trouble importing Mini DV tape videos to IMovie

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trouble importing Mini DV tape videos to IMovie

All of the videos i import to IMovie are broken into 100's of 1s or 2s video clips. I am working in latest version of Catalina and i have all the chords required to connect my Sony camera to my IMac. Video imports without issue, but when i go to try to edit, i have 100's of tiny video clips that are choppy and dont integrate well. i have tried to merge all of the clips into 1 file and re-edit, but this does not help! Overall video is NOT worth working on. How can i get IMovie to NOT break the clips into sooo many segmented clips?

Posted on Apr 22, 2020 11:24 AM

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thesurreyfriends

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Apr 22, 2020 12:09 PM in response to stewg8r

Try importing using the Record feature in QuickTime Player .

If import is successful you will need to bring this into iMovie.

Importing DV tape into iMovie with more recent OSs is becoming more difficult.

QuickTime Player can be more forgiving.

Link to info on QTP here....

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201066

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stewg8r Author

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Apr 22, 2020 1:13 PM in response to thesurreyfriends

thank you! i had seen some youtube videos that said QuickTime wasn't working to capture camera videos with the Catalina update! I should have verified that for myself!!!

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