Importing on an iBook

Hey all,
this may sound like a simple problem and im sure it will probably be something very obvious but its driving me mad!! I have a JVC GR-DVL150 miniDV camcorder and when connected to a 350Mhz G3 it imports fine (on iMovie 3 and iMovie HD). But, when i return home from college to work on my iBook, iMovie refuses to recognise the camcorder even though im running the same version of iMovie, using the same cable etc...I have tried running in Classic, deleting plist files from preferences, all to no avail. Is is something to do with firewire?!! Im new to Macs and am very lost....please help!

so, we do know:
camera is fine, cable is fine.. (otherwise, the G3 wouldn't recognize it..)
obviously, the fault lies at the G4...
connect your camera (connect it to power-line, just to exclude some weird effect, that a camera running on battery isn't recognized...)
launch the "Apple Profiler app" (under the Blue Apple, upper left)... click on "firewire" ... does it show the camera in its profile?
if NOT...
switch camera & Mac off, disconnect Mac from power-line, disconnect battery of iBookG4 ... wait 5-10minutes.. that should reset the firewire ports...
try again... look into the system profiler... still "no device"...?
bad news... probably, the firewire board got toasted... :-/
if sys profiler SHOWS your camera as some firewire-connected device.. then we "just" have some weird software problem... post back......

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Is there any benefit to importing high resolution TIF or highest quality JPEGs???
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Moe

Open the Help files and check the section dealing with Graphics.
Better, if you have an iTunes Connect ( if not get one you will need it) account you should open it look for Deliver your Content, top right are a group of PDFs download them.
One is the Asset guide - which give full info about graphics. Including.. Tiff is not acceptable.
Maximum image file size is 3.2 megabyte. For iPad retina ( and basically everything) 2048 x 1536 rsolution is of choice really, subject to the file size and the books size max of 2 gig. Unless all your images are intended for full screen, re-size to suit your layout.
iBA does not compress or scale anything.. thats your job.. and if you get it wrong.. the book will be rejected by the preview team until you sort it out.
Save yourself work and time, download and study the asset guide and the help files.

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so funny, I was looking to download the latest isoftware, when I noticed hours later your post was from 2010...
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I have an old children's cassette tape that I want to copy and send to my daughter overseas for her use as a teacher (the tape is no longer available otherwise).
1. First, I will use Griffin's iMic + Final Vinyl software to import the tape to my iBook and place it on the desktop--I have the option of AIFC or WAV at this step. Which format?
2. Then I will import the file to iTunes; choices = AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3 or WAV. Again, which format?
3. Then I will email this to daughter in New Zealand. They have a PC and a dialup connection. Apparently they CANNOT use iTunes there for some reason. In what format should I try to send it?
4. Then, I want her to be able to burn an audio CD that will play in any CD player. They have a Sony MP3 player and Sony's software, along witth Windows stuff, if this makes any difference.
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iBook G4 768MB 1.33GHz 60GB Mac OS X (10.4.7)

AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) and WAV are the default uncompressed audio file formats used for Macs and PCs, respectively, while AAC and MP3 versions of these files are typically 10 times (or more) smaller in size. If you're emailing the file you want to use a compressed format, and MP3 files will be more generally usable with a variety of PC software and players than AAC files (and you mentioned your daughter does not have iTunes).
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1) save as AIFC (compressed AIFF)
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4) not sure what they would use to burn to audio CD on their machine, but this should not be a problem. Sony uses ATRAC, which is Sony specific, but will also play MP3 files.
The issues are more likely to be: (1) what mp3 settings to use and (2) whether you need/want to edit the files to remove noise and tape hiss. At a guess, you'll want to keep your file under about 5MB to email this. Uncompressed music files generate about 10 MB/min while at the default AAC setting that iTunes uses (128 kbps, stereo), this is about 1 MB/min. In the trade-off between sound quality and file size, you probably care most about getting the file size down. Try using the analog to the AAC "Podcast" setting under your MP3 import settings: 64 kbps, 22.050 kHz sample rate. I think the latest version of iTunes may remove your ability to separately select the sample rate, so you may just use "Automatic" for this. You may be able to play around with the sound quality vs. size, and test what maximum size you can send via email.
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And for general background, see this Jan 2005 MacWorld article about digitizing tapes. Hope this helps

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