IMovie 4 convert to dv

If I record a video in iMovie 4 with my isight, it takes forever to convert to dv. A five minute video takes around 30 minutes, or more, to convert. can anyone tell me why this is?

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Thanks to all who have responded,
I had planned to create short movie clips for emailing but wanted something quick and easy to do so.
It would be great if I could from iMovie select a clip and share to QT then email the results but it seems that each time I will have to work on the clip to prepare it for sharing. I dont want to go to that much trouble each time so I doubt I will use this means.
I dont understand why it is not easy to do so. Each time I try to open a QT clip in WMP it says it cant use the file. I had hoped it would convert the movie to MPV or better if QT would convert to something other than files most PCs wont open. There are now four PC users that cant open the file and one that can. 1 out of 5 is not too impressive.
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Hi
A Wild Suggestion - By not using iMovie'08 to 11
You want a DVD and as good as possibly I guess then iM'08 to 11 are not tools of choice as Your miniDV tapes are interlaced SD-Video and non of them can in any way I know of Export over to iDVD this but only every second line = Less quality
If You use - iMovie HD6 - then (Not Share to iDVD - but)
• close iMovie when done and import the Movie Project (icon with a blac Star on it) into iDVD. Now iDVD will render and does this So Much Better
• AND - You import Your miniDV tapes in sequence - same as it/they was recorded.
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When I play a VHS tape from a JVC HM-DH30000U player through the Canopus video converter in to iMovie on my Mac OX 10.5, I get a black line area about an inch at the bottom of the picture and the picture is wigglely. I have tried everything I know - under the menu in the VHS player, etc.
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I am sick about it but need to see if there is anything that I can do to use the DVDs upload to my mac and then edit and save again. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Take a look at Cinematize 2, I've used it with iMovie 06 and iDVD 08. It has several modes of converting the data. One mode is called "lossless".
For the job you're doing you may prefer to use iMovie 06 instead of iMovie 08 (I would).
iMovie 06 and iDVD 08 is a terrific combination.
iMovie 06 is a free download to iLife 08 owners. (THEY WANT YOU TO HAVE IT!)
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html
Your workflow would go something like this.
Use Cinematize 2 to create a Quicktime file from the DVD.
http://www.miraizon.com/products/products.html
Important that file into iMovie 06.
From iMovie 06, share to iDVD 08 (assuming you want a DVD).
Another method is to simply play the DVD and re-import it into iMovie (06 or 08).
Take look at the Canopus ADVC300. It comes with a nice Macintosh application that works flawlessly with iMovie 06. Your Mac MUST have Firewire.
http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC300/index.php

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I recently shot and edited a movie on iMovie on my Powerbook G4 (I have iLife). When i tried to convert the movie to a Quicktime file (CD-ROM size). It would convert succesfully until about it began to say "about 10 minutes remaining". It would then freeze and nothing would happen. Can someone please tell me something im doing wrong or something im not doing correctly? thanks alot!
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Sometimes the progress bar when exporting to QuickTime is a bit unreliable, to say the least. It can't be relied on it to show us exactly what's going on.
It's usually the case that when the export appears to "freeze", it hasn't. It's just taking a nap. It sits there, and sits there, and sits there, then suddenly it zooms quickly to the end.
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So I'd suggest trying again, and being very patient. Let it run overnight if you need to just to be sure it's had all the time it needs. If the project is long, it can take a long time.
One way to estimate the time is to export a clip that's 30 seconds long. Then based on how long that took, calculate the time for the entire Timeline.
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Karl

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The ADVC-100 should work perfectly well with Snow Leopard. I have one and it has never given me any problems.
In your case, iMovie isn't actually recognizing the camera, it is recognizing the ADVC. This is because the ADVC is the digital device that iMovie is actually working with. The ADVC in turn is connected to your Hi8 camcorder, which is an analog device.
For starters, here is what I would check: Make sure the ADVC is in "analog in" mode (not digital in) and also make sure the camcorder is playing back before you initiate recording (capturing) in iMovie. If the camera is not already running before iMovie starts capturing, the ADVC isn't producing an active signal, and iMovie then thinks the whole thing is not working and it stops capturing. This would explain why you end up with a 2 second clip.
Installing Mt. Lion is not the solution to this problem. The problem is the connection, the ADVC, iMovie or something else in your present system.
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What version of iMovie are you using?
Do you have ANY other FireWire devices connected the same time as your ADVC (for example, an external FW hard drive)?

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.

Help on purchasing a dvd camcorder to work with imovie

hello out there...was wondering which camcorder that has a dvd burner works best with imovie and osx...i want a sony, but i thought the small dvd's did not work on osx. presently, i have a digital8 and use a firewire connection to ingest video for editing with imovie. thanks for any help...

... boxes that holds DVD and hard drive recorders:
These files are intended for "one time" captures.
The file format is not intended for editing.
I totally agree with your recommendation: try to avoid DVD and harddisk camcorders at this point if you plan to edit on a Mac. Not only is software support seriously lacking, those Mini-DVDs don't even work with slot-loading drives that are common on Mac's.
But... there is nothing wrong with the MPEG-2 compression used on DVDs. Just look at HDV: It uses the same MPEG-2 compression to fit the the HD video into the space of a SD MiniDV tape. iMovie converts HDV video streams during capture into a format that is easier for editing - that's why the files on your harddisk are 4 times as big as the data on the tape. The quality of video captured by most consumer camcorders is more limited by the optics and the video sensor (in particular indoors, with less than perfect lighting), than the recording format and media. And yes, you can edit MPEG-2 just fine, it is just more challenging to get it working right.
I used to tell all my friends to stay away from DVD camcorders, too, but then broke down and very reluctantly bought a DVD camcorder recently. It's mainly used for recording music lessons, with instant and repeated replay. It took me some tinkering to work out a good workflow for editing with iMove. I did some side-by-side comparisons with a similarly priced MiniDV camcorder (Canon DC50 vs. Sony TRV-33). Overall, the video clips were almost identical from either camcorder, with the DVD camcorder producing slightly better video in some situations. But as I said in the beginning, that is probably mostly a result of the better video sensor and the optical image stabilization in this particular model.
So how does my workflow go:
- Use DVD-RWs, formatted in Video-VR mode, and prefinalized. This allows
you to pop out the DVD from the camcorder at any time and immediately
use it in your DVD player or computer without another time-consuming
finalization step.
- Find a Windows PC to copy the video files from the DVD to my Mac.
Mac OSX cannot read the filesystem used by Video-VR discs without
additional software like Roxio's Toast (which I don't have). Besides, all
my Macs are slot loading.
- Convert the clip with the Quicktime MPEG-2 plugin and MPEG Streamclip
to DV format.
- Finally, import the clips into iMovie.
Workable yes, but neither convenient nor esay. Stick with MiniDV.

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I have the same camera and the reality is you're going to go through that translation from AVCHD to some sort of Quicktime file format no matter which tool you use. I do it with FCP6 and it needs to do the same translation from the .mts files to (they recommend) ProRes files. AVCHD is a highly compressed format and when you move it to an editable form, the file(s) is going to get much larger. It is HiDef content after all which can be quite large.
In my case, once I do the transfer to ProRes format nothing needs to be rendered in the FCP timeline unless I add some sort of filter or effect to it.
The rendering problem you are describing is often caused by the Sequence setting not matching the content settings. This is automated in FCP6 where it detects the content format of the video you're trying to add and changes the sequence settings to match the content. Take a look at the sequence settings and see if they match the structure of the content and that should resolve the 'everything needs to be rendered' situation.

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