Video import is blurry/fuzzy
Hello. I am trying to build a safe file for my home videos from Sony AVCHD camcorder. When imported to imovie 11, the movies lose quality. Interestingly, when I imported my old movies from a dv cassete recorder, the movies look excelent.
By searching the web, I learnt the problem is that the modern cameras compress the files, so that after importing we lose quality.
My question to the forum is how can I store the files? Is there a solution? Can Final Cut Pro help me?
I am not a professional, just trying to safeguard these videos.
Thank you very much in advance,
this might help / http://www.aimersoft.com/convert-avchd/convert-avchd-to-imovie.html
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It was suggested I move this question to IPhoto or IMovie which I did.
Well moving to a different discussion group did not provide an answer to this question either. But what I finally did was import one batch of photos and videos into IPhoto for a given day at a time. Working with these I could change the date and times in order to get them in the original sequench taken. Then I would create an album with that batch. These would all be on the same day (IMove was closed for this phase). Then I would open IMovie, generate the thumbnails for that album, and select the album I had created. This was necessary because the importing process in IPhoto was using incorrect dates for my video so it was a real struggle finding them in IMove until I developed this approach.
I believe that this whole process was so screwy because I was importing from an external hard drive not a camera. I had these photos on a PC and did not have the original cameras to use to import directly which I am fairly sure would have made this easier! -
Macbook Video Importing Problem with Audio
I am trying to import videos to my macbook from my video camera in .mpg format (which i have done hundreds of times) and for some reason the audio will not play on the videos. The video imports fine except for no sound. I have no idea why this is doing this. It worked previously today but now it will not play any sound in the videos i import.
I am trying to import videos to my macbook from my video camera in .mpg format (which i have done hundreds of times) and for some reason the audio will not play on the videos. The video imports fine except for no sound. I have no idea why this is doing this. It worked previously today but now it will not play any sound in the videos i import.
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New Photo/Video Import Lost Due to Power Cut - Any Ideas?
I am using OS X 10.9.1, and iPhoto '08, V7.1.5. My iMac was in the closing stages of a photo/video import from my iPhone 5 when a power cut occured. I had thought the photos would already be in the new album that I'd just created because I had just been asked the question Keep or Delete Original Photos (I responded DELETE). When I restarted after the power cut, the new iPhoto album contained nothing at all, and 80% of the originals had been deleted off my iPhone. I have tried looking in the main iPhoto library and Last Import folder with no joy. Is there anythig else that I can try please?
Quick update to say that I found them! I convinced myself that when the power cut occured, there's no way that a few GB of media could be instantly deleted, and thus they must be somewhere on the HD.......similar to data getting stored in a TEMP folder on a PC. I managed to access the main LIBRARY folder via Finder >> GO >> OPTION KEY and then did a search for one of the photo numbers that I knew was missing. Amazingly found it together with all the other 588 missing photos & movies buried in a folder called 26Dec2013_2 (strange considering this happened on 01Jan2014 and all the photos/media were from the period 27Dec to 01Jan). Note that my earlier search of the entire iPhoto Library package had also proved fruitless. Not sure where that folder was actually residing, but I copied the entire contents to my Desktop and then imported them into iPhoto. In short, I am so happy! Lesson learned about the dangers of power cuts, especially living in a city short on energy. I will not do that again. Hope this helps someone else sometime in the future. Thanks.
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Using iMovie 7.1.4 on an iMac w/ Snow Leopard; HD video imported with a Firewire cable transfers fine, but audio arrives with major static; problem persists w/ different cameras & Firewire cables; source DV tape has no audfio static.
I forgot to write down my computer specs:
iMac 27 Mid 2011
2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB
OS X 10.9.2 -
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