my old imovie video library ,how do i use it with new ssd drive

Hi Matt

JUST TRYING THAT NOW, IT HAS PROCESSES THE FILES FOR A SHORT TIME , THEN CAME UP WITH A MASSIVE LIST OF FILES THAT IT SAID ARE NOT SUPPORTED , I CLICKED ON CONTINUE, IT STATED IT WOULD NOT IMPORT THOSE ON THE LIST , AFTER ABOUT A MINUTE IT APPEARS TO HAVE IMPORTED A LOT OF MOVIES ALL IN ONE FILE

I DONT KNOW WHAT IS IN THERE YET , OR WHATS MISSING

PROBLEMSO FAR IS THERE SEEMS TO BE ALOT OF MY VIDEO BUT ALL IN ONE PROJECT INSTEAD OF DOZENS OF SEPERATE EVENTS???

PS -VIDEO PLAYBACK SEEMS APPAULING QUALLITY

i have just noticed athin blue circle that has appeared on top right of the screen , when i hover over it it says "importing 11 of 1171clips , then 1301m (i assume m = minutes)

lets see what tomorrow brings as it time to leave the mac to do its thing

hi

well after several attempts at the above suggstion by Mathew, ive still not succeded , i belive the advise is correct but the machine dont want to do the work ,

after a ouple of attempts , imovie closes , and when loook at the file size its around 65gb to 75 gb

i have had a re measure of my original folder size and its actually 459gb

maybe it a size thing , could it be the hard drive is working too hard and closing ?, just a guess ,

what i am thinking of doing is as Mathew suggests, but instead of copying from my copy of files already on my firewire hard drive , which i am using imovie to create a further copy on the same hard drive , i think i will put my old apple drive in a cradle and make a new library as advised by mathew , but then populate it from my original footage on the apple hard drive in the cradle

here goes.

Brian

well , i did as i suggested i would do above , again the transfer failed , i measured the successful transfer and it was 170gb, instead of starting again , i tried to re import everything again , and it was a success , the system seemed to recognise that it had already transfered to 170gb , it did not try to import that footage again , but went on to import the rest of the footage with success.

there is a shortfal of around 20gb but i think that may be my completed projects, the ones ive burnt to disc, i havnt had time to work tat out but i will report back with my findings

i see one problem so far , the files are not imported and listed as before with seperate dates and titles, i have just one long list of video foootage with no titles ,this maybe that i have not asked for them to be displayed a certain way , but i havnt sorted that out if it can be done .

when i right clip on the newly created library i do have an option to

"consolidate movie library" that explins that it will copy all files into the movie library .

do i need / want to do that ???

i dontt know what it means or what effect it will have on my files

Brian

what i have also found is that although the thumbnails of the video look good quality , when i ask the video to play it plays back in the preview window and looks very block as if filmed in very poor resolution , but it is actually recorded in high resolution , ?

Just a quick thank you to Matthew Morgan , for taking the time and effort to help a complete stranger with a frustrating problem . i realy do appreciate the help

your answer solved my problem .

thank you

Brian

unfortunatly , not all is well ,

the videos appear ok and f high quality when i look at the thumbnails, however when i play them in the play window they still appear very poor quality and blocky , i have uploaded a 5 second clip to youtube and it remains the same poor wuality

begining to wish i had not replaced the hard drive now , may be easier to re instal my original hard drive , at least i will still have good quality video , i think