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Thanks for the suggestion but, no, there is nothing there that could explain what is going on.
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Hi John,
Very interesting and clarifying. It makes me wonder WHY all these different formats (envelopes) if codec and bitrate determine what is really going on. The only reasons I can think of are legacy and “my format is more important”. In any case, I find it extremely confusing to have all these formats like MTS, AVI, MOV and what have you while basically they are all just containers.
So, just to check if I get this right: I have an MTS file of 4GB, codec H.264/MP4 AVC and bitrate 9kbps. When I import this into iMovie it creates a MOV of 30GB with codec Apple Intermediate Codec and an average bitrate of 8Mbps. Would the massive increase in file size with a factor 8 be caused mainly by the bitrate difference ? And why this apparently very inefficient conversion in the first place ?
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That might work as well, but opening a project from Finder should work properly and not stall the complete system, agree ? So, this is definitely a bug.
P.S. I tried that, but that doesn’t work. I must drag it to the Layers tab. Additional problem of opening a project this way is that it will ask for a diffewrent name when saving it.
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That might work as well, but opening a project from Finder should work properly and not stall the complete system, agree ? So, this is definitely a bug.
Forums like this are very usefull and Apple should embrace them and react on them (or supply us with a decent bug reporting mechanism) my feeling is they don’t and I find that very frustrating
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Hi Mark,
Did all that and no luck. Got a tip to open the projects from within Motion’s own file browser and drag the project to the layers tab. Funny enough that does work (????!!!) so that is my work around for the time being. There seems to be a relation between the problem to open a project via the open command and the presence of an animated light in the projects: when I open a problem-project via Motion’s file browser and delete the light, I can then open it the usual way. Very strange