imovie 08 or imovie hd for general importing and storing footage

[poppet]

Hi ya,

I hope you can answer this one for me at all please. I've just got the HV20 and have a macbook. I have friends over and will be importing my footage so I can reuse my tapes. What I would like to do is just import the footage for editing at a later date. If I import in imovie 08 can I then move it to imoviehd at a later date for editing as I will have a bit more control with some of the features in the older version.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Regards

Poppet

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Well, why don't you just try it? It wouldn't take you more time than writing this question. Unless '08 does something really weird, the footage should work in '06 btw.

[poppet]

Well, why don't you just try it? It wouldn't take you more time than writing this question. Unless '08 does something really weird, the footage should work in '06 btw.

Perhaps I should have adding something on this. I know I can do it in both, imovie hd just puts it in to one project and imovie does all the events thing but I don't know if ones better than the other. I wondered if taking it to imovie 08 first then moving across to hd compromises any of the footage.

I would be interested to see if anyone has an opinion on how they would do it if they had a load of footage they wanted to get to a hard drive on a macbook.

Thanks Poppet

[hotsewer]

I think you have to be careful with Imovie. I have Imovie HD 6 on my Mac. I have imported several hours of footage from HV20. While most of the time things are fine, I have seen problems! There are scenes where the motion becomes jerky and on other clips the sound is slowed down (its like the sound clip is stretched to fit the video clip, which is longer). I posted this problem on the forum earlier but had little response. However, I do know of at least one person who has had a similar problem.

Tim G

[sp8ce07]

once you render it - that problem goes away. at least for me.

[dvtodd]

I can't see why you would have a problem Switching over. I haven't used '08 much yet. But I know in the old Imovie, it deletes your files as you cut. So you might want to be careful of that if you are re-using your tapes.

I will play around with some stuff on '08 tonight, and see what I come up with.


Cheers

[poppet]

I can't see why you would have a problem Switching over. I haven't used '08 much yet. But I know in the old Imovie, it deletes your files as you cut. So you might want to be careful of that if you are re-using your tapes.

I will play around with some stuff on '08 tonight, and see what I come up with.


Cheers

Thanks would appreciate that.

[SpiritCatcher]

Your macbook is that a g5? Imovie 08 wont run on a G4.
(if you buy iLIFE 08, you can DL imovie 06 HD for free, which is what I did with my ibook g4)
I have an aversion to o8 as it crashed several times when I attempted to edit a brief clip. One cool thing is, Imovie/FCP are compatible, so if you upgrade to FCE/FCP they are suppose to work seamlessly (per Apple).
Keep it POPPIN, Poppet!

[themixguy]

Tapes are cheap, buy more tapes. That's the weak link are sure bet for getting more drop-outs: reusing tapes. I buy the HD tapes and shoot in HD. Haven't had any problems since. Just my 2 cents...

[zebostoneleigh]

I echo the mixguy's comment about tapes. Don't reuse them. And I'm not trying to sell you tapes - it's just that hard drives die, media gets deleted, computers crash. Tapes? They sit in their box and wait to save the day. And if you shoot on MiniDV, they cost about $3 each. Definitely worth the peace of mind (IMO).