Last Friday , my Hints weblog was all about creating time - lapse movies in iMovie . In preparing that pinch , however , I had some difficulties . When I prove the wind on my Dual G5 Power Mac , I had a minimal set of options in the Time Lapse dialog — basically , just the power to specify the number of frame to skim . When I test it on my MacBook , however , I had more options — specifically , the ability to embed the engagement and time into the captured frames .
essentially , reckon on which automobile I used , the two dialogs bet notably dissimilar . The top dialog is the one that appeared on my G5 ; the bottom is the more full - sport version that come along on the MacBook :
The power to imbed the escort and time is a most - useable feature article in a sentence - lapse plastic film , especially if you ’re recording action over multiple twenty-four hour period . So I really want to picture out why the MacBook could do it , but the G5 could n’t . At first , I thought it was an Intel versus PowerPC issue , but then a friend with a PowerPC machine test iMovie for me , and he discovered that he also had the expanded time - lapse dialog . Now I was really confused . I resort to comparing the preferences single file for iMovie between the two machines , and incur no substantive differences .
Stumped , I went beforehand and write up the breath for Friday , carefully avoiding the issue of the unlike dialog boxes . Later in the solar day , I went back to the G5 to do some more excavation . The first matter I adjudicate to do was to ensure clock time - relapse manner work . So I record a short clip on the G5 , and successfully bring it back . So I knew I did n’t have a larger issue with time - lapse modality ; I just had some lacking options .
I then think I ’d try out a slenderly recollective test tape with a dissimilar capture rate , so I again trigger off the time - lapse drop - down configurations dialog . I was very surprised to find that the G5 now had the exact same time - embedding options as those of the MacBook ! What ’s the conjuring trick ? It seems that my G5 had never been used to record a time lapse movie before . The simple act of recording one somehow enabled the fourth dimension - implant options on the next activation of the setting dialog ! Very strange .
To sustain this , I launched iMovie on the Mac mini Core Duo , which I ’ve never used for any iMovie editing . A quick test confirmed that the simple time - oversight dialogue was supplant with the advanced version as soon as I recorded even a five - second snippet of meter - lapse video . I assume this is a bug in iMovie , and I ’ve submit it as such ( hemipteron # 4659957 , though submitted bug reports are n’t publicly viewable ) . But until it ’s fixed , and to preserve others the head scratching I travel through , just record a myopic meter relapse television to enable all of the selection in the Time Lapse dialog boxwood .
