Importing a Final Cut Express sequence into Soundtrack

Can I do it?

Using FCE 3.5.1 / Soundtrack 1.5
Either right-click (control-click) the Sequence in FCE / Export for Soundtrack...
Drag that file into Soundtrack’s Video-window / or -track....
Or export as QuickTime Movie, than drag that clip into Soundtrack’s Video-track...
Regards
Nolan

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Use MPEG Streamclip to convert your MPEG1 videos to either QuickTime/DV-NTSC or +QuickTime/Apple Intermediate Codec.+
Also make sure you select the matching *Easy Setup* in FCE before you create the sequence you want to edit these videos in. This is so the sequence settings match your clip properties when you import the converted files.
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Yes, I have a couple of them, but they have their lives :-)
I guess I can have their help, as soon as they can. In any case, being independant with this kind of things would be great.
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this seems like an annoying workaround that will discourage me from even using FinalCut (i have limited hard drive space... so two projects with uncompressed clips of 2 hour length are out of the question)
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Imovie 6HD is super but the sound blip on faded out music files is unforgivable. When you print (export) to a quicktime movie it puts all sorts of audio blips and volume changes onto the finished file that aren't there on playback in iMovie.
Luckilly I have final cut express HD.
Unlickilly It can't import any of my imovie project files.
It just keeps telling me that there are 'unknown files'.
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It is apparently an issue when creating PAL files. There are posts discussing this and it is a well documented problem. There are a few round about moves you can do. Check the other posts for some of these. It seems that the best bet is to uninstall and reinstall Motion 4 or 5 until this big bug is fixed. I Have imported the iMotion file into Final Cut Pro by open file and exported it from there.
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So far seems like imovie not good for HD is final cut express better?

as a SUPER novice user so far I'm having a lot of trouble dealing with imovie. I think the major problem is that the files are so huge that they become almost impossble to work with. A 50 minute clip i brought in took up about 40gigs. and when I tried to merge clips from one imovie file to another or import more clips the import just takes FOREVER.
tried to output the 45min segment to .mov and it took 6 hours then failed because I ran out of disc space on my 100gig laptop.
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Also I think if you import in final cut express you actually get a .mov file where with imovie you just get a giant iMovie file which can't be opened with quicktime pro etc.
anyway, HD quality is amazing but I think most point and shooters will be very frustrated this christmas.

matt, you're right about external Hard drives just didn't realize that 10-30 minutes of HD level content could put me in that scenario. thought I'd be able to shoot my friends kids playing and give them a dvd for the holidays, didn't realize it would be so time consuming for the computer to manage that.
oh well live and learn. on the upside the quality is sick and if I get into it I think final cut will solve many of the problems. even the external hard drives might not be as required becasue final cut can reference the tape points and when I go out to dvd it will just tell me which tapes to insert and pull the appropriate content. too bad imovie doesn't do that would be a real space saver.

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Recently I got a WD Fire Wire 800 Hard drive for christmas so I could move all of my final cut projects over to the HD.
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When you say move the application final cut express into the application folder.
Do you mean move my folder of final cut express that I moved onto my HDD?
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