[More Tips] Fixes to Common iPhoto Not Working Problems
We understand that there are still a lot of users prefer iPhoto and don't want to switch to the above iPhoto alternative or Photos app. When those run into problems with iPhoto, the troubleshooting tips below will help.
Important Note: Before you try any fix below, you're suggested to make a copy of your photos (and the iPhoto application if necessary).
To backup your photos quickly, you may need an iPhoto alternative (free download:Mac version and Windows version) for a while.
#1 iPhoto Not Recognizing iPhone
When users plug iPhone to computer and open iPhoto to transfer some iPhone photos or the like, the iPhoto won't recognize iPhone (7/Plus/6S/SE or earlier) on the sidebar. This iPhoto problem is mostly caused by bad cable or software fault. If iPhone doesn't show up on iPhoto, there are some quick troubleshooting tips to fix it:
1. Restart your computer and try again;
2. Go to Settings and find Passcode Lock, then turn the passcode lock off;
3. Delete all the photos on your phone that are sent by email or downloaded from web;
4. Make sure that there are no other users logged into the Mac at the same time and retry;
5. Try to connect iPhone to Mac using a different USB port;
6. Quite Final Cut or iMovie that may interfere with Photos' ability to recognize the iPhone.
Today we'll install iMovie (the latest version) on our Hackintosh High Sierra.If you try to download it from the app store, you'll get an error that macOS ve. Just installed High Sierra (thanks to the help of some amazing folks here) and would like to try out iMovie. The App Store version requires updating to a. Yes there is a way, you have to download and install iMovie using a device that supports the actual version of iMovie, you can also use an iPhone or an iPad, the most important is that you will use the same Apple ID used for your Mac. How to use imovie 09 on mac high sierra The new update is very bad, information on leght in short videos clip in the streamline are gone, exportation to Youtube is now only in low quality, very shitty.
#2 iPhone Photos Not Showing up in iPhoto
Another common iPhoto not working problem is that, the iPhone device is detected on the app's list, but iPhoto won't show up the photos in iPhone. Don't worry if you run into this problem as there are many proved fixes to the problem of photos not showing up in iPhoto:
1. Check if you're using any other photo storage services on your computer like DropBox, if you do, disable or delete them as they may be conflict with iPhoto;
2. Check if you have check trust for the computer to access your phone and photos;
3. If you have trusted the computer but photos still not showing up, then go to Settings on iPhone and switch Auto-Lock function to never;
4. Rebuild your iPhoto Library database if individual photos are not showing up in iPhoto, it you don't know how, check Apple's explanation on how to rebuild iPhoto Library.
#3 Slow iPhoto Problem
It is said that iPhoto will chock on just 10,000 images, and any larger photo library will slow down iPhoto's performance. However, today's camera make it extremely easy to go beyond the 10,000 limit. Note that even if Photos app is released to replace iPhoto and bring better performance, it's still quite slow for large photo library. If you find iPhoto taking forever to import from iPhone, try below:
1. Break your libraries into several libraries every 10,000 photos;
2. Launch iPhoto and hold down the shift, options and command keys, then the Photo Library First Aid window will appear with repair options;
3. Open Terminal and cd by default, cd '~/Pictures/iPhoto Library' and execute the command: for dbase in *.db; do sqlite3 $dbase 'vacuum;';
4. If still the iPhoto is not working or slow, try iPhoto alternative:
There’s no sound after imported MP4 video clips into iMovie 10.1.8 on High Sierra? Actually, the same issue has been reported while importing MTS video into iMovie 10.1.8 after updated to macOS High Sierra. This is probably a system issue or an audio codec issue. Here we explain a solution to solve MP4 audio lost issue while loading into iMovie 10.1.8.
MP4 video clips have no sound in iMovie 10.1.8 on High Sierra
“I have several MP4 videos downloaded from Facebook. They played fine without any sound issues using preview and also in QuickTime Player, but once imported to the latest iMovie 10.1.8, the MP4 clips lose sound in the middle. I’ve googled a lot for a solution, but without any luck. I’m running iMovie 10.1.8 on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 on MacBook Pro with Retina display. Any suggestions on this?”
Try restarting your computer and opening iMovie while holding down the Option and Command keys, and then selecting to delete preferences in the box that appears.
If the above does not solve it, there may be something about the audio codec in your video clips that iMovie doesn’t like. iMovie likes MOV with Apple InterMediate Video Codec and AAC audio codec. Open your MP4 clips in HD Video Converter for Mac and it will help you export AIC/AAC .mov files for editing in iMovie smoothly.
How to encode MP4 clips to AIC .mov for solving audio lost issue in iMovie 10.1.8 on High Sierra?
Software requirement
HD Converter for Mac
Follow these steps:
1. Install and run HD Converter for Mac as an MP4 to iMovie Converter on High Sierra. The main interface appears as below:
2. Click on ‘Add File’ to add your mp4 files into this program.
3. From the “Profile” menu, choose ‘Apple InterMediateCodec (AIC) (*.mov) as output format from ‘iMovie and Final Cut Express’ column.
Important: If you’ve loaded a number of video clips to do batch conversion, please do remember ticking off ‘Apply to All’ option before you start.
4. (Optional) Click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profile Settings’ window to custom video and audio settings if necessary.
5. When ready, click ‘Convert’ to start transcoding MP4 files to AIC – the best suited editing format for use within Apple iMovie.
6. When the conversion process is complete, click ‘Open Folder’ button to get the generated AIC QuickTime files and open them in iMovie for further editing with optimum performance.
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