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How to import mpeg files downloaded from a Google Drive?

I recently downloaded 18 large clips of a recital which were in .mpeg format. iMovie refused to import any of them. Is there a way to do it and make a movie out of them? The combined files total almost 2 GB.


Thanks.

MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Sep 26, 2014 3:29 PM

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Sep 27, 2014 7:21 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter

Karsten,


When I double click the file, it opens in Quicktime player and can be played by clicking the arrow in the center of the screen. Command-I tells me that it's an MPEG movie and further down it tells me that it will open with QuickTime Player. There are other choices in the menu, but iMovie is not one of them. I want to take all 18 segments of this recital, put them in order and burn them as a movie to a DVD. The files total almost 9 GB.


Thanks.

Sep 29, 2014 8:47 AM in response to concertkey

concertkey wrote:

… A final question -- besides the fact that a DVD-R will only hold 4.7 GB of data, could I make an iMovie at either 420p or 720p? …

a) the standards of videoDVD allow only 480i (PAL: 576i) - so, somewhere in the workflow, camera>>edit>>disk-authoring, the resolution has to be conformed to that standards.


b) size (MBs/GBs) doesn't matter in disk-making, but length (hh:min:sec). Due to the various conversion processes which take place in the making of the disk, the file-size of you project has no relevant info. Just its length. A normal, single-layered DVD fits up to 1h in perfect quality, 2h in acceptable quality, and if the authoring apps supports it, you can squeeze literally 'hours' of video onto a single disk... with tame pic quality...- 😁


so, silly example, a 1080/60p project, 90min, exported as proRes -Master could be 60, 70, 80GBs in size - but fits onto a 4.7GBs DVD-r ..

How to import mpeg files downloaded from a Google Drive?

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