.mov file not importing correctly...

[jmsait19]

let me start off by saying i'm not a pro video editor... that being said, i'm not trying to do pro things here either...

to the issue!

i have this .mov file. about 20 minutes long. i find that i can drag it in to iDVD and make a DVD of it pretty easily. this is fine, and may have to work, but i want to cut it into a couple different pieces, because it has a couple different "scenes".

i have tried two different processes (if there is a third and easier one please alert me)

iMovie - i opened iMovie and began to import the file. to import a 20 minute .mov it was going to take close to an hour. this seems unnecessarily long. like extremely uncessarily long. but like i said i don't know a ton about these things so maybe thats normal. but on a C2D MBP it seems that this should move along a little quicker...

Final Cut Pro - i opened a new file in FCP and imported the file. this went very fast but only imported about two minutes of the file. i tried dragging and dropping the file onto the browser window and the same thing happened. very strange results. i looked through the settings and menus and couldn't really figure anything out...

Can anyone explain to me what exactly is going on here? am i doing something wrong? wrong format? wrong process? wrong setting?

Thanks as always,

Jason

 

[gauchogolfer]

I'd say that your best bet is to convert that .mov file to a DV file. This will be handled better in iMovie (and FCP, for that matter).

What is the source of this video? The .mov format is a container that can hold a variety of video/audio information, so we'll need to know a little bit more about this particular case.

 

[jmsait19]

It was a file on DVD given to me from someone needing a couple copies made. When I put it in it shows up as EasyShare which makes me think it was recorded on a Kodak EasyShare camera (I think they make those...)

Anyways, I'll do a search for a good converter from .mov to DV... but feel free to post one if you know it.

 

[gauchogolfer]

If you just want to make copies, you don't need to go through the trouble of FCP or even iMovie. Just burn a new DVD from the Finder, or Toast if you've got it.