Advice on importing events from iMovie

Robert714999

Newbie Joined: Apr 16, 2011 13:00 Messages: 5 Offline

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Apr 22, 2011 03:07

Hello, I just began using PowerDirector, and would like to import my family's existing video which has been managed so far using iMovie 8. Unfortunately I can't go back to the DV tapes, even with careful storage many of them have degraded to uselessness.

The event/video files have a .dv extension, I tried importing them into powerdirector but the format was not recognized. Any advice on how to do this without losing quality? I read about exporting to quicktime, then importing but I am not sure what the effect on the quality is.

Thanks!

vn800rider

Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline

Apr 22, 2011 03:48

Don't use imovie but there should be an export option to export to other formats? You might have to experiment as to which settings suit your purpose best.

Does this help?
http://www.reely.com/darren/Guides/iMovie%20Export%20Guide/#iMovie08Jump

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Apr 22, 2011 04:25

It's been years since I used iMovie, but I know .dv files play in QuickTime Player.

Not sure if you have QuickTime Pro (or whether that's relevant), but I just used it to export one of the sample video files (from Bif). I used the same format & profile for output. Visually, there is no obvious difference (of course, I wasn't converting a .dv file). Statistically... well MediaInfo reports are attached.

If it were me, that would be the approach I'd take.

Cheers - Tony

Filename	Bif_1080p_30fps_Canon7D)-1.MOV.txt	Download
Description
Filesize	5 Kbytes
Downloaded:	237 time(s)

Filename	(Converted)Bif_1080p_30fps_Canon7D)-1.MOV.txt	Download
Description
Filesize	5 Kbytes
Downloaded:	278 time(s)

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Robert714999

Newbie Joined: Apr 16, 2011 13:00 Messages: 5 Offline

Apr 24, 2011 18:44

Thank you for the advice, I am experimenting with exporting to quicktime using H.264 as it seems to produce the best quality out of the options. Overall this has been remarkably difficult and makes me glad we're moving away from imovie.