Mixing Video Formats in imovie06HD

I have to produce a video of my son's graduation ceremony for which I need to include footage shot in Widescreen HD with camcorder footage shot in standard definition in 4:3 format. I need to include all the footage as important elements are in both.
I don't really want to see the 4:3 footage stretched or letterboxing.
Two questions:
If I create the project as DV will imovie chop the edges of the widescreen footage or squash it? Can I choose how imovie treats the footage?
If I import Standard DV into an HD project will imovie upscale it?
Advice will be much appreciated.

I have been thinking (yes, really!) about my own experience with doing this, which was my son's wedding (my tape ran out during his speech and had to be changed over, so I had to insert somebody else's bit with the missing sentences), and those was in 4:3 whereas my video was in 16:9. Yes, using iMovie 6.
So, what did I do (because it worked)? Honest answer? I don't remember, it was 9 years ago! The object is to 'fix' the 4:3 footage so that the 16:9 iMovie project won't change it. Using mpegStreamclip is one way to do it. Convert the footage to DV, and look carefully for the various options regarding the aspect, that should do it.
You can also do this in Quicktime Pro if you have it.
If you don't have success with Streamclip post back, and I will attempt to repeat the excercise and take some screen shots!

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Hi
I have been using a DV camcorder (SD quality) for some time, originally recording in 4:3 format, and more recently in 16:9 format (as we bought a wide screen telly).
I have just treated myself to a new AVCHD Panasonic video recorder recording High Definition footage in 1080 16:9 PAL format onto an SD memory card.
I wanted to take all this footage and put it on my computer to edit it together and start making some films to keep for the future - on DVD for now, and at some point on Blue Ray. To this end I have just purchased Adobe Premier Element 7.0, with Photoshop Elements 7.0 bundled together.
My confusion is that it appears I can only use one format in a "project" as I need to define the parameters for the "project" in terms of SD vs HD and 4:3 vs 16:9. I was hoping to be able to store all of my footage of various quality definitions and screen ratils into a "library" (which I see is called "Organiser" in Adobe terms) on the hard disk, and then pick and choose from the "library" what to put into each "film project" as I make them, mixing formats as I wish. I realise that in this way, the output would itself switch from 3:4 to 16:9 etc on accasions as I switch scene to use a different format, and so may not appear to be the smoothest edit.... but I thought that would be my decision to do if I wanted it. Instead it appears I cannot mix a few minutes if 4:3 SD footage of my son as a baby, with more recent 16:9 1080 HD footage of him as a boy - which is a real shame as it is what I wanted to do....
Have I misunderstood, or am I right in thinking I am limited in this way?
Why can I mix still photos of any format with video , but not mix different formats of PAL video?
Many thanks

Thanks Paul
I have been having go, as you suggest, and as you said, I cannot edit my AVCHD footage in Scene mode as it has 5.1 audio (which I cannot change on the videocam) This is very disappointing as I really wanted the simplicity of the scene editing rather than timeline.... This is compounded by the fact that timeline editing seems even more complicated than normal as each new AVCHD clip I add is placed onto a different video track (not all on track 4 as you thought)- so it is real mess to work out on my screen.... Is this a bug, the way PRE treats 5.1 tracks - or is it just oversight and poor design? Do you think it might be addressed by Adobe?
Anyhow, thanks for explaining what is going on, as without your warning, I would have assumed that the PRE 7 sceneline feature was broken - you would have thought there would be some warning / documentation from Adobe about this, as effectively, a big feature is now unavailable to me as an AVCHD user - and the product claims to be compatible with AVCHD!
Would you be able to advise on a couple more of my "newbie" file format questions?
How do the settings work between setting the initial PROJECT format, and then choosing the various OUTPUT (sharing) settings. For example, if I want to edit a project using AVCHD clips only, and output it to DVD quality to watch on a PC or burn to DVD disk, do I get the same thing if I set the project setting to PAL AVCHD High Def 1080 5.1 and then the share setting to DVD quality output, as I would if I set the project settings to DV 48hz and the share setting to DVD quality output?
My ideal would be to retain the High Definition of the footage through the editing process and then be able to output to DVD quality now, but to be able to come back to the finished edited project in the future and choose to output it to Blueray when I have upgraded my TV and bought a blueray player. i.e. I am trying to make my filming and edited projects a bit futureproof....
Finally, I am just not up enough on all the different format lingos (Mpeg1, MPeg2, H.116 etc) to know what I should be choosing from the list for:
1) outputting edited footage to burn onto a DVD to be used on a DVD player
2) outputting edited footage to save onto a PC to view in the best possible quality on a PC
Do you know?
Many thanks

CS5 Mixed video formats in same sequence

New user here, coming from 10 years of Pinnacle Studio.
I have at least 3 different video formats to edit in a single sequence/timeline (iPhone, 720 from a Sony point and shoot, and 1080i from a Canon video camera). Depending on which format I use for the sequence, when I drag the videos to the main Video1 track, the audio will go to whatever track is appropriate for the mono or stereo. The iPhone and Sony are both mono and will be on one track and the Canon is stereo so its audio jumps to a stereo track.
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Thank you.

Thanks everyone. I will continue practicing and learning.
Another question. After editing, I will be authoring with Encore, which I have used for many years now. How should I structure the audio tracks in Premiere if I want the mixed audio track (master track) to be the main audio track in Encore (on the DVD) and the original video's audio to be the alternate audio track in Encore (on the DVD). While playing back the DVD, the default audio track will be the mixed audio. If the viewer wants to hear the original audio only, then they just hit the audio button on the remote to switch tracks.
Funny how this requirement came about. For years I always just had the mixed audio. But while watching the videos, my kids started telling me they wanted to hear the original audio. Knowing the video would be too boring to adults without a soundtrack, I came up with the idea for multiple audio tracks. That requirement eliminated the consumer lever authoring tools, which is what pushed me to Encore back in the version 1.0 days. Since then I have been using Studio to edit, and Encore to author. Now I am trying to dump Studio and use the Premiere/Encore pair.
The way I did this in Pinnacle Studio was to output the video and mixed audio as an AVI or MPEG2 file, and import this as the timeline in Encore. Then from Pinnacle Studio, output the original audio only as a .wav file, and import this as a 2nd audio track in Encore. Worked perfectly...as long as Pinnacle kept the audio in sync, which at times was difficult, but with the newer releases of Studio, it worked much better.
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I have had issues syncing videos to our iPhones/iPad through iTunes using the Aperture library as the sync source due to the video format not being supported (there are a number of discussions on this forum that talk about this error). From what I can gather, iTunes will only sync certain supported video formats, requiring the videos to be converted accordingly. The majority of my videos fall into this category.
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To alleviate confusion, a "version" in Aperture world is a master image that has had changes applied to it in Aperture. Aperture gives you a thumbnail or preview of the master using the changes contained in the version file.
What you want to do cannot be done by using versions, because video is not edited in Aperture. That is why each time you edit it with an outside editor, it is asking to import as a new Master, and thus, where you would like to store it. In a managed library, master images are stored in the Aperture library along with everything else. In a referenced library, the masters are stored wherever you like and only versions ("changes") and preview files are stored in the library.
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My personal point of view is that doubling your videos will make your library much larger unless you are using referenced masters. If you are using a managed library, you could make the original, unsharable videos referenced once they are stacked. Aperture would know where they are, but not keep them in the library. If you are unfamiliar with referenced masters, I would either learn about them or use the method below.
I don't see much point in even keeping videos in formats that cannot be shared, edited, or viewed by the programs you want, unless its solely for organizational purposes or you are mixing work and life. I would just convert all the movies, leave the originals in an untouched folder, then import the converted ones I am actually going to share and watch into Aperture. But I can easily imagine reasons to use the stacks method as well.
Good luck, hope that all made sense.

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http://www.aiseesoft.com/images/guide/total-video-converter/screen.jpg
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http://www.aiseesoft.com/images/guide/total-video-converter/effect.jpg
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http://www.aiseesoft.com/images/guide/mac-video-converter/steps.jpg
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Did as instructed and dragged Aperture 3 to the trash, did the empty trash option, restarted and reinstalled.   Then did a software update to catch the new update for Aperture and it found that.   Interestingly when I did start it up after that it DID NOT ask me for my key - so clearly some elements were left over.
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For some reason it just started to work now. Have no idea what didn't work before.

I recored a video with my ipad, downloaded it to my mac but I cant upload it to Youtube because the format IMG is not a video format. How can I convert it?

How can I convert a video I took with my ipad on the format IMG to a supported format for Youtube?

To upload videos to YouTube we have to make sure videos are in a format that YouTube accepts. Here’s the list of some well-known video formats which YouTube supports:
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