[MacDV] Screenshot to iMovie

[Mike Rehbein]

Sorry I even mentioned it now :)
Yes, you can do screenshots as files in the two apps.
Most people use those apps to capture motion, not screenshots to  
a .JPG, or .PNG.

Forget the above, please.

Please, what I am taking time here to relate is about iMovie's known  
problem rendering .JPG or .PNGs to a .DV file, the rendering.
Simply do not have iMovie do that work, let iDVD do it.
Or, use another product, such as Photo to Movie, ScreenFlow, Snapz Pro  
X (assuming you have paid for the movie feature, yes).

I'll continue in the next email, the next email is all about the  
question at hand, allowing someone to have iMovie ask again, regarding  
rendering before sending the movie project on to iDVD.
This question is only asked once by iMovie and the way to get the  
dialog box to appear again is to delete the com.apple.imovie.plist file

On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Derek Roff wrote:

> It's possible that saving the screen captures directly in jpeg or  
> another format would give Mats better results in iMovie than the png  
> conversions that he has tried.  But I wouldn't be amazed if the  
> results were similar.  For what it's worth, you can also convert  
> image formats using Preview.  Open a screen shot or other image in  
> Preview, and choose Save As from the File menu.  Within the Save As  
> menu, you can choose between about a dozen still image formats,  
> including jpeg, bmp, tiff, Photoshop, pdf, and others.
>
> Derek