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Sunday, April 7, 2002
started 4/7/2002; 12:12:18 AM - last post 4/8/2002; 12:10:43 PM

Doc Searls - Sunday, April 7, 2002

4/7/2002; 4:12:18 AM (reads: 3407, responses: 5)

The case of the missing iMovie

I've been accumulating video clips, all of which have been added to the original set that comes by default with iMovie. So this afternoon I decided to create a new movie. I don't recall going through a dialog that would have trashed the old one. So I'm sure it's on the hard drive somewhere. It's not in the Movies directory under my particular User (although the new movie, with nothing in it yet, is there). So it must have lived somewhere else on the drive. Anybody know what it's called and where it lives?

Thanks.

I feel 48 again

Had a great time skiing yesterday, for the first time in six years. I'm wasn't expecting to do that well, but I shredded, dude. Awesome.

I only fell once, when my wife and I crashed head on. We were both okay. Unfortunatelly she was later flattened by a snowboarder. She was barely ambulatory after that, but still managed to get a few more runs in. Hope she's up for another day on the slopes after we get a few hours sleep.

[Later...] Got in a good day's skiing... alone. Or almost: had some great private instruction. By the end of the morning, I was tearing up every blue (intermediate) slope I could find. A couple days ago I realized I had only been skiing a total of about 20 days in my life, starting when I was in my mid-40s. So here's a message to everybody out there who thinks they're too old, too shapeless or too chickenshit to ever ski. I've got you beat on all counts, and I'm rockin'. There is hope.

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Tim Merritt - Re: Sunday, April 7, 2002

4/8/2002; 12:51:40 PM (reads: 392, responses: 0)

The case of the missing iMovie
Unless you deliberately deleted it, it's almost certainly there. When you create a new project in iMovie, it automatically creates a Folder with the project name ("Doc's Cool iMovie"), and inside it is an iMovie project file with the same name ("Doc's Cool iMovie" - just to be confusing, I guess)and a Media folder with any clips you've captured within that specific project. To use the older/other clips in a newer project, look for "iMovie Tutorial" folder -- from what you say, your files probably are inside the Media folder in there. Drag them into the Media folder of the new project, and once you restart the project in iMovie, it should ask you what to do with the new clips.

Good luck.

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Tim Merritt - The case of the missing iMovie

4/8/2002; 12:51:59 PM (reads: 605, responses: 3)

Unless you deliberately deleted it, it's almost certainly there. When you create a new project in iMovie, it automatically creates a Folder with the project name ("Doc's Cool iMovie"), and inside it is an iMovie project file with the same name ("Doc's Cool iMovie" - just to be confusing, I guess)and a Media folder with any clips you've captured within that specific project. To use the older/other clips in a newer project, look for "iMovie Tutorial" folder -- from what you say, your files probably are inside the Media folder in there. Drag them into the Media folder of the new project, and once you restart the project in iMovie, it should ask you what to do with the new clips.

Good luck.

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Doc Searls - Re: The case of the missing iMovie

4/8/2002; 1:41:54 PM (reads: 550, responses: 2)

Thanks! The Tutorial (that was the word I couldn't remember... I kept thinking... "Sample?" "Default?") movie was in an iMovie folder in the Applications (OS9) folder. I suppose there's some thinking behind putting it in that directory, but I have no idea what that is.

Now here's another question... If I want to send just one clip to somebody in the mail, will they be able to read it with a program other than iMovie? In other words, what kind of file is an iMovie DV file? I got screwed up yesterday when I was just trying to save a single clip as a QuickTime .mov file, and couldn't figure how.

I'm sure the answer is easy, but the obvious isn't always apparent to me.

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Denise Howell - Re: The case of the missing iMovie

4/8/2002; 2:09:41 PM (reads: 581, responses: 1)

To save a single iMovie clip as a QuickTime .mov file, start a new project that includes only the clip. Move it to the Movie Track, then use the Export command and select QuickTime from the options. David Pogue's book on iMovie 2 is pretty good with this sort of thing, though I couldn't quickly find what kind of file an iMovie clip is.

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Tim Merritt - Re: The case of the missing iMovie

4/8/2002; 4:10:43 PM (reads: 666, responses: 0)

iMovies are "DVStream" files which are huge - 3.6 MB per second, hardly emailable. You can export for web or CD with the File > Export > QuickTime settings. The defaults aren't great; try them, though. If you want some specific settings to improve the image and can stand higher file sizes, let me know. tmerritt at gsu.edu

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