Craigcro

Q: Why do imported movie clips take up so much space?

I've recently moved over from a Windows PC to a Mac, and have been busy transferring over all my music, photos and videos. The problem I'm having is with the videos... they seem to be taking up far too much space on the Mac.

 

On the PC, the size of all the movie clips combined is 56.2 GB, but on the Mac the exact same clips take up 261.77 GB (the size of the iMovie events folder). And that takes into account the size of the thumbnails and the "iMovie Original Movies" folders (I actually emptied all of the "iMovie Original Movies" folders completely).

 

If I look at the size of one specific video (a .mov file), then it starts getting a little crazy. One that takes up 27.2 MB on the PC will take up 149.7 MB on the Mac. Another takes up 17.4 MB on the PC and 109.7 MB on the Mac. They are still the exact same files -- nothing has changed, nothing has been edited, they've simply been imported into iMovie at the optimized size (960x540) though the iMovie DropBox.

 

I don't understand why they have ballooned in size by such a great amount.

 

If anyone has any clues about how I can get the file sizes down, or any ideas about why they are so large, that would be great

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Posted on Jun 15, 2013 4:52 AM

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