iMovie 4- 2GB limit

[sb]

The 2GB file limit we are referring to is to import a file, not from a
camera. 
Say if someone were to give you an external hard drive with some qt movies
on it, each movie file being bigger than 2GB. imovie will not import. You
get a file error message.
  
Importing from a camera does the virtual cutting into chunks automatically,
so no problems.

 sb

On 1/30/04 7:34 AM, "Doug Mitchell" <bogeyman at golden.net> wrote:

> Perhaps I am missing something.  I did a project under iMovie 3 with my
> Sony TRV 11 in which I recorded 45 min of continuous video.  When I
> went to put that into my computer iMovie handled it without question.
> What did happen was that it broke it up into 2 gb clips.  I can't
> remember if I imported directly to the timeline or onto the shelf.  My
> guess is that I imported to the timeline.
> 
> Doug
> On Jan 29, 2004, at 8:16 PM, sb wrote:
> 
>> 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. "
>> 
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