Video Transfer frustrations

Why don't my video clips from iPhoto automatically load when I open iMovie - like they used to?

Hi
May be You moved the iPhoto library - if so - iMovie can not find it - move it back
or
iPhoto library got corrupted - start iPhoto BUT NOW KEEP alt-key and cmd-key down during the FULL up-start process. Then select all options - and Let Mac be for SEVERAL HOURS - see to that screen- and energy-savers not starts up. But let Mac run at full speed during this repair.
or any of these
When iMovie doesn't work as intended this can be due to a lot of reasons
• iMovie Pref files got corrupted - trash it/they and iMovie makes new and error free one's
• Creating a new User-Account and log into this - forces iMovie to create all pref. files new and error free
• Event or Project got corrupted - try to make a copy and repair
• a codec is used that doesn't work
• problem in iMovie Cache folder - trash Cache.mov and Cache.plist
• version miss match of QuickTime Player / iMovie / iDVD
• preferences are wrong - Repair Preferences
• other hard disk problem - Repair Hard Disk (Disk Util tool - but start Mac from ext HD or DVD)
• External hard disks - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work with Video
( UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most other things - but not for Video )
• USB-flash-memories do not work
• Net-work connected hard disks - do not work
• iPhoto Library got problems - let iPhoto select another one or repair it. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.
This You do by
_ close iPhoto
_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
_ now select all five options presented
_ WAIT a long long time
• free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk to low (<1Gb) - I never go under 25Gb free space for SD-Video (4-5 times more for HD)
• external devices interferes - turn off Mac - disconnect all of them and - Start up again and re-try
• GarageBand fix - start GB - play a few notes - Close it again and now try iMovie
• Screen must be set to million-colors
• Third-party plug-ins doesn't work OK
• Run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac
• Let Your Mac be turned on during one night. At about midnight there is a set of maintenance programs that runs and tidying up. This might help
• Turn off Your Mac - and disconnect Mains - for about 20-30 minutes - at least this resets the FireWire port.
• In QuickTime - DivX, 3ivx codec, Flip4Mac, Perian etc - might be problematic - temporarily move them out and re-try
(I deleted the file "3ivxVideoCodec.component" located in Mac HD/Library/Quicktime and this resolved my issue.)
buenrodri wrote
I solved the problem by removing the file: 3ivxVideoCodec.component. after that, up-dated iMovie runs ok.
Last resort: Trash all of iMovie and re-install it
Yours Bengt W

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I am double checking here after importing some footage. During review; I am not satisfied with the quality. Of course these are old and weren't stored well so I expect the actual footage to be deteriorating.
The thing that's bugging me is that the tracking seems fine on the T.V. but looks horribly off in iMovie during import and playback. Would the cable cause this?
I am wondering if I should purchase a $10 S-Video Transfer Cable and re-import the footage?
My little consumer digi-cam (Canon ZR40) only came with the RCA Composite type transfer cable.
Is the actual difference noticable to the human eye?
Thanks

"..During review; I am not satisfied with the quality.." ..iMovie doesn't display as sharply as a TV ..this is really a "cut'n'paste" editing program, not really a viewing program, so you won't really see the full quality till you export back to tape, or to a DVD, and view that on a good screen ..so don't worry needlessly.
"..the tracking seems fine on the T.V. but looks horribly off in iMovie.." ..A TV doesn't normally show the extreme edges of a picture; they're intentionally cut off to avoid showing any 'raggedness' around the edges ..this is known as 'overscan'.
What you may be seeing - which won't be visible once you've edited, exported back to tape or DVD and are viewing on a similar TV - is probably the overlap or 'handover' between the video heads on the original recorder, giving an extra few lines of 'garbage' at the top or bottom of the screen.
This is normal ..that's how VCRs work ..it's just that you usually don't see it, except, perhaps, on a plasma or other flat-screen TV which scans right to the edges (..i.e; has no 'overscan').
"..purchase a $10 S-Video Transfer Cable and re-import the footage.." ..It'll probably make no difference.
Edit some of what you've imported ..say three minutes' worth. Export that back to the Canon, then play that from the Canon into your TV. Compare that with the original which you imported into the Canon.
I expect you'll see no difference ..maybe the imported, edited and exported looks slightly better, if a 'timebase corrector' inside the Canon gave a more sharply synchronised capture onto tape than the simple playback from your original VCR (..it does happen..)

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Video transfer from computer to new ipad (ret disp) shows transfering process, but it's not in video or movie . ...Where'd it go ?

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         Video transfer from computer to new ipad (ret disp) shows transfering process, but it's not in video or movie . ...Where'd it go ? sync automatically downloaded some - but was a bit prejudiced and selective with content mainly all edited by me in Moviemaker (windows 7, probably the reason)
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The Apple video app is very limited in what it will play. If you have multiple video formats and if they will play on an iPad, then you likely need a 3rd party vidoe app. One such is BUZZPlayer which is available in the iTunes App Store on a Mac or PC or from the App Store app on an iOS device.
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ArinC
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I've been having some trouble transfering a specific video file from itunes onto my iPod. It's in the proper format and is in my itunes video library (and plays fine there) but it simply won't do the automatic transfer to the ipod. I've tried deleting the file and reconverting the original source file(an mpeg) into the ipod format, but still no luck.
The weirdest part is that the file is part of a television series, and every other episode of the series transfers fine, this one simply doesn't register.
Thanks in advance for any help, this problem really is getting frustrating.

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doki32 wrote:
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