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Importing 1080i AVCHD to iMovie 09

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pika2000

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Through my research of finding a camcorder, I come up with this question. How does iMovie 09 interact with 1080i AVCHD video? I see there's an option to import it as 960x540. Now if I did that, would iMovie automatically de-interlace the video? If it does, then what would happen to the original video? If iMovie 09 downscale the video, then what would it use for the 720p output?

So many questions, and it's hard combing through the anecdotal experiences online.
 
I can't really comment on how iMovie handles it, but I know importing AVCHD content into FCP has been a breeze. FCP transcodes it to my choice of Apple codecs. Though since iMovie 09 only supports up to 720p, you might just want to find a camera that does 720p native. Otherwise you mgiht want to look at Final Cut Express instead of iMovie
 
Magaman said:
you might just want to find a camera that does 720p native.
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Well, thing is, it seems impossible to do that (other than the flip-like camcorders or digicams). Pretty much all HD camcorders seem to record in 1080i without the option to reduce it.
 
iMovie HD ('06) can handle 1080 video just fine. I prefer it over iMovie '09. Personally I find '09's interface to be more difficult to use than Final Cut Pro so I use either FCP or iMovie HD.

Edit: if you google around for iMovie HD there are download sites with it available. Before iMovie 09 came out Apple used to provide iMovie HD for free to address some issues with iMovie 09.
 
it seems that iMovie 06 can support AVCHD files, only 08 and 09 can support AVCHD files while they cant support 1080i. It is annoying.
 
hatetea58 said:
it seems that iMovie 06 can support AVCHD files, only 08 and 09 can support AVCHD files while they cant support 1080i. It is annoying.
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what do you mean that they can't support 1080i? At least videos from my HF200 (1080i50) works ok on iMovie 09.
 
miikap said:
But that isn't true. If we really are talking about iMovie 09... At least I don't have any problems importing 1080i or 1080p material.
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I think he is also talking about iMovie 09. Anyway, i havent used iMovie 09, so i have no idea about it. 😀
 
iMovie 6HD will not import AVCHD. Already tried it. I use iMovie 8 which supports AVCHD. Since all iMovie packages imports to AIC, I can move what I imported in iMovie 8 to iMovie 6HD. iMovie 8 & 9 does support 1080i. I import from my Sony SR11 all the time, which is 1080i.
 
bearcatrp said:
iMovie 6HD will not import AVCHD. Already tried it. I use iMovie 8 which supports AVCHD. Since all iMovie packages imports to AIC, I can move what I imported in iMovie 8 to iMovie 6HD. iMovie 8 & 9 does support 1080i. I import from my Sony SR11 all the time, which is 1080i.
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When you import the 1080i clip to iMovie09, what does it do? Does it de-interlace it? And I assume iMovie09 will transcode the video to AIC during import?
 
bearcatrp said:
iMovie 6HD will not import AVCHD. Already tried it. I use iMovie 8 which supports AVCHD. Since all iMovie packages imports to AIC, I can move what I imported in iMovie 8 to iMovie 6HD. iMovie 8 & 9 does support 1080i. I import from my Sony SR11 all the time, which is 1080i.
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Well, have u try to import 1080p to imovie08 or 09? will it work?
 
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