Stop optimizing videos in iMovie

How do I stop optimization of videos in i Movie as it is saying it requires 300 hours to complete and I cant do anything else with iMovie whilst this is going.

This is not normal. You should probably Force Quit iMovie by clicking /Force Quit/iMovie
If you want to know for sure, open the Activity Monitor. Select iMovie and click on the Inspector. If you see some recent hangs, that is a sign that it is not making any progress and you should shut it down.

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Optimizing video in imovie takes ages

Had to convert my sony video files ( using iV1 ) to M4V and when I import them to imovie the process takes ages. Please is there a way to make this quicker or to skip the optimizing stage? I am a bit of a beginner here !!!! Thanks for any help.

Hi Mowser,
I have not tried SD card yet (my camera has HDD and I have no SD card. I have the latest version of iMovie 08. I seem to remember that when I selected "import from camera" the "mts" files (or any file of AVCHD) remain grayed out.
Maybe since the system came all preinstalled, it has its glitches. MacOSX itself shows me the drive of the HDD immediately (or a dmg I created from it). Just all Apple editing programs wait a good 5-9 minutes before they take any action in showing the drive/importing. Once they do, all goes fine.
thank you for your input!
Benny

Stop Motion Video!

I am trying to make a stop motion video in iMovie. Does anyone know how to turn off the Kens Burns Effect?
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IMovie optimized video on windows

Hello,
A friend of mine had video that he imported from his camera on iMovie on his mac. He then gave the files to me to edit. I edit video with Adobe Premier CS4. When I began working on the video, I could not view the video. All I get when I open the video files in any media player, including quicktime, I only get the audio. Quicktime tells me that I am missing a codec or something, then takes me to a web page with a list of codecs, none of which seem to suite my problem. Is there a way for me to get these iMove optimized videos to work on my PC?
Other information:
The video files are .mov
I have tried using Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, VLC, Magic Video Converter, Aimersoft video converter, and Adobe Premier CS4 to view the video. All gave the same main result, Audio but no video. Some gave errors about the video format or about codecs.
My computer is running Windows 7 64-bit

Try MPEG Streamclip, which is free and converts a huge range of video types. If that doesn't work, then you'll have to convert the file on a Mac

HT4997 I am trying to export a 6.5 minute video from imovie to my camera roll on my iPad Mini. However the progress bar stops halfway through. Any advice would be very much appreciated, many thanks.

I am trying to export a 6.5 minute video from imovie to my camera roll on my iPad Mini. However the progress bar stops halfway through. Any advice would be very much appreciated, many thanks.

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How to add an image to an imovie 9.0.4 video without stopping the video or audio

I am creating a video in iMovie 9.0.4 and I would like to add images to my video without interrupting the audio. I read online about a Cutaway option but when I followed the directions I was not given an cutaway option. Is there a way to do this?
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Hi
Did You turn on Advanced Tools ?
First Choise possibly - Visa avancerade verktyg / Show advanced tools
TimeLine set to show ONE ROW of Clips.
Then take a photo (.jpg) and drop it ON TOP OF the Clip in TimeLine where You want it to be.
Now You should get a drop down Menu - Select Cutaway.
Done
in iMovie'13 (version 10.0.x) this is very different !
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I have been trying to import VHS video into iMovie via a Hollywood Dazzle bridge. Did not have trouble until I upgraded to mavericks. I have a mac book pro, 10.9.1, iMovie 10.0.2. Says it is recording, but when I go to check, it says the file is empty.

I have been trying import VHS video into iMovie via a Hollywood Dazzle bridge. I have been successful doing this in the past, but now it is not working. I have a mac book pro, 10.9.1, (mavericks), iMovie 10.0.2. Everything in iMovie looks like it is working. It reads "recording" in the upper left hand corner of the pane while the video is playing. When I stop the process to check on my clip it says that the file is empty. The only thing that has changed since I did it successfully is that I upgraded to mavericks from whatever I had previously. My system is about one year old. Any suggestions?

Hey, Clinton,
     Thanks for your help! I was able to go to iMovie 9.0.9 and import video. I was still curious as to why it didn't work in version 10.0.2, so I contacted Apple tech support. They were't sure at first as to why it wouldn't work, so they had me delete iMovie 10.0.2 and then re-install it just to see if something had gone wrong when it upgraded. That didn't change anything. In the end, they determined that 10.0.2 doesn't support the Hollywood Dazzle DV bridge. But I have a workaround path from them that I will share so that it's possible to import to 9.0.9, then move it to 10.0.2.
     1. Open iMovie 9 (finder/applications/iMovie 9.0.9
     2. Import from Dazzle Bridge to iMovie 9, note which event you are importing the clips into
     3. Close iMovie 9
     4. Open iMovie 10 (probably in the dock)
     5. File/Import Media...navigate to home(this was my name, on the left side of iMovie, under Favorites)/Movies/iMovie events. Find the event folder that contains your Dazzle clips (tip-try sorting by date modified to look at recent events.)
     6. Select the clips and import. Click the blue "Import Selected" button on the bottom right.
You may get a message that some files cannot be imported. Click continue import. It's a little glitchy. It imports your clip, and also makes a copy of it, too. On the copy, the audio is normal, but the video is choppy. In any case, you would delete the copy, anyway.
Hope this additional information helps somebody else. Thanks again, Clinton for helping me!

I have a new macbook pro and just made a video on imovie and it asked me to put it on idvd but there is no idvd listed as an option. How can I get idvd?

I have a new macbook pro and just made a video on imovie and it asked me to put it on idvd but there is no idvd listed as an option. How can i get idvd. it doesn't seem available

Since Apple has stopped supporting and offering iDVD you'll need to purchase the iLIfe 11 disk from a 3rd party retailer like Amazon.com: iLife 11 which will include iDVD 7.
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Can I do a Stop Motion Movie in iMovie?

Can I make a stop motion video from a bunch of stills in iMovie? I can't figure out where to start... not to mention iMovie seems to think I'm in love with the Ken Burns effect, which I'm not and has applied it to every one of my frames. I can't remove it without doing it for each individual frame - painful! I recall iMovie being so simple and straight forward years ago but haven't used it in a long while. Now when I look at it I'm completely lost. Is this because I'm not starting out with video that it doesn't show me a timeline with my stills in it?

Can I make a stop motion video from a bunch of stills in iMovie?
Yes, if you have the patience. (It's probably easier with QT Pro -- i.e., "Open Image Sequence" File menu option.)
I can't figure out where to start...
Start by making/creating/separating the frames and ordering them.
not to mention iMovie seems to think I'm in love with the Ken Burns effect, which I'm not and has applied it to every one of my frames. I can't remove it without doing it for each individual frame - painful!
It's a lot easier if you change your "Initial Photo Placement" option in the "Project Properties..." window from "Ken Burns" to "Fit in Frame" before adding your material to the project."
Is this because I'm not starting out with video that it doesn't show me a timeline with my stills in it?
Try expanding your "clip icons" to "0.5 second" to create a two-dimensional "pseudo" timeline.

Problems importing 2 hour video into IMOVIE

I'm having trouble importing a video into IMOVIE. The video I want to import is in Itunes. I tried to import it in IMOVIE. It showed a loading screen like it was going to import but then it finished and stopped after about 3 minutes and none of the video was imported. I have imported a movie this length before(2 hours) and it took about 2.5 hours to import. So obviously there is something wrong because importing a video should take longer than 3 minutes. Someone please help me as to what I need to do or what I am doing wrong.

Thanks Rick and Mylenium
Thanks that worked!
I thought that changing the frame rate in the composition settings would have worked.
Instead what I should have done is to go the the footage in the Project Panel then right-click on the footage > Interpret Footage > Main... then Conform to frame rate: Frame rate: 23.986607 (or whatever more accurate frame rate your footage actually is)
I used the more accurate frame rate reading from VLC which went to 5 decimal places. I got that info from the top menu in Tools > Codec Information
Its a shame AE doesn't pick up on the more accurate fps. It seems that all the videos from my iPhone 4 have slightly different frame rates and I guess I will have to interpret each clip properly.
I hear that the frame rate on the iPhone 4 is different depending on the lighting? I wonder why that would be the case?
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Lorsque je sauvegarde une video prise avec Quicktime sur mon bureau et qu'ensuite je veux l'insére dans une video de Imovie, toute la séquence est colorée en rouge (ou vert selon le réglage des couleurs) et n'a pas les couleurs d'origine. help !!!

Lorsque je sauvegarde une video prise avec Quicktime sur mon bureau et qu'ensuite je veux l'insére dans une video de Imovie, toute la séquence est colorée en rouge et n'a pas les couleurs d'origine. help !!!

Illustrator CC uses the Pantone Plus series, there is no CMYK definition for the spot colours in these series.
The CMYK conversion is now based on the CMYK profile in your Color Settings.
This is a good thing, since most of the Pantone colours cannot be accurately reproduced in CMYK, colour management provides a way to simulate the spot colours as close as possible for your combination of ink, paper and press.
The CMYK values that were previously given by Pantone were just one way of simulating the spot colours and would give different results when another ink, paper, press combination was used.
Sometimes the CMYK values from Pantone were completely off and you give a perfect example with the Pantone 1797 U colour.
Printing that ink on uncoated stock would never give you such a bright saturated red as the Pantone provided CMYK values would suggest
If you want to have a better preview of the colour, use the Overprint Preview option, that comes closer to the final printed result. The Overprint preview in CC and CS versions give s you an almost identical preview (almost because the Lab values differ slightly).
There are ways to use the old libraries, but why should you if Pantone itself stopped giving CMYK numbers?

Can't import mts/HD video to imovie 09

Hi,
I have the Sony HDR-TG5V & have successfully imported mpg/SD videos to imovie but haven't been able to import mts/HD videos. I've tried deleting the SD from my video camera but it still doesn't recognize the mts/HD videos. For some reason the SD videos keep popping up even though I've deleted them from the camera. Please help!

Yes the ffmpeg solutions seems to work and I was very happy with this at first beceause this also eliminates re-encoding whole video clips again.
BUT! I do have serious performance issues inside iMovie '09 with these newly created M4V files. Once imported skimming through them goes extremely slow. An I mean extreeemely slowww... So I'm unable to use them. When I choose the optimize setting and let iMovie convert the file to Quicktime after all, optimizing also takes a very large amount of time. A 30 seconds clip took me about an hour to import/optimize and I don't have this issue when importing from camera. Once imported and optimized in Quicktime the clip works perfect just like any other clip but it's gonna tame me a tremendous amount of time to do this with the large amount of MTS files I have (incorrectly) saved on an external hard drive.
There must be some sort of solution to wrap up the MTS files in a native AVCHD folder structure so that iMovie will import them? And I mean a solution without re-encoding them to MPEG4 or whatsoever beceause that would be costing me too much time as well.
Any other tips? Maybe writing the files back to the camcorder but unfortunately Canon only supplies Windows software for doing that. Anyone had experience with that?

MPEG4 video from imovie is sluggish and audio out of sync

Hi y'all,
I am new to this. So I need some hand holding here. I am working with video that was exported in MPEG4 video from imovie on a mac.
The Camera I used is a Sony FX7 HD camera with SD tape.
So Now I am trying to edit the video using Premiere Pro CS3 creative suite.
Import into CS3 is fine. Playing the imported video in the source monitor is fine as well. All looks well.
However, here are the challenges I am having:
1. When I try to play it in the Program monitor its very sluggish. Audio plays fine but picture lags behind.
2. And once I edit the the video and try to export it as flash video or as a windows media, the video and audio are out of sync.
The video is choppy as well.
Details: source video is 720x480 and trying to export to 320x240
My project details are:
DV-NTSC standard 48khz
Video is 10 min long

OK, not my choice of workflows, but... I assume that the MP4's are H.264 encoded. There are many of these. Three common ones are Lead, MainConcept and Apple. Some find that one works better than the others. These are not the ONLY versions, but are common. You might want to explore others, depending on which one you have installed. G-Spot can tell you which you have.
Next, you can Render your Timeline, to get things as smooth as possible.
Note that the MP4 files are heavily compressed already. Quality has been lost, and there is nothing that can be done about that. When you Export to, say DVD, you will recompress that material, and loose even more.
In the future, have your Mac-person do the Capture to .MOV [Animation CODEC]. Or, do it yourself to DV-AVI Type II w/ 48KHz 16-bit PCM/WAV Audio.
Not sure of any other ways to get the MP4's playing more smoothly. Much will depend on both your CPU and on your system's I/O sub-system, i.e. your HDD's, their size, speed, controller type and how they are utilized.
Good luck,
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which cable do I need to connect my Mac Book Pro to my Panasonic PV-GS150 video camera for transferring video to iMovie?

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How do you save your videos in iMovie to a different location on your computer?

Since i upgraded to OSX Mavericks imovie keeps switching itself off when trying to export video to DVD.
Genius Bar told me i need to save my videos first then delete imovie and then download imovie from the app store.
How do i save my videos in imovie to a different location on my imac so i can then delete imovie????

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