Ps3 format question, and more..thanks

Question

hi guys, i transferred a hd movie from my sony camera to my ps3 it plays great, when i copyed the movie from my ps3 to a external hdd, to edit with imov09, it wont play. the file is there, any ideas>
also i took a clip of it and converted it to mp4, and another to quick time, they played ok, however when i dragged across to edit in movie 09 ,it wont allow them in to be edited ?
where am i going wrong? any help would be great.
thank you.

Answer 1

Here are ones that appleman posted -- they will work for imovie9 just use export quicktime movie
I did some experimentation based on a post by Dan Hawkins in the "Pro" forums. I experimented with his settings using the Quicktime Export option in iMovie 08 and they worked. His post is below.
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from Dan Hawkins:
I am using a PS3 to preview HD video edited in FCE-3.5.1HD with the following QT-PRO export settings:
1) export from FCE using Quicktime conversion
2) select format MPEG-4
3) select options:
a) under file format select MP4 (not MP4 ISMA)
b) under video tab select H.264
data rate in the range of about 10000 to 18000 kbits/sec depending on what filesize/quality you are shooting for
image size---select 1280X720HD or 1920X1080HD
frame rate---select 29.97 or "current" if already on a editing timeline of that type
key frame---select either automatic or every 24 frames
video options---select "MAIN" profile and single pass encoding (when I use "MULTI-PASS" encoding I get a "FILE UNREADABLE" error message on my PS3)
c) under audio tab select default AAC-LC
d) under streaming tab select default "not enabled"
I transfer the resulting high definition .MP4 file to the PS3 by one of the following methods:
ethernet network connection
iPod/thumb drive
SD-card
I have to hit the "alternate menu" under the PS3 video section and select "display all files" to see the video file and then save it to the local PS3 HDD (some dumb programming there!).
I have heard there might be an upper limit of 4Gb on the file size (if so, another dumb move), but have not come across that limitation yet (I just got the PS3 about a week ago and am working through some of the same issues you seem to be struggling with).
I think that some of the confusion regarding the PS3 relative to playing back HD from regular DVD-R is that the PS3 will hardware decode a properly encoded .MP4 HD video file from whatever media it is presented on and as such does not require a HD "authoring" container with menus and such. These so called "HD authoring tools" are currently in a pretty confused state at the moment and are the source of much incompatibility with many HD playback devices, but the PS3 bypasses all of that and plays the file directly through hardware decoding.
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