Mac osx/canon hg10 cannot get stills off camera. Video yes, stills no. We're supposed to have a baby any day now and this sucker ain't behaving (the camera-mac connection). I haven't had this kind of problem with a mac in 10 years. [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2008 - 4 answers

Help me with my outdated iMac and editing HD digital video - it doesn't recognize HD, so what do I need to do? [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2008 - 10 answers

I'm burning video to be played on a standalone LCD HDTV/DVD player. The video seems to be recorded at 720x480 pixel resolution at 24fps. what resolution should I set it to to look best on my 720p HDTV? [more inside]
posted on Mar 19, 2008 - 9 answers

I am trying to make a short video clip using iMovie '08. When I play it, it looks great. When I export it, it acts completely differently. [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 4 answers

How can I stitch some video files together? [more inside]
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - 5 answers

iMovie help! Crunch project and I did RTFM but am confused . . . [more inside]
posted on Mar 6, 2008 - 3 answers

I just bought a Canon HV-10 HD camcorder, but importing it into my new iMac is painfully slow. Is it the camcorder, or the computer, or iMovie? [more inside]
posted on Jan 1, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm the proud owner of a new Intel iMac, a 2.4 Ghz with 2 gigs of RAM, and I'm having a dickens of a time trying to edit my 26 minute wedding video in iMovie '08--namely it's as slow as the molasses in January. I'm not making a feature film here...what gives? [more inside]
posted on Nov 22, 2007 - 6 answers

How do I record high definition (HD) video at at least 24 fps using a webcam? [more inside]
posted on Aug 17, 2007 - 10 answers

As the resident "hey, he's pretty good with computers" guy, I've been entrusted to create a slideshow for an end-of-the-year banquet. I need to find a program that will allow me to do this as easily as possible. I also need suggestions for programs or a workflow or both to take this slideshow and put it onto 200 DVD's, for all attending to take home a copy. I have an iBook G4, running the latest version of OSX. [more inside]
posted on May 1, 2007 - 11 answers

Problem in iMovie: When I select an imported photo and click on "Show Photo Settings", i.e. to apply the Ken Burns effect, my photo changes colours to reds and oranges. It changes back if I click "Hide Photo Options". Does anyone know how to fix this? [more inside]
posted on Apr 30, 2007 - 4 answers

How can I edit Fraps AVIs from my windows machine on my Macbook (iMovie)? [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2007 - 5 answers

How do I transfer correctly my 16:9 video from my Sony camera to my computer using iMovie HD? [more inside]
posted on Jan 28, 2007 - 2 answers

Got a new Macbook Pro. AVI files now show up as a white screen when imported into iMovie. I think that some codec is missing. I am not sure which one it is and would like a reputable source to download from. Any idea how to correct this?
posted on Jan 20, 2007 - 7 answers

Does anyone know anything about iMovie 3? I've just finished creating a project, and when I play through in iMovie it seems fine. However, when I export it, it's like the volume settings are completely ignored. Music that I set at 10% is actually playing at 100% and is overwhelming the dialogue. There doesn't seem to be anything in iMovie's documentation about this, so I'm stumped. What am I doing wrong?
posted on Jan 14, 2007 - 1 answers

Can I convert ASF to a mac-friendly format for editing? [more inside]
posted on Dec 27, 2006 - 4 answers

I was cranking out the family christmas email, complete with links to crappy home movies, and I can't get my last little clip made in Imovie. Specifically, Imovie won't let me insert transitions. Regardless of the length of the clips I'm transitioning, the "add" button is all greyed out. Oh, and Merry Christmas!
posted on Dec 24, 2006 - 5 answers

iMovie: how can I refresh video source files? [more inside]
posted on Nov 21, 2006 - 2 answers

How does one export a quicktime file from iMovie that can be added to a web page? [more inside]
posted on Oct 19, 2006 - 6 answers

I would like my iLife applications to have their libraries and assorted bumf (ie iDVD themes and Garageband loops) on my networked drive, clearing up space on my powerbook. I recently read about an application that did this but two days of googl'n later I'm stuck. Anyone? [more inside]
posted on Oct 2, 2006 - 5 answers

How can I export DV from iMovie without it being recompressed and pixelated? And no - DV stream isn't doing it. [more inside]
posted on Oct 1, 2006 - 8 answers

Is there any way to normalize audio within iMovie? A plugin or something? [more inside]
posted on Jul 28, 2006 - 1 answers

When all of those Brokeback Mountain-inspired trailers (i.e. Brokeback to the Future, Brokeback Heat, etc.) were coming out earlier this year, how were people getting the manipulatable versions of the films? [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2006 - 5 answers

In iMovie 4, how can I import a 25 minute (>2GB) DV clip without purchasing QuickTime Pro to cut the clip into smaller pieces? [more inside]
posted on Feb 2, 2006 - 11 answers

How can I use my Sony mini-DVD camcorder with my mac (and iMovie or Final Cut)? [more inside]
posted on Jan 17, 2006 - 11 answers

iMovie question: I have not used iMovie much, but I'd like to play around. I have a Sony DSC-P100 digital point-and-shoot camera that records video, which I can save to my computer as mpg. However, I can't seem to use these files in iMovie. Does that sound right, or is there something wrong with my copy of iMovie, or what? I can find nothing in the iMovie help that describes what file formats may be imported.
posted on Jan 10, 2006 - 4 answers

i have a 58-minute video in iMovie - just regular digital video import (30 FPS, 720x480 pixels) which for some reason takes up 12 gigs on my hard drive. I want to burn this to make a DVD out of this movie, but 12 gigs is way too big. How do I burn this regular 58-minute video on a regular 4-gig DVD? there must be some way, since you can get 2 hours of Hollywood movie on a DVD... why not my 58 minutes of amateur video? (Why would it take up so much space, anyway?)
posted on Dec 6, 2005 - 9 answers

Problem with iMovie bloating files and crashing. [more inside]
posted on Nov 6, 2005 - 4 answers

Video question: I'm working on some homebrewed video animation pieces on my mac. Basically, using matlab to output a stack of images that I then use Quicktime to turn into a movie. The final product of which will be burnt onto a DVD using iMovie and iDVD. Question: what resolution and framerate shoud I be outputting to prevent these apps from having to resample my movie, in either space or time? [more inside]
posted on Sep 16, 2005 - 7 answers

Is it my camcorder, or me? [more inside]
posted on Aug 16, 2005 - 5 answers

Want to do start doing some video work, curious what are my best options for some quick "post-to-web" type videos, as well as being able to store them. [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2005 - 5 answers

When I went with iMovie's "web compression" option -- 240x180, 12 frames a second, unspecified level of compression and "medium-quality" stereo sound -- for a recent 5.5 minute DV clip I shot, I got a 6MB .mov that I felt had serious compression issues. My first swipe at using the "expert" compression settings, conversely, gave me a 230MB file for the same resolution; a second pass was "only" 54MB but the nature of the "better" compression scheme made it look worse. And in my experience, making it an .mpg only makes it bigger. And yet I've seen TV episodes that look reasonably good full-screen and are only 350MB .avi files. I feel like I should be able to get 1 MB/minute of 240x180 video at great quality -- I've downloaded streaming video that would back up that assumption. Can someone point me toward wisdom?
posted on Oct 15, 2004 - 9 answers

iMovie question (more iNside)
posted on Oct 2, 2004 - 4 answers

I have a bunch of iMovie 3 projects which I'd like to export as QuickTime movies and then convert to MPEG2 with TMPGEnc Express on Winders. I wish that TMPGEnc could just import a DV stream, but it won't, so my question becomes: what's the most lossless QuickTime format I can save as? Size-to-quality isn't the issue. I have lots of space, I just want to lose very little in the QuickTime export. Which format do I export in, and with which settings? wish I had a Superdrive...
posted on Sep 25, 2004 - 7 answers