I have a device that makes FAT 32 video recordings. I also have a camcorder that makes MP4 recordings. I need to edit both together to make short videos for YouTube. Is there ANY way this can be done with iMovie, on a MacBook running Mac OS X 10.7.5, or must I locate a third-party editing program?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
There is no such thing as a FAT 32 video format. It may be Windows Media Player.
What is the file extension?
Both QuickTimeKirk and Rich839 make excellent points. This video editing I do, I do too infrequently. My question was based on recollected aggravation I encountered my last time around. I'll soon take my deep dive back into this world and try to document my issue much better. But at the moment I am wrestling with my mistaken "update" of the Filmora V 8.1.1 application I'd purchased to do my editing. When my application was upgraded to V 8.2.3 it instantly became unusable by any MacBook running any Mac OSX 10.7.5 or older. And somehow getting the older V 8.1.1 version back on my computer appears to be an exercise that makes my problems with the FAT 32 question pale by comparison. The "silver bullet" would be discovering the video files exported from the el cheapo surveillance camera inside my wood duck nesting boxes, and its corresponding video recording unit, onto my FAT 32 (formatted) thumbdrive would somehow be recognized by iMovie. It is a twisted web we weave, trying to post Pine Swamp Wood Ducks on YouTube, but I am as un-dissuaded as the feather-critters in question and shoulder on!
While I remain clueless about it's use in assembling a short film with iMovie, here's the skinny on FAT 32:
File Allocation Table - Wikipedia
As disk drives evolved, the capabilities of the file system have been extended accordingly, resulting in three major file system variants: FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32. The FAT standard has also been expanded in other ways while generally preserving backward compatibility with existing software.
Shouldering on, here is additional information developed this afternoon:
a) The device I need to "export" video from is a KT&C OMNI 960 digital recorder, great for saving the output from, in this instance, four video surveillance cameras;
b) This OMNI has a UBS port that accepts a thumb drive for "exporting." The OMNI is able to format a drive in either of two "file systems:" FAT32 (default) or NTFS;
c) I recently experimented by "exporting" files onto the thumb drive using each format. The NTFS formatted disk "was not readable by this computer."
d) The FAT32 formatted disk WAS readable by the MacBook, but the exported files, which had now acquired an ".mp4" suffix, could not be opened by the computer's QuickTime (default) application.
e) BUT, in another life, I must have downloaded the VLC application. This VLC app was pleased to open the ".mp4" movie file, and allowed me to watch the video recording, made on the OMNI, on my computer.
This is as far as I've gotten, which is a lot further than i was a day ago. I will eventually wrestle with this some more, and am hopeful there is some way to use part of this ".mp4" movie in my computer's iMovie application. If anyone in the community has any shortcuts for how to make that happen, please bring 'em on!
Try using your VLC app to convert the Mp4 file into Mp4/AAC. The AAC stands for Advanced Audio Coding. Once you have converted it, it should play in iMovie. Alternatively, you can use the free download Handbrake to make the conversion.
-- Rich
What on earth is a FAT32 video recording?
I know that thanks, the point is what it is not, it is not a file format at all.
Rich:
Thank you!
That right there is POETRY, and I feel like I'm back on track with a project that I'd like to wrap before the next round of activity this Spring.
You're the BEST!
Mike R
legaldesign
Hi, Michael,
I would try to import the video into iMovie and then see if you can edit it. iMovie should be able to read a FAT 32 drive, if that's what you have. If you cannot edit it, then you will need to convert the video into a format that iMovie supports, such as Mp4/AAC or .mov.
As QuickTimeKirk says, there is no such thing as a FAT 32 video format. FAT 32 is a format for a drive. I think that what you are saying is that you have videos on a FAT 32 formatted drive that were created by a device that you have, possibly Windows Media Player. If that's correct, then, as QuickTimeKirk says, you need to provide us with the file extension of the video. You should also provide the format of the video itself (audio codec, video codec) that you can find when you do a control-click on the video's icon.
-- Rich
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