imovie, 7gb free but not enough for a 74mb clip?

[840quadra]

I am stumped.

I have downloaded a few keynotes, and wanted to put one of them that I hadn't yet seen on my iPod 5g. I have been using iMovie on my G5 to copy such videos into a new imovie project, then convert it down to a ipod compatible file.

My iBook currently has 7gb free on the drive were i want to create the iMovie project, but it tells me there is not enough free space on my drive to add a 74mb clip into my empty project. In other words, iMovie is saying I need more then 93 times the total disk space a 74mb file takes, in order to add it to my project

Is there some switch, tool, cache or buffer setting I can change to allow me to copy this QT file in?

Thanks for any help!

 

[ITASOR]

I think it's because when you import any type of video into iMovie, it changes it to raw .dv format, which takes up a enormous amount of space.

 

[wwooden]

If you have quicktime Pro, there is an option to convert any movie that quicktime can play to a format for the iPod. If you don't have Pro, there is a program, iSquint, which is free and does the same thing. Sure seems a lot easier to me then opening up iMovie every time.

 

[840quadra]

If you have quicktime Pro, there is an option to convert any movie that quicktime can play to a format for the iPod. If you don't have Pro, there is a program, iSquint, which is free and does the same thing. Sure seems a lot easier to me then opening up iMovie every time.

I have Pro, I didn't see that option. I will give it a try..

Thanks,

840

 

[gangst]

If your just converting video, it'll be a lot quicker and effective to use a conversion program such as FFmpegX http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php.

 

[buryyourbrideau]

i would say to use iSquint.

the best at doing the conversion IMO