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If you do not use iCloud and would like access on a PC or a web browser then you can use DropBox, this free app (sign up required) will allow you to save photos and videos to a folder in the cloud. You can access this folder on both iPhone, iPad and also your computer.
You also have to give Dropbox permission to access your photos from the iPhone app
In ...
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There is not any reference to custom aspect ratio on iMovie's manual, neither any setting in the project's or crop tool's properties.
If custom aspect ratios would supported from iMovie, I believe that Apple would make them easy to find..
After all, iMovie is a consumer product, and they have excluded such "advanced" features in order to get more ...
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Connect your camcorder and use iMovie HD to import the tape, then export using Share>Quicktime. It will create one file out of the tape.
Edit: In response to Sajee's comment below.
Choose Share>Quicktime>Compress movie for: Full Quality. As implied, there won't be any loss of quality.
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Since PhotoStream doesn't work for videos, your best bet is probably a 3rd party app.
If you're worried about your pictures being stored on the Internet, you might want to try an app such as PhotoSync ($2) or Photo Transfer App ($3). The former seems like it uses your Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection to transfer between the two devices rather than uploading ...
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Versions of iMovie after iMovie HD don't support plugins and extra effects.
You're looking for something more along the lines of Apple Final Cut Express ($170) or Adobe Premiere Elements ($80).
Both let you make photo slideshows with titles, effects, transitions, and music; and both let you install free and paid plugins for more.
Hope this helps.
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Not really, you've utilised the quickest, easiest and cheapest route available with doing it with Handbrake. Don't bother trying to find another piece of software that will do the job better, Handbrake is really the best when it comes to ripping and encoding Apple friendly formats. Thanks, hope this helps.
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No. Apple has removed it from the download section of their site as of about January 26, 2009. See: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/01/27/imovie-hd-6-no-longer-available-for-download/
The direct download link in that article now returns a 404 error.
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There are a few ways to get a single large DV file imported from tape, depending on whether your constraint is budget or time:
1) QuickTime Pro 7 has a recording mode that can see DV devices. Yes, Apple still charges $29.99 for it, but the interface is simple and lets you record a long, single file. Just make sure the capture format in the app's preferences ...
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As part of Dive Into HTML5, Mark Pilgrim gives two options:
Encoding Ogg Video With Firefogg
Batch Encoding Ogg Video With ffmpeg2theora
One or both of those should work for you.
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I think your problem has something to do with not having the right Codecs (the bit of software that translates one type of video to another type). @Martin is right - if you can convert your video yourself you'll solve your problem, but it would be even better if you can teach iMovie to convert it for you.
Try installing both Perian and DivX (I'm too new to ...
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I’m not sure I understand you… you created a Movie Project in iMovie 7 (which if I’m not mistaken is the iLife ’08 version) and now you want to move it to an external drive?
You don’t mention your Mac OS X’s version but that shouldn’t really make much of a difference.
Ok should the above be correct, you have to locate your project in your hard drive. It ...
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Becuase Apple Animation is an older QuickTime format, you should give QuickTime Player 7 a try, which has basic editing capabilities. If you're on Snow Leopard, it may not be installed, but you can fix that pretty quickly
If you need more than what QuickTime Player provides, it might be worth looking at QuickTime Pro.
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I don't think it's possible to make the clips shorter then 5ms in any video software, because depending on the frame rate a single frame takes more time (16,6 ms for 60 fps). It doesn't make much sense to add a clip to a video, that is so short that it is not seen on screen for at least one frame.
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You have so many choices on OS X. Here it goes, take a look at this tutorial link for your question answered step by step.
Other excellent (and easy!) software to use are:
-iRip it from The Little App Factory
-Permute from Fuel Collective
-iFlicks from Jendrick Bertram
I translated the last one in French for...French users ;)
Hope this will help you!
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Handbrake is free but not the most user friendly. Here is a great tutorial on using Handbrake: http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/tutorials/handbrake/index.shtml
My personal favorite (for ripping movies for playback on your Mac) is MacDVDRipper Pro ( http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31118/mac-dvdripper-pro) which actually rips the disk image to your Mac ...
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From iMovie, go to Share-> Export Using QuickTime. Set the Export: menu is set to Movie to MPEG-4. Click the Options... button next to that menu.
Set the File Format to MP4
Set the Video Format to H.264
Set the Data Rate to something like 2048
Set the Image Size to 1080
Click OK
Click Save
That should give you a much better-quality video.
Hope this helps!
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There is a really cool video tutorial on YouTube that shows you how to make stop motion movies with iMovie 11 from photos in your iPhoto library (although can be any folder source).
Check it out here.
Hope this helps.
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The cheapest option is to use quartz composer to assemble the individual clips and mix them down. It is not designed like iMovie or Final Cut Express with shortcuts and ready build transitions, but it is free with Xcode 3. You have to register and agree to Apple's developer tools restrictions before downloading Xcode 3. You want the free program at the ...
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There are some good tutorials on this on Youtube here and here. The problem in both of these examples is the obvious lines where you can see the contrast and lightness changes.
However if you had either Adobe Premiere Elements or Adobe After effects this effect is a lot easier, and more professional like this you can find those tutorials here (Premiere) and ...
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Don't forget the built-in Automator actions for encoding. The video plugin is very nice and has pre-sets starting with 480p (VGA size) and up.
The Encode for: Greater compatibility toggle keeps the audio and video at a lower bit rate. Depending on what your tolerance for "less degradation" is, you might experiment with Higher quality if you see too many ...
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You can export your movie to a format of your wishes (.avi, .dv, ...) and then you can burn this on a disk with a suitable software suite (Roxio Toast or with the built in software of Lion/Mac OS)
EDIT: for free, software, I would recommend you use Burn
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Indeed, you should use QuickTime rather than iMovie: iMovie will import (and therefore usually encode) the movie, but will also force you to export, as you have noted.
The main interest of using QuickTime is to use its editing features.
Assuming you're using QuickTime X (Snow Leopard / Lion), open your movie file, and hit ⌘T (or Edit > Trim). The timeline ...
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I have an older Canon Mini-DV camera and the process was quite painless when I brought the video in to my Mac.
Obtain the necessary firewire cable to connect your camera to your Mac. Honestly, this was the hardest part for me.
Make sure the camera is plugged in to the wall (you don't want the battery dying during import) and the tape is in the camera and ...
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This type of alignment/syncing is why the clapboard was invented! Without one, you'll have to be a little more meticulous when you manually align the clips.
This post on the Apple Support forums suggests a few helpful features to use:
The basic feature you want to use is Cutaways.
Audio waveforms can be used for visual alignment.
Playing audio from both ...
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I would suggest you convert it to MP4 with the H.264 Codec. Handbreak is a pretty straight-forward applicaiton in terms of video conversion; in the video tab you can see the input and output size in pixels (so your video getting reduced in size should be avoided in a single glance), the framerate, which is best to keep on "same as source" and your target ...
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Yes, you can do this. I'd recommend using the storyboard shot list to get as much of the trailer done as you want following the recommended settings/lengths.
Then, when you are ready to take more control, use the File->Convert to Project menu option. This will transition the Project settings to the normal iMovie project version and you can change clip ...
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Lion turned off an older and less secure method of authenticating AFP connections, which a lot of third-party vendors of NAS devices were using, including Synology. Synology have made available a beta release of their new firmware which fully supports Lion (as long as your Synology device was made in 2008 or later).
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You can import the raw video through whatever means you like, and utilize Handbrake ([enter link description here][1]) to transcode it to mp4 format, which iMovie can use. This way, you can make use of the H.264 codec to encode your 1080i videos, retaining full quality, and compressing them better than Apple's compression schemes. Personally, however, as one ...
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In addition to Rick's solution, there is another platform independent, broadband dependent method you can use. There might be a minor loss in quality, but its well above acceptable.
Simply upload you videos to YouTube, and re-download them using the 'Download as MP4' option. YouTube re-encodes your videos to a format which work perfectly in iMovie. You ...
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iMovie only supports the H.264 format, and will only load videos from two places:
Camera Roll
Synced iPhoto Library via iTunes (Photos Tab → Sync Photos from iPhoto → Include Videos)
As you've noticed, videos in your iTunes → Movies folder will only sync to the Videos app, and will not appear in iMovie.
The process is not at all ...
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