Re: DV Import compatible for both iMovie and Wimdows Movie Maker?
- From: "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 18:33:00 -0500
"Neil" <neilbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey all -
Trying to find a solution which will allow both my wife and I to play
with our DV camera in our preferred formats. I'm on a Mac using
iMovie, she's on XP using Windows Movie Maker. We store the video on
an external USB drive.
So far, I've been importing the video using iMovie, and can dump it
out to the disk as a DV file by dragging it to the hard drive in the
Finder. However, she doesn't appear to be able to open these files.
The obviosu solution I see to making it so she can use these files is
to dump it back out to tape and let her import it. However, that means
everything exists twice... and therefore takes up double the storage.
We'd like to keep it as uncompressed as possible... some of this will
probably get burned out to DVD for sharing with family, so anything we
do should still allow us that option.
What's the best way we can import the video in a format we both can
use on our preferred platforms? No Mac vs PC arguments, please -
neither of us is going to change. :-)
Thanks
-Neil
I would assume that it is already in a format that both
systems can deal with, when it is in the camcorder. As
far as I know, both Mac and PC can interface with the
same cameras, using iLink or Firewire. You need a
special setup to get it any less compressed, than what
your camera has recorded and provides over IEEE-
1394.
Both you and your more practical wife (PC owner),
would benefit from having dedicated "capture" drives
in addition to your "System" drives. Hard drive costs
are quite low now a days.
You should be able to share the camcorder, long
enough for each of you to create your own source
file. That should be much more harmonious than
trying to work from one common file.
If you are sharing a broadband connection, then
you have a LAN of some sort connecting the
computers and your router & modem setup. If it
is a wired LAN you could add a Gigabit Switch
and create a high speed LAN that would support
using a NAS with a Gigabit interface. A good NAS
can exchange files with many different systems. (They
commonly operate using a Linux OS, but that is
transparent to the user.)
Luck;
Ken
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