Imovie 08 storage?

Where does imovie08 store all the videos it imports from iphoto? The reason I ask is my hard drive got filled up after importing video from iphoto on startup.

it seems to me they stay where they were. if you right click on a clip and select "Reveal in Finder" will show the location of the clip.

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IMovie, iDVD storage space issues

I have transferred many clips from my cam-corder to iMac. I am now nearly exhausted for storage space. Am open to any suggestions for strategies that will recapture additional storage capacity on this machine. I thought of simply dumping the relevant video clips to the Trash Can after creating a disc (via iDVD); with the intent to subsequently bring the video back into iMovie from that very same disc so that I can fine tune the product with editing of themes; text; graphics; music etc. In other words, shuffle the product back and forth between disc and machine as my editing interests dictate. Don't know if these tasks can be accomplished as I have described. Surely there must be other strategies out there that I can explore to save valuable space on this machine???
Message was edited by: SandyBill

If you want to re-edit iMovie projects in the future, you will have to save the entire project & associated clips. While burning the clips to data DVDs sounds inexpensive & appealing, it is very time consuming, as each data DVD only holds about 20 minutes of captured clips and you're stuck with burn times, which are much slower than copying the files to an external firewire drive
So, it's time for a good external firewire hard drive (take a look at the Lacie d2 Extreme drives, for example).
And while it is technically possible to re-import video from a playable DVD such as ones you burn with iDVD, there is a significant loss of quality when you do the back conversion. Plus, you won't be able to 'shuffle the product back and forth between disc and machine as my editing interests dictate' because your editing commands are not preserved forward when you go from iMovie > iDVD > playable DVD. If you want to do that, you need to preserve your full iMovie project and associated video clips and other source media files.

Imovie File Storage

I had to capture HD footage using imove HD on my mac workbook pro. now I want to edit this content using Final Cut pro. does imovie store its clips like FCP does and I need to find this folder or does it have some other form of majic and I need to convert the 1hr of HD footage into a super huge 30GB file??? ok thanks??

Gregg's Mac wrote:
.. does imovie continue to reference the original file for future use or could the original file be deleted with no consequence? ..
iM does import any files 'physically' into its own Library, no 'ref links' ..
I'm a bit shy about deleting original files.. for two reasons:
does the original use a different codec than iMovie? e.g. the modern AVCHD-codec from some HDDcamcorders gets converted by iM08 .. probably you're allowed in the future to edit 'directly' AVCHD.. but, if your originals are allready 'iM08 compatible' no need to think abut that...
and: backups, backups, backups.. the 'original' is a copy of your Event.. if you erase it, you have to backup the Libary..

IMovie File Storage Recommendations

In short:
I want to keep all my clip material
And I want to be able to edit it again at a future date
But iMovie Help and tutorials doesn't explain the best way to manage the huge amount of digital file size this entails.
I am new to DV. I just converted my first old 2 hr analog tape through my DV camcorder into an iMovie project. Then I cut it down and burned an iDVD.
Now I've got this iMovie file taking up most of my available hard drive space (26MB) and I'm realizing there is no way I'm going to be able to convert a half dozen analog tapes and store them on the drive. I tried to export the iMovie file to an archive disk and it said it is too big.
I want to save all the original clip material in case I want to edit or use it much later on.
So the question is: how do people normally save and store all their iMovie clip material since after making a few hours of movies since the native file size is clearly way too big for a hard drive? Should I be saving it back on to my DV camcorder digital tapes? Or should/can I save segmented DVD archives (I couldn't see how to do that)? Are there different file formats I should consider? What is the most convenient and reasonable cost way to manage all the clip material?
thx
ed

Exporting the project to tape is a good backup solution. That helps get rid of unwanted material too. Only the content of the Timeline is exported to tape. It helps you "purge" stuff you don't want.
The trouble is, when you want to use it someday the clips are not particularly accessible. You have to watch the tape to find the part(s) you want to re-import.
To eliminate that hassle many buy a large external hard drive and store projects there. Each hour of imported video is about 13GB, so a single large drive may be sufficient.
(Note that with important video, it's never a good idea to rely on just one copy. Hard disks fail, as do tapes. So exporting a project to tape is a good idea too.)
So importing the video, doing a rough edit, exporting the Timeline to tape, then re-importing can help get rid of unwanted stuff.
Remember, iMovie is a non-destructive editor, which means that all the video of each imported clip is preserved. Splitting a clip, then discarding the excess and emptying the iMovie Trash does NOT remove the discarded video from your hard drive.
Normally, when we import video we tell iMovie to split the video at the scene breaks. But when importing analog material — which contains no scene breaks — all the video arrives as a single clip. Then, NONE of that clip is ever discarded, which means no disk space is recovered by emptying the iMovie Trash.
So when importing analogue material it's a good idea to set iMovie preferences to limit the size of clips to 3 minutes or something. Then you can discard an entire three minute clip and empty the iMovie Trash, which recovers that disk space.
Whatever method you choose, be sure to do a test run of the entire capture/export/re-import/edit process so you discover early any pitfalls.
Karl

IMovie HD storage

I have just gone to MacBook from a PC. I would like to download video from a digital video camera. I can do that, but I would like to download and store the project on an external hard drive. I can' find anyplace that will allow me to direct where I want the download to go.

Dansch,
When you create a new project in iMovie your're asked to give that project a name. In that same dialogue box, you can navigate to your external drive to tell iMovie to save your project there.
If you've already created a project, you can drag it in the Finder to your external drive and it will be copied there.
Matt

Imovie network storage removed?

ON the previous version of imovie (the one release before last night) I could see my network share (a windows 2012 smb share) and i was able to drag my projects and events to that drive.
Now it seems this option is gone from the new imovie 10?

Answering or adding information to my question.
Yes it seems that any non Apple NAS will not show up, i am still researching.
The work around for now is to use the old iMovie. So it seems, and it was true to me, that after updating to the new imovie, Apple puts the OLD iMovie on the Applications folder. So if you browse there you can see the new and the old. Once I opened the old iMovie I could see my regular nonApple share.
Not a perfect solution, but a good workaround. I'm happy with it

? Re: External Hard Drive for iMovie Usage & Storage

Ummm .... I am formatting an OWC 400GB Mercury Elite as Mac OS Extended (not journaled) as we speak. I got it just for movies.
Not sure if I need to actually put the Operating System on this drive and boot from it ~ or if I can just use it for working on the projects?????
How do you experienced people manage this?
... I'm still very much in the learning stages.

Cool! That was quick! Thanks! So, I just make a movie > save as > select my external hard drive and that's it?
Will the extra stuff (garbage) remain on my boot drive or will it all get saved on the external?
I am hoping for the latter. I want to keep my iMac Pristine!

IMac freezes for a few seconds after external hard drive wakes up

24-inch iMac, early 2008. 4GB RAM.
I hear my external hard drive spin up as if it's been not spinning (totally possible; I only use it for Time Machine backups and iMovie archive storage)
During this spin-up process, my iMac (Mountain Lion, latest version) freezes momentarily--keyboard, mouse, screen--but audio remains faithful and music keeps playing.
After about 5 seconds of this delay, the thing catches up with itself and everything I was doing during the freeze gets processed and displayed. (e.g., I may have been typing a sentence and didn't hear the disk spin up at first; once the disk "comes back to life" everything I typed appears on screen as if everything was being typed really quickly--as if my keystrokes were just delayed while the disk spun up.)
Anyone know what's going on or have a solution to this annoying problem?
I'm comfy with the Terminal if any uber geeks want to take a crack at it.
Thanks!

go to apple logo > system preferences > spotlight
then
there are two tabs
choose "Privacy"
drag the external into the spolight privacy section
OR
hit the "+" at the bottom left > navagate to the external > and choose it
whats happening is that spotlight indexes when you turn it on and potentially slows the computer down
also
if it is a Time Machine backup it is pointless as Time Machine mirror images your internal drive to the external
meaning
spotlight has two of the extact same files and folders it has to organize
aka
pointless
let me know how it goes

Clip/effect question

i got imovie last week and i'm curious if it has this clip/effect.It starts from 0:00 - 0:09.I want to put pictures of my choice in the boxes as intros for a couple of videos i'm doing.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tbkmDisF6r0

i got imovie last week and i'm curious if it has this clip/effect.
Not as a unified "effect." Believe you could approximate the effect using separate "still frame sequences" for each change in vector motion (i.e., change in speed and/or direction). Basically it would be a process of butting together an number Ken Burns Effects. I would probably create the main "board" at maximum iMovie '08 storage resolution (depends on project aspect ratio) in an application like Photoshop, import it as a "still frame sequence," and create the first KBE in the iMovie project. Thereafter, copy-paste the previous sequence to the project, reverse start/end views so each clip will "merge" properly, build new display vector, adjust duration to speed up or slow down the vector, and repeat this editing procedure until you are finished.

External backup solution - help

Hi all,
I currently have 2 x 160Gb drives in my G5. One is my boot drive, which holds everything and the other drive i clone using CCC when i feel the need to.
I have just started editing DV movies using iMovie and storage is becoming a problem. i want to purchase some new drives to sort out my system and still a backup when i want to, or use the schedule fuction in CCC.
I believe i am correct in thinking i should have one drive for my system and programs the other for my data (documents, movies folder,iTunes lib etc)?
I am thinking of buying another 2 external firewire drives or an enclosure to hold 2+ drives in. I would use one of these external drives for my raw DV and a scrach disk for PS CS.
Am i on the right lines here? What would be the best way of backing up all these drives so i can still boot if my system drive goes down and i have backups of all my data?
It seems the best solution would be to replace the 2 x internal drives with bigger ones (250Gb) then use the 2 original 160Gb drives in the external FW enclosure.
I am also thinking of upgrading to Tiger before i do this.
Any advise would be great,
Thanks.
Rob

I currently have 2 x 160Gb drives in my G5. One is my boot drive, which holds everything and the other drive i clone using CCC when i feel the need to.
Good your cloning your boot drive. The problem is your cloning to another internal drive, so your tying up a very fast interface with a clone that you hardly access. It would be best to have the clone of your boot drive on a external drive and keep it disconnected. This way if you get hacked or your machine gets fried at least a copy of your boot drive is safe.
I don't agree with partitioning a drive with apps, boot, files seperate, this was for the OS 9 days with no auto-defragmentation. Now it's a performance problem.
I keep nothing in my spare space on my boot, rather having it for expansion of the OS/apps or a temporary holding area. Running up against the limit of a partition is about the worst thing possible.
I have just started editing DV movies using iMovie and storage is becoming a problem. i want to purchase some new drives to sort out my system and still a backup when i want to, or use the schedule function in CCC.
You should check out (search Apple) for DejaVu, it's a System Preference Pane that will auto-clone and auto-backup even when your logged out. Very simple, select the folder/drive, set the time and select the destination.
I believe i am correct in thinking i should have one drive for my system and programs the other for my data (documents, movies folder,iTunes lib etc)?
Yes this is a substantial performance option, you keep a OS/boot/"bare bones" home drive (w/iTunes music) kept below 50% filled and then keep your space hogging files like documents, pictures and (especially) movies in NEW folders on the second internal drive.
This way the boot drive stays optimized, it stays below 50% filled as anything more starts to affect performance. Since iTunes constantly accesses the drive with small files in a random fashion (music shuffle), it's best to keep these files on the boot drive which the OS also accesses the drive the same way. The object is to keep the hard drives arm traveling in a small tight area. Since drives write data from the outside edges of the platters working inwards, for performance a boot drive should be comprised of a lot of little files randomly accessed.
With files drives they tend to read large data, the arm moves and the file is read in one big swoop. So one can fill these up, but still performance will start to suffer after 50%. Hard drive caches only help with writes under 16MB. Anything more than that or reads, depends upon the mechanical performance of the arm moving the heads across the platters. Which is the performance bottleneck.
Now faster spinning platters and faster moving arms do help considerably with performance. If you install a 150GB 10,000 Western Digital Raptor as a boot drive you'll see the performance difference right away.
Large 7,200 RPM drives more than 50% filled as boot drives are a performance nightmare. So many people complain their "Quad" is slow and the biggest cause is people buy these huge drives for boot, taking large storage space over performance. Apple should provide a Raptor as a boot drive as a BTO option, but of course a slower machine will make you want to upgrade sooner.
When you have your files on the file drive it can be read at the same time as the OS drive. Which adds another performance benefit.
I am thinking of buying another 2 external firewire drives or an enclosure to hold 2+ drives in. I would use one of these external drives for my raw DV and a scratch disk for PS CS.
Ok if you upgrade to CS2 the 2GB memory limit for Photoshop is overridden, so you most likely won't need a "scratch disk", work in RAM is 40% faster than a drive.
Am i on the right lines here? What would be the best way of backing up all these drives so i can still boot if my system drive goes down and i have backups of all my data?
It seems the best solution would be to replace the 2 x internal drives with bigger ones (250Gb) then use the 2 original 160Gb drives in the external FW enclosure.
Your on the right track, but a larger boot drive will slow your computers performance.
My suggestion is to do this:
1: Buy Tiger and iLife '06 (it's not included)
2: Buy a Firmteck 4 ports in/4 ports out SATA PCI card.
3: Buy a 150 GB 10,000 RPM Raptor
4: Buy a Lacie 250 GB Firewire 800/400 external drive.
5: Buy a four drive external SATA enclosure.
6: Buy 2-4 internal SATA drives for the enclosure.
C boot from the Tiger install disk and select Disk Utility>Erase w/Zero the Lacie and format HFS+ (journaled) and install Tiger on that, setup using the same name as your Panther drive. Do not use Migration Assistant!
Option boot from your Lacie/Tiger and visit all your drive makers sites and download any driver updates so Tiger will work with your other drives. Run them when you connect a drive.
Install the FirmTech card in your PCI slot. Supposedly slot 2 and 3 are shared, so perhaps you should use slot 4. This card is going to get a lot of work.
Remove your internal hard drives and install the Raptor connecting the SATA to the Firmteck internal port. This is important because WD drives have improved SATA specs and the G5's don't. Reboot from the LaCie and run Disk Utility Erase w/Zero on the Raptor. Run any Firmtec software if you need too.
Use Carbon Copy Cloner (Tiger version!) to clone your LaCie to the Raptor. Disconnect the LaCie and reboot from the Raptor and repair permissions.
Ok now your up on the Raptor, install your apps from original disks/sources, cherry pick certain apps from the Panther drive. Take this time to clean house. If you screw up, simply reverse clone from the LaCie and start over.
Replace your iTunes folder in the same exact spot (pathname) on the Tiger/Raptor drive as it was on the Panther drive. Rename the Panther drive and set the name of the Tiger/Raptor drive to the original name of the Panther drive. This way your iTunes playlists should be preserved as the playlists contain the pathnames to the songs. If not you'll have to edit your iTunes XML file with "find/replace".
Grab your Library/Mail your Library/Safari bookmarks from the Panther drive.
Once you cleaned out the Panther drive, clone the Tiger/Raptor to the LaCie for safekeeping and Erase w/Zero the Panther drive. It will now become your file drive, keep your drive hogging stuff here that you use over time.
Now onto your external enclosure, you can place the extra SATA internal drive in here, or keep it as a third clone f your boot drive.
Place what SATA drives you want into the 4 bay enclosure, connecting one drive to one port on the outside of the FirmTec card. Erase w/Zero as usual each drive.
Now you can set two identical drives in the enclosure as a RAID O set in Apple's Disk Utility, this would make a excellent "scratch disk" or "working disk" as your speed is greatly improved, especially if you use 10,000 RPM drives.
You can place a huge 7,200 RPM SATA drive in one of the enclosures drive bay for auto-backup of files from the RAID O using the DejaVu software.
RAID O (stripe) can be risky as the data path is split between each drive in the set, lose one drive and all your data on the RAID O is gone.
Don't use "mirror" (RAID 1) for backup because any corruption or accidents get immediatly written to the second drive in the mirror. Use Auto-cloning (for boot drives) or Auto-backup software instead.
So you have a lot of options, with all the drives being used and the LaCie for a clone of your boot drive for emergencies. You'll have a performance working disk if you need it, as well as all around performance of your machine for many years to come.
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/firmtek/1eve4/
You can also test your drives performance (roughly) using X-Bench

How to stop the spinning ball/pizza that is stalling repairs to project on imovie 09? on macosx10.5.8 using iomega and superspeed ext h.d. as storage for the events and projects archive of a wedding video that has had audio sync problems on all share form

How to stop the spinning ball/pizza that is stalling repairs to project on imovie 09? on macosx10.5.8 using iomega and superspeed ext h.d. as storage for the events and projects archive of a wedding video that has had audio sync problems on all share formats (iDVD, mp4, and last of all iTunes). The project label now carries signal with yellow triangled exclamation “i tunes out of date”.
To solve the sync problem I’m following advice and detaching sound from all of the 100 or so short clips. This operation has been stalled by the spinning ball. Shut down restart has not helped.
The Project is mounted from Iomega and superspeed ext hd connected to imovie09 on macosx 10.5.8.
What to do to resume repairs to the audio sync problem and so successfully share for youtube upload?

How to stop the spinning ball/pizza that is stalling repairs to project on imovie 09? on macosx10.5.8 using iomega and superspeed ext h.d. as storage for the events and projects archive of a wedding video that has had audio sync problems on all share formats (iDVD, mp4, and last of all iTunes). The project label now carries signal with yellow triangled exclamation “i tunes out of date”.
To solve the sync problem I’m following advice and detaching sound from all of the 100 or so short clips. This operation has been stalled by the spinning ball. Shut down restart has not helped.
The Project is mounted from Iomega and superspeed ext hd connected to imovie09 on macosx 10.5.8.
What to do to resume repairs to the audio sync problem and so successfully share for youtube upload?

Video storage for all videos: In iPhoto? In iTunes? In iMovie? Or...?

I want a simple solution to gain acces to all my videos on Apple TV
I want to have all my videos in ONE PLACE!!! Right now they are scattered all over my system. I don´t want to search iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes and different folders every time I want to play my different video files and movies on... let´s say Apple TV. Why can´t we have ONE deticated unified "storage and play back" solution for all our video files on Mac OSX? Or at least a front-end that showcases ALL your videos and that is enabled to fetch ANY of those videos for directly playback right there.
I do understand the need for different input solutions/apps for videos such as iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, Aperture. BUT after processing (or what ever you do with your videos) in those Apps, it would be great to be able to transfer... or keep a grand overwiev of all your videos and movies... in ONE place!
Right now I have video file duplicates all over the place because I want to acces videos easily on my Apple TV and from what ever of the following apps I have open... iTunes - iPhoto - iMovie- (Vimeo) - (Youtube).
I can acces all of my music in ONE place in iTunes. I want a simular "ONE place solution" for my... holiday videos... my downloaded videos... my production videos (iMove etc.) etc. etc.
My question for now is: As we don´t have a proper solution for this yet, then what is at the present, the best and most simple solution to gain acces to my many different videos via Apple TV? I would like to avoid a media server and keep the files on my Mac.

If you want to play them on AppleTV, they need to be in iTunes - simplest way to do this from iMovie is using Share to menu and adding to iTunes.
Ac

How to set storage location in iMovie 10?

iMovie refuses to import my video files and instead gives the following error message: "No storage location set: Cannot start ingest because there is not storage location set. Please set one under Storage in Preferences and try again." However, when I select iMovie Preferences, there are only two possible commands (Clip: Apply slow-motion automatically) and (Theater: Automatically upload content to iCloud [grayed out]) neither of which appear particularly helpful in this context. In any case, when I import single clips these are "automatically" stored in updated projects, so why will this not work more generally? Many thanks

I've been able to store the contents of my camcorder on the Mac's HD. I've tried importing the clips from there and get the same result, whether I try to import one or several clips at once, it replies with the same error message as to the missing storage location/instructions. Interestingly, it will nonetheless import the first (or only) one of the clips that I highlight on the import screen.
When you suggest dragging the files, from where do you mean? The clips per se don't appear in the finder, but only on the import page. The finder show only various fragmented files that aren't complete clips (eg. separate video and index, even sound files), which is too much of a pain to deal with...
It's true that my original iMovie library was created from an upgrade, but I have since deleted the contents and attempted to reload the clips. Are you suggesting deleting the library completely and starting again, or should I just try creating another event and using that? Don't see why that shoudl work better than "updated projects", but perhaps it's worth a try...
Thanks again

How can I reduce the storage needs for iMovie events (raw video)

Good news - After borrowing an 8mm analog camcorder (mine died years ago) and an older digital camcorder (mine doesn't support A/V in) I have been able to set up a "bridge" to convert our old 8mm home videos to digital and import them to iMovie.
Bad news - At 13GB per 8mm tape, plus the Mini DV tapes we also have, getting it all in the computer with room to grow is going to require at least 500GB of space, which I don't have. On hand are 120GB internal (MacBook), 120GB external (Time Machine) and 40GB portable.
After my experience with the 8mm analog camcorder (it died, couldn't buy them anymore, tapes useless) I want to get everything digital in a standard format with backup.
1) Is there any way to reduce the storage space required for the raw video (Events) without impacting image quality (already mediocre in the tapes converted from analog)?
2) What's the best way to squeeze an hour of video down to fit on a DVD but still leave the video available for re-import/editing in the future? I'd likely mail the DVDs to my parents house or something to keep them separate.
Thanks!

Hi
You can also use
Yousendit (google it)
where You can send 200Mb movies
- You download Your movie to them
- get an Internet address back ( url - I think it's called )
- this You copy and send in Your e-mail to those that want's Your movie
- and now they can get it from same address
If You pay You can send up to 2Gb (if I remember right)
BUT it will take time ! In most of my cases - burn it onto a DVD and send by snail-mail most often are a better solution.
Yours Bengt W

IMovie cannot share and no storage location set

I am using iMovie 10.0.6 on a Retina iMac running Yosemite.
iMovie suddenly developed the following maddening behavior, which I have yet to resolve despite trying many of the usual tricks:
Attempting to import to an event using my isight camera or my Canon HV20 camera in a library on my internal SSD results in the following popup message: "No storage location set: Cannot start ingest because there is not storage location set. Please set one under Storage in Preferences and try again."
It is possible to import by loading a file to my local library. However creating a project with that file results in the strange behavior that the clips from that file remain blue and don't fill in with the preview.
I cannot share or export any project. Clicking "Share" in file or the "Share" button displays the options, by when I click on the share option, nothing happens.
Importing to library in an external hard drive succeeds without the error message. The clips in the projects created in the external libarary do fill in with the preview pictures. However, I am not able to share or export a project in the external library either.
When I log into my son's account on the same machine, iMovie works fine. I am able to import to his accounts library and I'm able to share, the share button works as normal.
I have tried the following remedies, none have worked:
1)delete the iMovie app and reinstall.
2)delete every iMovie preference in ~/Library/preferences
3)delete iMovie caches
4)delete iMovie receipts
5)repair permissions using disk utility
6)reset user permissions and ACLs using "reset user password" in terminal
7)reinstall Yosemite from recovery (preserving user files)
8) reset pram and SMC
There must be some very hidden persistent setting corrupted that is either verry hidden or not explicitly part of iMovie; perhaps a common sharing or video import application? Does anyone have any ideas?

Brilliant - it worked for me, although I had to look around inside the
/var/folders/
and found it under another with two letter
Thank you ultrahertz

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