[MacDV] Re: What video file types will iMovie import?

[W T McCain III]

On 11/4/03 2:39 PM, "W T McCain III" <list at mccaingroup.com> wrote:
>
>>  We had a video made of our wedding. We have it on VHS. I got a copy
>>  of it on digital tape looking forward to the day I could burn it to
>>  DVD. That day is now. Problem is, the digital tape does not fit my DV
>>  camera. The digital tape is DP121 DVDPRO. I am going to try to find
>>  someone in town who can convert it into something that iMovie can
>>  import. The obvious answer seems to be to copy it from big tape to DV
>>  tape to put in my camera for iMovie to import. Somehow I doubt it
>>  will all fit on a DV tape. There is the question.
>>
>>  What do I have someone convert the raw digital data into that iMovie
>>  will best import? I figure they could dump it on a DVD if it is a big
>>  file.

At 3:18 PM on 11/4/03, sb wrote:

>It's still DV tape, it's just a 2 hour (121 minute) Panasonic DVCPro
>cassette, not Sony. Most higher end Sony machines that take large size
>cassettes can play DVCPro tapes. So you need to find someone who has a
>pannie deck or compatible Sony deck and can dub it to miniDV tape for you.
>
>In my experience, imovie will import almost any QT compatible digital file,
>as long as it's under 2 GB. Your 2 hour tape will be almost 25 GB, so you
>probably want to get it dubbed to miniDV and then capture using a camcorder.

At 7:46 PM on 11/4/03, Steven Rogers wrote:

>Have them dub the movie to a mini DV tape.

I will give the dubbing to mini DV a try! I would have loved to get 
it all on on one tape (obviously will not work dubbing to mini), just 
in case the cut off from one tape to another was at a critical spot. 
I do have an external Firewire drive it would fit on, but I don't 
know how hard it would be to get in on the drive. I suppose it would 
have to be converted into some QT compatible format.

Thanks for the input!!

WT