[X-Apps] Movie Size and iMovie

[Alex]

On Monday, Mar 15, 2004, at 19:04 Canada/Eastern, John McGilvary wrote:

> Used my Interview (Xlr8) Video Capture system for the first time to 
> capture a movie from my Hi-8 camera.
> [...]
> It saves the video as a proprietary type file, but has a program that 
> will export it to a DV stream. [...]
> Having done this, a 10 minute file is 2.1 GB.
> Little did I know that iMovie has a limit as to how large a DV file it 
> will open.

For backwards compatibility, iMovie does not handle clips larger than 
2GB; if the video is captured directly in iMovie, it will automatically 
split it in 1.9GB clips.

> [...] I need a video editor to cut the movie into sections that are 
> more manageable.

If you can't set the export programme to do so, then, indeed, you need 
a video editor. QuickTime Pro, an add-on for QuickTime, will do the 
job. See Apple KB article id 42622. See also 
<http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_03/12-09-03b.shtml> for a 
script to automate the job.

> And, once I do that, can I  take the cut down files, edit them, and 
> then merge them later in iMovie?

Yes.

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