[MacDV] Re: iMovie 4- 2GB limit

[Doug Mitchell]

Thanks for the clarification.

Doug
On Jan 30, 2004, at 11:42 AM, sb wrote:

> 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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