FCP with new iMovie

It seems it's not possible to import events or projects from the new iMovie 10.0.1 into FCP X. I can only see the files I already had with the old version of iMovie. Did I miss something ?

No. The format used by iMovie X is too new for FCP, which hasn't been updated since July. A new version of FCP is expected in December.

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I went to open a .mov file I wanted to re-edit and only Quicktime was given as an option. I've tried to create a new event with the new imovies and that isn't happening either. How to do either of these simple things would be appreciated.

The new iMovie is only going to accept certain formats and codecs. You should re-export or re-save your movie files from QuickTime to a new format. You may notice a "(converted)" in the title bar of some of your movies as they are opened in QT. QT is now converting movies into more "acceptable" codecs as it loads them into memory.
After export, they should be acceptable in iMovie.
Here are some helpful links:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread/3586121?tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread/4839052?tstart=0

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iMovie 6 is compatible, but not the other applications.

I upgraded to the mew iMovie (purple star) vers 10.6 from the old I movie (yellow star) in the old one when i was done with my project i could finalize it and share it to idvd to burn a dvd, i don't see how to do that in the new iMovie. is there a w

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i did what you said and saved the file to my desktop, but how do i get it in idvd now, when i open idvd and point to the file on the desktop either by open existing project or trying to open a new project the file is greyed out and i can't select it

What's up with this new iMovie?

I have been trying to use the new iMovie for the first time and am finding it very user UNFRIENDLY! You can't edit the tex size/color in many titles, you can't slow down title frames, and many more things that have been causing me grief. The Help section with the program is almost useless and certainly not up to the quality I expect from Apple prodcucts. I know the product was free but it doesn't seem to be any better than iMovie 11 that I was using before and now don't have. The tutorial for iMovie 11 was excellent and walked you through all of the editing and enhancing capabilities in the program. Apple needs to get a tutorial out or I will have to go back to iMovie 11!
Stu

Have you looked at the online help:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/
The old version is still available on your computer in the Applications folder, inside a folder called iMovie 9.0.9

Have mac mini with thunderbolt monitor 1yr old, recently updated with new 10.0.2 from apple, now iMovie doesn't seem to support my Sony HDR-XR500 camera. Is there any help on this?

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Have imac with OS Maverick - but why is the new iMovie so slow to load - 20 seconds - also nowhere near as intuitive as the original!

Go to File>Update Projects and Events.

I made a new movie with Maverick, iMovie. How do I burn it to a DVD?

I made a movie with the new Maverick, iMovie. It had some new twists and turns but generally, I liked it and survived. I could not discover how to save it to iDVD. I want to make a DVD from my completed movie but can't figure out how. Share does not include a DVD option. Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks.

iDVD still works fine in Mavericks, though not sold or supported by Apple any longer. Here is a step by step of how to use the new iMovie and iDVD to produce a fully working DVD:
1. Create a project in iMovie 10.0.1
2. Go to File>Share>File... and for Size choose Large 540P (960 x 540) and click Next
3. Choose a location on the hard drive to save the file to.
4. Wait for the blue circle activity indicator to finish.
5. In Finder, verify that iMovie created an MP4 file in the location specified in step 3.
6. Open iDVD and click "Create New Project."
7. Give the project a name and save it to your hard drive.
8. Drag the file you created earlier from the Finder into your iDVD project window.
(or go to File>Import>Video... and choose your video there)
9. Make any adjustments to drop zones, etc.
10. Click the burn button.
11. Insert a DVD and let it do its thing.
Enjoy!
iDVD is still a great program for burning DVDs.

The sound does not sync with the new iMovie (In Mavericks)

I've finally managed to update my old projects to iMovie 10.0 but the sound does not sync.
Is it my computer (Mac Pro Late 2008) who can not cope with the new iMovie??
Could it be that my Graphics card can not be bothered with?
GeForce 9400M and GeForce 9600M
Excuse my bad english! :-/

I have MacBook Pro!

UPDATE: iMovie 1.1 with new features.

I just downloaded the new iMovie 1.1 for my iPhone4 and there are lots of new features.
• Split Video Clips
• Music Track now loops the duration of the Project
• Tips page
and much more...
Thank you Apple.

@Resist Here is a link to all the new features:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imovie/id377298193?mt=8#
Look at the "*What's New In Version 1.1*" section and click the "...More" button.

FCP footage into iMovie 6

My colleague and I are working on a FCP 5 project (1080i/50) for a local artist. All goes well on this but last night, having little to do in my life, I thought I would give iMovie 6 HD a try and so imported some of the footage we captured in FCP into iMovie 6. The footage imported OK but it is slightly compressed with a black bar down the left hand side. Is this normal?
I set iMovie to 25fps (PAL) before opening a new project and selected HDV 1080i from the options presented when creating a new project.
The footage was shot in HDV mode on a Sony HVR-Z1E. Should I have recaptured the footage through iMovie?

I'm just trying this for you right now..
I'm importing into iMovie HD 6 some HDV (1080i/50) footage which I'd captured into FCP 5.1.
Note that FCP captures differently from iMovie HD, not using Apple's Intermediate Codec, so this footage has to be transcoded into AIC when importing into iMovie HD. It's taken about six minutes to import a 1:39 minute clip of 318MB.
The result is - as you say - a movie with a broad black bar, about one ninth of the movie's width, down the left edge.
This suggests to me - I'm going out soon, so this has to be just a quick first appraisal - an aspect ratio oddity, to do with rectangular vs square pixels, see below.
Nothing appears to have been trimmed off the left edge, so all the picture is there, but in FCP that 'widescreen' aspect shows within a 4:3 editing window, with grey bars at the top and bottom to frame it.
An HDV clip imported directly from the camera into iMovie fills my editing window in near-enough proper 16:9 ratio (..255mm x 145mm..) and an identical clip imported into FCP HD 5.1 shows up as 120mm x 67mm, i.e: also 16:9. When the same clip is imported from FCP-capture into iMovie, then it appears as 220mm x 145mm ..i.e; wrong aspect ratio.
If you look carefully at the same frozen frame in both iMHD and in FCP, you'll see that everything within the frame is slightly -w-i-d-e-r- in the FCP frame than in the imported-into-iMHD frame ..i.e; it's squeezed narrower in iMovie.
This is because QuickTime, and any other computer display process or activity uses square pixels. Television, however, and programs associated with editing images for TV, uses rectangular pixels: short and fat in NTSC land, and tall and thin in PAL land. This is so that - in comparison to a computer-screen standard such as 640x480 for 4:3 traditionally shaped screens - a PAL TV picture, which has more scan lines, and is thus 'sharper' than an American NTSC TV, fits more data across the screen, whereas the lower-quality NTSC system, with "fatter" pixels which have less height, needs more data displayed down the screen to get to the same resolution as the equivalent square pixels.
Maybe I haven't explained that too well, as I'm in a rush right now!
But the result is - as we've both seen - that the picture in square pixels on the FCP computer screen is - when importing this into iMovie HD - understood to be meant to be "thin" PAL TV pixels, and so iMovie - or the Apple Intermediate Codec - converts that into television-intended "thin" pixels on the computer screen ..hence everything's slightly narrow, and there's a blank black spacer at the left.
I haven't time at the moment to try exporting this out to a camera, or to some other device, to see if it gets "unsqueezed" during export, but I might try tonight.
Maybe Matti Haveri might have something to say if he reads this, too.
But nothing's lost; it's just displayed thinner.
[..Maybe I could import myself into FCP and then into iMovie ..I could do with being a bit thinner, too..]
"..Should I have recaptured the footage through iMovie?.." ..Yes. But it might have taken longer, as iMovie converts into the AIC "on-the-fly", thus slowing down imports on all but the fastest Macs.

Unable to capture in FCP, Quicktime and iMovie, camera not recognized.

I am unable to capture in FCP, Quicktime and iMovie.
I have been dealing with this problem for quite a while now, and I think I have tried everything posted on these forums regarding this issue. I have been to the Quicktime, iMovie, and this FCP forum looking for the solution. Hopefully someone has a suggestion that I have missed or have not tried yet. I have a Powerbook G4 running OSX Tiger 10.4. I am running Quicktime 7.04, and FCP 4.5.
My problem is this… I am unable to capture from my Canon ZR-200 Mini DV camera, using Final Cut Pro, iMovie and also Quicktime. FCP says no camera recognized. iMovie says no camera attached, and Quicktime says no recording device found. In FCP, I am using the Firewire Basic setting, and NTSC DV settings. I have captured in FCP with the same camera several times in the past. I think the problem started when I upgraded to OSX 10.4, or one of the Quicktime upgrades.
Here are the details…
- Camera is connect via Firewire. I have tried the built in ports, as well as a Firewire Carbus card.
- OSX recognizes the Canon ZR-200 in the System Profiler, so I know the computer sees the camera.
- I have tried the camera on a Windows XP machine, and capture works perfectly, so I know the camera is functioning properly in VTR mode.
- Deleted my FCP pref’s using FCP Rescue.
- Deleted the Quicktime receipts, and re-installed Quicktime 7.04
- Reverted back to Quicktime 7.01
- Set the audio to 44.1 in the the Audio MIDI setup in the Utilities folder
- Tried the “GarageBand” fix, opening the programing, playing a few notes and closing.
- I have installed Quicktime using the program “Yank” to completely delete Quicktime and re-install.
I may have tried more solutions, but these are the fixes that I can recall.
If anyone has any others suggestions, it would be much appreciated.
Brent

Hi Brent:
Although it looks as if you have tried all of the 'fixes' that are normally suggested here, please read through this Apple Article to see if some obscure thing applies to you.
iMovie: Cannot see or control camera
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43000
Sue

Is there anyway to take a downloaded app from one computer and put it on another without rebuying it. I have a macbook that I bought the new iMovie and iPhoto on, but I would rather it be on my iMac. So is there anyway I can change it?

Is there anyway to take a downloaded app from one computer and put it on another without rebuying it. I have a macbook that I bought the new iMovie and iPhoto on, but I would rather it be on my iMac. So is there anyway I can change it? I thought that if I bought it the apps on my macbook, they would be avaliable on my imac like the mobile devices operate. The macbook has 10.6.8 cause its a older model and I think lion would slow it down. Any help??

Just redownload it on the other computer by logging into the App Store with the same Apple ID you used to purchase it.

I'm making a DVD with my iMOVIE and when I tried to burn a DVD I got an error message that said "ERROR IN PROJECT

I'm making a DVD with my iMOVIE and when I tried to burn a DVD I got an error message that said
"ERRORS IN PROJECT
There were errors during the project validation that have to be fixed before burning the project."
What does this mean and how do I fix it.
jim

Hi
Do You have a NEW Mac ?
Does it really have iDVD ? New ones Don't.
Please tell much more
• Mac used
• Program used (versions)
• Material used (Codecs, file formats etc)
Yours Bengt W

How do i record video on the new iMovie on my mac

how do i record video on the new iMovie on my mac

Hey baseballgod44,
Great question! The following article outlines how to record video with the FaceTime HD Camera in iMovie (2013):
iMovie (2013): Record video with the FaceTime HD camera
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14675
Record live video directly into iMovie
1. Do one of the following:
          - To record using the built-in camera: Click the Import button in the toolbar.
          - To record using an external iSight camera: Connect the iSight camera to your computer with a FireWire cable, and click the Import button in the toolbar.
2. In the Cameras section of the Import window sidebar, select the camera you want to import from.
A live video image from the camera appears in the Import window.
3. Do one of the following:
          - To choose an existing event to contain the video: Choose the event from the “Import to” pop-up menu at the top of the Import window.
          - To create a new event to contain the video: Choose New Event from the “Import to” pop-up menu, type a name for the new event, and press Return.
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