iMovie HD to Windows Movie Maker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WindowsMovieMaker
Yep. They want DV-AVI as the format. Same thing but in an AVI container.
Export from iMovie to AVI (Expert Settings) and click the "Options" button to set DV as the codec.

Hi Thomas

Think You need to convert to .wmv or .avi - but there will be more problems.

You need to transport them and PCW can't open Mac OS Extended formatted hard disks

Then You could use a DOS/UNIX one - but then there is a 2?Gb file limit that has
to be handled. I don't know how.

In Your situation I would:
• Copy back to a miniDV tape (Camera) and use this in the PC.

Yours Bengt W

Hi

SORRY THIS WAS - Backward info - from .avi/.wmv to streamingDV -
may be the way is reversible.

Just cutting and pasting from old doc (to explain strange formulations).

.avi:
You can use MPEG-Streamclip to convert the AVI files so that QuickTime can play them
and to streamingDV for iMovie.

.wmv:
iMovie is by concept meant to work with miniDV camcorders.. any other 'imports' need a conversion or are not supported... a quick solution would be purchasing a plug-in from www.flip4mac.com, 49$, which allows the conversion of .wmv (a PC format) into something useful for iM (dv-stream) ...
or, ask the emailer to send it in some other codec .. mpg4 for example .. which will be converted by iM 'out-of-the-box' ... and, to work with iM, the video should fulfill a few standards .. 720x480 pixel resolution, 30 frames per second ... otherwise, you will experience a dramatic loss of quality ..

Yours Bengt W

Windows Movie Maker app supports .dv (DV Stream) and iMovie can make them.
If you just want the "raw" imports made by iMovie you can find them inside the iMovie Project folder.
If you want to add effect and titles to your file then you would export to High Quality QuickTime file. These added effects can't be adjusted by Movie Maker.
These .dv files are very large in file size (13 GB's per hour) so you'll need a very large Flash drive to store them. Better method would be to move them to an external hard drive. Mac's can write to Windows formatted drives.

QuickTimeKirk wrote:
You don't format the drive using a Mac.
Use the PC to format using NTFS and avoid FAT 16 or FAT 32.

Mac OS X cannot write to NTFS-formatted volumes out of the box. You have to use third party software to achieve that. AFAIK this hasn't changed in Leopard.

As was mentioned by QuickTimeKirk, use the Expert Settings to Export an AVI file with DV/DVCPRO as the video codec.

If you choose to use PCM as your audio codec though, be sure to un-check "Little Endian" so you export the Windows friendly "Big Endian" format. Windows technically allows either, but I have run into some problems with older machines/codecs in the past. If one does not work, feel free to try the other.

Hi QT-kirk

But how do You handle the 2?Gb (or 4?) file size on a DOS hard disk ?

Yours most interested Bengt W

You don't format the drive using a Mac.
Use the PC to format using NTFS and avoid FAT 16 or FAT 32.

Great

Just the pice I needed.

Yours humble Bengt W