Q: Will compressor work with imovie and vesa versa?
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Feb 9, 2015 6:34 AMby Russ H,Yes, Any file that iMovie can export can be brought into Compressor for transcoding and/or reformatting (say, changing frame rates or resolution). If this is a one time need, consider MPEG Streamclip, which is free and can do many of the same things that Compressor can do, although your choice of codecs is more limited.
As far as iMovie working wit Compressor output files, you'll have to be more specific about what you had in mind.
Russ
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Feb 9, 2015 6:44 AMby Pre7,What I am doing is I am recording a worship service with blackmagic shuttle, which produces a very large .mov file. I want to cut the video down to just be the message portion to put on our church's website. I will use imovie to edit the video down but then I need to either compress the file before editing or after to be able to post online. If you know of any information that can help me make this process work smoothly I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you
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Feb 9, 2015 7:28 AMby Russ H,What version of iMovie do you have? Just to confirm, you are able to open the files that were written to the recorder in iMovie?
If you can import and edit in iMovie, there should be an low bit rate h.264 export option within iMovie that will give dramatically lower file sizes. Or you could bring it into QuickTime X and export something Web-friendly,
Russ
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Feb 9, 2015 12:14 PMby Russ H,That's correct. I don;t believe you need a compression program to do what you want. I had to look up the export options for the new iMovie because my versions are older. There is a File choice in the Share menu which gives you a custom settings option. From that a you can adjust the bitrate to your requirements for the Web. For example, a preset that I use often is 720p # 8 bits per second.
Good luck.
Russ
PS: BTW, I was impressed by what I saw of the new iMovie; for example I didn't realize that it supports Pro Res.
