New trouble importing digital video

used to be able to import dv to imovie (4.0.1) ,no problem. now, importing is faulty- short cut outs followed by complete spontaneous shut off of video imput. plenty of hard disc space( 40 gb), am not using " file vault", have all other apps off when attempting import. any thoughts?

As mishmumkin said, it can be the cable. Before buying a new one, try removing and re-attaching both ends (into your camera and computer), make sure they are solidly attached, and don't move the camera or touch the cord when importing. Sometimes the connection, especially on the camera side, can be touchy.

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Trouble importing Iphone videos

I just imported all the videos and pics from my Iphone. The pics all show up but, ALL the videos have a "box" but, it's blank ?????
Need to see what they are before I can make movie...

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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:00:36 -0800
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Subject: Trouble importing Iphone videos
    Re: Trouble importing Iphone videos
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I have gone back and reread your whole thread. I think the light bulb may have lit here and that I bypassed the following.
When I open the Organize and view videos section that is supposed to show ALL my imports.
All that are fully showing are the pictures... ALL The Videos are located in a "BLANK" box on that same screen.
Again,   If I select the "make movies" option   the videos are able to be dragged down to the timeline, where they fully appear. However, I cannot view them in the selection area
On my re-read of your thread, it appears that your blank box is not in Project Assets in the Expert workspace of Premiere Elements 12 Editor. It is in the Elements Organizer 12 which is part of Premiere Elements 12. Is that correct? If it is,
a. if you double click the blank thumbnail in that Elements Organizer 12, can you play back the video file there?
And, what you are saying is that when you open this Elements Organizer 12 blank box in Premiere Elements 12 Expert workspace, you see the video and hear the audio just fine. Is that what is going on?
Video thumbnail problem in the Elements Organizer is a frequent report. That is why details, such as the file extension of the file involved, are so important along with the other properties of the file.
One way around this is to use Premiere Elements 12 Expert workspace Add Files and Folders (from computer hard drive) to get your file into Project Assets from where you drag it to the Timeline. Does that work for you?
Before I go on and on, let us see if we are in sync on this.
Your help on this is appreciated.
Thanks.
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I am importing digital video into my movie. But when it imports, the video has glitches in it every 5 seconds or so. When I look at the uicktime file, it has no glitches. What is up and what can I do?

I am importing digital video into my movie. But when it imports, the video has glitches in it every 5 seconds or so. When I look at the uicktime file, it has no glitches. What is up and what can I do?

I also just posted about this- having same issue. Make an appointment & take it in. I've called Apple twice & they could not help me over the phone.

Importing Digital Video into FCF6 via ADVC-110

I have FC Studio 6 and am trying to import digital video via Firewire using a ADVC110 purchased at the Apple store. FCP does not recognize the camcorder-ADVC on capture, import, etc. Apparently others on the Web are having similar problems. Does anyone know the setup parameters for FCP and switch selections for the ADVC to make this workflow actually work?
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DickWalt

If the camera has a firewire port, you should do this (forget the canopus)
Close FCP, turn off the mac and the camera.
Plug the firewire cable in the mac and the camera...make sure the camera is set for playback and not record.
Turn on the camera, then the mac.
Open System Profiler (click on blue apple icon top left, choose About this Mac and select More Info) Click on Firewire in the left pane of the Profiler interface and make sure your camera is recognized. If it's not, your camera is not set for playback or you have a bad FW cable or FW port on the camera or mac.
If it is recognized, open FCP, check your Easy Setup for DV-NTSC, then go to File/Log and Capture and see if you can capture...you should see the image from tape in the capture interface. If so,
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K

Having trouble importing mpeg videos from an external hard drive to iMovie or iPhoto. Keeps saying unrecognizable format. How do I get it to work?????

I have always had a dell computer. But after the 3rd crash, we decided to throw it out and get a mac. We bought this computer a week ago. I was able to save all our family pics and videos from the dell to an external hard drive. So when I got the new Mac set up, I plugged the hard drive in and had no problem importing all our pictures. But when I tried to import our videos, I ran into some problems. We have had 3 different cameras with each having a different video format. All our videos are either avi, mpeg, or mov. All the avi videos imported successfully but the others will not. I tried importing them into imovie and iphoto and neither one will recognize the format. iphoto says unrecognizable format and imovie just completely freezes and I have to force quit. Here is what is funny. I took the hard drive to my local store and when they hooked it up to their computer, they imported beautifully. Why won't it do the same for my brand new computer? Thanks!

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Importing digital video is very slow

Hi, I just bought a new Canon HF R40 camcorder and I am finding a few problems. I've tried editing in iMovie 09 (iLife09) not sure if that's and the program doesn't recognize the camera at all. With the old iMovie program, I would just turn on the video camera and vio la...it recognzied it no problem. This has left me with transferring movie clips directly from the SD card which seems painfully slow. Now I was able to put together a short video with iMovie 09 but was unable to use any titles because the program would crash once I pressed the icon for Titles. BTW I was taping in MP4 formate for the purpose of getting it on youtube.
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2. Is this because I'm transferring from an SD card vs directly from the camera?
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I really appreciate any advice with this problem. I figured it was time to upgrade into a new camcorder but it sure seems that DV Tapes are much easier to work with and I'm on the verge of just returning the camera.
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You may find these useful:
iMovie 11 - cameras supported:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/cameras/en/index.html?lang=en_US
iMovie 9 - cameras supported:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3290?viewlocale=en_US
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1014
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Trouble importing analog video thru converter box into Imovie

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I movie sees the Camcorder/Box but when I press the import button the screen says "Importing" and nothing else happens.
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Importing Digital Video as MP4 Format

I want to import HD video from my Canon VIXIA HMF500 into my MacBook as an MP4 format. iMovie only saves it as a .mov file. any suggestions?

mfpjr wrote:
I want to import HD video from my Canon VIXIA HMF500 into my MacBook as an MP4 format. …
Why?
What do you expect using a different media-container?
and, btw, the movs in iM are transcoded (into aic) files, the original mts contains h264 encoded stuff.
there many options to rewrap that lossless into mov, mp4, flv, mkv, whatever wrapper ...
depending on, what your next step is ......

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Hi all,
I have the exact same problem. I've just been to Thailand with my girlfriend, and we recorded a lot of stuff with my brand new Sony HD camcorder. And whenever the we ran out of camcorder memory we just emptied everything onto my HP laptop using the supplied Sony software, which produced m2ts files. When we got home, I realized that my Mac Pro/iMovie09 was not able to import this format. What a huge disappointment! Especially considering the fact that I just bought my mac back in March (my first mac ever) only for video editing and music composing (no problems with music composing, however!).
Well, I needed a solution, so last week I just bought the Voltaic HD converting software (35$), and it works great. No problems. Only thing is that my Mac Pro (quad intel core) had to work 24 hours a day for four straight days/nights in order to finish the converting job - resulting in 434 GB worth of mov-files. This is no problem as such, and the quality is great. BUT it seems rather stupid that this converting has to take place. If I use Sony Vegas on my PC, it works out of the box with my original m2ts-files. And I would really appreciate if Apple would implement a simple import function of m2ts-files in their software - one that would (if necessary) automatically convert the files to mov. Or even better: would work natively with the m2ts-files.
Best,

Trouble Importing Home Video - Not importing full clip

I've never used iMovie before but I figured out how to get a home dvd imported. I mounted the disk image and everything and when I open iMovie is gives me the import menu. I import my clip and it tells me that it's imported 120 minutes of video but when I click on the new event there's only 48 minutes of video. Where's the rest?

This is what PYRO's Technical support told me. I plan on getting back to them with follow up questions let me know if you have one you would like to pass on.
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Tihs is not likely to be happening because of anything on your system (the pattern would be a bit different usually.) This happens because the hardware is dropping frames that cannot be properly translated.
Analog tapes may often contain spots where the magnetism is weak, the tape is stretched, warped etc where the signal that is read off of it when sent from the VCR incorrectly. The reason is that the VCR doesn"t build the signal; it simply does a straight electronic conversion of the signal on the tape to signals on the wire. The problem is that in order for a computer system to understand it as video, the signal must adhere to a strict structure.
When the signal becomes out of order or a part of the signal drops out, a video computer will have a problem and will lose frames unless hardware is present that can anticipate and fill/repair the missing component (most commonly, time-base correction.) These bad signals don"t typically manifest themselves visibly on an analog monitor unless the defect is prolonged (such as distorted video at a bad warp on the tape or the bad video between multiple recording sessions) but they are still there and anything that is trying to compute data from those signals is going to have a problem.
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New problem importing photos videos

since I upgraded my iphone 5 to ios7, I having a problem importing photos and videos to my pc? I have Windows 7. Has anyone else had this issue and been able to resolve it?

Hi I have figured it out on my own just today coz what apple suggested didn't help much so I just have to do it by myself.
This is what you need to do:
open your computer and search for autoplay, it will open rightaway and then scroll down look for your device then change "ask everything" to "import photos and videos in windows" connect your ipad again then tthe import box will open.. and your good!
i hope this will help you. Good luck! :-)

Digital video import

Maybe I am not up with the times, but I thought you could import digital video (from a Sony handycam) into iDVD or iMovie and burn it to DVD. I can't even get the programs to recognize that there is a device attached to import the video.
Is there a way to do this and how do I go about getting it done?
Thanks

Hi Denise,
Yes that is one of the oddest things about the digital camcorder industry. Almost none of them actually come with a Firewire cable even though they have Firewire ports, yet they often come with a USB cable even though the price of a FW cable is the same as USB. How come you buy a multi-hundred dollar camcorder and you don't get a Firewire cable, yet I can buy a $30 Firewire drive enclosure and it does? Odd!
Anyway, the USB port is not for transfering digital video. On my old Digital8 Sony camcorder, the USB port is only used to download still pictures taken with the camcorder that were saved on a the memory stick in the camcorder. The pictures are so bad it isn't even worth the effort. I think newer Sony's use the USB port to do some sort of streaming video out of the camera, but this is more like a web cam application and is not true high quality DV footage you get from the Firewire port.
Try PC Microstore at...
http://www.pcmicrostore.com/CBC.aspx?q=kw:Firewire;c:36142
Firewire cables go for about two bucks with free shipping for the cheapest ones. You need a 4 pin (Camera's iLink side) to 6 pin (computer side). At that price, get a few (maybe differeent lengths) so you have spares on hand in case your main one gets flakey or just so you have some extras.
As to making DVDs, the process can be as easy or complicated as you want to make it. Although even if you keep it easy (little to no editing and just go to DVD) it is still rather time consuming. However, if you do buy a DVD recorder, be sure to get one with a Firewire port (you still need those cables) as you can then go directly from the camcorder to the DVD recorder and make your DVDs. That might be good enough for your purposes, but you might also want to try one through iMovie and iDVD and compare the quality. While the DVD recorder might be fast and easy, I am not sure how good the quality is on them, althogh it might be fine.
In either case, you need to get a Firewire cable regardless.
Patrick

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So I have a canon t4i and I've been having trouble importing my videos from my memory card to imovie, and iphoto wont even let me upload it. I tried converting it to AVI (which took a few hours) and It's still not doing anything. I don't know what to do and it's really frustrating.

Hello Samantha3232,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
Some video clips may not import into iMovie when using the Camera Import window
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4485
From the File menu, choose Import > Movies.
In the dialog that appears, select your camera from the sidebar.
Locate and select the video clips on your camera that you would like to import.
Click the Import button.
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Hi dupedd - it is an mpg file. iMovie HD needs DV formatted material. What was the source of your file?
You will need to convert it, using:
MPEG StreamClip (free):
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
Apple MPEG2 PlayBack ($20):
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If you still have the working file from iMovie, you should be able to save as mp4/aac file (quicktime), instead of working with iDVD file. If you have one of those, it is even better - just drag it into iTunes. If you have non-standard aspect ratio, then you will have to convert it to iPod video somewhere (in iTunes also).
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