http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: iMovie - Recent Posts en Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:03:43 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/converting-tsfile-to-mpeg4-files-without-toast-titanium-pro#post-73376 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:49:37 +0000 Kenkyusha 73376@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Will VLC do this kind of thing?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/converting-tsfile-to-mpeg4-files-without-toast-titanium-pro#post-73316 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:14:13 +0000 C 73316@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi all, </p> <p>I have been trying to convert TS.Files to MPEG.4 movie files but I don't have Toast Titanium. </p> <p>I tried using the trial version of Miro Video Converter but it doesn't seem to keep the 16:9 setting that I have given all the movies which means the edges get cut off.</p> <p>Does anyone know of a converter on Mac which could do the trick?</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/edges-cut-off-by-idvd#post-73315 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:08:24 +0000 C 73315@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi all, </p> <p>After burning a series of showreels on IDVD from Imovie, I find that the sides of my showreels are cut off. <br />I have checked the size of my movies, they are 16:9 and my screen size is 16:9 too.</p> <p>I even changed the movie format from 4:3 to 16:9 on the TS. files but that still doesn't work. </p> <p>Has anyone else had problems burning a movie from Imovie to IDVD?</p> <p>Thanks for your help!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73043 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:59:14 +0000 cfxcorp 73043@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Adobe article on CODECs.</p> <p><a href="http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/515/cpsid_51528.html">http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/515/cpsid_51528.html</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73041 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:23:51 +0000 cfxcorp 73041@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Try downloading the following file from muvee Reveal help forum:</p> <p><a href="ftp://muveeUserMedia:UM12oPLkadtunb9@ftp.muvee.com/codecPrinter_ToDesktop.zip">ftp://muveeUserMedia:UM12oPLkadtunb9@ftp.muvee.com/codecPrinter_ToDesktop.zip</a></p> <p>It prints a list of your installed CODECs to a text file on your desktop.&nbsp; May be useful in troubleshooting your issue.&nbsp; You may have a corrupted CODEC or another program installed an inferior MPEG-2 CODEC.</p> <p>Sony Creative Software site offers the MainConcept MPEG-2 CODEC for sale if the Adobe site doesn't help.</p> <p>Did you have any Adobe updates lately that may have caused the problem?&nbsp; Maybe you need to update or reinstall the progrm?</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73037 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:20:00 +0000 pseudosafari 73037@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Have you tried importing it into Adobe Media Encoder and then exporting it to the codec you prefer?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73001 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:39:37 +0000 Charles Schultz 73001@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>When you look at the footage file in finder, what is the file extension that is being displayed? For example, whatever.mpg2 is there anything past the extension?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/mpeg2-codec-missing-on-premier-help#post-73000 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:10:09 +0000 hogtown 73000@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi guys, I am a new chap here and having some issues importing my media on Premier. A bit of background I am using Mac 10.7.2 and Adobe Premier 5. Shot my media on a JVC GY-HM100U and it was ingested by copying the whole folder into my computer. My video is 1080 60i the .xml file says:</p> <p>dataFormat="xdvb" </p> <p>videoCodec="MPEG2_VBR35M_1920_1080_60I_MP@HL" ch="STEREO_2CH" </p> <p>audioCodec="LPCM16_48K"</p> <p>Neither Premier nor imovie can't open the media and the error I get is that the codec is missing. I tried to convert my media using the Video Converter by iSkysoft but the quality decreased exponentially. I also tried Calibrated{Q} XD Decode, but it won't play in real time in Premier and looks choppy. </p> <p>Went and downloaded the JVC HD pro clip manager but ironically it doesn't recognize the media either and the error is that is not a m4p file. JVC site and other reviews say that there is no need to wrap or transcode and the media formats are compatible with Mac which is false or I am missing something.</p> <p>Does anyone have any advice how to get around this issue? Your thoughts would be highly appreciated!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/lumix-gh2-youtube-trouble#post-72296 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:30:45 +0000 Ben Hinz 72296@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Ooh, just saw the most recent version of imovie has HD export and youtube upload....</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/lumix-gh2-youtube-trouble#post-72295 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:20:05 +0000 Ben Hinz 72295@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I think I was shooting at about 125.  Actually, yes there are a lot of export options in imovie, and a share to youtube.  The quicktime export has been pretty troublesome.  Hard to find the right settings.  and the youtube export is really junk, at least compared to what I'm putting into the computer.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/lumix-gh2-youtube-trouble#post-72294 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:45:56 +0000 Kenkyusha 72294@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;For the motion artifacts, what shutter speed are you shooting at?&nbsp; For the export, it's been a while, but isn't there an 'export to quicktime' (or somesuch) option... IIRC, I read somewhere that&nbsp;the recent releases of Imovie have a 'share to YouTube' dropdown option.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/lumix-gh2-youtube-trouble#post-72251 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:51:15 +0000 Ben Hinz 72251@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey everybody, I'm brand new!  Like many before me, I'm sure, I come with a problem.  I bought a Panasonic Lumix GH2, which shoots pretty great video (a little choppy, but hey, I can live with it)  the trouble is getting that video online in any kind of quality.  In my line of work I also need to record audio seperately and sync afterwards.  I've been working with Final Cut express, imovie 09 and imovie HD.  Imovie HD puts out a great quality video, but youtube and vimeo can't seem to understand it.</p> <p> </p> <p>If someone knows the secret key to getting HD video out of my computer and up on the interwebs, I would be much obliged :)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/newb-trying-to-decide-between-fcp-app-or-sony-vegas#post-72017 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:00:20 +0000 Vail Fucci 72017@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><strong><a href="http://www.robgrauert.com">robGRAUERT</a>  you just saved me a TON of moula! That old deal was done, but they gave me an even better one for what <em>I </em>needed!  I had CS4 extended, and was dying to be able to upgrade even just my photoshop to CS5.  They ended up giving me some bizarro upgrade with 20% off, but it resulted in me getting CS5 production premium, so I will get that new Photoshop I wanted, and Premiere and After effects, all for 520+tax.  I lose my most current version of acrobat pro and dream weaver, but I have an older version of acrobat pro and I never use dreamweaver any more.  So HOOOOOORAY!!!!! you rock my socks!  Thank you!!!!</strong></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/newb-trying-to-decide-between-fcp-app-or-sony-vegas#post-72001 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:39:04 +0000 composite1 72001@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Vail,</p> <p>You're better off with FCP or Premiere since you're a Mac user. Vegas is PC only so you'd have to make a Win Partition on your main drive and deal with Bootcamp. I've got friends who use macs and did the bootcamp thing to use Vegas and they all say it works better on a PC rig.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/newb-trying-to-decide-between-fcp-app-or-sony-vegas#post-72000 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:30:56 +0000 Vail Fucci 72000@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Wow that's PAINFUL because I had wanted to upgrade to CS5 for photoshop, but had given up since it was so expensive and figured I'd live with CS4 for now.  I will call them first thing tomorrow.  Wish me luck!  If not, I'll probably go with FCP X because the nice thing is I have a huge apple store down the street from me where they are willing to help me out if I get stuck  on something.  I won't have that help from Adobe.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/newb-trying-to-decide-between-fcp-app-or-sony-vegas#post-71999 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:15:40 +0000 robGRAUERT 71999@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If you call like, tomorrow, you MIGHT be able to beg Adobe to sell you Production Premium at the discounted price that expired yesterday. They might lose out of $850, but it would make you a long-term customer, which would be a win for them in the long run...</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/newb-trying-to-decide-between-fcp-app-or-sony-vegas#post-71998 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:13:26 +0000 robGRAUERT 71998@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>It's a shame you didn't ask this a few days ago. Adobe Premiere Premium was only $850 up until yesterday (it's usually $1700). You would have had everything you'd need for quite some time.</p> <p>FCP used to be very capable, up through FCP7. Now that they have released FCP X, it's more for consumers/prosumers, in my opinion. However, it might be enough for you since you work by yourself. Basically, FCP X doesn't play nice with other programs (no XML, OMF, etc. exporting), it doesn't allow for monitoring via external monitor, media management is different (and seems clunky in my opinion), it doesn't handle codecs natively, and there's a whole bunch of other problems that make pros hate it. But you said yourself you will only be editing occasionally, and it sounds like you'll be working by yourself. So it might be fine for you. I can't say much more than that. I've only read about it. I haven't bothered to buy it.</p> <p>Adobe has come a long way and is very capable these days. Apparently it works flawlessly with the other Adobe programs, too. It works will with all codecs natively, which is a big plus. And depending on the computer model you own, you may be able to take advantage of the GPU acceleration and 64-bit processing. I just got the Premiere Premium bundle the other day and am looking forward to digging in.</p> <p>You sound like you're on a Mac, so I don't think you'll be able to use Sony Vegas. I don't think they make it for Mac...</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/newb-trying-to-decide-between-fcp-app-or-sony-vegas#post-71996 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:31:13 +0000 Vail Fucci 71996@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm a wedding photographer who has just started using her 5dMKii to make promotional videos and vlog entries on my blog.  With some of my past projects in iMovie, there would be blockyness in the blacks and grays.  So I went to apple and they told me the blockyness problem I was having was that iMovie was unavoidably compressing my files from my 5DmkII output during the transcoding, they suggested switching to Final Cut Pro. In asking a few of the videographer's I've worked with, none of them have mentioned working with FCP. They are either working with Vegas or Premier. FCP is considerably cheaper at $299 (although I see I may need motion and compressor if any of my clients ask for DVD movies with pictures). Sony Vegas Pro is $599.95. And Premiere Pro is $799. Vegas and Premiere have to have something that FCP doesn't for that difference in price right? I'm just wondering for me as a wedding photographer, who is only using this to do the occasional video editing, does it make sense to spend the extra $300-400 bucks. I don't want to buy FCP and then realize, d'oh actually in a month or two of using FCP I realize I want/need Vegas or Premiere. So for those who have used them all, what do you think of them and the differences between them? Also what's the learning curve like? I'll be coming from iMovie, which I have pushed to its editing limits, and I know CS4 Photoshop well. Any suggestions are much appreciated!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hxr-mc2000e-avchd-imovie-problems#post-70130 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:45:17 +0000 Linden Davies 70130@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi there, thanks for the reply. Ã? I have put a very short video on youtube for you to look at, if you look carefully between the peoples heads when I pan, there are ghosting/choppy artefacts. Ã? But this does not happen when I play the image back on the camera, just when it has been through the imovie wash!Ã? </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iUHF-T8qC0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iUHF-T8qC0</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hxr-mc2000e-avchd-imovie-problems#post-70122 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:29:32 +0000 Fadly Hussin 70122@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Can you send us a sample of your choppy video? Also, try log and transfer ur footage to another non linear editing software, see if it works there. I'm not sure if there are settings on iMovie to know exactly what video codec you are editing with. I think it's most comfortable doing editing with a quicktime extension. Why not you try using mpegstreamclip convert the raw files to HDV1080i50 first then put it once again into iMovie, see if it works.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hxr-mc2000e-avchd-imovie-problems#post-70119 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:37:35 +0000 Linden Davies 70119@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi there, new to this forum, hopefully in the future I will be able to help others! </p> <p>Anyways, I bought a HXR-MC2000E which I intend to use for wedding videos, but on editing with iMovie, I have noticed the .MOV file which iMovie turns the AVCHD into, looks very choppy, which in turn comes out in the final DVD.  The cam is recording in 50i which after my research seems to be 25fps.  Is this the issue, or am I doing something wrong, or is the camera operating and working as it should?  </p> <p>I would love the video to be smooth after editing, but am I asking too much? </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/imovie-11-will-not-post-to-youtube#post-67244 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:03:25 +0000 Don 67244@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Earl, I STRONGLY recommend you acquaint yourself with the latest version of imovie.</p> <p>two reasons:</p> <p>one: it imports into apples pro res (believe it or not) which makes editing from different formats like hdv, avchd, and mjpeg avi's seamless....</p> <p>Two: take a look on youtube for finalcut x, and you'll see the next generation of finalcut pro, might as well be called iMovie pro..... </p> <p>anything you learn in imovie (latest version) will carry over to final cut pro x</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/imovie-11-will-not-post-to-youtube#post-67241 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:27:11 +0000 EarlC 67241@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Make sure your finished project is a complete movie file and not just a file image. Make sure you saved/rendered it out as a .mov or .dv file (Quicktime or DV) While I do not use the latest and most current iMovie (when I DO use it for a minor project) making sure the settings are as noted above has generated something that YT appears to be happy with. That, and making sure your final project doesn't exceed YT's length and size restrictions. Also, if your project has copyrighted music you will initially get a "silenced" audio track with visuals only playing. Over time, too many such occurrences and your account will be discontinued.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/imovie-11-will-not-post-to-youtube#post-67224 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:00:57 +0000 Don 67224@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>have you run "software update" on your mac?</p> <p>have yo checked the ap store (if that is where you got your copy) for any updates?</p> <p>have you entered the proper youtube account/password settings?</p> <p>if yes to above:</p> <p>have you run disk utility and "Repair Permissions" on your hard drive?</p> <p>last resort:</p> <p>look for this file:</p> <p>(your hard drive)/users/(your user name)/library/preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist</p> <p>and drag it to the trash.</p> <p>you may have several copies of this file.....</p> <p>once done restarting imove should forget any user setting you have made and you will have to re-enter your youtube passwords etc but should work.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/imovie-11-will-not-post-to-youtube#post-67220 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:54:18 +0000 XTR-91 67220@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What format are you saving in?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/imovie-11-will-not-post-to-youtube#post-67210 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:26:14 +0000 Video_Shoot 67210@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I did iMovie '09 and had no trouble uploading to YouTube.I upgraded to iMovie '11 and get a message "YouTube has found an error" and it will not upload. Is the problem with my iLife '11. Do I need to reload it or go back to ILife '09? Or is something else the problem. My tapes are backing up and I need to get them posted!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-editing#post-65416 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:24:01 +0000 vid-e-o-man 65416@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Sargehero, thank you, thank you, thank you, this should be a great help when I assist my brother-in-law.</p> <p>mrfizzed, did this help with your questions?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-editing#post-65405 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:26:39 +0000 SargeHero 65405@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Welcome to the amazing (somewhat frustrating) world of video encoding. There is a video format and codec for almost everything. I'm not a iMovie user but to answer your question I opened mine (iMovie 09) and start experimenting.  To answer your question I will "use" the Kodak Playsport as an example. This camcorder records in "1080p 1920x1080" at 30fps, so first you need to take the footage out of the camcorder using the USB and import the footage to a folder in your computer hardrive. Then open iMovie and do the following</p> <p>1) Go to file &gt; Import &gt; Movies...</p> <p>2) Select your camcorder footage from the folder you put it on. If you recorded in 1080p then in the options check "Optimize Video" and select "Full- Original Size". Click "Import"</p> <p>3) Now make all the edits you want<em></em></p> <p>4) After you finish editing save your project and go to Share &gt; Export Movie Using Quicktime &gt; <em>(In Export, select)</em> "Movie to Quicktime Movie" &gt; Go to "Options"</p> <p>5) Inside "Options" you will find the adorable codecs in the "Compression Type" selection. You can select "MPEG-4 Video" as your codec. Now scroll the "Quality" up to "Best" and select "OK"</p> <p>6) In the "Video" options select "Size" and change the "Dimensions" to "HD 1920x1080 16:9". Press "OK" and see if the dimensions are correct by looking at the description box in the right side.  Now select "OK"</p> <p>7) Finally with this recent settings you can hit "Save". Wait for it to export the project and you are done.</p> <p>This setting should give you as much original HD video quality. One downside is the video file size is going to be huge. You are exporting in .mov, they usually have huge file size so don't worry. </p> <p>As for the editing software I recommend reading the "<a title="Editing Software Buyer Guide" href="http://www.videomaker.com/article/14883/">Editing Software Buyer Guide</a>" from Videomaker. It should give you a more clear idea about what editing software you need.</p> <p></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-editing#post-65399 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:15:35 +0000 vid-e-o-man 65399@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Mac users, some help here. I use PC and have a brother-in-law who has a new Mac and is asking my help to use iMovie to make video from his new Sony Hd camcorder. I use Sony Vegas movie studio. The editing software that comes with his Sony won't work on the Mac. Thanks in advance for your enlightenment.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-editing#post-65394 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:15:01 +0000 mrfizzed 65394@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey everyone,</p> <p> </p> <p>I am new here so please be patient with me.  I am also new to whole video shooting and editing.  I have two HD camcorders (samsung handheld and a kodak playsport).  That being said here is my question/issue.  Both cameras record in clips.  Each time I press record it records an entirely new clip.  OK so that is fine I suppose but then when I import into imovie they get imported as clips.  They import at full hi def resolution.  I then create a project in iMovie and have to export said project to basically get a put together video (home movies are pretty much all i shoot).  When I export through imovie I assume i am losinq quality since it being either compressed or something similar.  What settings would be most beneficial to use to be able to keep as much of the originai HD video that I shot to begin with when exporting?</p> <p> </p> <p>On another note, is there a different program out there that is mac os friendly and easy to use that would enable me to also keep the original video quality?  Thanks in advance!!!!</p>