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You have to buy MPEG-1 support from ?

ThePowerOfTheMac

ThePowerOfTheMac

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Hello. I have a Sony Handycam DCR-SX44 video camera and when I try to plug it in and drag the movies from iMovie, it says something like this: "The File is Not Supported". Any help?
 
ThePowerOfTheMac said:
Hello. I have a Sony Handycam DCR-SX44 video camera and when I try to plug it in and drag the movies from iMovie, it says something like this: "The File is Not Supported". Any help?
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That's a flash memory based camera and it stores files as MPEG-2, according to Sony. So at a minimum I think you'll need the Quicktime MPEG-2 component, which sadly isn't free. And more sadly, isn't as fully featured as some would like.

But before you spend any money, you should search the iMovie forums for the many, many posts there on this same issue, getting MPEG-2 files into iMovie. Maybe somebody else has worked out a better (eg. free) workaround. I believe - my speculation - that Apple didn't include this capability because it would have made it far easier to copy stuff from DVDs into iMovie projects.
 
Easy way is to convert mpeg-2 to mpeg-1 that imovie can support.:D That's what i usually do.
 
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