Most all is good, but iMovie is horrible. With in a year I went from 2 PC's running windows, to now owning a mac book pro, iMac, and apple TV, and of course the ipod. But at least I might now be able to find a codec setting to transcode my old movies in a way that I can actually use them! The problematic movies play fine, with sound, in Quicktime, so it seems to me they should work in iMovie, especially after taking hours to generate thumbnails. Now I don't think this gets Apple off the hook much. I guess it was unfortunate that these were the first one's I tried, as I only realised something was up when I went and looked at the video tutorials. You just can't make movies with them! When you are previewing them by dragging the cursor over them in the event library no movie appears in the top right pane, no sound either. I also found my old movies, that took all the time to import, don't actually work!!! My new video camera outputs in H.264, and all my old movies were transcoded into H.264, but there is clearly some difference between the encoding, because the one's form my new camera load into iMovie really quickly (a few minutes a movie instead of 1:30 hours). I've just discovered something that might help. It's WORSE than my (old) Windows PC and software! But I've been so badly let down I could cry with frustration. I was someone who was really hoping Apple would change my miserable Windows using life. Perhaps that was why it was so expensive? And I hadn't heard the fan much until I started importing, so now it's going constantly it's a refreshing change. But at least my massively overpriced (since the software doesn't work) laptop looks really good. By my rough estimate it's going to take another 6 days just to import them. Importing a 300MB file is taking hours, and the estimates are constantly changing (though never very far down).Įven this might be tolerable, but I need to make a DVD for someones birthday in 2 days time, and I have another 30GB of raw movies I need to import and edit to do it. Fair enough, you might even say it's a reasonable separation of the two functions, but now I am hitting the same problem as others on this thread. Then I thought I would just have to drop the files into iDVD, crop out the bits I didn't want add a photo slideshow and that would be it. The very first thing I wanted to do was edit my home movies, and that was going to be easy right?įirst I had to spend literally days transcoding all my old movies because iMovie doesn't understand the sound in MPEG-2 muxed files.
One of the reasons I paid over the odds for a MB (About double compared to the equivalent Windows laptop) was for the excellent OS and bundled software. This is ridiculous! Now we are even considering getting alternative software!
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