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burning_jonny - Oct 16, 2006 - 7:26 am

Hi,
I own a Canon Powershot SD700 IS digital camera and iPhoto '05. Up until today I haven't had any troubles with importing photos and movies from my camera. The movies are in .AVI format.

Basically, I plug the camera in and click import. All the photos start importing, but when it hits the avi (at the end), it crashes. I have verified that iPhoto works fine if there are only photos on the camera.

Is there any way to repair this? I am using OS 10.4.8 on a iMac G5 2.0 GHz, by the way.

Thanks,
Jonny

philippe99 - Oct 16, 2006 - 7:44 am

Hi and welcome to macosx.com

Can you simply copy the avi to the Desktop without invoking any software for immediate downloading..so just mounting the Canon card on the Desktop and try to copy the avi onto the Desktop ? Same issue ?

Regards
Philippe

burning_jonny - Oct 16, 2006 - 7:49 am

Hi Philippe,
The camera does not mount to the desktop, which would have been enough for me to grab the movies off. Would this be something proprietary from Canon, since it only loads within iPhoto?

Thanks for the quick response.

Jonathan

philippe99 - Oct 16, 2006 - 8:20 am

In "Images Transfert" preferences, is iPhoto set to default for opening when a camera is connected? If yes, could you disable this and use image Transfert for reading the camera ? Does Image Transfert als crashes when arriving on the .avi file ?

Well, I had a similar issue with my Ricoh camera, but with .mov files. Ricoh was useless on this question, so I decided to buy a card reader to read the SD card I use in the Ricoh.

If the issue arrives with that avi only, 100% chances this particular files is corrupted. Could try to another avi you shoot now ?
If the issue is repeated with all the follwing avi you can shoot, maybe somehing wrong with the camera itself

And was the 1st time I read that a camera produces avi file; most of the one I know produces .mov files. Surprising.

Philippe

burning_jonny - Oct 16, 2006 - 5:20 pm

This is what I have been able to determine. In my test case, I took one photo and one movie.

Using Image Capture.app, I was able to successfully transfer the 2 files to my desktop.

Using iPhoto '05, the application crashes.

So if I keep having the problem, I can transfer all the AVIs via Image Capture. It's not the way I prefer, and I don't see a reason for this happening. Have any other users noted this problem?

Oh, and if you're wondering, Canon installs the "CanonMJPEGAVI.component" for movies it captures.

Thanks.

philippe99 - Oct 16, 2006 - 8:55 pm

Ok, now, that's on iPhoto side.. or on the system itself

(1) could you try to repair permissions on your drive using DiskUtility
(2) could you download the freeware macjanitor
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_...acjanitor.html
and use it to run the 3 basic maintenance scripts

In between, test again.

(3) do you have Flickr plug-in in iPhoto ? If yes, remove it and try again

(4) try to rebuild iPhoto library
!! Please first make a backup of your iPhoto library !!
To get iPhoto to rebuild itself, you quit iPhoto, then launch it while holding down the "option" and "command" keys: a dialog with choices is presented . Choose the option to rebuild the library database

(5) This is the first time I hear about such an issue: the only issue fo "iphoto crashing when importing" I'm aware of is linked to a ScanDisk card reader reading a CF card of Canon movie camera

(6) last but not least, we can try to update iPhoto 5 to its latest 5.x release (if not already done; do not know which latest release is as I jump from iPhoto 4 to 6 directly).
But I do not like updating a tool with which we have a issue: it is not the good procedure. The good one is to solve the issue before updating !

(7) if on the system side, the best way is to install the COMBO update (corresponding to your running OS release) over your runining OS: so if you run 10.3.8, re-apply the 10.3.8 COMBO
COMBO can correct bad things that incremental updates may have corrupted.

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Phil