I have the same problem.
tahnks in advance

I know it must be a simple thing, Please give me some advice of how to get the audio – ASAP

Thanks!

Any idea?

Regards,
Stephen

Thankyou for your time (I was not expecting such a quick response) and knowledge. Your insights with regards to ’09 are informative and greatly appreciated. I believe you have sold me completely on an upgrade to iLife ’09 and specifically iMovie ’09 if for nothing else. I will check your web site and the six minute example.
Again, thankyou for all your help.

I can tell you that I am now a big fan of iMovie ’09. It does everything I wanted and is much better than ’06. It is fast, and the Ken Burns effect is much better – very little pixelation and the moire effects seem to have diminished. See my website (www.barrieandbev.com) for an example of a six minute movie shared to iWeb (at Movies click on 2008 The Short Version). You can compare it with similar movies prepared with earlier versions and I think you will agree that ’09 is a big improvement.

In this short version I did not include some of the features, such as Map view. In the full movie I used Map view for some travel sequences and I liked that too. Chapters work well, but in my opinion that has worked well for several versions. I have not tried the themes myself.

In summary, I haven’t found anything in iMovie ’09 that I really disliked.

I was interested in finding out about your expierences with iMovie ’09. I was reading through the appleblog and noticed your comments from back in January.

I am attempting to do something very similar as you using iMovie rather than iphoto or idvd for my slideshows.

I have been working in iMovie ’08 but am seriously contemplating going to iMovie ’09 with its Chapters feature and Theme’s among other things.

Your invovlement/insight and assessment in having already used iMovie ’06HD and now iMovie ’09 would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou in advance,

My thoughts:

I somewhat agree with the thought that Apple is focusing new apps towards basic users.
In the case of iMovie, it would be a dumb business decision to add to many higher end features. Better to get those, who need the features, to pay extra for one of their FCP products.

I do think they dropped the ball on the plugin front.
Selling additional themes would be perfect for example.
While themes are pointless and bushleague for high end FCP users, the average “make a vid of our holiday” user (which iMovie is meant for) would likely love to be able to buy more templates.
Some additional effects would fall into area too.

“HuHuHu” and “audio hobbio” have got it right.

Our news crews commonly have 2 mono mics.. one mounted on the camera and one handheld for the reporter. This provides a redundant backup, and better voice audio quality. Each mic was recorded on one of the 2 audio tracks on the video.
For large video productions you have an audio crew with external gear.
We would then sync up the audio and video when editing.
A handy way to do this is to use a cheap camera mounted mic so you can match it’s audio with the good quality version from the multiple mics that the audio crew uses.
Ever wonder why they have a film slate clapper in the film industry ? It’s so you can sync the film to the audio tracks.

So… The onboard mic is truly useless for good quality audio.
5.1 on the camera ? You gonna have 6 mic input plugs (or 6 crappy mics) on your tiny consumer camcorder ?
5.1 in iMovie ? I don’t see the point. if you have the gear to record real 5.1, then you sure won’t be using iMovie..

@ Macaholic
“…where you are not editing the actual videotape in a LINEAR fashion (having to physically rewind or fast-forward tape), are NON-linear editors because one can access any part of a video without having to shuttle metre after metre of tape to get there.”

Nope… that’s not exactly correct.

“Linear” in this case, has nothing to do with rewinding the tape… it’s to do with how the edit process was done.

Editing direct to video had to be done in a linear fashion.
Linear as in… clip 1,2,3,4… in order… until the end of the show.
You edit the opening of the show, and then edit each clip in the order in which it appears in the show, until you add the end credits.
Once that show was assembled, you could overwrite existing portions of the audio or video.
BUT.. you couldn’t easily put a new clip BETWEEN existing clips.
If you HAD to do that.. you would then have to add the new clip and then RE-EDIT all the clips that were after it… until you got to the end.
Linear.. one clip after the other…

For this reason you had to plan the “edit” before you even sat down to actually do it.
Basically sit with a pen and paper, and write down…
Opening: 1 minute
clip 1 30 secs
clip 2 20 secs
commercial break 2 mins 2 secs
etc etc

You basically created a paper based “edit decision list” EDL

If you calculated wrong, you would have a LOT of work to fix it once you edited it.
“OH OH the show is too short !!!” (or too long)
(we used to joke that we could just fix it with our imaginary “tape stretcher”)

Hardware based systems that supported electronic EDLs, were developed.
They helped speed up the process.
A system like the old CMX could remember the edits you did and fairly quickly (for that era) redo them, by operating the tape machines for you.
This let you add additional content in the middle of the show easier.
This required a bunch of very expensive videotape machines (and other gear). That’s why editing was very very expensive. You would pay hundreds of dollars/hour to rent time in a high end editing suite.
But it was still better than re-editing manually.

Eventually you had computer based NLEs from companies like Quantel (if you were a large rich production company) or AVID.
You could stick clips on a timeline in any order, and adjust them until everything fit your show length, and the producer’s whims.

Hope that enlightens a bit :)

Cheers,
Robert

(P.S. I worked in TV for a long time with the pre NLE gear)

What I’m wondering is… can you create your movie in iMovie 09, export it to the highest quality format (?) and then import into iMovie HD 6 where you would export to mini DV tape?

Really roundabout way, I know, but maybe it would be worth it?

Ideas? Experiences with this?

Deborah

It showed some of the SD clips but no HD clips. The camera is new so I have some SD and some HD clips. I read that the software will not recognize the HD clips when you have SD clips saved on the same harddrive. I deleted the SD clips on the camera, returned the camera to HD mode, then re-activated the USB Connect. Still cannot see the HD file. Help?

What format are you saving to on your Song HD SR11 camera? How do you get iMovie to see the clips for import?