I installed iMovie '08 tonight to download some video I took in Rome. In the "old" days, when I was using iMovie '06, I would connect the camera, it could import all the video, and then I could save the iMovie project. Easy as can be.
I tried the same thing with iMovie '08. When it got to the end of the tape, it rewound and then started to play again. While this was happening, the video footage iMovie was captuing was totally different than what was playing on the camera. Does it cache video to the HD while capturing? Seems kind of confusing when what is being captured on the screen is not matching what is playing on the camera.
Next I couldn't figure out how to save, or where the video is saved. I found that it saves automatically (fine but let me have a file save option). I also noticed that each clip is saved as a separate file. Why? Isn't it easier to just have one file to work with? Then, how do I move where the files are located? 3 hours of HD video will fill my local drive. I deleted the project and started a new one saving to my network drive. Once again, it got to the end of the tape, rewound, started playing for about 3 seconds, and then repeated this process. I clicked stop a couple of times but finally had to turn the camera off to stop it. When it stopped, nothing was imported.
I'm trying now for the 3rd time to see what happens. Is anyone else having these problems? My video camera is a Sony HDR-HC1.
I just checked it and no luck saving to the network drive. Plays for about 3 seconds and then rewinds. I restarted it saving to the local HD and then I will have to copy the 40 GB over the network to back it up.
This is a mess. iMovie '06, here we come. Hope I can find my disk.
I tried the same thing with iMovie '08. When it got to the end of the tape, it rewound and then started to play again. While this was happening, the video footage iMovie was captuing was totally different than what was playing on the camera. Does it cache video to the HD while capturing? Seems kind of confusing when what is being captured on the screen is not matching what is playing on the camera.
Next I couldn't figure out how to save, or where the video is saved. I found that it saves automatically (fine but let me have a file save option). I also noticed that each clip is saved as a separate file. Why? Isn't it easier to just have one file to work with? Then, how do I move where the files are located? 3 hours of HD video will fill my local drive. I deleted the project and started a new one saving to my network drive. Once again, it got to the end of the tape, rewound, started playing for about 3 seconds, and then repeated this process. I clicked stop a couple of times but finally had to turn the camera off to stop it. When it stopped, nothing was imported.
I'm trying now for the 3rd time to see what happens. Is anyone else having these problems? My video camera is a Sony HDR-HC1.
I just checked it and no luck saving to the network drive. Plays for about 3 seconds and then rewinds. I restarted it saving to the local HD and then I will have to copy the 40 GB over the network to back it up.
This is a mess. iMovie '06, here we come. Hope I can find my disk.