Once you get it burned to DVD you'll need to rip it back off. You can't edit DVD based material natively in iMovie. I use Cinematize Pro. Enjoy!
Todd O'Neill Managing Director DoingMedia LLC www.doingmedia.net San Antonio, TX LinkedIn: toddoneill FaceBook: Todd O'Neill Twitter: doingmedia doingmedia.blip.tv On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Kevin Koym < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thank you both. > its kinda weird- there really seems to not be a good solution for this. I > tried the Voltaic app- it uncompressed files by a factor of 7 (or so). i > had seen that macrumor as well- weird that this stuff was happening back at > the beginning of 2007 with very little progress since then. > > i am going to punt, hand the camera over to someone that can burn me a dvd, > and then bring it back to the mac and iMovie08. > > Thank you. > Kevin > > > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Todd O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> See this discussion here: >> http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=273751 >> And this product here: http://shedworx.com/volmac-home >> >> These cameras and their DVD recording brethren are kinda persona non grata >> in the pro video world because of their non-standard files and difficulty >> capturing and editing. >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> Good Luck! >> >> Todd O'Neill >> Managing Director >> DoingMedia LLC >> www.doingmedia.net >> San Antonio, TX >> >> LinkedIn: toddoneill >> FaceBook: Todd O'Neill >> Twitter: doingmedia >> doingmedia.blip.tv >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Kevin Koym < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hey All, >>> I hope you are all home safe and dry. :-) Or at least having too much >>> fun on 4th Street. >>> >>> For a recent speech that I gave, I borrowed a friend's Sony AVCHD HDR-TG1 >>> to tape the talk. The tape worked fine. Because my friend lost his cable, I >>> used a card reader to get the files onto my Mac. I have also upgraded to >>> iMovie '08. >>> >>> For whatever reason, I am not able to open up the files nor do anything >>> with them. I have googled this a bunch, and read a bunch of boards. There >>> seems to be a lot of activity concerning this back in 2007, but nothing >>> recent.... all of the boards say that iMovie '08 handles the AVCHD files... >>> but I am unable to do anything with the files at all. >>> >>> Any ideas? I would really like to cut the video down a bit, and post it >>> on YouTube or something of the like. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kevin >>> >>> -- >>> Kevin Koym >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> +1.512.698.9328 mobile >>> >>> Enterprise Teaming, LLC >>> http://www.enterpriseteaming.com >>> >>> "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" >>> (Matthew 5:9) >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Kevin Koym > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1.512.698.9328 mobile > > Enterprise Teaming, LLC > http://www.enterpriseteaming.com > > "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" (Matthew > 5:9) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin/web/refresh-austins-job-posting-guidelines. We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
