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iMovie HD to Windows Movie Maker

I have some movie clips in iMovie HD 5.0.2 (currently unconverted) - what's the best way to get them into a format the Windows Movie Maker can read, as it seems that none of the formats under "Expert" are supported by WMM.

Is there any (ideally free) conversion software available for OSX 10.4 PPC that can do this?

Unfortunately, it's not an option to not use Windows Movie Maker.


Thanks for the help

15" G4 PowerBook, 1.5GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 2GB RAM

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 6:17 AM

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Feb 28, 2008 2:52 AM in response to thomasp

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

Feb 28, 2008 3:02 AM in response to thomasp

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

Feb 28, 2008 6:44 AM in response to thomasp

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.

Feb 28, 2008 8:07 AM in response to QuickTimeKirk

QuickTimeKirk wrote:
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.

I've been told it doesn't by the owner of the PC... And, checking the Microsoft website, WMM does not support importing of .dv files - it might support them if they're coming straight off a camera, but not when the file's sitting on the hard drive.

Mar 20, 2008 9:32 AM in response to thomasp

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.

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