Q: Where should I store imported videos
I have video 8 and Hi 8 PAL and NTSC videos imported to Windows 7 Movie Maker. I also have some other video clips of various format. Lately I have DV tapes to be imported and stored. These videos are the "source" to be edited later. I intend to store them all on the MACINTASH HD2 (2nd hard drive) of a MacMini Server. But for convenience sake, I am using MacBook Pro much more often.
1) I tested my old Sony DV Camcorder and it works with iMovie '11. But by default, if I do it on MacBook Pro, the video are stored under the Event Library of my MacBook Pro, instead of the MacMini Server, and sometimes the videos are stored in a wrong year (e.g. a 60 minutes tape, with the first 5 seconds in 2013 but the rest in 2008, then the whole tape will be imported into 2013.)
2) The tags that I entered to the Windows 7 Movie Maker videos' properties are all gone. But the videos are MPEG-2, mostly. How do I copy / import them into iMovie, or the source video library, in which format?
My problem is:
What settings should I make on the MacMini Server (each account?), the MacBook Pro and the iMovie app in these two machines so that I can store all source video in one place (e.g. iMovie Camera Archive) so that I can later use them (readonly) in iMovie projects / other applications like Adobe Premiere Pro?
MAC MINI SERVER (LATE 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Posted on Aug 7, 2013 2:01 AM