Import video comes in as one entire clip
I just purchased a new iMac which came with iLife 09. I have been using an older version of iMovie. I am a football coach and use the iMovie to import video and break clips into groups. Offense, Defense, Special Teams, etc. The new iMovie imports my video as an entire clip and I must go through and piece it together. I hate it! Am I doing something wrong? I have a Sony DCR-TRV38 mini DV camera. Always worked fine before. Just hook up to the firewire and go. If anyone can help me out, I would be in your debt.
Casey in Pleasanton CA
Normally, iMovie will start a new clip every time that the camera is started and stopped.
If you have to assemble movies in groups, watch these two video tutorials. They may help.
[Favorites|http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html#advmark]
[Keywords|http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html#tag]
The second video tutorial is what you need, but you should also understand the simpler method.
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I am trying to import video from a Canon Vixia HFS200 camera in to my iMovie 11 on my iMac. I'm running OS X version 10.6.8. The other details are in the error report that I've pasted below. When I turn on the video camera, I select sync then select "Computer/Printer" for USB connection type. It will then open my iPhoto and upload photos, and then it will open my iMovie (if not already open). It can transfer to iPhoto just fine. However, when it opens the transfer window in iMovie, it stalls with an empty transfer screen and then I get the gray box of death telling me that my computer has crashed and I must re-start it.
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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 2898 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: A1F31A7D-6C49-4E2F-A7CC-D6E37E5BB5F0
Wed Dec 21 10:43:29 2011
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2abf6a): Kernel trap at 0x017bf827, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x00000008, CR3: 0x1949c000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x5e36383c, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x0000000a
CR2: 0x00000008, EBP: 0x5e363818, ESI: 0x0d29d940, EDI: 0x00000000
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x017bf827, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00000000
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0x5e3635c8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x5e3635fc 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x5e363618 : 0x2abf6a (0x59e3d0 0x17bf827 0xe 0x59e59a)
0x5e3636f8 : 0x2a1a78 (0x5e363710 0x0 0x5e363818 0x17bf827)
0x5e363708 : 0x17bf827 (0xe 0x48 0xcb0070 0x10)
0x5e363818 : 0x2fd111 (0x5e36383c 0x2d0020 0x320020 0x6d002e)
0x5e363868 : 0x2fea67 (0xd29d940 0x5e363a00 0x9ad5274 0x2d16cd)
0x5e3638b8 : 0x2e4605 (0xd29d940 0x5e363a00 0x9ad5274 0x0)
0x5e363b48 : 0x46dd05 (0x8a59378 0x0 0x880 0x9ad5274)
0x5e363b88 : 0x2debb8 (0x8af4804 0x8a59378 0x880 0x9ad5274)
0x5e363bd8 : 0x2f4c24 (0xd29d940 0x0 0x880 0x9ad5274)
0x5e363c18 : 0x2eaca7 (0xd29d940 0x5e363d00 0x0 0x1)
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http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/7/0300004027/01/IB66_EN.pdf
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To restore iMovie 11 back to where it was.
You need to delete iMovie's plist and cache files, 2 files located in your Home/Libary folder
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com.apple.iMovieapp (folder)
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I guess I can work my way through the one long clip, cutting it into bits, but that's very time consuming and I may as well have imported the footage manually.
Does anyone know how I can get footage onto my Mac from Mini DV in separate clips? Or if there's an easy way to break this hour long clip I've already imported into pieces?
Thanks very much.Hi
As AppleMan1958 writes
Normal DV footage will be split into clips.
But I figur. If Your miniDV tape has a functioning TimeCode (not copy from VHS)
then iMovie 1 to HD6 - had it as an option to make a full import or as "Individual Clips"
This choise I can not find in iMovie'11.
May be it's still as a flag and by some chance - this got wrongly set.
To correct this (IF) - I would delete iMovie pref file/s and re-start iMovie and try to
make a new Import/Capture.
To do this -
• Close iMovie
• Find the pref file - iMovie pref file resides in.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences (folder)
and is named. (one or more of these) - and put it/them on desktop
com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.iMovie3.plist
com.apple.iMovie7.plist
com.apple.iMovie8.plist
and find too - and put it on desktop
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When I import videos into iTunes, the colors in the poster frame are all messed up, and very much different from the colors that actually appear in the respective frame of video.
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Summary: Moviemaker is easier to use, more stable, but less functional (fewer bells and whistles).
Moviemaker can NOT be used with multiple video tracks. If it had that capability I'd probably still be using it.
So now I have Premiere Elements 9.
Next problem.
So I've spliced together my two videos into one.
To do this I had to reduce the display size of each video in the viewer to 1/2 size so I could watch each simultaneously to sync them and to determine which video was better to use. I'd watch one version in the upper left had corner and the other in the lower right.
By the way, it doesn't seem intelligent to have the multiple video tracks but make it so hard to display them side by side.
Now I'm on to creating the DVD menus. The videos are still showing up at 1/2 size.
Will they show up that way on the DVD? Do I need to go back and manually enlarge the hundreds of spliced clips to full size? This would be difficult and time consuming. The fact that the videos enlarge from all sides makes it that much more difficult. It would be nice if you could just shove it into one corner and pull it the the other corner. Because it enlarges on all sides you have to center it tand then fiddle with it quite a bit to get it properly aligned on all four sides.
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