[MacDV] Re: importing files to iMovie

[James Asherman]

On Sunday, October 24, 2004, at 10:08  PM, Brian Olesky wrote:
>>
> My basic confusion rests in the fact that my current image is 1200 
> pixels
> wide by 300 high, a 4:1 ratio, so when I try to convert the width to 
> 640,
> instead of 640 X 480 I end up with 640 X 160 (thru resampling the 
> image, but
> constraining the proportions.) Will 640 X 160 work? And you're right, I
> realize that with a black type logo on a white background, once I have 
> this
> step straightened out, I'm going to have to next figure out how to 
> design
> the iMovie frame so I don't have a logo that's black on white, sitting 
> in
> the middle of a black frame.

Right. again this is a trial and error situation . Your file is not 
going to get hurt if you save as
  when you are working it and preserve your original.
If I were doing it. I would try magic wanding the logo and pasting it 
on a new frame of alpha nothingness.
Then I would key it in with FCP on a nice background or black or white 
and apply some gentle motion.
I've never tried this with iMovie.
  So reduce it.
  It will be a strip across the middle.
  Paste it into a new Photoshop document  w/ dimensions of 640x480 and a 
white background. That should give you a full frame deal to work with.



>
> That's why I was hoping I could just rip the frames from my existing 
> video,
> which I did with DVDBackup, and then figure out how to get them from 
> there
> to iMovie. I downloaded MPEG Streamclip, but can't quite figure out if 
> I
> also have to download some additional software as well to make them
> compatible with iMovie.
>

That will look like shit.