How to license stock footage for iMovie - Try VidLib for iOS

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With the VidLib app downloaded and installed, thousands of clips are placed within easy reach, all logically archived and ready to be used on Final Cut and other professional editing suites immediately. While iOS apps only have iMovie available for editing, on the Mac you can use any editing suite you want, including Final Cut.
Coupling VidLib OSX download with an existing copy of Final Cut means or iMovie with iOS version of VidLib means editors will always have useful and ready to use video footage on their desktop or device. The clips are purchased using an in-app process and can be edited as needed using FinalCut or iMovie with no delays or file type conversions required to actually get started. With this simplistic and innovative approach to editing, there are no lengthy licensing forms to fill in and send back before the clip can be used.
What's more, with VidLib and Final Cut working together, there is no need to go online, type in a website address and browse through a new URL in order to find appropriate video footage. The VidLib app sits on the desktop or iPhone / iPad giving the clip at the click of a mouse, rather than after an internet session.
VidLib also loads considerably faster than 'conventional' image and video download sites, giving even quicker access to clips, all of which are pre-cleared and royalty free.
OSX http://mac.vidlib.com
iOS http://app.vidlib.com

Your camera does not appear on the supported cameras list for iMovie '09 (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3290) but does appear in the iMovie'11 list (http://help.apple.com/imovie/cameras/en/index.html?lang=en_US).
So, I think you have to update your iMovie version. There are 2 options
1. Update to iMovie '11 which came with iLife '11. If you don't have an ilife '11 installer DVD you will need to purchase it from for example Amazon.
2. Since you are already running Mavericks, the app store should allow you to upgrade to iMovie 10 (which also supports your camera) but be prepared for the big changes in this version.
Geoff.

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I posted this in the iWeb forum and then thought about posting it here.
-Lorna in Southern California
Sat, Sep 30, 2006 12:39 AM PST
I still haven't set up my new 500 gig La Cie external hard drive but I am going to, especially since my existing 111 gig La Cie ext. hd is making screeching sounds at startup.
Anyhow, I have all of the instructions printed up on how to set up iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD, and iWeb to save to the 500 gig hard drive, but
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Either late 2000 or early 2001 I took some videotape. In 2004 or so I uploaded the footage from my Sony digital video camera recorder DCR-TRV 11 to my then iMac. I used iMovie '04 and therefore the video clips that are in my hard drive are iMovie '04 clips/footage.
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My thinking now is that although I have that 2000 or 2001 footage sitting in iMovie '04 folders, I should upload those very same clips/footage from my Sony digital video camera recorder DCR-TRV 11 into my iMac and store the uploaded footage in the La Cie 500 gig big daddy HD. Then, after the footage is uploaded and sitting in iMovie '06 folders, I would go and delete the old iMovie '04 footage.
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EDIT: I just decided to post this also in iMovie '06. -Lorna

I still haven't set up my new 500 gig La Cie external
hard drive...
Before using that drive, use Disk Utility to format the drive with the Mac OS Extended disk format. Even if the drive already uses that format, I strongly suggest formatting it again. You may save yourself a ton of problems.
I read in 2005 that iMovies made from/in/with iMovie
'04 were giving troubles to owners who then swtched
to iLife '06. I would read the iMovie forums and
discovered that there were (it seemed to me) an
inordinate number of problems with people who tried
to make movies in iMovie '06 with film footage
imported previously into iMovie '04.
The vast majority of problems have nothing to do with iMovie 6. They have to do with third-party plug-ins used to create clips in iMovie 4, plug-ins that are not compatible with iMovie 6. When such a project is converted to iMovie 6 iMovie 6 doesn't know what to do with those clips.
If you haven't used such products in iMovie 4 the conversion of projects to iMovie 6 will probably go smoothly. (I've never had a problem converting projects, but I don't use third-party plug-ins.)
To be safe, ALWAYS make a copy of your iMovie 4 project and convert THAT to iMovie 6. If there's a problem, you'll still have the original. You can use the original to import the iMovie 4 Timeline to iMovie 6.
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2001 footage sitting in iMovie '04 folders, I should
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digital video camera recorder DCR-TRV 11 into my iMac
and store the uploaded footage in the La Cie 500 gig
big daddy HD. Then, after the footage is uploaded and
sitting in iMovie '06 folders, I would go and delete
the old iMovie '04 footage.
That step isn't necessary, actually. Just drag each iMovie 4 project to your new drive and make a duplicate (or keep the old one on the old drive) before converting it.
Karl

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export the .VOB files as Quicktime files
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http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#PALNTSC

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You need to convert the VOB files in the TS-Folder of the DVD back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle.
a DVD is in a compresed format called mpeg2, which is standard across all DVDs. This is what is known as a 'final delivery format' and is not suitable for editing. Because is is compressed, a 4.7GB DVD can hold a two hour movie (dual layer DVDs twice that), whereas the DV stream from a video camera, which runs at about 13GB per hour, is not compressed and IS intended for editing.
In other words you have to 'reverse engineer' the DVD back to an uncompressed format in ordfer to edit it. There is a penalty for doing this in terms of slight quality loss, but it is one you can live with.
When you have your DVD as an icon on your desktop, double-click it, and it will open to reveal a TS-Folder containing a number of various files, some called VOB. These are the constituent parts of any video DVD.
When you have downloaded and installed mpegStreamclip, and purchased and installed the Apple mpeg2 plugin, open mpegStreamclip and drag the entire TS Folder into its window. Then using the various menus available to you (just explore them and you will get the hang of it) ask it to convert to DV.
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
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Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.

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