I am trying to import into imovie and it has been optimizing since before I went to bed last night. It says "optimizing" but does not show the time remaining. The time remaining bar has not moved. I tried to import twice yesterday and got the same result. There is 233 video clips that are needed to be imported. I do not know what to do at this point. I'm pretty ametuer when it comes to these things. Please help.
MacBook Pro
And I've tried importing just one video instead of the 233 and it does the same thing.
Anyone? I"m kind of desperate to get these videos downloaded as my daughter needs one of them for school.
What is the source of those video clips? What format are they in?
They ate MPEG files. I've downloaded from this camcorder many times before and had no problems.
Are not ate!
tiffg wrote:
Are not ate!
Pardon?? 😕
tiffg wrote:
They ate MPEG files. I've downloaded from this camcorder many times before and had no problems.
What kind of mpeg files? What camcorder?
Sony camcorder. I don't know how to find out what kind of mpeg files
What Sony camcorder?
Please try to be a bit helpful so we can help you.
Handycam DCR-SX41
I have also saved the files on my computer and tried to import that way vs from the USB from the camera and the name is greyed out and won't let me click on it to import.
Hey so here's a solution but you will lost your iMovie Project. hope it helps:
1. Go to Finder --> Movies
2. delete the iMovie Events and the iMovie Projects folder. The next time you open iMovie it will auto generate the two folders, reseting iMovie to default in the way.
CAUTION!!!: If you delete the two folders you can't recover it again, and even if you save the projects in project mode (Like the photo below) After you reset iMovie and you try to open that project again it will tell you source clip not find and your video won't be able to play....
So make your decision wisely 🙂
And btw here's a good video converter for your future projects 🙂
http://download.cnet.com/HandBrake/3000-2194_4-10808250.html
Hi
Wasn't there some Cameras where You needed to Connect Camera - or Card-reader and from Within iMovie import.
That just drag and drop files from Card/Camera to DeskTop didn't work.
But the full structure were needed for import.
But as this is a Camera as:
and no AVCHD or else - it should work as before
mpeg-2 use to crave the MPEG-2 component from Apple. But may be not here ? 🙂
Yours Bengt W
mpeg2 is the highly compressed DVD format. I am unaware of any version of iMovie that can use that. Am I wrong?
Yes
Me confused too.
Yours Bengt W
imovie has been optimizing for over 12 hours
