Hi, all, new to the Mac and iMovie application and trying to edit some old home movies. Last year, my wife got me a new hard-drive based camcorder and we offloaded our old Sony Digital8. Before we sold that, I imported all the tapes we had into DV-AVI on my old Vista laptop and did some editing using Pinnacle software. I only did maybe two of the tapes before the laptop died, starting my path to my new MBP, so now I was going to start the editing again using iMovie. One thing I haven't been able to replicate, though, is grabbing the original time code information out of the DV-AVI file on the Mac.
Using Pinnacle Studio, when I imported a DV-AVI file, it would automatically create scenes based on when the time-code changed. So, I recorded my kid doing something cute on 3/25/02, stopped the camera, then did another recording two days later. The Pinnacle software would not only split this big hour-long DV-AVI file into parts based on the camera start-stop points, but it would also tell me what that time code was so I could see now when I recorded it. Important for doing a DVD and saying, "See, Alex was walking when he was 6 months old!", hard to remember the dates without being able to see that meta-data.
That being said, I've only opened iMovie once and tried to import one of the DV-AVI files, and it created scenes about every minute or so (a lot of scenes for an hour long AVI). Is there a way to have it look at that time code, and at least be able to tell me when a segment was recorded?
Andy
Using Pinnacle Studio, when I imported a DV-AVI file, it would automatically create scenes based on when the time-code changed. So, I recorded my kid doing something cute on 3/25/02, stopped the camera, then did another recording two days later. The Pinnacle software would not only split this big hour-long DV-AVI file into parts based on the camera start-stop points, but it would also tell me what that time code was so I could see now when I recorded it. Important for doing a DVD and saying, "See, Alex was walking when he was 6 months old!", hard to remember the dates without being able to see that meta-data.
That being said, I've only opened iMovie once and tried to import one of the DV-AVI files, and it created scenes about every minute or so (a lot of scenes for an hour long AVI). Is there a way to have it look at that time code, and at least be able to tell me when a segment was recorded?
Andy
. For most (read all that I know) NLEs to use Scene Detect/Scene Extract, you have to do this within the brand of system you captured your footage. So only AVID will detect TC information on other AVID systems using OMF files. Same thing with FCP...You cannot bring a MOV file into an AVID or Pinnacle system and expect to get the tape information and the TC breaks, etc...It just is a movie file, not a stream, tape or batch list. You can switch different MOV files between FCP systems and retain that information, and if you bring the project file along with it you will have all of your IO points, etc... 
