[MacDV] Re: Can the Sony DVMC-DA1 be made to work with iMovie 3?

[Michael Winter]

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 09:43 PM, Steven Rogers wrote:

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> On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 09:17 PM, Erica Sadun wrote:
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>> If memory serves, File > Import (Command-Shift-I)
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>> Alternately, create a new project. Quit iMovie.
>> Drag the clips into the media folder. Launch iMovie.
>> When iMovie asks what to do with the stray clips,
>> tell it to put 'em on the shelf.
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> The latter is much faster -

I think the biggest difference in speed is that when you use the Import 
command it copies the files into the clips folder as opposed to moving 
them, which can take a while for a bunch of large files. That also 
means you now have two copies of the file, which means twice the drive 
space.

-Mike