Hello,
As a school project I have to make a short movie, one of a few minutes. The school requires us to do all the editing on Windows Movie Maker (since this is all they have), and most other people will be working with either hard drive cameras or still cameras with video functionality. I, however, will be using a miniDV camera (since that is the best what I have).
Now, the problem: we would have about half an hour of footage which would need to be transferred onto the school computers. Those do have FireWire ports - but 4-pin, and I don't have any 4-pin cables. Also, capturing this in class would take too much time, since we're going to be working under time constraints.
So my plan was to capture the footage into DV format at home, using iMovie 06/08 (I do not have any PCs capable of this task) and my iMac. Then I wanted to dump this onto my 8 GB iPod nano (which I would format for Windows) and take it to school that way (using the iPod in disk mode). Is this possible? Would Windows Movie Maker accept iMovie-captured DV files? Would an 8GB iPod be enough for 30 mins of footage? Or is there a better solution to my problem?
Thanks a lot
As a school project I have to make a short movie, one of a few minutes. The school requires us to do all the editing on Windows Movie Maker (since this is all they have), and most other people will be working with either hard drive cameras or still cameras with video functionality. I, however, will be using a miniDV camera (since that is the best what I have).
Now, the problem: we would have about half an hour of footage which would need to be transferred onto the school computers. Those do have FireWire ports - but 4-pin, and I don't have any 4-pin cables. Also, capturing this in class would take too much time, since we're going to be working under time constraints.
So my plan was to capture the footage into DV format at home, using iMovie 06/08 (I do not have any PCs capable of this task) and my iMac. Then I wanted to dump this onto my 8 GB iPod nano (which I would format for Windows) and take it to school that way (using the iPod in disk mode). Is this possible? Would Windows Movie Maker accept iMovie-captured DV files? Would an 8GB iPod be enough for 30 mins of footage? Or is there a better solution to my problem?
Thanks a lot