I've been trying to edit this video all morning long but I keep getting a dropped frames error and I have to start all over!!! I did try to keep importing but then when I was done only the part after I got the error showed in my browser! Does anyone recommend importing video using iMovie then exporting to FCE?? I've never had any problem importing video into iMovie. I read somewhere that I was getting these errors because I was multitasking, but in iMovie I multi task all the time while importing video. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Import with iMovie edit with FCE?
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I really don't recommend multi-tasking with Final Cut importing.. also check your preferences and uncheck "Stop capture on dropped frames"
Don't go the iMovie way!
I am not sure if it makes sense to uncheck the box. You might get problems with audio and vidio sync.
Despite some of the more paranoid answers her, you can import with imovie just fine and export back out to dv files to be loaded into FCE. There will not be an audio sync problem if you have the lastest verison of FCE 2 or FCE HD. What you will have is one very annoying thing though... you will not get realtime audio. Forwhatever reason, FCE ( and FCP ) does not allow realtime playback of audio in the imovie captured format. I didn't even know this was possible to have alternate audio formats in a dv file, but it is, and FCE doens't like imovie's!
Believe me this can get hugely annoying if you have a large project, becuase *any* audio filtering will cause you to have to rerender.
That said, for whatever reason, imovie's capture method is still better then FCE's. Go figure.