Image Capture to iMovie import bug: Missing metadata the cause?
Image Capture to iMovie import bug: Missing metadata the cause?
"Inspecting Show Info windows for the problem files revealed different file types for different pictures: JPEG Image, JPEG Image Type, JPEG Document and Document. All pictures were taken with a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-S30. Some were downloaded in OS 9.1 before I had OS X. Most were downloaded via Image Capture in the< various incarnations of OS X, 10.0.x through 10.1. When showing file extensions in the Finder, all properly display .jpg after the name. However, the JPEG Image and JPEG Image Type files were grayed when trying to import them in iMovie. The other two were importable and worked just fine. I, too, noticed that opening and saving (I used GraphicConverter) the un-importable pics made them importable.
Using the utility Get Info, I chose the Type/Creator option for these pictures and found that the importable ones had JPEG and GKON as their type and creator (as expected), while the un-importable ones had ???? for type and the creator field was blank. If I changed the type to jpeg, these pictures became importable in iMovie, but only after logging out/in. This did not change the listing in the Show Info window, however. It still showed as JPEG Image."
Another reader described the exact same symptom when trying to import files to Photoshop in Classic. We suspect the same cause.
JPEG file fails to open on a PC: a related situation? Dave Kitabjian describes a situation where a jpeg image (family.jpg) created in Mac OS X and saved to a CD would not open on a PC. "If you try to double-click it, MS Photo Editor says 'Can't determine type' and then quits. Internet Explorer also fails, saying 'Cannot find server or DNS Error' for E:\family.jpg. When I try to drag it to the desktop, Windows says 'Cannot copy family: The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.'" Yet the file opens correctly on a Mac. The format of the CD does not appear to be the issue [he tried both HFS/ISO as well as ISO (MP3) formats; neither worked]. We are not sure what is the cause here but wonder if it is somehow related to the situation for iMovie.
Update: Troy Guenther had the same problem, but only with some images. He ended up dragging the exact same folders to Toast for OS X, and all worked perfectly.