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Weblog:		iPhoto Takes a Backseat to Music Again
Subject:		RE: Still won't handle removing movies from cameras...
Date:		2004-01-15 07:44:06
From:		derrick
Response to: Still won't handle removing movies from cameras...
This is something I talk about a lot in demos, etc. It's odd, because Image Capture, which works in concert with iPhoto for importing, can recognize and upload both QuickTime files (those small movies on your digital camera) and RAW images. But iPhoto still doesn't. If the concern on Apple's side is, "If we recognize those formats then we have to add features to manipulate them," I wish they would let go of that. Because it isn't necessary. For RAW files we now have Photoshop CS, which we can call out in the preferences. For those mini movie files, we have QuickTime Pro. All iPhoto has to do is what it does best: provide us with an intelligent, robust digital shoebox to manage all the files that we upload from out digital cameras. We can take it from there with other applications to manipulate them.

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