2008 24" iMac problem (video footage included)

OK, I have made a post about this a few weeks ago (click here to see it), and in that post I explained the problem I was having with my iMac. But I explained it using text. So, I figured it would probably be better to use video to actually SHOW the problem happening in action. Now hopefully the Apple forum admins will be nice to me as it seems that the add video function is greyed out for me, so I'll have to upload it to youtube and link you all to it. So, below is the link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udp0RnncrHw
If you want to see computer specs, those are in the video description. Anyhow, thanks for watching and reading! I'd appreciate it if someone can help.

This is a general iMac forum not specific to Windows issues. If you are using Bootcamp I would recommend using this forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1244
If you are using Fusion or Parallels then I would go to those companies forums and post.
Regards,
Roger

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My bad?
You're original response was questions/post about an iMac. Now you've edited it to ask about a Mac Pro?
You can more easily add internal drives in a Mac Pro.
Not too terribly easy to add/replace drives in an iMac.
If younhave questions about a Mac Pro, try posting in the Mac Pro forums.
Much more knowledgeable users there.

I recently reinstalled Snow leapod on my mac because I was having problems. I backed up everything onto disks, but after formatting, i quickly realized that some files did not transfer. I am missing some very important video footage. Please help me!

I recently re-installed Snow leapod onto my macbook. Previously the system was running snow, I believe I may have visited a corrupt website or something. Anyhow, I backed up all of my information onto disks before reformatting, and the format went well. However, I realized after the fact that some important video footage did not transfer to my DVD-R's that I saved my data too. Is there any possible way I could recover this information? I'm trying to recovery software I found recomended online, but im not sure what the outcome of it will be. I know things are not looking good, but was hoping someone could please help me.

Also, as for what I did. I put the OS disk into my computer, restarted it and ran through the screens to completely reinstall the OS. Then, I had to install my Snow Leapord CD because my origional OS was not the newer SL. Its my own fault, I just didnt think of every file off the top of my head before startign the process. I assumed everything was on the backup disks I had just burned.

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I have some video footage from a recent trip and I included pictures from the trip in between video clips. Within iMovie the movie plays fine, but when I export it the pictures play very strangely. One picture will come on-screen briefly, then flash back to a previous picture from the movie. This happens 3 or 4 times when the picture is supposed to be on-screen.
I wonder if how I imported the pictures is a problem? I would import within iMovie from an iPhoto album, which put the picture at the end of my movie. Then I would "cut" the picture, move the timeline to where I wanted to insert the picture and paste it there. Doesn't sound too difficult, does it?
As a test I created a brand new movie and dragged the entire iPhoto album folder into the timeline. I added a Ken Burns effect to one picture and a cross dissolve between two pictures,* then exported it. In the resulting movie, the first picture does the Ken Burns thing, cross disolves to the second picture (which is very blurry) and the third picture cycles between it and the second picture, just like in my problem movie. But the remaining pictures play fine.
The movies (AVI: M-JPEG, DVI ADPCM) and pictures (JPEG) are from my digital camera.
Anyone know what's going on?
(* In my original movie there are no dissolves or effects from pictures to footage or vice versa.)

Another update (since it seems like I'm the only one in the world to experience this problem):
I tried two other iMacs, one running 10.4.11 like me and another running Leopard. Using iMovie HD I created a new movie, imported some pictures and exported the movie. Everything worked fine.
I went back to my machine and deleted the iMovie .plist file. I tried the same test with pictures on my old test movie. It didn't work. I created a brand new movie, which worked. I went back to my original movie and pulled out some pictures, insert other, etc. Nothing worked.
So maybe the movie gets into a strange state and won't export image-to-DV clips correctly. I think I can solve this two ways:
- create a brand new movie and copy all the old movie's clips over
- export the pictures I'm interested in as an iPhoto slideshow and import that into iMovie, then chop it up picture by picture.

Receiving New iMac Free - Video Card Question

Much to my relief, Apple is replacing my 2008 24" iMac after I have brought it in to them 3 times for the same issue in a month (failure to startup, they have replaced two video cards, one MLB, and the display but the problem repeats itself within 1-2 weeks). They are replacing it with a newer model that has a 27" display, twice the ram (4 GB) and twice the HD space (1 TB). My question is about the video card in the new iMac, it is a ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 256 MB, and the card in my old iMac was a NVIDIA 8800 GS with 512 MB. My primary application for my iMac is gaming, which I believe makes the video card the most important component. Does anyone know the difference between 256 and 512 or anything about this new card? Should I ask them if I can pay to upgrade to the Radeon HD 4850 512 MB before I go in to pick up my new iMac?

crazy00eyes wrote:
Much to my relief, Apple is replacing my 2008 24" iMac after I have brought it in to them 3 times for the same issue in a month (failure to startup, they have replaced two video cards, one MLB, and the display but the problem repeats itself within 1-2 weeks). They are replacing it with a newer model that has a 27" display, twice the ram (4 GB) and twice the HD space (1 TB). My question is about the video card in the new iMac, it is a ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 256 MB, and the card in my old iMac was a NVIDIA 8800 GS with 512 MB. My primary application for my iMac is gaming, which I believe makes the video card the most important component. Does anyone know the difference between 256 and 512 or anything about this new card? Should I ask them if I can pay to upgrade to the Radeon HD 4850 512 MB before I go in to pick up my new iMac?
Hi Crazy,
I had the exact same problem... my 18month old 24" iMac (with 512MB Video card) went belly up.
I pointed out that what they wanted to offer me had only the 256Mb Card ? ....and he said; "oops I didn't notice that"... so we will send your new 27" iMac - with a 512MB (ATI 4850) at no charge,
So... buddy you just need to tell them - and they will configure your replacement 27" to equal or better the minimum specification of your faulty unit.

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After buying Empire: Total War I thought it best to upgrade the 2GB RAM to 4GB, and purchased 2x2GB sticks 800 Mhz 6400 DDR2 SDRAM.
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- a grey blank screen would appear and not change
- the grey start up screen would appear with the Apple logo and spinning circle, which would then stop spinning and not change.
If I manually rebooted I just get a black screen and can only hear the fans softly spinning.
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I don't get the 3 beep warning at startup.
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I've also recently noticed that the top and back of the imac is getting quite warm to the touch and no don't leave the system running when not in use.

Hello,
Have you blown the dust out lately?
Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor
iStat Menus...
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
And/or iStat Pro...
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
EDIT: you won't find iStat Pro at BDAqua's link any longer. (No longer supported by the developer, and not completely compatible with Mountain Lion, but most of its features should still be working.) It's here
https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html
Do you have a link to the exact RAM you bought?
That grapics card is known to be a problem, but the brightness issue seems more like the Backlight or Inverter.

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Hi everyone, apologies in advance if my question has no doubt been asked before. This is my first post and I am desperate for some guidance. I’ve scanned previous questions on similar topics and haven’t quite found the same query (or had the confidence to spot if it was the same problem!). Here goes.
My son recently videoed a family wedding using a:
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More complicated answer: Open the manuals for Compressor and DVD Studio Pro and learn how to use those tools to author DVDs.
The 20GB of disk space is completely normal for HDV.
It tells me that your movie is about 100 minutes long. Video takes a lot of space. Hard drives are cheaper than they have ever been.
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I've shot video footage before and added music tracks with out problem. This time I tried to add a music file from iTunes but to a particluar part of some video footage, to find that only the background noise from the video footage is audible.
I've tried lowering the sound volume of the background noise and increasing the volume of the music track, I've tried extracting the background noise, cropping the background noise, muting the background noise, but nothing appears to work.
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Thanks in advance
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Welcome to iMovie Discussions!
I'm trying (desperately) to remember the quirks of iMovie 3.0.3 (..well, in fact, I'm trying desperately to forget the quirks of iMovie 3.0.3..)
It's probably an incompatibility between the format in which your iTunes music has been saved, and the playback capabilities of the old iMovie, or the version of QuickTime which you're using. (Don't be tempted to simply upgrade QT, by the way, because some versions play better with various versions of iMovie than do others!)
iMovie seems to work best with .aiff files, rather than .mp3 or other formats in which iTunes can store songs.
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I've been making movies by importing small video clips from my camera. Just dragging files around, no problem.
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I have a Sony video camera no: DCR-TRV25E. It is on play (VCR), not record.
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I'm sure this is a basic (but perhaps involved?) question.
I've been learning and using FCP on and off for over a year. I've been using online tutorials and developing a basic knowledge of the program.
I just bought a new 27" iMac with two internal hard drives (the 256GB solid state drive, and a 2TB regular drive). Up until now, I've only ever owned computers with one internal drive, and have never even gotten into editing footage on an external drive.
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Anyway, I really don't have a good understanding of what should be where, and what I need to be transferring, and how to make sure that FCP "knows" where to look for the footage I'm editing.
Is there a place in the manual, or a post here, or a FAQ, or somewhere where I can read about this and get a good understanding of it? This is something I need to know, anyway, so I will know how to backup and store projects that I might want to edit further in the future.
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Thanks!

When you "uncompress" AVCHD files
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would the result be exactly the same if you did it more than once?
Not sure what you mean by that. There will be slight loss when you recompress, but nothing you'd notice. Transcoding, as it is called, is quite a normal process. ProRes is so well designed of a codec that you can recompress to ProRes again and again 10 times before you see any issues.
if I logged and transferred using the same settings, would the footage be exactly the same?
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My understanding is that FCP "looks" for video footage where it "expects" it to be based on how and where you imported it.
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I capture video footage of websites in order to showcase in a demo reel. Using Snapz Pro, the compression type I have found to have the best quality is H264. When I take this footage into FCP (v5.1.4), I choose DV NTSC 48khz for the sequence setting. If I then select H264 for the sequence compression type, when I go to render I get a 'Codec error.'
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Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried using DVCPRO HD in the past, but the picture quality of the captured screen footage turns out blurry. The only codecs I've found that provide a perfectly clear image are H264, Animation and Uncompressed 8-bit. The problem with the latter two is that video files lasting only a few seconds measure in the 100s of MBs. Working with files that large would slow my editing and rendering down to a non-workable length.
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Thanks very much for the help with this frustrating issue

Well, never mind. I'm returning the MacBook and buying a previous generation MacBook Pro, which ends up being about $200 more.
Solves my problem, but many folks can't afford the Pro. I'll be commenting at Apple customer feedback about the lack of firewire on the new MacBook.
Thanks for reading the post.

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Hi Ann, Hi JSW,
I looked around a bit and noticed that this same problem sometimes happens in iMovie itself. People lose their media because it gets copied inside the project file itself. If you right click to see the package contents, you might be able to locate the media and copy it to a dedicated folder, then reconnect media to it in Premiere Pro. See this post on the apple website: Source clip missing | Apple Support Communities
Thanks,
Kevin

2008 24" iMac problem (video footage included)

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