[Ti] importing movies in to iMovie

[Barry Lyden]

Trevor -

Sorry I didn't respond sooner. Yuta is correct. You are probably 
running out of disk space. For example, I have a raw DV clip of 9 
minutes, 27 seconds and it comes in at 1.9GB. So 20 minutes would be 
about 4GB, as Yuta said.


On Mar 11, 2004, at 8:37 AM, Yuta Hsu wrote:

> Hey Trevor...
>
> iMovie imports video as raw DV, which takes about 13GB/hour.  So, even 
> though you're importing a 400MB QT file, iMovie converts it to DV (so 
> 20 minutes needs about 4GB of space), thus your error.  Some people 
> complain about Apple's insistence of using DV for it's video apps, but 
> I think they do that to preserve video quality while editing and save 
> lossy compression for later.  Hope this helps!
>
> Cheers,
> Yuta
>
> On Mar 11, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>
>>
>> Barry - I am pretty new at working with movies on my G4 Powerbook, 
>> but it is something I want to get in to.  I am trying to use Mac 
>> technology to make some snappy Keynote presentations, with movie 
>> clips, for lectures and short courses that I am preparing.
>>
>>
>> I have a video (20 min) that I imported yesterday from VCR to my hard 
>> disk, using eyeTV.
>> One click to save to the hard disk - pretty impressive by the way.
>> I then exported the saved file as a QT movie, 400 Mb.
>>
>> Now, I want to work with the imported movie, edit it, add captions, 
>> sound etc etc.
>> iMovie seems the right software to do this.
>> I have a little experience with iMovie, using short video clips.
>> Most of it is pretty intuitive.
>>
>> My problem now is that I cannot get the import of this new Quicktime 
>> movie (.mov) in to iMovie to complete.
>>
>> Each time it says that there is not enough disk space.  Yet I have 
>> more than 1.8 Gb free on all the disk partitions.   I have tried 
>> moving the Project folder, the source file, etc.  Tried dragging to 
>> import, using the Import function to import.  Always the same 
>> message, after a minute or two.
>>
>> Is there something else I need to know?
>> Or is this another verion of the "disappearing disk space", I wonder?
>>
>> If you have any experience, tips or ideas, it would be of great help.
>>
>>
>> Trevor
>>
>>
>>
>>
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