Combine 2 iMovie projects into one movie

Referring to thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1172735&tstart=0
I was able to combine both movies into one iMovie, after lots of hard drive clearing! I also had a problem with QT export quality, but remembered to export in "expert setting" as a DV stream, which worked well.
Follow up questions:
1. In QuickTime, is the "Expert Setting" / DV Stream output better, worse or the same as "Full Quality" export setting? I might be going through unnecessary pains to wait ou thte Expert Setting when Full Quality could be just as good and take less time, I'm not sure.
2. My movie is long - I know that DVDs hold 120 minutes of footage, not counting the themes. I think my movie, without themes, is about 2 hours long (it's a documentary). I'd also like to include some supplemental footage that will easily cover 1 additional hour. I believe the next step is to burn the final movie onto 2 DVD discs, if not 3. Once I create chapter markers in iMovie and begin burning, will the system ask for an additional DVD or do I need to figure out how to divide this up ahead of time?
Thank you!

txmacgirl wrote:
...1. In QuickTime, is the "Expert Setting" / DV Stream output better, worse or the same as "Full Quality" export setting?
same.
.. will the system ask for an additional DVD or do I need to figure out how to divide this up ahead of time?
no, iDVD isn't that clever (hey, suggestion to programmers!)
you have to split your iM project into 2/3 parts manually ...
if enough disk space is avail, you can simply select a few clips (=half/third of project) and choose 'selected clips only' in the Export dialog to create the 'parts'; drag that export into yoir iDVD project. when the disk is finished, you can erase the export-file, choose the next clips... repeat.

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Pls advise current info as to combining 3 iMovie projects into one iMovie. Thanks!

Pls advise current info as to combining 3 imovie projects into one imovie. I will finish with idvd.
I am in a rush today to complete a video for my brother's memorial for tomorrow. Thanks!

Thanks for your reply, Klaus. I'm just now getting to try your suggestion to copy and paste from timeline rather than drag and drop from clipviewer. Alas, it seems to be choking terribly on the transfer. This video is not a 60 minute movie, either; it's about ten minutes. I has about 60 files to it. I did get to the point where I felt confident enough to empty the trash and save the project, so I assume the clips that are there are not still "attached" to the unedited dvs.
Earlier I tried to export, in the advanced settings, to the full quality dv, but the quality really dropped, way too much for the intended use. I'm pretty much stumped at this point, unless I can hear some other suggestions.
What I might try doing is simply dragging and dropping all the packet contents of the media folder into the other movie's media folder, but then I suspect I'll have to rebuild the darn thing from bits and pieces and it may be like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again...ugh.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to face this challenge, am I? Of course, my lesson learned is to build one dvd's contents in one imovie project. If it weren't for the fact that I need to offer viewers the option to "play movie" (play all the videos as one movie) I'd simply drag each movie into iDVD and do it that way (the dvd showing each video separately).
Would still love to hear of other possible solutions here, before trying some other forum.
thanks!
B

Combining several iMovie projects into one, time-not space-being the factor

Hello,
Space is not an issue (large external drive), but I'm trying to figure out the fastest way to combine several iMovie projects into one (so each movie will become a chapter in iDVD). I'm pretty sure there must be a better way than I'm attempting, selecting all the clips in clipviewer, then dragging and dropping to the new project clipviewer. As I've done this, the "time remaining" window keeps growing (started out about 4 minutes, climbed to "92 minutes remaining," then I aborted the move). Details: each movie is about 8-10 minutes long, widescreen, made up of various (sometimes many) dv clips, audio segments, still photos, etc.
I have added dv clips to a project via the media folder (project unopened), but this was a single item and simple to move from trash into the project. In this case, I'm not sure what to move in order to save the entire project intact.
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b
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Thanks for your reply, Klaus. I'm just now getting to try your suggestion to copy and paste from timeline rather than drag and drop from clipviewer. Alas, it seems to be choking terribly on the transfer. This video is not a 60 minute movie, either; it's about ten minutes. I has about 60 files to it. I did get to the point where I felt confident enough to empty the trash and save the project, so I assume the clips that are there are not still "attached" to the unedited dvs.
Earlier I tried to export, in the advanced settings, to the full quality dv, but the quality really dropped, way too much for the intended use. I'm pretty much stumped at this point, unless I can hear some other suggestions.
What I might try doing is simply dragging and dropping all the packet contents of the media folder into the other movie's media folder, but then I suspect I'll have to rebuild the darn thing from bits and pieces and it may be like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again...ugh.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to face this challenge, am I? Of course, my lesson learned is to build one dvd's contents in one imovie project. If it weren't for the fact that I need to offer viewers the option to "play movie" (play all the videos as one movie) I'd simply drag each movie into iDVD and do it that way (the dvd showing each video separately).
Would still love to hear of other possible solutions here, before trying some other forum.
thanks!
B

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Hi.
I'm 17, and am trying to create a DVD of when the family went on a cruise. For different places/days, I've created different iMovie projects.
But, when I want to export to iDVD, it only lets me put one iMovie project into one iDVD project?
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I know I could export to QuickTime and then drag it into iDVD, but it seems exporting just to iDVD is much quicker, and the quality is better.
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That is not true. You can use them all in one DVD. I have just created my first DVD which has a trailer, a movie with chapters and several different slide shows.
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I would combine them by saving each completed imovie (without chapter markers) as a full quality QuickTime movie.
Then start a completely new imovie project and import each of those in to make make one large imovie. (But remember, your DVD will only hold about 120 minutes of footage and that doesn't count the themes).
That's when I would add the chapter markers.
BTW-it's going to take up a lot of disk space to save the movie s and to burn the DVD.
Sue

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welcome phiphika to the  board…
in terms of convenience, I would indeed export/share all 6 movies.
to tape, or as Quicktime/FullQuality…
both methods create a lossless copy of your final movie(s).
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besides, your workflow is as mine on larger projects: not 678 clips into one monstrous project of some dozends Gigabytes, just segments…

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Hi,
I've got 6 iMovie projects which I want to burn on to DVD. But, I don't want them as individual movies, but as one movie. Also, I'd like it to be able to select chapters for each project of these iMovie projects on the DVD - is this possible?
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Mont,
iMovie doesn't offer a way to combine projects (yet!)... So, the workaround is to either create a new project with clips from the other 6 projects' events, or to use QT Pro to concatenate all the 6 rendered movies into a single one (easy to do with cut-n-paste using QT Pro), and re-import the final one back into iMovie, or import the individual Movies (rendered project output files) one-by-one back into a new iMovie project.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9368329&#9368329
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/iDVD8movieSS.png
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/imovie.html
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welcome phiphika to the  board…
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to tape, or as Quicktime/FullQuality…
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I am editing several iMovie projects which I had intended to put on one DVD using iDVD.
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Can I even have more than one project on in an iDVD project?
I am currently importing a large video file to iMovie so iMovie is inaccessible.
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Well, it is recommended that you use the 'Best Performance' default setting from iDVD's Preferences for movies under 60 minutes to get the best quality.
If you want to put 60-120 minutes on one DVD, you have to select either 'High Quality' or 'Professional Quality' Both will give good results; PQ will take a bit longer to do and is supposed to be higher quality.
I usually make movies just under 2 hours, and I always use PQ. I am pleased with the quality of my movies on DVD disks. However, you should know that I am using iMovie 6 and not any hi-def videos (yet ).
David Pogue explained the process of 'Best Performance' and 'Best Quality' (what the option was before HQ and PQ) like this:
Best Performance option allots "+a fixed, predetermined amount of data to each frame of video...no matter how many minutes of video...A lot of the DVD might wind up being empty--if...the project contains less than an hour of video. But the process will go quickly, and the video will look really great+."
Best Quality option uses "+every micron of space on this blank DVD+" because it analyzes "+the amount of video...included+," and divides "+it into the amount of space available on the DVD. The amount of information used to describe an individual frame of video will vary from project to project, and it will take...a lot longer to burn the DVD because+" of "+so much analysis. But at least+" you "+will get two hours of great-looking video per disc.+"
If your videos are short, you might want to try all the encoding options and see which gives you the best quality.

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Please forgive us, we are new to IMovie 09. We are creating a school movie in 09. We have several separate projects (movies?) that we need to merge into one. We also need to change the order of the projects. I have searched discussions and help etc. and have not found anything step by step on how we can do this. We only have a few weeks left to finish so would appreciate some help.

there are 'mile long' threads about how the newer version of iM 08/09 'disrespect' dv/content from miniDV camcorders.. I don't commend on that - my quality standards are low
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keep your old workflow, avoid 08/09, use iMHD6 (or its bigger brother FinalCutExpress), these are dv-editors = no loss of quality when dv is in use..
or..
as far as I followed the actual discussion: after import into 08/09, reveal files in Finder, use free tool Mpeg Streamclip to convert into AppleIntermediate, use newly generated files in 08/09 (=little convenient.. )
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.. We are interested in using different themes in our movie. We need our film to show all in one shot, no menus/buttons etc. ..
I'm lost in translation here.. you like to have Themes, but no buttons?
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some people misunderstand Themes as 'frames' for their content.. that isn't so. just intros..
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Anyone have experience with combining several projects into one?

I have four separate projects (they're actually four sections of one movie) I want to combine into one so I can burn them all together onto one DVD.
The separate discs run approximately 29:00, 29:00, 24:00 and 13:00, for a combined total time of about 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Now, on the blank DVDs I'm using, it says you can put up to 2 hours of video on them. But I've had people tell me that it's really not a good idea to put more than an hour of video on one disc. (The total size would be 12.4 GB (4GB/3GB/5 GB/0.4 GB), and the disc says that it holds 4.7 GB. But I was told by someone that the size doesn't matter, it's the amount of time that does.)
I'm a bit nervous about combining everything, because when I was first working on this movie, I had it all together in one project, and right before I was finished with it, the Circling Pinwheel of Doom arose and never went away. I never figured out what happened, but I have a feeling it was because the project was so big. Nothing the people at the Apple Store did made it work, and they deduced the file was corrupted or something, and I had to start all over again.
(That's why I separated it into four sections this time.)
So I'm just wondering if anyone else out there has been down this road, and can give me some good words about what or what not to do. Thanks.

I spoke with AppleCare and they gave me good advice on how to do this.

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