[Ti] importing movies in to iMovie

[Yuta Hsu]

Hey Trevor...

iMovie imports video as raw DV, which takes about 13GB/hour.  So, even 
though you're importing a 400MB QT file, iMovie converts it to DV (so 
20 minutes needs about 4GB of space), thus your error.  Some people 
complain about Apple's insistence of using DV for it's video apps, but 
I think they do that to preserve video quality while editing and save 
lossy compression for later.  Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Yuta

On Mar 11, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

>
> Barry - I am pretty new at working with movies on my G4 Powerbook, but 
> it is something I want to get in to.  I am trying to use Mac 
> technology to make some snappy Keynote presentations, with movie 
> clips, for lectures and short courses that I am preparing.
>
>
> I have a video (20 min) that I imported yesterday from VCR to my hard 
> disk, using eyeTV.
> One click to save to the hard disk - pretty impressive by the way.
> I then exported the saved file as a QT movie, 400 Mb.
>
> Now, I want to work with the imported movie, edit it, add captions, 
> sound etc etc.
> iMovie seems the right software to do this.
> I have a little experience with iMovie, using short video clips.
> Most of it is pretty intuitive.
>
> My problem now is that I cannot get the import of this new Quicktime 
> movie (.mov) in to iMovie to complete.
>
> Each time it says that there is not enough disk space.  Yet I have 
> more than 1.8 Gb free on all the disk partitions.   I have tried 
> moving the Project folder, the source file, etc.  Tried dragging to 
> import, using the Import function to import.  Always the same message, 
> after a minute or two.
>
> Is there something else I need to know?
> Or is this another verion of the "disappearing disk space", I wonder?
>
> If you have any experience, tips or ideas, it would be of great help.
>
>
> Trevor
>
>
>
>
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