6:9 and 4:3 Displacing in iMovie

On a recent trip I took slides with 2 camera, one in 16:9 format and other in 4:3 format. I process in PhotoToMovie as 16:9 before moving them into iMovie. Is there any easy way to crop the 4:3 slides to look like 16:9. I used the Ken Burn Effect for my slides and play back on a widescreen TV. It would look better to have slideshow display all in 16:9.

I will answer my own question. Photo To Movie will changed 4:3 to 16:9 after contacting them I found how to do.

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YouTube always provides people with raw video materials on all sorts of things happened worldwide in real time. Video lovers are fond of downloading these files as private collection, even using video editors like iMovie to do further editing of their favorite ones, so as to import them to portable devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Blackberry, etc. for playback, or upload to their own websites to share with others, or do something else as they like.
However, not all the people have found a proper way to download YouTube videos, not to mention how to add these files to iMovie for editing. YouTube videos are in the format of FLV, which is not a workable format in iMovie, so if you want to import YouTube videos to it without trouble, you should convert FLV files to iMovie compatible formats such as MPEG-4 and MOV in advance. With the special intention of solving these two problems, this guide will show you how to download YouTube videos and import them to iMovie for editing step by step. If you are in need, just feel free to go along with it.
Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube YouTube Converter for Mac
This converter can process downloading and conversion simultaneously. Once you launch it, the interface below well pop up.
Step 2: Add URL, select output format and set save path
Press tag “Add URL” in the above interface, and then the following window will appear. Just copy and paste the URL of the YouTube video file which you want to download and convert to the text box after “URL”. Then select a supportable format for iMovie by clicking the drop-down list of “Convert To”. Here I choose MOV for example.
Afterwards, you can insert the storage file name in the text box of “Save As”, if not, the program will generate one automatically. Here I save my file as “mycollection”. Meanwhile, you are allowed to hit “Browse” in the opposite side of “Save To” to specify the destination folder. By the way, if you want to save the original FLV files, you are allowed to tick the checkbox “Save FLV File” to achieve this goal.
Step 3: Custom
This program enables you to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and channels, so that you can change them randomly according to your own demands. Generally speaking, the options which refer to values are always in condition of the larger values, the larger file size, but better quality. Do remember click “OK” to save your custom settings.
Step 4: Download and convert
Once all the settings are done, you can click “OK” button to start. The following window will show you the progress of downloading and conversion.
Step 5: Import the output MOV files to iMovie
As soon as the YouTube video files have been downloaded and converted to MOV or other iMovie workable format, you can click “Open” at lower right corner of the above interface to find out the output files. Afterwards, launch iMovie, and click File > Import to add the output files to iMovie for editing.
Tips:
1. This program supports batch tasks so that you can download multiple YouTube video files in batches at a time.
2. Pavtube YouTube Converter for Mac adopts multi-threading technology, which makes its download speed is faster than any other similar YouTube downloader.
3. Besides YouTube.com, it can also automatically detect and download online videos in the format of .flv, and f4v from many other video-sharing websites, like Yahoo Video, Myspace, Google Video, Fox and more.
4. It also provides users with conversion function, with which you can convert any YouTube FLV/F4V files to other formats like MP4, MKA, WAV, AC3, MKV, FLV, MP3, M4A, 3GP, AVI, MOV, MPG, etc. at will.
5. If you only use it as a YouTube downloader without format conversion, you can take it as a piece of freeware.
All right, this guide is ending up now; hope it will do you a favor while downloading video files from YouTube as well as importing them to iMovie for further editing.

It's a clip from CNN (with all credits etc. added). When one refers to it as a clip posted on "YouTube", then people understand the quality will be poor.
I've watched television go from everything shot on a tripod with clean, meticulous editing rules, to almost anything goes. It has to do with cultural reference.

I just created a slideshow dvd in imovie, and when I hit finalize it said that it would take 7 hours to finalize. I've only had my macbook pro for 6 months, and this is the first imovie I've done...is this normal? If not how can I speed up this process?

I just created a slideshow dvd in imovie, and when I hit finalize it said that it would take 7 hours to finalize. I've only had my macbook pro for 6 months, and this is the first imovie I've done...is this normal? If not how can I speed up this process? Thanks in advance for all of your help!

Hi
Time needed can depend on several things.
• less than 5 GB free space on Start-up (Mac OS) hard disk = Redicolous long times AND a DVD that most probably will not work OK
Medicine - I never go under 25GB free space
• Use of strange file formats into iDVD - can force it to de-code first then re-encode - this can take long long times
I use
Video - StreamingDV as from miniDV tape Cameras - or QuickTime Movies Converted to StreamingDV
Audio - .aiff 16-bit 48 kHz - (no .mp3, .wma etc)
• Use of old Mac - My G4 600MHz took about 24 hour per hour movie. my dG5 - about 2 hours per hour (I use Pro Quality encoding)
• Pro Quality encoding - takes about x2 to process a movie
Yours Bengt W

I have finalized my iMovie photo slideshow and wanted to burn the imovie onto dvd. how can i do this so i can watch it on my television?

i have finalized my iMovie photo slideshow and wanted to burn the imovie onto dvd. how can i do this so i can watch it on my television?

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• Roxio Toast™ - Not as elegant as iDVD - but has many other positive additions (I like it as 10-Pro incl BD-component) (now version 11)
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Burn http://www.digital-digest.com/software/Burn.html
only You can buy from Apple is
• FinalCut Pro-X which also can burn to DVD but without any nice themes.
AppleMan1958
You can also buy Compressor from Apple for $50 US. It will also create DVD and BluRay but without the nice themes.
Yours Bengt W

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I have been working on a Christmas Video and all of a sudden iMovie got really slow and wouldn' let me edit or play the video. I restarted it a few times now and nothing seems to work. What do i do?

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When I try to include a white and black photo in a iMovie the result is a black totaly black picture which does not show in the movie. Why? Can it be fixed?

The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
Other than that, what version of iPhoto do you have? Assuming 09 or later try
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD
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I have recently bought a imac and wish to transfer iphoto, imovie, and itunes files, albums, projects etc, from my macbook to my new imac desktop, to free up space on my macbook. How is this done?

Hi,
Are Both Macs running the same OS... i.e. Snow Leopard... ?
Also These Links may be of Value:
http://www.apple.com/support/imac/intel/
http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/SetupAsst.html
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#imac
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A lot of my iTunes files are 'protected and unavailable' to use in iMovie. Why?

check in Finder the suffix of those audio files ... if it's .m4p, those are protected=DRM=not meant/allowed for 'processing' aka using in videos...,
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On the latest imovie - april 2013, I have made many videos and had no problems, but recently I've been using the macs inbuilt webcam and a couple of times when I re-watch the footage the audio is badly out of sync with the visual, how can I fix this?

Same issue I've seen. I have a Sony DCR-TRV30. Had 40 tapes to transfer to iMovie 10.0.6. Had no issue on first 16 tapes then all the sudden I experienced the audio/video timing issue. Video looks good when it is getting imported, audio/video in sync on camera and in preview window on iMovie while importing. Tape finishes and you start to watch import when beginning of tape is in sync and by end it is several seconds out of sync. Tried deleting and installing iMovie again and that didn't help.

Importing .mov and/or mpeg files in imovie '09

Hi I am having a problem importing some existing .mpg files into iMovie '09.
I have quicktime professional and the mpeg2 pack so converted them to .mov and they still wouldn't import.
Help!

andyguilder wrote:
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Help - after one month of working on an iMovie project where I've got the first 3 minutes shot with an HD camera and the rest with a regular DV camera I'm getting some comments that I won't be able to export to iDVD. Is that right? It's a really big project so I haven't yet tried (and I just found out today). I've been told that I should use Final Cut Express but I'm not sure what's involved to replicate my project in FCE.
Can someone who knows confirm whether or not I can convert my iMovie to DVD?
Thanks!!!!

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
Yes, you can combine the two. (..The hi-def gets knocked down to standard-def anyway when passing the project to iDVD to burn..)
Here's an unprepossessing clip - meaningless to look at! - but the first part (with music) was shot in 16:9 hi-def, and the second (wildly waving round my workroom) is standard-def 4:3. They both combined easily into a 16:9 (supposedly HD) project, and both played together perfectly happily.
On export to iDVD (..or to this gallery page..) they're both standardised as standard-def.
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So I dropped the mp3 file into GarageBand. I deleted the first section of the song, then selected the 16 second piece I wanted to include in my iMovie, using the copy command. Then I pasted the piece into a new GarageBand project screen. The piece wouldn't play, and when I selected "export" the piece neatly went to where I wanted it, but again with no sound.
So simply: how do I edit an mp3 file (cutting a piece of it) and then save it so I can apply it to an iMovie? Help!
John

john Nall wrote:
The piece wouldn't play, and when I selected "export" the piece neatly went to where I wanted it, but again with no sound.
it should have played, but you can do it easier by exporting just the section you want:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#exportsections
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

I have captured a VHS movie from a VCR to my Mac. I used a Roxie program and it said "capture to IMovie". I said yes. It shows in my events with a green asterisks but it is not showing up in iMovie, It is in my doc but won't go into iMovie. Why?

I used a Roxie program to bring in my video from VHS. I know it's in my computer and when I right click in the event in IMovie and click "capture movie, a screen comes up showing it but it won't capture it and bring it into IMovie. What am I doing wrong

Firefox can find plugins in several locations, but Firefox 21 changed the location of the "shared" plugin folder so older installers like the Microsoft Windows Media Plugin no longer drop the DLL file in the correct location.
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(1) Change a Firefox preference so that Firefox checks the old location. Here's how:
(i) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(ii) In the filter box, type or paste '''plugins''' and pause while the list is filtered
(iii) Double-click '''plugins.load_appdir_plugins''' to switch its value from false to true.
This will take effect after you restart Firefox.
(2) Copy the plugins folder to the new location. Here's how on Win 7 64-bit:
Open a Windows Explorer window to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
Right-click and copy the '''Plugins''' folder
Double-click the '''browser''' folder to open it
Right-click and paste
Right-click the new copy of '''Plugins''' and rename it to '''plugins'''
After restarting Firefox, the plugins in that folder should now be available.
''Edit: I suggest just doing #1.''

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I have a problem with the footer of my pages. The footer is composed with elements of the master page and two elements that are page dependant so these elements are defined in each page. All the elements in the footer are marked as page footer elements so they should appear below the main content of the page and all in the same position relative to each other.
But the truth is the main content extends below the top of the footer overlapping it and the page dependant elements of the footer are displaced in the same amount and so these elements do not match in the space reserved for them in the footer.
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Here is how i see the page in the editor. The grayed out keywords and the "UK Photographers" link of the footer are in the current page. All other elements of the footer (horizontal line(rectangle of 1px height), "facebook - links - contact" links and Copyright notice) are in the master page:
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The Manual says…………
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/?lang=en#mov515f7a531

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