Import a clip captured in i Movie

Is it possible somehow import to FCP a clip captured in i Movie?
I had a problem with time code breaks (which occurred every 1-3 minutes without obvious reason) while capturing in FCP. It takes enormous time to edit all these small pieces... I tried to avoid this using i Movie for capture... but now I see, I can't use the captured file. Or can I?

Not sure if you can build a sequence to match the .dv codec that iMovie uses... you might start there.
OR - use something like QT Pro player to export your video to Quicktime DV/PAL (or NTSC) 48k/16bit.
Then drag those into a normal DV setup for yourself.
Good luck,
CaptM

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I have imported with Imovie HD in two distinct movies some clips that I wish to merge in one larger movie.
What is the simplest way to merge two movies ?
What is the simplest way to import just one clip from another movie ?
Thanks !!!
Luc

Well I found where those clips were trashed too. Its not the iMovie trash can as indicated by the help text! Its the user trash can. Here is how I found my clips in case this is useful for anyone else.
find . -name '*.dv' -exec ls -l {} \; | grep Trash
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 105600000 11 Dec 10:53 ./.Trash/Clip 251 copy.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 105600000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 251.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 88560000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 252.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 91560000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 253.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 53760000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 254.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 61320000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 255.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 179640000 11 Dec 10:46 ./.Trash/Clip 256.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 197880000 11 Dec 10:47 ./.Trash/Clip 257.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 69960000 11 Dec 10:47 ./.Trash/Clip 258.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 48720000 11 Dec 10:47 ./.Trash/Clip 259.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 146280000 11 Dec 10:42 ./.Trash/Clip 260.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 45120000 11 Dec 10:42 ./.Trash/Clip 261.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 78000000 11 Dec 10:42 ./.Trash/Clip 262.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 66960000 11 Dec 10:43 ./.Trash/Clip 263.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 311280000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 264.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 104160000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 265.dv
-rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 40200000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 266.dv
To see the total space taken up by these files I did:
find . -name '*.dv' -exec ls -l {} \; | grep Trash | awk 'BEGIN { space = 0}; { space += $5}; END { print "total space",space}'
total space 1794600000
So I just have to empty the main trash in order to recover from my first copy/paste effort to move clips from one project to another. BTW is there a way to copy them to the clips pane and not the timeline?
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I want to import short clips from home movies. How do I do this?

I am wanting to import short clips from old family movies which are on DVD. What is the best program for this? I don't want to import the full DVD just several short clips and then be able to use these clips in imovie.

You'll want to look at DVDxDV Pro. It can select very small segments on a DVD using the expandable timeline. This allows you to find exactly the part of the DVD that you want. It also has an iDVD export preset.
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I am having trouble importing video clips from my digital camera into iphoto 08. Some video clips can be imported while others can not. I get a message that says the file is unreadable and can not be imported. I don't understand why some video clips can be imported while others can't using the same camera. Any Suggestions?
dankmiller

dankmiller
Size. iPhoto baulks at copying larger video files directly from the card. Use Image Capture to move the files to your desktop, then import them to iPhoto.
Regards
TD

Where can I get the codec to import iMovie clips into Premiere CS6?

I am running a PC with Win7 & PPro CS6
I have a bunch of clips that were copied over from iMovie imports (no original files exist anymore)
They are all a special form of .mov
I can play them in VLC Media Player (but not Quicktime, or WMP) so I know that a pc can handle them...
When I import into CS6 I get an errorsaying Codec missing or unavailable...
Whered can I get the proper Codec?
Thanks all!
Aza

Considering the last post was made in March last year, I've attached the feature request I made today, just so you know you're not alone on this issue, for anyone with the same problem.
MAC to PC Support:
There needs to be a comprehensive and readily supplied library of codecs to provide simple transitions between MAC and PC.
I'm currently working on my first feature film. I raised a little bit of money through Kickstarter, enough to buy a decent HD camera and a microphone. Basically, I'm not a professional and I'm learning as I go. The camera I bought is a Canon XHA1- it records to mini-DV. I do not have the money to buy an HDV tape deck, leaving me with the only other option of using the firewire port to capture footage off of the camera itself. I had a firewire-to-USB cable, which I used to capture footage to my PC, but after getting a new computer with Windows 8, the camera is now out of date and the OS has no drivers for it. I then decided to capture my footage on an old i-Mac my friend gave me, through i-Movie. After moving the files to my PC, I found that Premiere Pro CC was unable to import them.
Needless to say, the song and dance I have to go through every time I try to capture footage is frustrating, and considering the mission of Adobe Creative Cloud, to provide affordable opportunities and resources to independent artists, not to mention the fact that Adobe is for both Mac and PC (and especially not mentioning the fact that it is a service I am paying for monthly,) I feel like these kinds of problems shouldn't exist.
Of course saying "I pay for this, this problem shouldn't exist" is the rallying cry for every idiot who expects the impossible. But capturing on i-Movie... and importing to Premiere Pro? Really? Why is this an issue? Maybe i-Movie is out of date... but I'm not going to waste another weekend capturing; it probably still won't work.
I'm not asking for file conversion software. That's what I'm going to have to do on my own, for GBs upon GBs of footage just so I can get to the editing table. The problem is that I have to convert it in the first place. If there is any progress on this issue, please let me know.

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Has anybody else tried something like this? I’m not working with any video captured from a camera or tape, just QT .mov files. I just want to know if the problem is that I just don’t know enough yet, or if it’s that FCE can’t do this.
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within iMovie, what's the easiest way of saving them all separately outside of the project so that I can batch convert them all with Streamclip
No need to save them outside iMovie.
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Importing video clips into iphoto

hi,
is it possible to import video clips from a digital stills camera into iphoto? haven't had much luck doing it, can anyone help?
thanks
nick

Hi nick,
When iPhoto 5 first came out I really think it was programmed to import the smaller 30 sec video clips that cameras were taking at the time. Since then, digital cameras, at least my Canon S2 can take clips as large as your memory card can hold. The first time I tried to download my images and movie clips with my new camera, iPhoto stalled at the movie clips. I wasn't going to take any chances messing up my iPhoto Library so I started using Image Capture to download all my images and Movie clips. I actually like doing it this way a lot better. My movie clips are downloaded into my Movies folder where I then put them in a dated folder.
My photos are downloaded into my Pictures folder, where I then put them in a dated folder. I import the dated folder into iPhoto. I also keep all dated folders from photo downloads in the Pictures folder till I get enough Movie folders and Photo folders to fill a DVD. I burn them and then delete them from the hard drive.
This way I have the photos in iPhoto and I also have just the photos backed up to DVD.
The Movies I keep on the hard drive in their dated folders until I use all the clips for my iMovie projects for the Year. I then make sure they are all burned to DVD, then I delete those from my hard drive.
Using Image Capture to download images and video clips:
Open up Image Capture which is found in the Applications folder.
When it is opened, go to Image Capture/Preferences
Under the General button choose
Camera: When a camera is connected, open Image Capture.
The next time you connect your camera Image Capture will open.
In the window that opens you will see an Options button. Click on that button to set your options.
To find out more about Image Capture (it can do a lot more) Click on Help in the menu bar when Image Capture is open.
iPhoto: How to Change the "Open Automatically" Preference
If you find you can't change any of Image Captures preferences or can't access any drop down menus or they are greyed out, check to make sure Image Capture is loose in the Applications folder and not within a sub folder.

Can I capture video as .mov or .avi?

I am about to capture alot of video and I want to just save raw video clips as .mov or .avi. So they can be viewed on other computers and maybe edited on final cut pro sometime in the future. It looks like Imovie may make the files into an "imovie project file" is there any way to capture in .mov or .avi form? Or do I need to purchase Final Cut pro?

If you have QuickTime Pro, you can use the QuickTime Player to import video
(/File Menu/New MovieRecording) which will, in turn, save your video in the .mov format. You can set the QuickTime Player preferences - prior to importing - to either 320x240 'Good' (MPEG-4) or 'Better' (H.264) or 720x480 Device Native (DV) for DV Cameras. I use this method for quick imports of specific video.
Optionally, if you want to access the original imported DV clip you can either drag it from your clips pane to the Desktop (and it will copy it there for you) or you can right-click on the iMovie project file (or Control-click) and select 'Show Package Contents'. Your clips will be found insode of the 'Media' folder. Of course, these will be large, uncompressed DV files so exporting from iMovie will give you more options.

Importing MPEG4 clips slower than HDV tape.

I am using a fairly antiquated laptop to edit HD clips on FCE 4. Is it possible to edit with out rendering all footage into QT files or do I just need a faster computer?
As it stands it takes longer to get MPEG4 clips into Final Cut than it did with tapes as it takes me about 11mins to process a 23 second clip!
Thanks for your help and advice on this.

I recently bought the Sanyo Xacti HD1000 - this is my third Xacti camera and while the standard resolution Xacti's were very nice, the HD1000 is great. I shoot everything at 720P/30 (and now shoot all my stills on the XACTI at 16x9 so they integrate nicely into the videos), and have found a great workflow for getting it into my Intel Macbook. I have finally gotten around to creating a little movie showing how to use MPEG Streamclip to both edit and capture your clips for use in Final Cut and iMovie HD. That is posted here: http://homepage.mac.com/bobhudsoncom/XACTI/iMovieTheater45.html
On the my 2.16 GHz Macbook with 1GB of RAM the clips are imported in realtime or slightly faster than real time. On an older 1.67 GHz Powerbook with 512MB of RAM it took three times realtime, or 30 seconds for a 10 second clip.
However, keep in mind that using the method I show on the video I am only importing trimmed clips so I don't have to wait for stuff that will end up in the trash anyway nor do I need to waste storage space on that.
I also have some original HD1000 camera clips available at that link as well as clip that has been converted to AIC.
Since making HD DVD's is not a reality for most of us, I edit in HD and then make standard definition DVD's and for some movies keep the HD files for future use when HD DVD's become practical (with the very cheap large hard drives these days, it's easy to archive those HD clips).
Message was edited by: Bob Hudson

Importing video clips in AVCHD (Lite) into Aperture vs iMovie

I'm trying to figure out which application I should use for importing and storing video clips shot on my Panasonic DMC-ZS7 camera. This camera can shoot in AVCHD (Lite) or in Motion JPEG. I use the AVCHD (Lite) format to shoot the videos with this camera.
The two application options I currently have for importing video clips from this camera are:
a. Aperture 3.5.1 (I'm not using iPhoto since I have Aperture).
b. iMovie 10.0.1 (I'm not using Final Cut Pro)
When I first got this camera, Aperture 3 did not support the AVCHD Lite codec. Back then, iMovie could import video clips shot in AVCHD Lite, but it had to transcode the AVCHD video clips into AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec). Some time later, one of the Aperture 3 updates made it possible to import AVCHD Lite into Aperture (without having to transode into an intermediate codec), so we started importing our video clips shot in AVCHD Lite (together with our photos shot by the same camera) directly into Aperture.
iMovie 10 released in 2013 supports importing video clips shot in AVCHD Lite without having to transode them to AIC for storing these video clips in iMovie. So, now we have a dilemma that we need help with. Which application should we use going forward for importing video clips from this camera?
When I look at the metadata for the imported videos in Aperture, I see that the format of the imported video clips is listed as H.264. However, I can't seem to be able to find any information about the format in which iMovie stores imported videos. I can "Reveal in Finder" a video that I import into iMovie, and I see the size of the file and the .mov extension assigned to the file. With video files, the extension does not always determine the codec of the file, but in my non-expert opinion, the .mov extension is not H.264; I may be totally wrong here, though. What I have noticed, though, is that a video clip imported into iMovie has the file size that is about 10% larger than the same video clip imported into Aperture.
Therefore, I have three questions:
1. What format is a video clip (shot in AVCHD Lite) stored in Aperture 3.5.1 and in iMovie 10.0.1
2. Which format (the one used by Aperture or the one used in iMovie) is better suited for transoding AVCHD videos into? The balance of the quality and file size is the main consideration for us.
3. Which applications would you personally prefer using for importing video clips to and why?
I do want to use some of these video clips to make home videos in the future, utillizing iMovie. However, it seems I can still store the raw footage in Aperture and access this raw footage from iMovie to be able to create an iMovie project and a final home video. One of the concerns is that if we keep importing our video clips into Aperture, the Aperture library could grow beyond the size that Aperture can support and we may end up losing our photos due to the database corruption. Is this a real risk?
Thank you!

I had the same question recently. Go to the right of this box and a little above, into the Search Discussions window. Type in this: Is MPEG2 the answer
You will find my question, and the great answers I got. Follow those directions and you will be all set!

I have an old project with AVCHD clips and I want to import the clips again with surround sound. How can I relink the project clips to the re-imported ones without doing the project from the begining?

I have an old project with AVCHD clips and I want to import the clips again with surround sound. How can I relink the project clips to the re-imported ones without doing the project from the begining?
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thanks!

Only photos taken with the iPad, copied onto it via the camera connection kit, or saved from emails/websites etc can be deleted directly on the iPad - either via the trashcan icon in the top right corner if viewing the photo in full screen, or via the icon of the box with the arrow coming out of it in thumbnail view.
Photos that were synced from a computer are deleted by moving/removing/de-selecting them from where they were synced from and then re-syncing. If you want to remove them all then normally you could just sync an empty folder (in terms of photos) to the iPad, but as you don't want to sync at the moment you can't do that.
You can reset the iPad back to factory settings and start from scratch with it : Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content And Settings

Is there a way to import clips from AVCHD folders I have copied from my camcorder to my hard disk? With FCE I could import these clips using log and transfer.

In FCP-X is there a way to import AVCHD clips from an AVCHD file folder I have copied from my Canon hard disk camcorder to my iMac hard disk? With FCE I used log and transfer with no problem; but, FCP-X doesn't import them. It will import AIC files that have been created in FCE from the original AVCHD files. If FCP-X will not import these files directly from the copied AVCHD folder, is there a workaround using other software to convert the files? For example, Compressor? (Canon does not provide any AVCHD conversion software for OSX).

Hi jphil and Tom
I have exactly the same problem but the answer you (Tom) provided did not help in my case. Trying to "Import ->From Camera" and pointing to the AVCHD folder yields the error message: "(Folder) contains unsupported files or has invalid directory structure."
Folder structure is
AVCHD
     BDMV
          CLIPINF
               .CPI files
          Index.bdm
          Movieobj.bdm
          PLAYLIST
               .MPL file
          STREAM
               .MTS files
AVF_INFO
     3 files (.bnp, .inp, .int)
DCIM
     101MSDCF
          empty
     MODELCFG.IND (file)
My question is: Is that not a "camera archive" of the type you talked about in the thread? Is it on principle not possible to import the files in that format/directory structure? If not, since the shots were not taken by myself, what should I ask the guy who shot the movies to give me to be able to work with them in FC?
I work with a brand new Final Cut Pro X 10.0.4 (still very clumsy with it) on an iMac 11,3 with MacOS 10.6.8.
I downloaded the latest version of codec updates from the Apple support site but no difference.
Thank you in advance
Giorgio
Freiburg, Germany

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Having BIG problems capturing DV footage which began late last Fall. While performing a capture (assigned clips) footage would go down for a few seconds then would freeze (picture only, the audio continued) then after several seconds the picture would "catch up" and continue.
Found a solution here in the FCP forum where I had my firewire drives "ignored" by SPOTLIGHT by listing them in the privacy selection. Worked and moved on.
I have a project now where the problem has come up again. Once again during a clip capture it did what it did before - but now it ignores the assigned in point (audio but no video and almost consistently delaying it by 9 seconds into the capture) then freezes (at the assigned outpoint - sometimes) then continues to play on (audio only) then resumes (again catching up) then stops announcing a SUCCESSFUL CAPTURE. When the clip is selected to preview it plays back from the incorrect in point, freezes, then plays until the catch up - with now the audio out of sync. More craziness because now the log information now has changed: the MEDIA START & END information is not what was inputed so the DURATION TIME is now different and sometimes it adds a MARK OUT point (!?). I rarely use the CAPTURE NOW function but even trying that the footage still freezes up and goes out of sync.
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Was thinking of upgrading to 10.5 to see if that helps - but unsure about my FCP version/compatability...
So, here I sit frustrated since I have used FCP (which I LOVE) for quite a few years with great success - this is crazy! OF course, I have a project which deadline is looming!
Any ideas?
Much appreciation..
Here's my computer stats:
G4 Powerbook
OS 10.4.11
FCP 5.0.4
QT 7.5
Sony DSR-11 recorder/player
4-Firewire Drives with 20gigs of space available

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I want to create an iMovie using pictures and videos of my own but I would also like to add some clips from a real movie. I have the movie on DVD and VHS. Is it possible to put clips of this real movie into my home movie?

Welcome to Apple Discussions Randy,
You can use any compatible movie file in iMovie. Here is a list of suggested file types for use with iMovie: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3356
If the footage you want to use is only available on DVD and VHS (as opposed to a video camera) you have a few options.
Assuming these are your own homemade DVD, you could rip the DVDs (Do a google search for "DVD rip Mac" or buy a product like http://store.apple.com/us/product/TX414LL/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY) into a movie file and then import that file to iMovie.
You could have a company convert your VHS tapes into movie files for you (there are many companies out there that do media conversion) or buy a convertor like http://store.apple.com/us/product/TS561LL/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY and do it yourself.
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