What video file types will iMovie import?

[sb]

It's still DV tape, it's just a 2 hour (121 minute) Panasonic DVCPro
cassette, not Sony. Most higher end Sony machines that take large size
cassettes can play DVCPro tapes. So you need to find someone who has a
pannie deck or compatible Sony deck and can dub it to miniDV tape for you.

In my experience, imovie will import almost any QT compatible digital file,
as long as it's under 2 GB. Your 2 hour tape will be almost 25 GB, so you
probably want to get it dubbed to miniDV and then capture using a camcorder.

 sb


On 11/4/03 2:39 PM, "W T McCain III" <list at mccaingroup.com> wrote:

> Long story long:
> 
> We had a video made of our wedding. We have it on VHS. I got a copy
> of it on digital tape looking forward to the day I could burn it to
> DVD. That day is now. Problem is, the digital tape does not fit my DV
> camera. The digital tape is DP121 DVDPRO. I am going to try to find
> someone in town who can convert it into something that iMovie can
> import. The obvious answer seems to be to copy it from big tape to DV
> tape to put in my camera for iMovie to import. Somehow I doubt it
> will all fit on a DV tape. There is the question.
> 
> What do I have someone convert the raw digital data into that iMovie
> will best import? I figure they could dump it on a DVD if it is a big
> file. I have read:
> 
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61816>
> 
> and other apple pages on importing video, but none give me an exact
> answer that I know will work.
> 
> I want to be able to find someone and tell them exactly what I need,
> so it works the first time.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> WT
> 
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