How do I import full tape as ONE clip

and not a million clips. You could do this in iMovie 06

you should copy the clip (edit>copy) from the project that has the clip as its whole, save and close that project, then make the new one that needs to be only a portion of your clip, paste the clip (edit>paste), and edit it. this is either the answer to your questoin, or i dont understand your questoin.

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Import whole movie as one clip in imovie

Hi, not sure if I am posting this in the right place now - ah just looked down below my post and it appears it will put it in the imovie forum, good
I have never used iMovie. I've used several video editing products in past years, but haven't done much recently and now I have a deadline of Christmas eve to get this done.
A good few years ago we transferred all of my wife's family home super 8 film to DV format and then spent weeks editing them down to a very nice 20 minute video with music. Made a bunch of DVDs but over the years, they seem to have all stopped working or been lost. The master is still on DV tape and I now have my sony camera linked up to my MBP and it seems to work very well once I got the firewire to thunderbolt connector. It controls the camera perfectly, better than a lot of products that I used to use.
So my problem is ithat when I imported the video, it cut everything up into clips.... and when I put all the clips into a movie they do not play seamlessly... as I don't want to do any editing on this, I just want it all as one long clip so I can export it into suitable formats for my sister-in-law to download on Christmas day...
So I have gone back to the import process and I couldn't seem to find any settings or anything for adjusting how the video is imported from my camera.
I certainly hope this can be done... not so much video editing I want to do, but more of a conversion process I guess, any help would be urgently and greatly appreciated!

hmm, after 24 hours of searching etc I have come to the conclusion that iMovie is pretty rubbish at functionality and a way for Apple to push it's iDrive and get me to pay money for it as well... :-(
I tried putting all my clips into a movie, but the audio skips between the clips and I can't reduce the transition to 0 - so actually no way of recreating my whole movie again and no way of capturing the whole movie in one clip - granted I've only been using this for a day, but after years of video editing I cant say the interface settting or anything else is intuitive about it... seemed promising at first, but in the end I got my old version of Adobe Premier out and it did what I needed first time, no fuss. Afraid iMovies is heading for the trash.

Capture MiniDV tape as one clip

I am doing my first MiniDV tape capture. I rewound the tape, clicked play and Capture Now. When the tape was done, it was divided up into clips. I don't want this. How do I import it as one clip? (it broke it up into 5 clips of varying length) this is a friends home video.

If you are working with DV/NTSC or DV/PAL material, Final Cut Pro does not automatically segment the capture (unless there are time code breaks).
If you have HDV footage, I believe there is a check box somewhere in the capture settings to turn off the automatic clip generation.
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Hey Everyone,
I coming to find out that I'd like to apply the color correction from one clip to multiple without clicking, dragging, and punching in every setting clip by clip. Does anyone know how? This would be a total time saver! Thanks in advance.
Mike Diaz

Grizzly,
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Is there a way to select a number of clips and apply an effect (like three-way color correction) to all clips at once? Right now I can only double-click on one clip and touch up one at a time.
On a similar note, my photo editing software has something called "tone curve adjustment" which is the best device I've used for adding light to a dark image without losing integrity and quality. Any idea what the closest thing to that would be in FCP? Adding brightness flattens out the image and makes it milky and grainy. Could it be that I should avoid whites and middles and concentrate on black and saturation?
Thanks.

Question 1:
Copy the clip with the color correction.
Select all the target clips.
Control-click on the selected clips and choose "Paste Attributes".
In dialog box, select "Audio Filters"
If you want to keep working the CC later,
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and apply global effects to all of them at once.
Question 2:
This is something like Photoshop's Curves with the menu set to RGB?
Working with dark footage, I often use the Color Corrector 3-Way
and boost the Mids level a bit. If that pushes the Whites too much,
pull them down.
I often "crush the blacks" by using a second 3-way, using Limit Effect
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How to import mini dv tape as one clip?

I am trying to backup some old mini dv tapes. When I import from fcpx it splits the clips into individual files each time there's a scene change. I don't want this to occur and would like just one long clip to be recorded. How do I do this? Is there a way to stop fcpx from splitting clips?
Any help would be great appreciated!
Thanks,
Scott

Thanks Andy for giving the time and energy to try and solve this. I really appreciate it.
The sorting option is new to me so thanks for telling about that (I've just downloaded the 30-day trial version of FCPX last night to hopefully address this one single issue that iMovie cannot do so I am totally new to FCPX but it's pretty intuitive especially being familiar with iMovie. This is my first and only version of FCP and will likely buy it if it can help me with this one huge hurdle).
There are several configurations that can be tried for both "Group Clips By" and "Arrange Clips By" but I was unable to find the right combination for both categories to give me the results I need. Perhaps I've not done this correctly and all I need is the right coaching for what both settings should be at.
I'm not sure exactly what you are asking about for the Inspector view information. I will try to attach an image of my screen. It appears that each clip has the label of what day it was shot and what time. The Master video however has clips arranged completely out of chronological order and so there lies the problem. Perhaps you were asking about something else though and I'm just not sure what it is.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME YOUR THOUGHTS! It's kind of impossible to find help on this or a complete definitive answer so your time is very much appreciated. If you travel to McCall, Idaho for a ski trip I will buy you a lunch or copious amounts of microbrewed beer.
~Nate

How can I import my iphotos from one account to the other?

Someone knows step by step iphoto from one account to the other. I am admin but still I do not know how to bring my iphotos to a different account
thanks for help
marc

Just the Photos?
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Put that folder in the Users/Shared folder.
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Share the Library?
For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
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Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc.
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In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.

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This link from Hudgie should answer your audiobook questions.
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@PenthouseOne
Again the dangers of threadjacking - the entire original thread is about moving the iPhoto library without losing organization (albums and events, etc) - when you move the iPhoto library intact and convert it you have exactly what you had on the old system
I have not idea where you saw this in any answer
It sounds like from what you have said that I will indeed just get a pile of photos only.
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i have imported a clip from my camera.
i want to make two movies. one is pretty much the entire clip, but one is only a portion of it. how do i retain the integrity of the complete clip while making edits?

you should copy the clip (edit>copy) from the project that has the clip as its whole, save and close that project, then make the new one that needs to be only a portion of your clip, paste the clip (edit>paste), and edit it. this is either the answer to your questoin, or i dont understand your questoin.

How do I put the audio from one clip over the video of another clip?

So I have two videos, and I want to replace the audio of the first with the audio of the second. Sorry, I'm new to 08 and have been trying to suss this out for ages so I'd really appreciate any advice you guys can give.

This thread seems to be on the same subject and is very helpful.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2072620&tstart=50
The Working with Audio clip also included the solution for extracting the audio from a clip at the very end of the video. Having to know the secret handshake of shift-command and dragging is really not intuitive, but such is progress....

How do I import an existing finalised imovie into a new project either in part or full. The movie I want to import is filed under "movies" but greyed out when I go through the procedure in imovie 11

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IMovie import from handycam results in juddering - but only on one clip!

I have one clip on my Sony HDR-SR5 which iMovie 8 doesn't seem to be able to import cleanly.
This one clip appears to import with no issues but when I play it back in iMovie the image judders. The sound is absolutely fine and the original movie on the camera plays perfectly. The imported iMovie event makes everyone in the film look like they have palsy.
There are some other clips on the camera too which cause iMovie to crash as soon as it tries to import them, but that's a separate matter. I have successfully imported about 30 other clips from the camera so far, some of which are from either side of these rogue clips. They are all HD clips and all were taken using the same settings.
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Mmmm, doesn't it just do your head in when you want something to go wrong and it doesn't.
I took my camera out to the garden and took some quite violent panning shots to test in various workflows. Back at my mac I connected the camera and opened imovie, played the clip in preview in the import window - no judder - a little ghosting but that's to be expected.
Imported at best quality and played this back in imovie, again- no judder - a little ghosting but that's to be expected, was really quite surprised I didn't have judder and a little disappointed since my intention was to import the clip in parallels using the sony supplied software and see if I could see a difference.
I exported the movie at the large setting- no judder. Mmmm
Not deterred I continued the test, imported using the sony software (gee, it just reminds me why I use a mac) and exported to mpeg2, which is the only option available. The first thing I noticed was the interlacing which no matter what I did I couldn't get rid of, strange but of no worry since this isn't what I was testing for, but the video did judder.
Exactly what conclusion I can draw from this I really don't know, but if sony software gives us these issues as it seems to do, I guess we can't point too many fingers at imovie.

How do I have different speeds during my clip in imovie without having my whole clip one speed?

How do I have different speeds throught one clip without having the whole clip one speed?

The clip should be in your project. If it is not, drag it into your project from your event.
Now select the portion of the clip that you would like to change the speed for. A yellow border should be around this portion of the clip. Now, right-click on that portion of the clip and select SPLIT CLIP. Repeat if necessary if you need still more segments at different speeds. Now you can adjust the speed of these new split clips separately.

How do I import full tape as ONE clip

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