 0
relaunch safari, the debug menu is on the right and you can turn tabs (etc.) on there
Re:Safari v64 Download (Score:5, Informative)
this turns debug on:
defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
this turns it off:
defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 0
Re:Safari v64 Download (Score:2)
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Sorry, obligatory cliche for a russian mac user site. But god bless them and their lack of IP law enforcement
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Safari v64 (Score:5, Informative)
The loading info is very useful too. All in all the perfect tabs-implementation. Only nit-pickers care which direction the tabs face
Oh, and auto-complete from Adress-book. Trés cool!
Re:Safari v64 (Score:1)
Re:Safari v64 (Score:3, Interesting)
Both Safari v64 and Camino seem a bit faster, especially Camino. Also,
In Process Viewer, Camino seems a bit more memory efficient, particularly with several tabs open.
I prefer the mass-bookmark (tab group? favorite folder?) approach that Camino uses over Safari's implementation, which still seems pretty crude. I get where I need to be in fewer clicks with Camino. Not to say that Safari won't get better.
Rendering-wise, I think they look about the same, though I prefer the Camino widgets and layout, not to mention the tab metaphor logic. On the other hand, the Safari tabs each have their own close button, albeit a non-standard "x" in a circle
Now, what I want to see is the ability to make one's home page a tab group. That seems pretty obvious.
Re:Safari v64 (Score:5, Informative)
That's not non-standard. It's a standard Cocoa widget used to close a pane or other window part, although in all honesty I'm too lazy right now to look it up and give you more details. Suffice it to say that the x-in-a-circle close-widget has been used in Project Builder for months, at least.
Re:Safari v64 (Score:5, Interesting)
I would point out though that a lot of people *don't* like the interface for Project Builder and do find it somewhat jarring compared to the rest of the OSX GUI. Still, I'm hard pressed to come up with a different way to do it functionally, beyond requiring a right click to a context menu. But that would then contradict Apple's desire to have a visual clue for action. (i.e. no "invisibile" UIs for necessary actions)
I should also point out that v64 fixes a bug that kept the tabs from looking right when you put an Aqua appearance to Safari instead of Brushed Metal. (It looks much better) For those who've not downloaded v64 for fear of stability issues, you can check it out along with a discussion at MacNN [macnn.com].
I'm one of those who hasn't downloaded the beta. I prefer stability at the moment and the public beta of Safari is very nice. (I think Apple just made references to these betas to get the tab fanatics out of their hair) One thing I hope that the Safari final has is the ability ala Adobe apps to drag tabs out of the window and automatically create a new window.
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download manager (Score:2, Informative)
Which is where these new "standard" close buttons come in. Each download panel has its own button; when all are closed, the 2-inch window tells you there's nothing to display. Very pVT.
The red stoplight closes the whole thing, of course. I'm mostly irritated by the beanstalk window; it could be very easily refined with a preference setting or two. In the meantime it leaves me pining for the IE download manager. Yuk.
Sorry about that widget mistake. I've been running Macs since 1985. First time I'd ever seen it -- and I've happily adapted to OSX.
Re:Safari v64 (Score:3, Funny)
I forgot to ask. Does Chimeramino still take like 17 1/2 hours to launch?
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On subsequent launches it was closer to two or three, which is certainly an improvement, but there's still that stupid splash screen thing. I swear, if they took out the code to load and display and then clear the splash screen, the program would launch instantly, Safari-style. Safari launches in less time than it takes for me to get my mouse from the dock back up to the top of the screen again, which is just fast enough for me, thank you.
Re:Safari v64 (Score:1)
"I'll always remember Chimeramino, chimeramino, chimeramino..."
"My name is Camino."
"Chimeramino..."
Re:Safari v64 (Score:3, Interesting)
In classic Slashdot style... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In classic Slashdot style... (Score:1)
Where are you living that 8:30 Friday morning on the US East coast is still Thursday afternoon? Most of the world is already into Friday afternoon.
Re:In classic Slashdot style... (Score:1)
You were saying the update was posted yesterday afternoon, not that the Slashdot editor was being an arrogant American and assuming it was Friday morning for most people. Duh!
Re:In classic Slashdot style... (Score:2)
Re:In classic Slashdot style... (Score:5, Funny)
Multiple Homepages (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Multiple Homepages (Score:5, Informative)
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Autocomplete (Score:1, Offtopic)
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Camino and Safari (Score:5, Interesting)
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You're mistaken (Score:3, Interesting)
They just hadn't finished implementing their custom menu/command keys in beta62.
In beta64, you can just open a tab and look in the file menu to see what I mean, the key combos are properly shown.
Re:You're mistaken (Score:1)
Re:Camino and Safari (Score:2)
We weren't meant to have it, so don't act like Apple overlooked a major functionality... they just weren't done yet with the implementation. It's that simple.
Geez.
internet explorer (Score:5, Interesting)
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Caminera autoproxy? (Score:2, Interesting)
Anyone else running an autoproxy and had better luck?
i love browser wars! (Score:2)
or any app wars where the artillery is actually features! Much better than browser wars or other wars centered around competing standards, poor functionality, and corporate greed, IMO. ;)
I don't. (Score:2)
Remember, Javascript is one of the craterfields left behind from the Netscape/Microsoft browser war.
Re:I don't. (Score:2)
This being Slashdot, I'm sure a lot of people are shocked and disappointed that Microsoft and Netscape didn't use Perl. But realistically for what they were doing Javascript was great.
Minor clarification (Score:2)
Re:I don't. (Score:2, Insightful)
Whilst the 'concept' of a client side scripting language is a good one, the way Javascript has been implemented by the larger browsers is shameful. In some cases you can end up writing 5 different functions to do the same thing.
Perhaps some people enjoy the pain staking cross browser tester, but not me.
But who is really to blame? Was it really the Browser War that caused this?
Tried Camino. (Score:2)
I'm not a fan of Tabbed Browsing so far. I have plenty of memory and DSL, so I don't see much need for them.
Fight the System! (Score:5, Funny)
"It makes me feel powerful." ?Hamilton Morris
Fight the system!
Re:Fight the System! (Score:1)
Did anyone notice that the copyright date on the splash is 2032?
Sigh. It's going to be a LONG time before they get to version 1.0.
Enable pipelining in Camino (Score:5, Informative)
First, make sure Camino is not running. Then open the prefs.js file, located in Library(the one in your user directory)/Application Support/Chimera/profiles/default/.slt
Paste these lines into it:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
Note: I got this information from Mac OS X Hints [macosxhints.com] some time back. A handy thing to know.
That last directory (Score:1)
Safari printing is awful! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Safari printing is awful! (Score:2, Informative)
Safari scales the printout to match the window on the screen (someone's idea of WYSIWYG I guess).
Look carefully at the screen and the printout, the lines breaks in the text match exactly. If you want bigger text and graphics in your printout, make the your window narrower.
"TextEdit" does the same thing, if it is wrapping text to the window width (seeing this in TextEdit is the only reason is the only reason I figured it out in Safari).
Sweet (Score:4, Funny)
What do you mean there's no video? I thought this was the release party for iMovie?
Still has audio issues. (Score:2)
Two questions on Safari (Score:1)
v64 problems (Score:2)