Original clip files

I am new to IMovie HD6. I converted a group of *.MOD files to *DV clips (via SteamClip and then brought the DV's into iMovie. On my first project when I went to save the project, I see a dialog saying Movie is copying the clip files. Does this mean I an delete or move the original DV clips and my project could still be continued? If so where is iMovie copying the files to??

I'm trying to attach a small movie to my larger movie
Some options that all get the job done but behave slightly differently:
1. Open small movie in iMovie, select all in its timeline and choose Edit/copy, open large movie and choose Edit/Paste. Wait. This copies all media files -- also the parts that were edited off. AFAIR this won't copy extracted audio snippets.
2. Ctrl-click the small iMovie project package and copy the /Cache/Timeline Movie.mov out of it (to the Desktop, for example). Then Open the large movie and choose File/Import and choose the Timeline Movie.mov. This copies the small movie in its flattened form: all audio snippets, titles etc intact. But you get just one imprted clip which you may have to split into scenes for further editing.
2b. Export the small movie as Full Quality .dv file and move it to the large project's /Media folder as described earlier in this thread.

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SAFEHARBOR11 wrote:
...turn off other audio tracks, export a .wav (takes seconds)
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I'm sure it has nothing to to with other sequences.
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5. delete "A" from the project files
6. save and close project
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=> "A" reappears in "Recovered clips" and can not be deleted.

How to view original video files from my Canon Vixia

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I have a Canon Vixia camcorder and I cannot find a way to view the original mts files on my iMac. I hate to say this, but my old windows laptop to does this without any issue, so that's what I'll continue to do until something changes.
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Working from a copy of the project
1)Delete all video tracks and then render and replace audio. This creates extracted audio which you then need for the next step.
2) Project manager the Sequence as it's just extracted audio it won't copy video files so should give a reasonable size folder.
3) Open the project managed project which will reference just the extracted Wav's but it also loses the tie between the combined tracks
4) Then one track at a time export out an OMFI embedded.
Weirdly the AAF was still having the same issues after this. So i believe that was a red herring. Premiere just seems to struggle embedding with an AAF. OMFI is fine though.
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Timeline inside timeline: how to relink to original clips?

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Ahhh...thanks for the further explaination.
OK...did they build the main sequence out of the other timelines in that they appear as 10 solid, separate things? Or did he use them as source clips and cut several times? If the former, then it should be easier, just open the nests and copy and paste the original clips to replace the nests. If the latter...whoo-boy.
Talk to the client like this: Explain the issue with how he cut the sequence, how it is presenting a problem. Now, he can either pay your hourly rate to fix the issue so that you can online properly (which you'll be only so happy to do!), or you can offer that he fix it and save a few bucks. Up to them.
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Moving Clips - Files lost

Hi, I don't know what's going on here and would appreciate some advice.
I imported a new set of clips and decided to move them off my system drive onto my media drive.
I CMD dragged the event, and it worked, but it seemed odd that it was immediate.
I checked and there was no ongoing media management in the background tasks list.
I was even more concerned by that actually.
I opened the destination events folder in the finder and discovered all my files listed, but they were only a few kb (max 80kb or so).
They were small clips, but not that small!
Oddly, some (5 of the 7) still played in QT.
The other two opened in QT and played a black square to me for some duration (possible the same as the original clip).
I can only assume that these small .mov files are reference movies, but checking the original events folders, the originals are certainly not there.
So am I being dull?
Does anyone have any ideas what is going on?
Does anyone know how to find out where the referenced content is actually residing from the (presumed) reference movies I have found?
There is a little more background to this, but given these were all new clips, I doubt it relates...
I only recently bought FCPX, and my first experience with it was two crashes importing my iMovie events and projects.
After a long saga of salvage operations and multiple crashes, I have only just got my iMovie events and projects imported and FCPX to seemingly work properly. One movie (that worked perfectly in iMovie) seemed to be a constant problem for FCPX and was likely the reason for the import crashes.
I need FCPX for my work video editing (just bought a 3D filter, and I cannot find any alternative OS-X software), but I can't trust it with my video if this is going to happen all the time!
Help!

Hi Tom, thanks for helping.
That might explain some of the troubles I had when I first imported, it crashed, I seemed to have two full copies of everything in the iMovie and FCPX folders, which was not physically possible in the constrains on my disk!
However, not these files! - I have done some detective work and have found some answers myself.
These are reference movies (if that's the right term?), not sim-links.
QT7Pro allows you to view the referenced video files from a reference movie.
I found the originals - still in my iPhoto library.
I remember now dragging them to the event from my media browser.
It must create sim-links reference movies in this method of import too - from recollection, there was no dialogue to ask me whether to copy or not. Then when I tried to move the events (sim-links reference movies) to an external drive it worked - just the refernce movies, not the full ones.
Apologies - I said I had checked them before and they were definitely there (this was the case for all my other videos) but seemingly not true for these.
I still haven't figured out why 2 files died (black video) - maybe I had deleted the file in iPhoto. All a bit misleading if you ask me, these links / reference movies and liable to lose me my movie clips!
Anyway, I think I am going to count this as resolved for now.
I am also dubious about the methods of iMovie import, so right now I have completely reinstalled FCPX, removed pref. files, and renamed / moved all project and event folders. I am now reimporting (by copy) all my original movies and I will have to live without the edited projects (no big problem to be honest).
Hopefully after all this, I can have a FCPX that 'just works'!
Thanks Tom and Russ for helping me work through this, and so quickly too.
Message was edited by: mr.mbarnes

Video clip file size

Hi,
I want to start by saying that I am brand new to the Premiere Pro CS4 program and I am working on my very first project. I am making a documentary/movie about my grandfather.
I have a 2 hour video interview that I converted to an .avi file and want to use just parts of it. If I add the video into my "assets" and just use assorted clips or segments of that video here and there, does EACH one of those clips make up the completed file size or am I essentially inserting the WHOLE two hours EACH time I put in a 10-second clip of him.
It's because I am brand new to this that I am struggling with "completed file sizes" vs what's in my assets folder.
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Because you are new to the program, I'll throw in a bit more, regarding what Harm said.
PrPro is a non-destructive editing program. It only takes the data from your original AV file, and then does a database of things like where that file is stored on your system, and what you have done in the editing. Even though you are using the data from that file, the file itself, is NOT actually in PrPro. It resides where it was located, when you Imported it. Though PrPro has gathered a lot from it, the program still NEEDS that file, and would really like for it to stay exactly where it was, when you Imported. This means, that until you are 100% done with your Project, and have Exported the edited version to an AV file, please do not Move, Rename, or Delete that AV file. It will be necessary, until you are completely done. Now, if you Move it, or Rename it, PrPro will try to help you find it and re-link to it. If you Delete it, you are hosed. Do not Delete that file.
Since we're talking about Assets, and also the Project file (PRPROJ), this ARTICLE might be useful to help understand what is in the PRPROJ file and also what Save, etc. does, and does not do.
Here is a link to the PrPro-Wiki, where you will find many tutorials, and also FAQ's on how to do much in PrPro. I'd bookmark this site, and rely on it often.
I hope that the Project goes well, and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to post them here. You will get an answer and it will most likely be the best one, though it might not be quite so quick, as Harm was able to respond to this question.
Good luck,
Hunt
BTW - welcome to the forum!

IMovie Clip File Questions

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When I import video files, the date of the original source file gets changed to the date of my importing it.
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I think you are saying my 'write xmp id to files on import' must be turned ON somehow. I did not do that, so if it is turned ON, it must be ON by default ?
It was both 'date created' AND 'date modified' that were being changed to the date of import.
Ok, I found that. It is turned ON by default, I turned it OFF. I also turned OFF the next one too - 'enable clip and xmp metadata linking'.
I just did a test import, and the 'date modified' of the video files on the hard drive has not changed. Thank you. VERY MUCH.
But, I have other problems too, with PP, and video file dates.
There's a 'date created' and a 'date modified' for video files. Plus, with Windows 7, there's a few more dates - 'date of content' etc.
My original untouched video file dates do not make any sense. 'Date Modified' is showing the date the video files were recorded. 'Date Created' is showing the date I copied the video files from the camera stick to the hard drive.
That makes no sense. They should be the reverse.
Why why why after 30 some odd years have the computer engineers NEVER made video files dates the same as digital photo files, with 'Date Taken'.
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PP only allows for imports by 'date taken' for photos and 'date modified' for video files. And, if I don't immediately drag the imported files to the timeline while they are all still highlighted without doing anything else first, the bin window re-arranges them all by filename, and there is no way to later re-arrange them by dates.
This is extremely aggravating and impossible to work with for my need to import then later work with multiple-source recorded files chronologically.
All these 'date' problems for video files really totally screws that.
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Relinking original AVCHD files?

Hi again folks,
I converted a whole load of AVCHD footage to Prores 422 Proxy (in order to save HD space). I have now completed one section of the edit and want to output back to the AVCHD quality. But when I carry out the following method FCP 7 isn't able to find the associated files on my external HD.
What am I doing wrong?
* Highlight the entire Timeline where the edited Sequence is.
* Go to Reconnect Media.
* Locate the original AVCHD files (which are on an the external HD).
* Click Reconnect.

Tom, what I done was in the Browser selected all the clips which I'd used in the Sequence.
I then clicked Batch Capture, which opened the Log & Transfer window. I then selected the external HD which stored all the original AVCHD clips and set the Log & Transfer settings to ProRes422 HQ.
This method then converted all the clips in my Sequence to ProRes HQ.
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