Fred Flinstone
XP Divorcee - Mac Virgin
As a recent convert to mac (Never having even touched one prior to mid-September) I have had one or two niggling little issues but overall Love the OS 1000 times more that Win-DoSe. However 2 continue to bug the heck outta me!
The first is an issue with QT 7 and it's support for MPeg files. I load up an Mpeg 2 and no sound!. For that I downloaded the likes of VLC PLayer and MPlayer. If I want to hear sound in QT7 I have to first open the movie in one of the other players. Then close that player and reopen the file qith QT7.
I have issues with QT on both WIndows and Mac but being native to Mac this not only surprises me - It bugs me. Mpeg is a mainstream format that does notrequire special codecs.
The other one is the Mac file system and how it handles image files. The amound of 'corrupted' download files I have experienced so far is unacceptable. I often do not remember the source site from which I download an image so cannot revisit and try again. Worse than this if I correct the orientation of an image in preview it still previews 'on its side' in finder. Thumbnail previews akin to those on windows simply arent available and are a real hinderance. Yes I have downloaded 3rd party image viewers which don't hel at all - they actually make things worse by generating thumbnail folders all over the place. Still on this topic There is seemingly no way to create a hierarchical Slideshow by just selecting the Parent Folder. I have tried on iPhoto, Preview, Adobe Bridge and a few others all they look at are the image files in the parentdirectorey and none of those in it's children.
For me perhaps the one windows based app I really do miss is JASC's Media Centre. To date it is still the best Slideshow app on any platform I have come across.
Why then when mac is such a great platform for graphics (believe me - it rocks!!!) does the base operating system seemingly support graphics files so badly? If you need to visually locate an image quickly you have to do a 1 by 1 scoll in finder as opposed to looking at 50 at a time on the scroll.
Also the file structure is a real mess and nomenclature. I find I physically need to drag all images from a folder to a temp folder on the desktop and rename them aa_000001.jpg etc - and Folders zz_00001 etc using Rename4Mac just to be able to order them logically- - separating files from folders. Using the list view in Finder you can more or less do this but the prieview view is a disaster! By my method if I then add new files of folders to the parent they are easy to pick ou, rename and reorder. This is really time consuming.
To me thus far this is one of Macs biggest dissapointments and biggest failings - great if your accustomed to working in complete chaos - othertwise not!
I came here for help - looks like I need a lot of it. aforementioned image browser app was called simply imagebrowser. Not even remotely close to Microsoft's image prievew. (Don't get me wrong here - I loathe Microsoft!!!)
Even on Linux such programs as Gwenview handle basic functions like this rather well - why not Mac?
The first is an issue with QT 7 and it's support for MPeg files. I load up an Mpeg 2 and no sound!. For that I downloaded the likes of VLC PLayer and MPlayer. If I want to hear sound in QT7 I have to first open the movie in one of the other players. Then close that player and reopen the file qith QT7.
I have issues with QT on both WIndows and Mac but being native to Mac this not only surprises me - It bugs me. Mpeg is a mainstream format that does notrequire special codecs.
The other one is the Mac file system and how it handles image files. The amound of 'corrupted' download files I have experienced so far is unacceptable. I often do not remember the source site from which I download an image so cannot revisit and try again. Worse than this if I correct the orientation of an image in preview it still previews 'on its side' in finder. Thumbnail previews akin to those on windows simply arent available and are a real hinderance. Yes I have downloaded 3rd party image viewers which don't hel at all - they actually make things worse by generating thumbnail folders all over the place. Still on this topic There is seemingly no way to create a hierarchical Slideshow by just selecting the Parent Folder. I have tried on iPhoto, Preview, Adobe Bridge and a few others all they look at are the image files in the parentdirectorey and none of those in it's children.
For me perhaps the one windows based app I really do miss is JASC's Media Centre. To date it is still the best Slideshow app on any platform I have come across.
Why then when mac is such a great platform for graphics (believe me - it rocks!!!) does the base operating system seemingly support graphics files so badly? If you need to visually locate an image quickly you have to do a 1 by 1 scoll in finder as opposed to looking at 50 at a time on the scroll.
Also the file structure is a real mess and nomenclature. I find I physically need to drag all images from a folder to a temp folder on the desktop and rename them aa_000001.jpg etc - and Folders zz_00001 etc using Rename4Mac just to be able to order them logically- - separating files from folders. Using the list view in Finder you can more or less do this but the prieview view is a disaster! By my method if I then add new files of folders to the parent they are easy to pick ou, rename and reorder. This is really time consuming.
To me thus far this is one of Macs biggest dissapointments and biggest failings - great if your accustomed to working in complete chaos - othertwise not!
I came here for help - looks like I need a lot of it. aforementioned image browser app was called simply imagebrowser. Not even remotely close to Microsoft's image prievew. (Don't get me wrong here - I loathe Microsoft!!!)
Even on Linux such programs as Gwenview handle basic functions like this rather well - why not Mac?