{"id":299,"date":"2005-12-09T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Hardware\/powermatefix.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"powermatefix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2005\/12\/09\/powermatefix\/","title":{"rendered":"iMovie HD + Griffin Powermate Problem, and Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago, I received<\/a> a Griffin Powermate<\/a> for Christmas. I use it as shuttle control in iMovie and Garageband, and I love it. The only improvement I can think of would be a finger-tip recess in the top surface, to support rapid mutli-turn spinning (great for zipping through footage in iMovie – hold shift to zoom through at 10x speed).<\/p>\n

I recently started importing all my old 8mm tapes via my DV camcoder, to burn to DVD and to re-archive on DV tape. Since I was importing from 8mm using my DV camcoder’s AV->DV feature, I has to manually split each import into multiple clips in iMovie. While doing this, I found that the Powermate didn’t work with iMovie anymore- it was just controlling the master system volume. Using the Powermate wdiget in System Preferences, I located the iMovie settings, and hit apply. The Powermate worked fine in iMovie again.<\/p>\n

But each time I quit and restarted iMovie, or used the Powermate outside of iMovie, it would “forget” the iMovie setting and become a volume knob again. I found no solution on the Griffin website, so I emailed their support department. I received a reply a few days later, which solved my problem.<\/p>\n

Seems that when last I did any serious work in iMovie (about a year ago) was prior to iLife 05, and so prior to iMovie HD. The settings in System Prefs (which I think<\/em> were auto-installed with the Powermate) were for “iMovie”, not “iMovie HD.” I guess the name change means the settings weren’t inherited during the upgrade, which makes sense. I just added a new batch of settings for iMovie HD, and now it works perfectly again.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the reply, Griffin. The only thing nicer than a great product is a great product with great support. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago, I received a Griffin Powermate for Christmas. I use it as shuttle control in iMovie and Garageband, and I love it. The only improvement I can think of would be a finger-tip recess in the top surface, to support rapid mutli-turn spinning (great for zipping through footage in iMovie – […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}