Multiple timelines with imovie

can you have multiple timelines with imovie

John.Ch wrote:
can you have multiple timelines with imovie
as in real life:
there's only one timeline ...
If you want to display more than one video, read the Manual:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/?lang=en#mov159eff157

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How can I edit multiple clips with different frame rates on the same timeline

how can I edit multiple clips with different frame rates on the same timeline

You do not want to edit material from different frame rates on one timeline. You CAN do this, but it is a very bad idea - and this is why.
Once you establish the sequence frame rate - lets say it is PAL material at 25fps, any material that you drop into the sequence other than 25 fps will have to be changed to play at 25 fps. If the material you add is NTSC (29.97), FCP will DROP 5 frames per sec to bring the frame rate down to 25 fps. Which 5 get thrown away? Every 6th one. This yields a funky cadence that becomes even more complex as as there are also interlaced fields (DV/NTSC is an interlaced format). Oh, and by the way, the image sizes are different as well. DV/PAL has 576 lines of resolution and DV/NTSC has 480. FCP has to scale up the NTSC to fit the PAL frame.
You do not want FCP adjusting these things on the fly. You want to do a thoughtful (and time consuming) conversion so that you end up with all your material in one format with the best possible image from the conversion process. Compressor can do an adequate job with Frame Controls turned on. The Natress Standards Conversion FCP plugin is another way to go. A third option is to find a post house that can do the conversion for you using a hardware based process.
The good news is, once everything is in the same format, editing it will be painless and the output process very quick.
Whatever frame rate/ image size you select, I'd suggest using ProRes for the codec. It is 4:2:2 color and will withstand color correction and composting with much more grace than any variant of DV based codecs.
Have fun.
x

Selecting multiple clips in Imovie for Iphone for plus Ipad 2?

hi guys first post on these forums i hope you can help.
I recently downloaded imovie from the app store for my iphone 4 and so far have been really impressed with it. However there is one problem i'm having. I would like to select multiple clips from my camera roll without having to keep going back into the media section and having to scroll down to find the clips for everyone i want to add. Is there a way of selecting multiple clips? any help appreciated!

There is a way to load multiple video clips at once on iMovie's timeline on the iPad.
I have been able to load multiple video clips into my iPad's iMovie's timeline at the same time, but this process requires the combined use of iMovie and iPhoto and won't work if you have iOS 8 running on your iPad.
This is the way I do it. You create an iMovie project (Movie) on your iPad. iMovie will show the video clips that you can load to the timeline, but, as you have probably already found out, you can't load more than one clip at a time in iMovie's timeline. My videos have sometimes 100-200 clips, so loading them into the timeline one-by-one is a very long and tedious process. I do this instead:
(1) I go to iMovie and load the first clip on the timeline using iMovie. (This needs to be done to avoid iPhoto importing its background music to your video clips in iMovie.)
(2) Then I get out of iMovie and go into iPhoto. iPhoto shows you all the photos, but more importantly also all the videos in your Camera Roll.
(3) In iPhoto, I select the next video in the Camera Roll (the one right after the clip that I already placed on iMovie's timeline).
(4) Next, I hit the icon at the top of iPhoto that takes you to the "Share" section (the icon is a square box with an arrow pointing to the top). This will open a dialogue box that has a section there for "Apps" and you will see the iMovie icon.
(5) Select the iMovie icon, it will open a dialoge box that reads at the bottom: "Choose Photos...".
(6) Select "Choose Photos..."
(7) Now you can select up to 15 video clips in iPhoto to load into iMovie's timeline. You select each video by tapping it, it becomes encased in a white square and will show a check mark.
(8) After selecting up to 15 video clips, hit "Next" in the top right corner, you will be taken to iMovie.
(9) In iMovie, you will be asked to select the project into which the clips are to be placed. Select the project and the clips will all be loaded at once into iMovie's timeline.
Repeat the process again each time to load more clips; the process will place each new group of clips on iMovie's timeline right after the previously loaded clips. When you return to iPhoto, the clips that appear encased with a heavy white border are the ones that have already been placed in the timeline for iMovie; select the next uncased clip and 14 more and load them into iMovie in the same way as described before.
One word of caution: This process only works using iMovie and iPhoto together. iPhoto does not work with iOS 8! (Thank you, Apple!) That's why I don't have iOS 8 on my iPad, so, the process works fine. I hope this helps.
Cheers,
stukajoe

How do I use an external hard drive with iMovie 10.0.1? I have run out of disk space on my Macbook Air.

How do I use an external drive with iMovie 10.0.1? It is not obvious and I have run out of space.

If you want to move a complete iMovie 10 library (file with .imovielibrary extension) click on the library in the libraries pane and select File - Consolidate Library Media. This ensures that all media is copied to the library. You can then move the library onto your external drive using Finder. The first time to want to access it from iMovie you will have to tell it where it is by choosing File - Open Library -Other and navigating to it.
If you only want to transfer part of a library to another drive, create a new library a at the desired location File - Open Library - New and copy projects and events to it from within iMovie.
Its all described in iMovie help - "Work with multiple libraries".
Geoff.

Is there a way to make an audio clip not cover the whole project? I want to add audio clip or song and let it start at a certain point in the project. I'm working with iMovie on IPad!

Is there a way to make an audio clip not cover the whole project in iMovie? I want to add audio clip or song and let it start at a certain point in the project. Whenever I add audio or song it covers the whole project. I'm working with iMovie on IPad!

Thank you for your reply Karsten but unfortunately this didn't help me so far. Or maybe I'm missing something?
First the link is a tutorial for iMovie on a Mac. I'm using iMovie on iPad so the steps are inapplicable.
Second it is only possible for me to manipulate the end part of the sound clip to whichever duration I want. But I can't do the same with the 'beginning' of the sound clip.
I simply want to place some photos in the beginning of my video with no sound in the background then after like 2 secs I want to start the music clip. For some reason that is not possible! Cause every time I drop the music clip unto my project timeline it automatically place it self along with the first frame in the project! And consequently the photos and music are forced to start together.
Hope I'm making sense...

How to: Select a Specific Timeline Displayed in Project Online when having multiple timelines within the Enterprise Project

Currently I have an Enterprise Project which has 6 custom timelines and I want to know how to select a specific timeline to be displayed on the Project specific SharePoint site.
I'll provide some background for you so you understand my issues... I have created a "template" project with 6 custom timelines. From that project I created multiple new projects - which they all have the 6 custom timelines. These projects are
all stored in the Project Center. The problem I am having is I don't understand how to select a specific timeline to show on the project specific SharePoint site. They all seem to be displaying 1 of the 6 timelines (in no particular order). I was thinking
maybe if I had edited a project and saved it while it was displaying a specific timeline it would display the last selected timeline on the SharePoint site, but it doesn't seem to be doing that.
Is there a way to select a specific timeline to display on the SharePoint site? Also, is there a way for a user to cycle through the numerous timeline view on the project specific SharePoint site?
I await your help!! :)

Michelle_Sm --
I ran into this problem at the company where I used to work. One of our PMs had created multiple Timeline views, and wanted a specific custom Timeline view to show up in the Project Site for that project. I could not see any way to make that
happen. We had one of our SharePoint developers look into the issue, and he could not see any way to make this happen either. So, I am thinking this is not possible to do. But I would gladly welcome others in this forum to tell us the trick,
if there is one! :) Hope this helps.
Dale A. Howard [MVP]

Help needed with using network disk with iMovie with NFS or AFP

Hi,
I have iMac with iMovie08 that talks to a remote disk hosted under Linux over a gigabit network using SMB (Samba). It all works ok and I have done a few movies.
Now, I have done some tests with NFS and AFP (AppleTalk) and it seems that these are much faster than SMB.
I then stopped the Samba server and proceeded to setup NFS and also AFP
First NFS,
So I then exported my directory using NFS and I can see everything from my Mac (correct permissions too since I made both user and group IDs the same...). The problem is that when I launch iMovie it shows me the Volume for my external networked disk but it shows it with a little triangle with yellow exclamation and it does not show any of the events (>500GB of events).
If I stop NFS and then switch to AFP I get the same behavior. That is, everything from the Mac works on the AFS mounted disk (copying files back and forth, etc....) but I can't see the contents of the disk from within iMovie
I changed permissions so that anybody can read/write/execute (although there are files that have an '@' sign at the end when I do ls -l on them and I can't remember what that means....)
If I stop NFS and then go back to SMB (Samba) then I am back to a working configuration.
Can I use NFS or AFP with iMovie? What exactly does the yellow triangle mean?
Thanks
Dazed and confused at 330am EST...

More timings on smb vs nfs. Note that the big diffs is when sending single large files. The dd cmd was used to simulate 1 hour of DV video which is about 12GB
1.27GB dvd project (twice each, note the variability... I guess because the project has multiple files?):
MEiMac:Movies me$ time cp -r LS2000Berlin.dvdproj /Volumes/bigsmb/
real 0m37.114s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m4.164s
MEiMac:Movies me$ time cp -r LS2000Berlin.dvdproj /Volumes/bignfs/
real 0m59.351s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m8.336s
MEiMac:Movies me$ time cp -r LS2000Berlin.dvdproj /Volumes/bignfs/
real 0m40.671s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m8.205s
MEiMac:Movies me$ time cp -r LS2000Berlin.dvdproj /Volumes/bigsmb/
real 0m41.680s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m4.094s
Simulated 1 hour video single file:
MEiMac:Movies me$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=/Volumes/bigsmb/1hour bs=16k count=786432
786432+0 records in
786432+0 records out
12884901888 bytes transferred in 443.960166 secs (29022653 bytes/sec)
real 7m23.994s
user 0m3.434s
sys 1m18.900s
MEiMac:Movies me$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=/Volumes/bignfs/1hournfs bs=16k count=786432
786432+0 records in
786432+0 records out
12884901888 bytes transferred in 235.887283 secs (54623131 bytes/sec)
real 3m56.271s
user 0m1.666s
sys 1m56.995s

? Flash CS4, Is it possible to adjust the length of multiple timelines at once?

Hi,
I am using Flash CS4. Is there any way to adjust the length of multiple timelines at once? I am doing an animation of leaves falling from a tree. The leaves alone have 17 separate timelines on separate layers plus each has it's own guide layer.
If I had the ability to to select all of the timelines together and adjust all of their respective start and end times at the same same time, relative to each other as well as separately, life would be so much easier!
Of course I can do it timeline by timeline, no problem, but I can't seem to adjust the length of more than one timeline at a time. (no pun intended)
Even when I select more than one timeline, the double arrow only adjusts the length of one timeline. Even each guide layer's length has to be adjusted separately. I understand the benefit of this, but, testing timing and making adjustments would be so much simpler and go so much faster if I could select and drag multiple timeline lengths at the same time.
Is there any way to do this?
I'm new to Flash so, thanks in advance for your patience with me!
SabelV

Thanks! I had a feeling. It's nice to have the answer. Oh well, now I can get back to work and not waste any more time with that part of the puzzle. You've been very helpful and I'm sure your answer is correct. Wish I knew how to rate your answer even higher. Thanks again!

How do you set the duration for multiple stills in iMovie 2013?

How do you set the duration for multiple stills in iMovie 2013?
Before upgrading to the latest version of iMovie last month, I was able to set the duation of all of the stills included in an iMovie project at one time by clicking the apply to all still box in the adjustment pop up. That option is no longer apparent. If it is available I cannot find it, and I have tried several different ways to accomplish it. I have tried the iMovie help section and can find nothing to help.
Apple, do I really have to adjust close to 500 pictures to a 5 second duration individually???
REALLY??!!

...why wouldnt people want that level of accuracy when animating, especially when working to music at a specific duration?
Because often people are animating to words or beats in the music. Music is rarely performed with a computer-precise beat and tempo. Musicians aren't robots: they swing the beat sometimes. They use rubato. They change tempo. They change time signatures. As a result, you have to FIND those words and beats. It's not a situation where you can say, "There! I've found the duration of one beat! Now it's easy to find the rest of them!"
If you try it, you will be very disappointed.
Try finding the precise end of a piece of music that fades or ends on a big chord with a ring-out. You'll see that it's trial-and-error: what's the point where it becomes inaudible? It depends on how high your speakers are turned up. You might have them way up, you set an end point for the layer, and then you do a RAM Preview at a more reasonable volume. You might say, "Hey! The music ends before the layer ends!"... but you KNOW you set the layer's out point when the audio file goes silent.
AE has layer markers that can be used on an audio layer to mark beats, words, etc. They come in very handy.
I guess it comes down to this: because AE can do so much different stuff, there are very few automated procedures. Oh, Adobe tries with effects that convert audio levels to keyframes, but they're not 100% reliable... especially on something like a capella choral works. For true accuracy, you need find the timings yourself.
If you want something simpler, try a different application. But be prepared for lower level of accuracy.

Bummed with iMovie '09

I just want to say how bummed I am with the new iMovie. I recently
got a shiny new MacBook Pro (thanks, work) and all's good except for this new version of iMovie. The old one was just so intuitive - you could see your clips in one, obviously laid-out timeline. You could see the audio level line and create your own custom fade-outs according to picture. Sure, I bet iMovie '09 has way better functions but functionality is a whole different issue - one that Apple usually gets right but sadly didn't in this case. Seriously bummed. Is it just me? Do I fear change and should I just get over it?

It's not just you: in an attempt to simplify iMovie and speed "production" I think Apple certainly "over-achieved" with the introduction of iMovie 08 -and swung back to more usability with '09. But as you point out: the visual interface of iMovie HD is more complex but also more versatile in that it allows for finer editing of sound tracks. I really! loved being able to fade background music in and out in coordination with my voice-over narrations. I see no way of doing the same thing with iMovie '09 (i.e, iMovie 8.x).
I also liked it that iMovie HD has sound filtration to moderate extraneous sounds (like traffic noise) but iMovie 09 does not have this, as far as I can see. Nor does '09' seem to have tint, brightness, contrast or desaturation controls. I've started using "old" QuickTime Pro (v. 7.6) AV controls for "pre-processing" clips before using either iMovie HD or 09.
Yet, I also love the "shake removal" feature in iMove 09. So what I've done is to keep iMovie HD for more post-processing of clips and sound tracks while using iMovie 09 just to pass the clips through shake removal.
I do agree with others on this thread that one can get used to handling some of the other differences in iMovie 09. That applies at least to snipping off unwanted bits by selecting and then cutting.
So it seems to be a mixed bag with tradeoffs. I hope some of my workarounds (above) may help you.

Using multiple drives for iMovie 10

Previoiusly, I have used multple drives to store my business & personal video files. I don't see how to do that now with iMovie 10. Now everything is in different Libraries. When I click on any of my older Events, iMovie shows that it is empty. How do I fix this?

In addition to the above persons' solution, you can choose a third software instead of the built-in Windows 7 Backup tool, the backup software can make up for the deficiency of the backup tool of Windows. You can search in Google, and
will find many kinds of software, Genie backup and AOMEI Backupper: http://www.backup-utility.com/ can be ok. Hope the freeware can give you suggestion.
AOMEI turned out to be the answer. It works well with multiple drives and provides an easy way the user can see if the backup succeeded or not. Thanks!
Jonathan

Move made with iMove can't be imported in another iMove-Film

Hi,
I tried to import a movie (that I made completely with iMovie) in another movie in iMove. But importing I got that error message:
The Clip /../../.dv can’t be imported; QuickTime couldn’t parse it: -43
What does that mean?
Mac OS X (10.4.7)

then what should I do now? Import the "Timeline
Movie.mov" myself?
Yes, that's one option. That will deliver all the Timeline video and audio to the new project as a single clip.
Another option, depending on what it contains, is to import the files in the Media folder to a new project.
Both imports can be accomplished by simply dragging the desired file to the Timeline of a new project.
If all you want is a copy of the original project, it may be best to use the Finder to create a duplicate project, or use iMovie's Save As commend. Then all your clips are retained as the clips they currently are. Open the new project and discard those clips you don't want.
Or you can simply Copy the clips from the Timeline of Project A and Paste them into Project B.
Karl

How to move multiple clips with transitions?

Im still transitioning from FCP7 to FCP 10.1.2 and can't believe I have missed the lesson that explains how to move multiple clips with transitions.
Up till now I have tried several work arounds including deleting all the transitions then using the (P) Position tool to move the clips from the primary track to some track above it then re adding all the transitions. This is a function I do on a daily basis. Am I missing something? Please help!
Thank you

With some further investigation, the transitions have nothing to do with my problem. In my case there was a tiny “Black gap slug” within the group that was preventing me from being able set it on top of another group of clips or gap someplace. But even with the gap removed… I can move the clips on top of another group but the transitions stay behind on the primary (Magnetic)
In the screen shot you can see what happens when I move a group out of the primary (magnetic) timeline onto a gap. All the transitions get left behind.
Ive notices that Cutting and pasting will only paste the sequence some other place on the primary (magnetic) timeline for me.
An example of why I would want to put a cropped/ resized group on top of another group is to do picture in picture effects or if I wanted to create a background behind a set of adjusted clips.

Capture with iMovie – good or bad?

Hi there
I have heard various opinions, but I am not sure what to make of whether having iMovie as part of your workflow is a good idea or not.
On trips we sometimes use 2 camcorders, and on returning it is very useful to import the footage using iMovie 8 for cataloging. One reason for this is the fact that it names the file according to the capture timestamp, making it possible to order all the clips according to capture time. The cameras are HDV, and iMovie converts the clips to the Intermediate Codec.
My question is, for the enthusiastic amateur, does this workflow have negative impact on the quality of the footage, and if so is this effect enough to consider a change in workflow? The projects are done in FCP eventually and output on SD DVD.
Any help appreciated
-hannes

Shane's Stock Answer #20: Using iMovie to Capture for use in FCP.
iMovie handles the media differently from FCP, specifically where audio is concerned. So it is not a recommended workflow. Here's why...
iMovie captures using DV Stream (.dv) standard which does not use timecode. That is a big disadvantage over the way that FCP captures in that you can't go back and recapture the material at a later date if you need to revisit a project.
The DV/NTSC specification (the one FCP uses) also calls for seperate tracks for audio and video, even if you capture it as one clip. iMovie' DV stream format is muxed audio and video, which means that they are tied together (I can't get into specifics because I ain't no engineer or programmer). FCP is a bit more demanding and captures the seperate audio/video tracks, either in a single media file or as seperate video and audio files. With FCP you could capture video only or audio only because each is defined by the DV specs. while with iMovie you can't.
Also, if you drop the iMovie footage into the timeline, your will get the RED render bar forcing you to render the footage in order to see it. You can use either QT Pro or Compressor to convert the .dv footage into DV/NTSC in order for FCP to work with it without needing to render.
Shane

Integral iSight not compatible with iMovie

Just found this article in the Apple Knowledge Base. It says that the integral iSight in the new iMac G5 will not work with iMovie. So much for having a $150 iSight camera built into your iMac as it is an iSight in name only, not functionality.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302749

You can capture from the built-in iSight under the following conditions:
1. Plug-in a separate FW deck/cam, and power it up such that it's output is recognized and displayed in iMovie.
2. Power-off the deck/cam, or just unplug it.
Very shortly thereafter, iMovie should display the output from the built-in iSight, and iSight's green activity light should come on.
I found this out just today - quite by chance. Be a little careful, it's a temporary session. As soon as you go to your clips or timeline, the built-in iSight link is gone, until you repeat steps 1 and 2 above again.

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