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OT iMovie question
I run FCP but have been asked to capture some analogue video for a collegue to be edited by her remotely in iMovie.
Is it possible to set a capture directory for iMovie as I will want to capture to the raid and have very limited space on my system drive where it appears iMovie defaults captures to?
I believe I’ve read there are differences between iMovie and FCP captured SD DV clips, so if this is going to be possible what codec should I be capturing with? I’m running IO with fcp502. I did some tests capturing in iMovie and found that they imported okay into fcp – audio needed mixdown for some reason -scrubbed fine, played badly!
Thanks for any help,
Alan (London)
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3 Replies
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iMovie saves the media where you save the project. As soon as you open the program, “save as” in the place you want the media to go. It makes a folder and puts everything you do in there.
As far as I know it uses the exact same DV codec as FCP does. It’s HDV that it does differently.
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If you want to save iMovie media to a particular drive, just save the iMove project to that drive. iMovie creates a whole subfolder system for itself with the media and render files inside. iMovie also captures full DV quality video but there are 2 differences to FCP. 1) it captures 32khz 12 bit audio and 2) it captures as DV streams instead of Quicktime files. Not sure why your import of iMovie files played badly but it should play just as smooth as your other video after rendering the audio. Depending on what iMovie (iLife 04 or higher) they are using, your client should be able to import Quicktime files that you capture with FCP. Will you be editing further on the project they provide? You can import the iMovie project into FCP for further editing.
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Thanks guys that’s good news. I won’t get any of the material back once I’ve captured Matthew.
Also it was only the audio that needed rendering in fcp and once rendered was fine. If iMovie captures at 32k 12bit that would explain it.
Alan
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