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iMovie '08 Capacity Full and Cannot Transfter DVD's into Macbook

I recently purchased a 13" Macbook Unibody off eBay. The unit is in good shape and the previous owner has installed a Zagg Invisible Shield over the entire Macbook and the battery holds a full charge. I bought the Macbook to use editing some old VHS footage I had converted to DVD.

When I try to import a DVD to my desktop so I can edit it using iMovie '08, I get the error "Unable to create 'DVD Video Recording.dmg' (Input/Output Error). At the bottom of the screen it says DVD Video Recording Capacity 2.1 GB
Avaiable 0 Bytes
Used 2.1 GB
Number of Files 4,293,886,887




The Space Utilized indicates: 20.09 GB and Space Free: 277.69 GB. When I received the Macbook I inserted the Applications Install DVD and entered my personal info. I thought this was the clean install you are referring to?

When I purchased the item, the previous owner stated the only blemish was a dead pixel at the bottom of the screen and he showed a picture of it in his add. After re-installing the applications DVD, this one dead pixel is no longer there. I don't know if this is a clue, but I am including all the info I can.


I checked out System Memory in the Activity Monitor and it indicates
Free:2.97GB ; VM Size: 31.57 GB

Wired: 414.92 MB Page Ins: 167.48 MB

Active: 322.36 MB Page Outs: 0 Bytes

Inactive: 45.57 MB Swap Used: 0 Bytes

Used: 782.80 MB

When I click on Disk Activity in indicates:
Reads In: 34065 Data Read: 1.4 GB

Writes Out: 11885 Data Written 703.89 MB

Read In/Read Out and Data Read/Data Written all say 0 Bytes

When I double clicked on Activity Monitor it indicates:

Real Memory Size: 18.43 MB (this fluctuates between 18.39 and 18.50 MB)

Virtual Memory Size: 420.77 MB/421.00 MB

Shared Memory Size: 0 Bytes

Private Memory Size: 8.54 MB/8.71 MB

Virtual Private Memory: 42.45MB/42.67MB

Why do these numbers fluctuate every second or two?

Why won't my Macbook Transfer DVD's into the hardrive so I can edit them with iMovie? Thank you for your help.

Curtis Bradley, R.Ph.

Macbook 13.3 Unibody, Mac OS X (10.0.x), 2.4ghz 320gb 4gb RAM

Posted on Jun 3, 2009 3:49 AM

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Posted on Jun 3, 2009 4:10 AM

I don't have time to give a full answer right now, but if you do a search on "import DVD" or better yet "DVD MPEG STREAMCLIP", you will find lots of entries.
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iMovie '08 Capacity Full and Cannot Transfter DVD's into Macbook

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