I work with a lot of network storage and video world stuff. While most in the editorial world prefer FinalCut, Avid, Adobe and other tools for video management, I do see the occasional task done in iMovie. By default, iMovie doesn’t support using assets stored on network volumes. However, you can make it. To do so, just use defaults to write com.apple.iMovieApp with a boolean allowNV key marked as true: defaults write com.apple.iMovieApp allowNV -bool TRUE
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Sync'ing iTunes Libraries
I recently spent a few days trimming down the amount of space consumed by my home folder. In so doing I discovered a number of things I could be doing better with regards to utilization of my drive space. So I decided to offload most of my media (photos, movies, etc) off my laptop and onto my Mac Mini server. I also decided that one thing I’d like to live on both is iTunes. Note: Before you do anything in this article you should verify you have a good back up. Also, both machines will end up needing to be Authorized for your iTunes account. There are a lot of…
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Final Cut Server: iMovie Integration
Final Cut Server isn’t built for working with iMovie and iMovie isn’t built for working with Final Cut Server. Therefore, when you’re using the two of them together it is important to keep a few things in mind. Using Final Cut Server Assets with iMovie First, when importing media into iMovie from Final Cut Server then it will need to be in either dv, mpeg-2 or mpeg-4 formats. Next, if you’re importing 1080i media then by default it will be converted into 960×540, a significant change from working with uncompressed media. Additionally, when you import media into iMovie, the default setting is to copy the media into the iMovie…
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iMovie: Publishing Projects to YouTube
Using iMovie you can quickly and easily publish an edited movie (in the form of a project) to YouTube. To do so, from an iMove Project, click Share and then click on YouTube… At the YouTube window (seen here), enter your account name and password. Then select a Category. Next, you’ll want to enter a description and any relevant tags for the movie and then select the size with which you would like to publish the video. Also, check the box for Make this movie private if you would not like to make it publicly accessible. If you choose to make a movie private then you will need to…
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iMovie: Importing Video
Importing video into iMovie from your camera couldn’t be easier. Just power up your camera, put it into camera play mode and then plug it into you computer. This will bring up a player window with a button that says Automatic and another that says Import. You can manually find the places on the tape where you want to import video and switch Automatic to Manual or you can just leave it on Automatic and let iMove import pretty much the whole tape.