iMovie 4- 2GB limit

[sb]

Good tip for files that are already in the .dv format.

Problem is many are not, so the AppleScript that chops them up into 2GB
chunks before importing is a good solution in that situ.

 sb

On 1/29/04 4:34 PM, "David Thrasher" <idave at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Since this topic has come up several times on this list I thought the
> following might be of interest. I found this on another list I subscribe to. I
> haven't tried it so I don't know if it works (I'm using iMovie 2).
> 
> "Drop the .dv file into the Media folder inside the iMovie project, then
> open the project.  It will find "unknown" files and ask if you want to
> move them to the Clip Shelf.  Doing this will let you bring in files
> larger than 2GB.  I stumbled into this myself recently when dealing
> with some 3-D video I am working on. "