[MacDV] downloading a tape into iMovie

[CM McDonald]

Glad you managed to capture (the usual term, rather than "download")  
your footage to iMovie.

The "letterboxing" bit concerns me however - as Aaron said it means  
the aspect ratio (the shape of your picture)  of your iMovie project  
doesn't seem to be matching the footage from your camera.

When you look at the iMovie window, what does it say in brackets  
after the title?

eg My Great Movie (DV-NTSC-Widescreen) or

My Great Movie (MPEG-4) etc.

This would help solve the mystery.

Colin McDonald


On 12 Mar 2006, at 07:19, Jeanette Brentnall wrote:

> Thank you very much Colin for your advice.  I am presently  
> downloading the clips into iMovie, and am wondering how long a  
> movie it will allow  -- it is doing something it calls  
> 'letterboxing' which I can now see means catching up with the clips  
> so far entered.