Using DVD+r with imovie

I recently purchased a new Imac computer. Previously I have transferred all of my old home movies to a dvd+r format using a dvd recorder. Is there a way I can copy the info found on the dvd+r discs to the harddrive in order to edit the movies using imovie? I have about 2 hours of movies to edit.
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

you have some options to import content from a DVD
(as long, as your iMac's dvd drive supports dvd+)
* DVDxD
V (free trial, 25$, Pro: 90$)
* Apple
mpeg2 plugin (20$) + Streamclip (free)
Cinematize >60$
* Mpeg2Works
25$ + Apple plug-in
* Toast6/7 allows converting to
dv/insert dvd, hit apple-k
* connect a miniDV Camcorder with analogue input to a
DVD-player and disk to tape/use as converter
Yes, the Imac does play DVD+ discs. Do you have a preference for any of the programs suggested? Many thanks for your help with this.
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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- Is there a URL that explains in detail each of garage bands effects/audio unit effects on the sound track?
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- in post production, I am use to doing the following for sound track:
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This might be helpful: http://comtechlab.iupui.edu/tutorialsfolder/tutorials.html
No URL that explains the effects in depth to my knowledge, maybe one of the books, like Missing Manual or the Apple Certified when it comes out.
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Not sure there is noise reduction.

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I am trying to transfer vhs movies to my harddrive using videglide I have successfully recorded it and saved it onto my desktop but I cant seem to transfer the movie to iphoto for editing - it doesnt want to drag? Has anyone used this software with imovie?

I presume you mean Videoglide - which I had never heard of.
Having read the specs:
http://www.echofx.com/videoglide.html
I am wondering how it manages to digitise analogue video from a VCR. For that I use an analogue to digital converter that imports straight into iMovie via firewire.
You should contact the developers of Videoglide for instructions on how to use it.

Help needed with using network disk with iMovie with NFS or AFP

Hi,
I have iMac with iMovie08 that talks to a remote disk hosted under Linux over a gigabit network using SMB (Samba). It all works ok and I have done a few movies.
Now, I have done some tests with NFS and AFP (AppleTalk) and it seems that these are much faster than SMB.
I then stopped the Samba server and proceeded to setup NFS and also AFP
First NFS,
So I then exported my directory using NFS and I can see everything from my Mac (correct permissions too since I made both user and group IDs the same...). The problem is that when I launch iMovie it shows me the Volume for my external networked disk but it shows it with a little triangle with yellow exclamation and it does not show any of the events (>500GB of events).
If I stop NFS and then switch to AFP I get the same behavior. That is, everything from the Mac works on the AFS mounted disk (copying files back and forth, etc....) but I can't see the contents of the disk from within iMovie
I changed permissions so that anybody can read/write/execute (although there are files that have an '@' sign at the end when I do ls -l on them and I can't remember what that means....)
If I stop NFS and then go back to SMB (Samba) then I am back to a working configuration.
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Thanks
Dazed and confused at 330am EST...

More timings on smb vs nfs. Note that the big diffs is when sending single large files. The dd cmd was used to simulate 1 hour of DV video which is about 12GB
1.27GB dvd project (twice each, note the variability... I guess because the project has multiple files?):
MEiMac:Movies me$ time cp -r LS2000Berlin.dvdproj /Volumes/bigsmb/
real 0m37.114s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m4.164s
MEiMac:Movies me$ time cp -r LS2000Berlin.dvdproj /Volumes/bignfs/
real 0m59.351s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m8.336s
MEiMac:Movies me$ time cp -r LS2000Berlin.dvdproj /Volumes/bignfs/
real 0m40.671s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m8.205s
MEiMac:Movies me$ time cp -r LS2000Berlin.dvdproj /Volumes/bigsmb/
real 0m41.680s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m4.094s
Simulated 1 hour video single file:
MEiMac:Movies me$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=/Volumes/bigsmb/1hour bs=16k count=786432
786432+0 records in
786432+0 records out
12884901888 bytes transferred in 443.960166 secs (29022653 bytes/sec)
real 7m23.994s
user 0m3.434s
sys 1m18.900s
MEiMac:Movies me$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=/Volumes/bignfs/1hournfs bs=16k count=786432
786432+0 records in
786432+0 records out
12884901888 bytes transferred in 235.887283 secs (54623131 bytes/sec)
real 3m56.271s
user 0m1.666s
sys 1m56.995s

Using MTS files with iMovie

I'm having a real nightmare working with .mts video files. I'm not sure if this is the best forum to discuss, but I'm willing to try anything at this point.
I have a Canon Vixia HFR20 camera that saves in .mts format, and I'm trying to find a good way to edit/convert those videos with iMove '11 to be posted on a website and burned to DVD. Does anyone have any suggestions on how best to go about this? I have found a few free converter programs like WinX, but the results always look kind of crappy - lots of jagged edges and what not. My other main problem is that the .mts files appear to split after they reach a size of 2.05 GB so even though I'm only shooting one continuous video, I end up with 2 or more files. If there's a way to import the seperate files as one continuous video that would be fantastic.
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Hi
There are three things to this.
• 1. DVD - Has only SD-quality - There are NO HD DVDs due to it's standard
• 2. If original material is miniDV or interlaced video - then iMovie'08 & 09
are not the tools to use - they discard every second line = VHS-quality
• 3. If in iMovie previous versions (up to HD6) Share/Export to iDVD was destructive
when movie contained photos
a. Resulting DVD was heavily pixelated
b. Original movie in iMovie was harmed and - photos had to be re-imported and re-edited
To get better quality - only step is to go to Blu-Ray BUT
• Need of Blu-Ray-player, neither Mac or DVD-player can playback
• Need of BD-component to Toast™ to be able to burn
• Short movies (20 min - or at least <60 min) can be put on DVD disks - else
Need of BD-burner and BD-disks.
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DVD-Quality
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iDVD 6 has the two last ones
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• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
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• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not selfcontaining, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
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6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW)
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
8. Don’t burn more than three DVD at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while befor next batch.
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• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JESDeinterlacer3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are plabacked by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choise before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
*unclemano wrote*
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
Yours Bengt W

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you have some options to import content from a DVD
(as long, as your iMac's dvd drive supports dvd+)
* DVDxD
V (free trial, 25$, Pro: 90$)
* Apple
mpeg2 plugin (20$) + Streamclip (free)
Cinematize >60$
* Mpeg2Works
25$ + Apple plug-in
* Toast6/7 allows converting to
dv/insert dvd, hit apple-k
* connect a miniDV Camcorder with analogue input to a
DVD-player and disk to tape/use as converter
Yes, the Imac does play DVD+ discs. Do you have a preference for any of the programs suggested? Many thanks for your help with this.
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

How do I get a DVD made with imovie by someone else imported into my imovie

A friend from out of town recorded a 2 hour video of my band performing. He imported the video from his camcorder into imovie on his mac and burned it into a DVD and destroyed the original files. I have the DVD and would like to import into my mac into imovie to create some individual song video files for our website. I don't plan on doing this frequently and I need software with a simple interface that is easy to understand. I have no problem purchasing software (but I'd take freeware if it were available) to easily rip the DVD into the best format to work with in imovie. I have imovie '08 but would use another software if it was easier or better. I don't want expensive or pro editions since this is likely the only time I'll do this. any suggestions?

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+I have found I get the best results when I use MPEG Streamclip (which is free). You also have to install the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component which costs about $20. Once you install the QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component, you don't have to interact with it, but MPEG Streamclip needs it.+
+Insert your DVD in your drive. If DVD player runs automatically, shut it down. You should see your DVD as an icon on the desktop. Open it is a finder winder. You should see a folder which has VOB files.+
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+In Streamclip, select File/Export using Quicktime and choose Apple Intermediate Codec. You may want to check "Deinterlace" in this step. Try deinterlacing and see if you like it. It depends on your final target media as to whether this will help.+
+Now you should have MOV files in Apple Intermediate Codec which can be imported into iMovie+
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I like this option, since it gives me a way of storing the JPEG along with the same slide Show DVD. So at a later date if I want a single JPEG, I can get it from the same DVD as the slide show.
I want to use iMovie to create a slide show, since I want to put animated titles, various transitions between slides, and Ken Burns effect etc. But if I create an iMovie, is there a way to store the JPEG to the same DVD in a directory? I do not see any option, I am willing to take the iMovie to iDVD to get it done, even with this, I do not know how to save the JPEG to the same DVD-ROM.
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there's no single-click option, but you have an option...
in iPhoto, create an album with your pics (we need that later in iM...)
"export"/share this album to a new folder on your harddrive (don't forget where...)
create your iM project, using that album
when finished, create new iDVD project, use your iM project...
when finished, in "expert" (<< english nomenclatura? the menu option between Project and Windows...) you can choose "dvd rom content"
in that dialog, choose your exported folder with pics to add it as pic.files ...
done.

NTSC DVD created with iMovie 6.0.3. Need to convert to PAL.

Is there a way to do this without starting over? Can I switch iMovie from NTSC to PAL? Can I take my iMovie NTSC project and copy it to a new iMovie window after switching the preferences to PAL? Would that keep chapters in place? Can Toast or something do this? I sure hate to totally start over.

Hi
Please Karsten
b) export your iMovie project; drag the resulting file into a new PAL IDVD project; iDVD will ask you to keep or change the standard
IS NO GOOD WAY at all - It works but resulting DVD is barely viewable ! (jumpy, un-sharp and really bad)
a) is an excellent choice as long as TV is fairly modern - else result will be Bl/W
My notes on this:
PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL
A. Copying commercial DVDs - No Not possibly at all - Not even legal to discuss.
B. Home made DVDs (DVDs without copy protection)
C. Movies from iMovie or FinalCut
• Save as full quality QuickTime .mov and convert this with JES_Deinterlacer (free on internet)
NTSC ---> PAL.
• Most often not necessary - Most stand alone PAL DVD-players playback NTSC
(if TV is old in BL/W)
PAL ---> NTSC.
• If played on Mac - not necessary AT ALL
• If on NTSC DVD-player - CONVERSION IS NEEDED - nearly no Stand alone NTSC-DVD-players
playback PAL at all.
To do this You need to convert the PAL DVD to streaming.DV or full quality QuickTime .mov
• I use Roxio Toast™ to do this (There are no free converter)
• JES_Deinterlacer (free on internet) to convert to NTSC
• Set up an NTSC project (29.97fps or 30) in iDVD and import then burn
I burn to
• Verbatim DVD-R
• Set down burn speed in iDVD to x1 or x4 recommended by many
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on internal boot hard disk before burning (IMPORTANT)
PAL is 25 fps and an analog TV standard of 625 lines
NTSC is 29.97 fps and 520 lines
NTSC (29.97fps) 520 lines - about 640x480 pixels (square) 720x480 rectangular (narrow) pixels
PAL (25 fps) 625 lines - about 768x576 pixels (square) 720x576 rectangular (narrow) pixels
to use a photo 702x480 resp 576 then add 9 pixels on each side to add together as 720
If iDVD hangs on PAL or NTSC.
Bengt W wrote
Deleting iDVD pref. file - should return You into NTSC mode.
Yes iDVD can switch to PAL - BUT as You see with a rather lousy result.
a. Need to convert to PAL - most often not - Most PAL-player can playback NTSC
and on a fairly new TV in color. (old TV in Bl/W)
(Other way around - from PAL to NTSC most often a must - few NTSC-player can use PAL)
b. IF MUST - then use JES_Deinterlacer to do this conversion - so much better and free.
My list on this (or rather PAL --> NTSC - just think the other way around)
I have to send it overseas
That too can be a problem. As USA = NTSC = 29.97fps and EU = PAL = 25fps.
DO Not let iMovie or iDVD do this conversion from one to the other - Result will be Very
BAD
I save the movie as a full quality QuickTime .mov file then I use JES_Deinterlacer to do the conversion - then I cont. in iMovie or iDVD with project set accordingly.
JES_Deinterlacer is free on Internet and there are Pro applications but not that much better and costs are astronomical.
PAL-DVDs - don't play in US
NTSC-DVDs - usually plays well in EU
All plays well on a Mac - What ever.
Allosaurus writes
Thank you SDMacuser. I dumped all the plist icons with no result, and was getting pretty plist off when it occurred to me to delete all the previous dvd.proj files. Bingo. That did the trick. So thank you for all your help and the additional information you provided.
Yours Bengt W

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