iMovie import limits

[David R. Schaefer]

On 3/10/96 11:37 PM, "L.Cornelio" <cornelio at san.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> can anyone tell me what thy are? i tried to import a 30 minute QT movie (
> under 2 gigs,  w/ motion jpeg compression) into imovie 3 & it choked
> midway.
> 
> So I thought I need to export to DV stream first & did so. When I then
> try iMovie import I get msg. like "file too big" ( about 6 gigs)
> 
> So I am wondering what the limits of iMovie are 7 why it chcoked on a
> simple 30 min QT.MOV
> 
> any ideas?

I have had luck getting the dv file to read, IF the time length of the dv
file is 9 mins 30 seconds or less.  I never really paid much attention to
the file size just the time length of the video.  I don't know WHY, but this
seemed to work for me.


Dave Schaefer