[MacDV] Various newbie questions

[Steven Rogers]

On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 12:05 AM, Paul Russell wrote:

>  . . . Or can I perhaps export the second part in some suitable 
> uncompressed format and import it into the first project ?

Yes, if you have Quicktime Pro, you can export the movie for iDVD, then 
export the iDVD movie as a raw DV file into your other iMovie project. 
Its not really necessary to get the two parts together unless you want 
to export the parts all at once. You can export the two parts and join 
them into one iDVD file using Quicktime Pro, if you wanted, or export 
them to a camera one after the other.

> 3) Is there any way to combine two clips in iMovie ? Because iMovie 
> seems to want to split the captured video into clips of 9:27 you often 
> end up with two clips which need to be spliced back together again.

The bad news is no, there's no way to rejoin clips, but the good news 
is that you don't really need to, from the standpoint of content. The 
video comes out the same regardless of where the boundaries between 
clips are. It would be nice mentally to reduce the number of clips to 
keep a project simple - maybe they'll add that in the future.

>  Is there a "how to" or FAQ somewhere that explains how to make a VCD

http://www.vcdhelp.com/

SR