Have an 8 minute collection of 6 different video clips .mov that take up 5.4GB! must have made a mistake when importing? Currently using imovie 10.0.3, clips were imported from avchd sony camcorder in last years version of imovie. Any ideas of how to reduce the size to a normal use of storage space....
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
Have you tried to share and export to quicktime using a smaller format? Mpeg perhaps?
wow that worked well, thanks. That would save alot of storage space if I could do that with all my videos... Is it still a good size to edit a movie?
Would it be possible to import in the future as Mpeg instead of the default .mov when I import in imovie. Or is that not a good idea. When I import now with the latest version of imovie the size is quite tolerable, I believe. Is 10 minutes = 1 GB alot??
maybe I should film in Mpeg but not sure if my sony hdr-cx210 can...
Just looking for a novice user friendly solution for video import 😐
thx
If you want to keep your high resolution quality then 5.4 GB is reasonable for 8 minutes of 1080p after imovie 10 has transcoded it. The final shared movie will be in the region of 1 GB. You need lots of disk space for movie work - Most people end up using an external hard disk.
Geoff.
8 minutes of video is 5.4GB in iMovie how to reduce?
