Using an external cam with imovie

how do i use an external cam with imovie

What version of iMovie and what kind of a camera/camcorder are you using?
Usually, one just plugs the camera or card in, clicks on the little camera icon and imports from the import window. Here are the Apple tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/
Hugh

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I want to use a external cam with xp in bootcamp but....

Ive read reports that you will blue screen if you try and use your built in isight with xp.
I would like to therefore use an external one with msn messenger in xp on my intel imac.
My question is can I disable the built in isight before I do this otherwise if im in msn and I click 'video' then surely the imac will look for the isight rather than the external webcam thus causing a blue screen?
basically I just want my external cam to take priority over the built in isight when in windows.
Cheers J!
Intel imac 17" Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Yes, you should disable the iSight camera under Imaging devices in the Device Manager.

Using an external webcam with iMovie

I want to be able to capture video clips (3-5 minutes) with an external camera. I tried using the Logitech QuickCam for Mac but iMovie will not recognize it. I need an unobtrusive camera because I want to capture students reading in school and create DVDs for their parents. I can't afford an expensive camera and I don't want it to be obvious to the students that they are being recorded. I have parental permission.
Any thoughts?

What version of iMovie and what kind of a camera/camcorder are you using?
Usually, one just plugs the camera or card in, clicks on the little camera icon and imports from the import window. Here are the Apple tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/
Hugh

Using an external drive with iMovie HD

I just received and formatted my external drive. At first I chose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and Zero out data. When I got info (⌘+I) of the drive afterwards, it had 79 MB being used, journalling? So I then Erased it and chose Mac OS Extended and now it shows 59 MB as being used, whatever for IDK.
Does it matter which format I use for working with iMovie, journaled or not?
In the Get Info window there is an Ignore Ownership option. I know it doesn't need to be ticked when an OS is going to be loaded on the drive but am wondering if I should tick it since the drive is only going to be used mainly for iMovie projects and no OS is going to be loaded.
Should I tick Ownership or leave it off?
I have iMovie projects that have not been edited yet and a iDVD project on my internal drive.
Can I just drag and drop or copy and paste the iMovie projects to the external drives icon and delete the project from my internal drive to create a little more space? Is it simple as that?
Same thing with the iDVD project after archiving it first? Copy/Paste,Drag/Drop and delete.
I've got a backup drive but use SuperDuper! so I don't have any experience with using 'scratch?' drives.
I've read elsewhere on this Discussion site that the finished iMovie projects need to be on the internal drive in order to transfer to and edit in iDVD.
How and where do I move the project to from the external? Drag/Drop or Copy/Paste to my Desktop then Drag/Drop, Copy/Paste to iDVD, or some other way?
Thanks.

About Journaling: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107249
About Ownership: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh669.html
I am not sure zeroing out data on a SATA drives "marks" bad blocks/sectors. I think this may have only been on SCSI drives. I couldn't find a reference that it behaves this way on a SATA drive. Thus the only advantage being that it more securely erases files.
The click and hold works the same on a PB!
Mike

Using an external camera with iMac

I want to use either an external camera or my panasonic video camera with my imac, and wonder if anyone has any recommendations. For some reason, the old pc Logitech camera does not work, and I cant seem to get the video camera to work either.
Thanks.

as webcam or as cam where you import the recorded videos to the computer?
personally I have no problems using both my imac webcam and my logitech webcam with skype the likes

Using built in camera with iMovie 3.03

Is there any way I can use iMovie 3.03 with the built in iSight camera? The mode switch doesn't recognize the iSight camera and says 'No Camera Attached'

iMovie 3 is simply too old. By the way, iMovie 3 is aso so buggiest version, ever.
Why not use iMovie 6, which shipped with your computer.

Using an external HD with Imovie

Hi everyone,
I am working on about 3 movies at the same time. All are stored on my external hard drive.
A few weeks ago, i tried to apply an effect and it didn't work. It said it was rendering the clip, but then the effect would just disappear. What made it strange was that ALL the other effects worked just fine, just the one I wanted to use--which was slow/reverse clip.
I called Apple to find out what is going on here, and the tech had me move the project from the ext HD to the Mac HD. Then it worked just fine. A few days later i went to work on another project that is stored on the external HD, and i was trying to use b&W, but it was not working. The little pic on the clip would disappear after it was finished rendering. I had to undo to get it back.
My question is, does this mean that everytime i want to work on a particular movie, i will have to move it to the mac drive for it to work properly? I guess it's ok if i have to, but i was wondering if there is a way to stop this from happening.
Thank you in advance.

I know you're right about something being fishy--it doesn't make sense to me not being able to use some effects just because the projects are saved to the ext HD.
Yes, my ext. hd is hooked up via firewire. Is that a problem?
I don't know if the drive is formatted for Mac OS Extended. Can you explain more on checking it with Disk Utility? I'm new to these things! (I am a previous PC owner--though the HD was never used with my PC.)
If it is NOT formatted correctly, do i have to move the projects off of it and then format it? You're going to have to help me with that too!
Thanks for the help.

Using an external HD with imovie '08

My 1st generation MBP has 80g HD. I have been doing a lot of shuffling imovie events to an external HD to free up space.
Do any more 'up to date' versions of imovie allow it to work with externally stored 'event' files without transferring them to MBP HD?

You can move events to external hard drive in iMovie 08 (but you cannot move the projects).
External drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled).
Click VIEW/EVENTS BY VOLUME.
Now you can see your external drive in the Event Library. Drag and drop the Events in your Event library to the icon for the external drive in the Event Library.

How to use the Bloggie camera with Apple iMovie software.

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Follow these steps to use the Bloggie® camera with the Apple® iMovie® program.
Power on the camera and connect directly to a USB port on the computer.
Once the camera is detected by your computer, the iMovie software should open automatically. If the iMovie software does not open automatically, go to the Applicationsfolder and open it from there.
In the iMovie window, choose Import from Camera...
Choose which clips you want to import and choose the Done button or choose the Import All...button to import all the clips.
NOTE: You can use the standard iMovie interface to edit and create movies from your video taken with the camera. For more information about how to use the iMovie program, refer to the Help menu in iMovie or visit http://www.apple.com/support/imovie.

How do i use an external display with my macbook pro?

How do I use an external display with a macbook pro?

Just buy the proper adapter cord, such as MiniDisplay port to HDMI for example. Plug it in and it will be automatically recognized. Use System Preferences > Displays to set options.
The display can Mirror your primary desktop or Extend the Desktop.
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Captfred

How do I use two external monitors with my laptop?

I have a new Pavilion dm4-301 d cl Entertainment PC. My OS is Windows 7. I am used to using two external monitors with a docking station. This new laptop does not have a docking station. What do I need to get to use two external monitors?
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Certainly not without a dock but even with, HP laptop docks pretty well limit you to one of the external monitor ports, even if there are two on the dock. We have used a device called an Atlona AT-HDPIX2 which is a usb to hdmi adapter. It provides a third monitor capability for a laptop....use the native external monitor port and the internal laptop display and then this device gives a third monitor which is full configurable from the Windows 7 display interface...clone, extend, etc. It allows full HD resolution and is responsive enough for even light gaming. HP makes no true docking station for your laptop.

How can I use a USB camera with cRIO 9022. Please see my strange problem.

Hi,
I would like to use a USB camera with NI cRIO 9022. I used the same USB camera with NI USB 6216 DAQ device and developed a VI(within a PROJECT and outside it). So, It is working fine with NI USB 6216 device when I use the Vision Assistant Express VI and gets detected in its Initialization Window. Please see JPEG File 3 where I get NO ERROR.
I am facing a problem when I want to use it with NI cRIO 9022. What exactly I am doing in this case is:
1) Create a NEW PROJECT
2) Add Targets and Devices(NI cRIO 9022)
3) Use the Scan Interface mode
4) Create a NEW VI under the cRIO 9022 device
5) Use a Timed Loop(Synchronized with Scan Engine) for continuous Data Acquisition and Sending from the Analog I/O modules.
6) Use the Vision Assistant available through the NI Vision Acquisition 2010 Module(I get STUCK HERE! The Express VI opens the Initialization Window, but I don't see the USB camera like in JPEG File 3)
I am facing difficulties with this HOST COMPUTER, cRIO implementation differences. On my host computer I have the software packages as shown in JPEG File 1, and on my cRIO 9022 as shown in JPEG File 2.
Can someone guide me how to overcome this and get the USB camera detected when I am using NI cRIO 9022?
NOTE: If this is a problem with software mismatches on HOST and NI cRIO 9022 device, please see JPEG Files 1 and 2 for available software and Host and cRIO 9022.
Thanks.
Amar.
Attachments:
NI Vision Acquisition Express Error for NI cRIO 9022.JPG ‏39 KB
IMAQ and dx Modules Installed on my NI cRIO 9022 hardware(No NI Vision Acquisition 2010 SP1).JPG ‏82 KB
NI Vision Acquisition Express NO Error for NI cRIO 9022.JPG ‏48 KB

Only GigE comms are supported on the cRIO Real Time OS. Have a look at the following:
Machine Vision on NI CompactRIO and Single-Board RIO
Adnan Zafar
Certified LabVIEW Architect
Coleman Technologies

Using an external drive with shared files (iPhoto, iTunes), attached to a Time Capsule, can the contents of the external drive be backed-up to the internal Time Capsule drive? Perhaps a RAID1 mirror to a partition?

Using an external drive with shared files (iPhoto, iTunes), attached to a Time Capsule, can the contents of the external drive be backed-up to the internal Time Capsule drive? Perhaps a RAID1 mirror to a partitioned Time Capsule? I understand that the Time Machine (software) cannot backup a networked drive (the external) and that Time Capsule (the router/wireless hard drive) does not have its own backup software... so it won't backup the connected drive. What I would like is an alternate solution for having an automated backup of a networked drive. A 2TB Time Capsule has more than enough space for Time Machine backups of my family of Macbooks, so I had hoped to mirror a 500GB external drive (with shared media files) to a portion of the Time Capsule internal hard drive. I assume this would require a partition of the Time Capsule drive. If not, would the sparse file from the various computers being backed up need to be copied to the external drive as part of the RAID1 setup? This seems like overkill for the Time Machine backup, but it would cover the media files.

The complexity with this idea is the software has to run from a Mac computer on your network.. so you need a Mac turned on, probably most of the day.
It isn't possible to partition the TC although you can create a image area.
The software would have to copy the material, that means all files to be copied, go from USB drive, back to the Mac, then back to the TC, and written to the drive. In other words you have just added Network congestion, although a proper incremental backup type software will not actually use a lot of capacity.
Finally it will be slow.. network drives are slower than internal drives. Well USB connected drive is much slower than the same drive connected directly to the computer.. and if the drive is connected directly to a computer it can be shared with the network.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th- gen-review-faster-wifi-/4
Read carefully the speed of the USB drive plugged into the TC.

Using an external display with the macbook air

hi, i wanna know if i can use an external display with the macbook air as the tunderbolt is a bit pricey? i was thinking about buyin a LCD moniter wih a VGA port. many thanks

Yes. You can use VGA DVI or HDMI monitors by buying a Minidisplay port to xxx adapter and the the appropriate cable (vga, dvi or hdmi).
The MiniDisplayport adapter plugs into the Thunderbolt port.
Regards,
Captfred
Here's a sample HDMI adapter. All these available in the Apple online store.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H1824ZM/A/Moshi_Mini_DisplayPort_to_HDMI_Adapt er?fnode=MTY1NDA3Ng

Using a Document Camera with Meeting

Anyone using a Document Camera with Application sharing with
a breeze meeting. I know the camera part won't work well. But some
companies have software and USB connection to the CPU. Thought then
you could use Application Sharing to show the users.

Hi John
you can browse the images and video with the image capture application. connect and turn on the camera before launching the application. you can then choose which to import. one other thing, does your camera show up as a removable drive? if it does, open it up as you would a folder.

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