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Importing video into iMovie

I am trying to import HD video from my Sanyo Xacti video camera into iMovie but several seconds of the video are cut off for each video I try to import. Most recently I tried to import a two minute video an almost 1 minute was not imported. Any ideas why this keeps happening. Thanks.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Nov 29, 2009 9:41 PM

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Aug 2, 2010 9:45 PM in response to ChrisForest

Add me to the list. Samsung HMX-H200 Flash based camera. All video stored on a high capacity (32 GB) flash card. Import from Camera - randomly cuts off some (not all) clips. Tried importing a single clip and it got it all. Tried importing the same clip along with a dozen others and that clip only partially imports. Finally used "Import -> Movies" and selected the clips by file name off the mounted disk. Seems to work that way but takes longer. I'm glad I discovered this because I had just filmed a friends wedding and had imported them into iMovie and never looked at them yet. Probably once I got around to editing I would have been puzzled as to why the videos stopped before I remembered stopping them. Good thing I never erased them from the card yet! I hope Apple is listening because this clearly isn't necessarily a camera problem.

Importing video into iMovie

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