Reading files captured in iMovie

I read somewhere that it's good to capture footage in iMovie and then edit in FC Express. I tried that but now I can't figure out how to transfer to FC express. When I try to save a hi rez Quicktime it takes about 6 hours for a five minute clip.

if u want to capture in imovie then send it into fce....then when ur done importing u go to the top click share...then click quicktime...then when it say compress for..youll put full quality..then after that ull save it. and then open fce and go to import and itll be there.

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Importing Files Captured in iMovie HD

Hello,
I'm running Final Cut Express 2.0.3. When I try to import clips to FCE that I captured in iMovie HD 5.0.2 and double-click them so they play in the Viewer, the clip will appear in the viewer but when I press play it will play fine for like a second and then the video stops moving and the audio keeps going and then it gets out of sync. For every single file. They are not HD files, just plain old Mini DV clips. Files captured in FCE play fine, but these files originated from iMovie and just will not play in the viewer. However, if I drag them down to the Timeline and play back in the Canvas window, they play fine (after having to render the audio).
Anyone know why this would happen? They are both Apple software products and one would assume you could simply import files from the lower end to the higher end software. Better yet, why should I have to sit and wait to render the audio? I don't understand why FCE can't just natively handle that format. But I digress; my biggest problem is at least getting them to play properly in the the Viewer window.
Thanks...

OK, here's what I'd do based on what I've tried so far in getting iMovie .dv files into FCE and avoiding having to render.
Open your iMovie .dv file in Quicktime Pro.
Extract the audio track
Export the audio track as a Quicktime Movie, Linear PCM format, Channels Stereo (L R), 48kHz, 16bit sample size
Delete the audio track from the .dv file
Open the exported audio file, select all and copy.
Select All in the .dv file
Add the exported Audio file using Add to Movie
Export/Save As the .dv file as a self contained Quicktime Movie
Use this movie in FCE
The benefit of this approach as opposed to exporting .dv file in one go is that the only thing that is truely exported, etc is the Audio track which is relatively quick. The video track is left unchanged so there is no loss in quality.
The resultant file never has to be rendered in FCE.

Trying to convert video files with an extension of IDI_DVD to digital files itunes and imovies can read can someone help me

Can someone please tell me how I can convert video files with an extension of IDI_DVD to a file itunes and imovie can read? Thanks.

Thanks for the reply, The files are on a DVD disk. I coverted my family VHS tapes to digital dvds using an HP Media Centre PC five or more years ago cant remember the program but if I get info on the disk ,on the Mac it tells me the extension is IDI_DVD.

Just bought a Canon Rebel T2i as a gift, not out of box yet. Called apple before I bought it and they said it's compatible with iMovie 11. Reading comments that people are having a difficult time getting iMovie to read files. Any comments?

Just bought a canon rebel t2i as a gift, not out of box yet. Called apple first and they said camera was compatible with imovie 11. reading comments that users are having difficulty with imovie reading files from rebel. any comments.

I don't see the camera listed for any version of iMovie:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/cameras/en/index.html?lang=en_US
That means that any videos you shoot will have to be imported into iPhoto and then moved to iMovie.

Capturing with iMovie and importing into fce 4

Hi, everytime I try to capture mini dv footage from my Panasonic camcorder using final cut express, the transfer/capture crashes.
However, capturing using iMovie 08 gives me no problems at all.
Before I spend more time looking into the errors, if I capture using iMovie 08 and then import that into fce 4, am I losing any audio / video quality? I read somewhere that iMovie works off raw dv files - is this what would get imported into fce?
Note: I would import the iMovie project into fce and not be exporting first from iMovie and then importing into fce.
thanks

My video is on mini-DV. The camera I used to record was a panasonic ag-dvx100 PAL. I am using DV-PAL easy setup. I am playing back with a panasonic nv-ds30 camcorder (I rented the other one).
I have now managed to get past the dropped frames - that seemed to have been the test tape. I am now using a different tape, the actual tape i used for the footage. Now everytime I capture (using either mark in/out or capture now) the capture stops with a locating timecode and then breaks. I can't seem to capture it all in one go. This scene when I shot it was a single scene so there were no stops/pauses during the recording.
There seemed to be some discussion on this in the thread (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4183209#4183209) but that was a different camera.
any help would be great.

Batch capture like iMovie?

I know iMovie has a slick import feature to capture multiple clips automatically. I've used Final Cut Express for 3 years and have never figured out how (or if) it can do the same thing. I usually just import 30 minute chunks of raw footage at a time. (It would do too much wear & tear on the VCR and too much time to mark each piece manually). Am I missing something? How can a PRO application have an inferior import feature to the amateur product? Right now I'm looking at two 60-minute testimonial tapes which will be perfect for automated import. They're each continuous 10-minute interviews the computer could easily identify as separate scenes. I wouldn't want to have to sit through them to mark them... it would be like watching ice melt. I'd import them in iMovie but it uses the inferior dv stream format. I'm using FC Express.

Thanks Tom, your link did provide the solution, although it still is rather obscure.
For those looking fot the solution.
1) Set your System Settings to a little more than the lenght of your tape (or less if your recording is shorter). System Settings/Scratch Discs/Limit Capture to X minutes (I used 70 for a 60 min. tape).
2) Go to the capture utility File/Capture or Command+8
3) Press Play on your camcorder (in VCR mode) or press the play button in the capture utility window if it can control your camera. Let the computer capture your footage in one continuous pass.
Note: For those suggesting a "pro" stops to mark each scene, this is a waste of time in a non-linear editor. It's far easier to get the footage into the computer where you can scan through it as fast as you can drag the pointer. Moreover, with fragile magnetic tape and the inexpensive mechanics they put in camcorders, it's too much wear and tear on both the tape and hardware to constatly stop and start. Finally, this is a computer-based system and it makes no sense not to harness this power to find the start/stop points in the tape automatically. I suppose "pros" to charge their clients $200 an hour to spot tapes manually would disagree, but for the rest of us, we need to work as efficiently as possible.
4) In the bin, your clip (probably called "Untitled1" unless you stopped to name it). Select it (one click only).
5. Go to Mark/DV Start Stop Detect. The computer will mark each in and out point as a segment.
6. Your clip (Untitled1) will now have a little arrow at the LEFT of it. Click on it and expand the file to see each segment numbered "segment 1...segment x"
7. Finally, select these segments (1...x), either by clicking on the first one then holding the SHIFT button while you click the last one or by dragging along the side to select all. (If it's a long list, the first method will be easier).
8. Select Modify/Make Sub Clip (or Command+8) to make each segment an individual clip.
Although not as straightfoward as iMovie, it does the job and saves hours of time and wear & tear on your expensive gear. It also minimizes the risk of creating dropouts in your tapes or your machine "eating" them with constant starts & stops.

IMovie for Mac: "iMovie cannot open files in the "iMovie for iOS Project" format."

Question, asked professionally
When will iMovie for Mac be able to open iMovie for iOS projects?
Question, asked snarkily
Any reasonable expectation that we will ever be able to edit projects--created in iMovie on our fancy new expensive phones--in iMovie on our fancy new expensive laptops?
Specs
iPhone 6 Plus (contract-free, 128 GB)
iOS 8.1.2
iMovie for IOS 2.1.1
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid-2014)
OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
iMovie for Mac 10.0.6
Error Messages
iMovie for Mac: "iMovie cannot open files in the "iMovie for iOS Project" format."
iMovie for iOS: "An error occurred during export."
Frustration
Manufacturer: Apple (a multibillion dollar company)
The year: 2015
Hours lost: Three Weeks
Total costs for both devices: $4,000
Background Details
I just wasted thousands of dollars on these two hardware devices by making the rookie mistake of assuming projects were compatible across iMovie applications. However, the exported .iMovieMobile project files are in an incompatible iMovie for iOS Project format that iMovie for Mac cannot import. So I am stuck with a 15 GB .iMovieMobile project file--for an hour-long+ video--that I created and I was editing on my iPhone for weeks that I can no longer edit on my iPhone due to an error, nor potentially rescue the lost hours on my Mac, the sole reason I purchased it one day ago. The reason I can no longer edit the project on the iPhone is because iMovie for iOS suddenly stopped displaying the video of the project in preview, external display, etc. The clip snapshots remain visible and the audio remains audible, but the video appears fully black. Any attempt to export the video at any resolution generates an error message. (This error applies only to this project; other projects export without issue.) I can save to and from iTunes or iCloud without issue, but import into iMovie for Mac is unavailable for this latest version. Deleting and reinstalling the app does not resolve the issue. Nothing has resolved this issue; so I purchased the Mac as a last attempt, and it appears that I will have to begin the meticulously painful process of recreating the video from scratch with all the titling, sound effects, precise edits, transitions, organization, etc. This video was to surprise my mother for her birthday with "this is your life" footage, including my late father. It may seem like a small first-world problem, but such things carry big emotional impacts. What began as such a wonderfully intuitive and joyful experience has descended into a soul-suffering nightmare of catastrophic proportions. This software grinch stole christmas.
Likely Suspect
I believe this originated from Apple's confusingly designed iTunes client that removed videos used by iMovie for IOS during a sync, which I successfully restored back to the iPhone. This apparently resulted in iOS seeking and then claiming to find all of the videos, but somehow a bug in the coding causes the audio to play but not display video, and no way to resolve the bug from an enduser standpoint. I was hoping that iMovie for Mac would allow me a workaround, but I'll never know because the iOS and Mac formats are currently and dishearteningly incompatible.
Suggestions
I never performed a full backup of the iPhone, but I don't believe any of the iCloud nor local backups actually backup iMovie projects themselves anyway. (That's a fail.) So one must back them up manually to iTunes or iCloud.
MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR PROJECTS DAILY, IF NOT HOURLY.
MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR PROJECTS BEFORE IMPORTING OR SYNCING FROM ITUNES.
MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR PROJECTS BEFORE IMPORTING VIDEO CREATED OUTSIDE OF YOUR IOS DEVICE.
Resolutions
Hope Apple fixes this problem soon? Perhaps.
Return the Mac to Apple, if they allow? Perhaps.
Someone in this community will provide a magical workaround--that I haven't already attempted? Perhaps.
As unlikely these options may be, I shudder to imagine that I may be forced to suffer no resolution and $3,000+ completely down the drain, because if iMovie for IOS worked as intended, I wouldn't have ever purchased the Mac as a last ditch effort to rescue the project. It meant that much to me to surprise my mother by attempting to retrieve this project file from oblivion--but to no avail.

I appreciate you taking the time to copy and paste boilerplate responses to increase your points in this forum, but I've already read all those support articles in depth; but you have barely read my post at all. Please don't guess a fix. Only someone with the latest versions of iMovie, iOS, iPhone, Yosemite, and MacBook Pro is qualified to troubleshoot this, because anyone would immediately see that the following option no longer exists:
Open iMovie on your Mac, and choose File > Import > iMovie for iOS Project.
Read my post before you reply: It clearly says in the title and within my post that I can neither export nor import through iTunes without receiving an error message. So your response neither solved my question nor helped me whatsoever.

Adobe not allowing import of XML file captured from Media Express through Black Magic capture card

I have been going crazy trying to find a way to import the XML files to fix the digitized look Adobe capture gave my footage. Someone help me
These are not XML from Final Cut. They are files saved from Media Express, a Black magic design program used for Capturing.
THANK YOU.
Please email me if you know how to fix this
[email protected]
THANKS AGAIN!

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to open the actual media files captured with the program?

Can't use HDV quicktime .mov files (captured in FCP on a mac at work) on PC

Hiya everyone!
I've taken some work home from the macs at work, but can't open it on my PC.
Footage was captured in FCP on a mac at work, HDV quicktime .mov, but won't open in the newest quicktime, windows media player and more importantly in Adobe After Effects CS3 or Premiere Pro CS3 on my PC at home.
When I try opening the files in quicktime, the screen is white, but the audio plays. They don't open in windows media player at all. When I try to import them into Premiere, I get a message reading, "Error Message, Codec missing or unavailable". But they import into After Effects, except they only play as white...
I've tried converting them into almost everything, and they often play (as .avi for example in the newest QT, WMP, Adobe Premiere and AE), but they increase A LOT in size and decrease A LOT in quality.
The HDV files that won't open read as:
Source: *.mov
Format: HDV 1080i50, 1920 x 1080, Millions 16-bit Integer (Little Endian), 48.000 kHz
Movie FPS: 25.00
Playing FPS: (Available when playing)
Data Size: 69.53 MB
Data Rate: 28.10 mbits/sec
Current time: 00:00:01.64
Duration: 00:00:20.76
Normal size: 1920 x 1080
Current size: 1920 x 1080
Anything smaller than 1920 x 1080 plays fine.
I've been all through google, and the adobe and apple sites, and the best I could find is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7753066#7753066
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8159317&#8159317
My problem is almost identical to these 2...
No one in the whole world seems to have an answer...
Does anyone here know how I can use the HDV files from the work macs on my PC at home?
-Kaiwin

HEy, I have been looking into this problem... i also wanted to play quicktime files using my pc... The last thing i tried was downloadiing these codecs
1)apple pro res *for pc
2)mpeg 2 codec for pc
I have HDV files captured on a Mac G5 they are 30p 720,
I think i am close to solving the problem because: before installing the codecs i couldn't see the video and only audio.. but now i open it and i can see the video partially... here are my screen captures....
anyone interested in getting this solved???,... i would also like some help in importing m2t files from VLC player to HDV split where they can be read and edited. Thank you.
Ultimately my goal is to be able to edit these HDV files directly and export them back out with good quality.. because my only editing choice right now is Windows movie maker.
this is an error i got from the HDV split program. Its supposed to read m2t files..

I am using a Mac Mini. I want to change the file size in iMovie to MPEG so I can burn the move to a disc. There is no "save As" that I can find . What do i do?

I am using a mac mini. I want to change the file size in iMovie to MPEG so I can burn the movie to a disc. There is no "Save As" that I can find. What do I do?

Stanley Fayer wrote:
... to MPEG so I can burn the movie to a disc. ...
to create standard-conform DVDs = playable on any DVDplayer, there's much more to do than just converting to mpeg(2)...-
you need a DVD-authoring app, as iDVD, Burn, Toast ........... drag any iMovie export into it, 'burn'.

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Hi I'm new to Mac and to video editing.
I'm trying to use iMovie9 to make a movie with the best scenes of some movies. here are the issues i've been facing:
1) when i try to load a movie dvd (original, like the ones we buy in a store) with .vob file, iMovie doesn't let me import it. Is that because it's a copyrighted dvd?
2) then I decided to use Windows Movie Maker on my other computer to extract the parts of the movies. It worked fine, but Movie Maker saves the files to .wmv format and Imovie also doesn't recognize this format. Is that it? Movie Maker only saves to .wmv? and Imovie doesn't recognize .wmv?
3) What should i do? How can I import original DVD files to Imovie? If it's not possible, what files are accepted by Imovie, so that I can find a software to convert the .wmv Movie Maker files to an Imovie accepted format? is .mov one of the accepted files?
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How to change the file type from IMOVIE PROJECT to other types of file

how to change the file type from IMOVIE PROJECT to other types of file??
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I am not sure what you mean, but once you make a project. Then go to the share menu and you can export the project to iDVD, itunes, mobileme, quicktime.
Share export quicktime movie will allow you to export to a variety of codecs. What specific export are you looking to share the movie in? What is the final source that the movie will be displayed?

Lightroom changes colour in my RAW files captured with NIKON D300

Dear All! Lightroom changes colour in my RAW files captured with NIKON D300. Some of the images are completely ruined. I am sure Adobe must be aware of this problem. What could be done? Is there a solution? Many thanks for your help. Regards, Stanislav

You want "something different" but this "something different" is quite hard to define.
I want a result which reflects the result on the camera. Have the feeling the display
of the D800 is not the greatest, at least (not only the color issue which is often discussed)
but also the exposure. Often I think I would need to compensate it, but then afterwards
on the computer the non corrected version looks most of the time better.
I think its interesting to see how allergic people react when the word jpeg comes up.
This is also just a rendered result, just by the camera. There are many options in my cam.
I like the vivid setting with some modifications. And that gives me a result I like.
And if I like the result, why shall I spend way more time to replicate it?
I do not talk about that I would want the jpeg, I only say that what I get color wise out of the
box is how I would like to look at it. I still want the capability to fix for example exposure in image,
but I want the base the version I got from the jpeg view (or how the Nikon raw software could do).
On Lightroom I did not manage to have a profile that looked as appealing to me.
It also consumes way more time in my workflow to fix all pictures manually and results might differ.
To work on an image you need a starting point, I do not say the jpeg look is always perfect and
what I want all the time, but most of the time it is.
You say yourself you use profiles. So why should there not be a profile which automatically adjusts to the camera settings.
Its so frustrating to see a look which you like (the preview image when the pic is first accessed) and
then Lightroom switches to its own rendering which is flat and which I do not like.
For me its clearly something Adobe and/or Nikon should fix, like the mentioned "auto correct to preview look",
Nikon profiles/settings/raw-details in Lightroom or for example a Nikon import module.

Is capturing in iMovie before transfer to FCP affect clip quality?

Capturing in iMovie detects all the start/stops. Then, importing in FCP is a fast and easy way to get all start/stops. But, does the resulting video quality just as good as if the capturing had been done entirely in FCP ?
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#20 Using iMovie to Capture for FCP edit
Shane's Stock Answer #20:
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...
Shane

AVCHD file Import via iMovie then ?possible FCE can import these files?

I am new to Apple. I want to Upgrade from iMovie 08, to FCE HD.
I believe that FCE DOES NOT import AVCHD files / format., however, iMovie 08
DOES! Before I Buy FCE, Has anyone with FCE successfully tried using iMovie 08 to import AVCHD video, then , with FCE running, import the iMovies 08 / AVCHD
files ( which I believe are uncompressed ' *.mov (movie) files ), into
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iMovie 08 converts the files to Apple Intermediate Codec when it ingests the material. That's the same format used by FCE.

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