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Article:		Inside iPhoto: Image Management for Power Shooters
Subject:		Canon QuickTime movies & iPhoto
Date:		2003-04-14 14:48:04
From:		anonymous2
I have a Canon A70. I've set iPhoto as the default app for connecting to my camera, but iPhoto won't let me access the short movies from the camera. I've tried launching Canon's ImageBrowser app, but iPhoto just takes over and there is no way to use the other app. Is there a way to un-default the iPhoto, so I can use other apps? How? Any suggestions for getting the QT movies out of the camera without un-defaulting iPhoto, also accepted. Thx

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• Canon QuickTime movies & iPhoto
  2003-11-08 22:50:28  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Got a A80, running OS 10.2.8, iPhoto 2, Image capture 2.0.5. I have no problems browsing and importing photos or movies from the Camera using Image Capture- i.e. iPhoto will not start when I open the program or import.
  
  
  /max
  
  

• Canon QuickTime movies & iPhoto
  2003-11-01 11:33:45  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Yes, unfortunately Apple has not given iPhoto the ability to see QT or AVI files. Maybe version 3?
  
  You'll have to use Image Capture to get them off your camera.
  
  Check out iVideo. It's just like iPhoto, but for all sorts of movie formats.
  
  http://www.waterfallsw.com/products/ivideo/
  

• Canon QuickTime movies & iPhoto
  2003-07-09 01:33:50  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  I have had exactly the same experience including not being able to use the stitich function because that can only operate through the canon image browser. I have not had much success finding answers.
  Any ideas gratefully received.
• Canon QuickTime movies & iPhoto
  2005-11-30 07:17:45  chinarut [View]
  
  
  I installed the PhotoStitch on its own and noticed that "PhotoStitch Laucher" didn't work - double-clicking on the PhotoStitch application in the PhotoStitch/Program folder worked like a charm for me.
  
  I didn't have ImageBrowser installed
• Canon QuickTime movies & iPhoto
  2005-11-30 07:16:09  chinarut [View]
  
  
  I installed the PhotoStitch on its own and noticed that "PhotoStitch Laucher" didn't work - double-clicking on the PhotoStitch application in the PhotoStitch/Program folder worked like a charm for me.
  
  I didn't have ImageBrowser installed

• Canon QuickTime movies & iPhoto
  2003-06-03 10:29:07  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  I have the same camera. Rather than using any Canon software, I solved the problem by buying a Compact Flash card reader online for about $7.00. Now when I take the card out the camera and place it in the reader, iPhoto recognizes the card as "Mass Storage" and I can import the images as I did through the camera. (This also saves camera batteries.) But the really great thing is that the card shows up on the desktop as a generic hard drive and I can grab the movies right off card with the Finder. Quicktime plays the movies no problem. You can also then import the movies to iMovie and re-export them as Quicktime .MOV files which can be much smaller file size (for e-mailing) than the original .avi file, though it does loose some quality.

• Canon QuickTime movies & iPhoto
  2003-04-14 23:08:12  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  I figured this out! It's really easy to "un-default" iPhoto as the app to automatically use when plugging your camera into your Mac.
  
  Run the Image Capture app (Applications > Image Capture) and then select "Image Capture > Preferences" from the menu. There you will be able to change what application is launched when plugging in your camera:
  Camera Preferences
  When a camera is connected, open: (iPhoto, Image Capture, No Application, or Other...)
  
  Voila!