Hey Gang,
This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of How-to's. Bear with us on the timing though, writing these can be challenging. If any of your brave souls makes a post with this kind of detail I will be sure to sticky it as well.
Importing and exporting in iMovie is actually a snap. We'll right out a brief tutorial here that will guide you through the steps to get the best video for uploading to VholdR.com.
Importing and exporting in iMovie
Importing (HD and SD):
- Open iMovie, then click to File/Import/Movies...
- Navigate to the file
Note: If you are importing videos that were previously downloaded with the Easy Edit Software, then your files will be in: username/Movies/VholdR
- Check the Optimize video box and select 'Full - Original Size' from the drop down for the box.
- Choosing the save to location, event, and whether to copy or move the file is you preference.
- Click 'Import'
Presto! Your video will import and be ready for editing.
Exporting (HD):
Option 1 (easy but a little big):
- Select share/Export Movie
- Choose the 'HD' setting (iMovie HD only)
- Select a location
Note: If you want to upload using the software, then put it back into username/Movies/VholdR
- Click 'export'
- Done!
Option 2 (space saver but still top quality):
- Select share/Export Using QuickTime...
Note: You must purchase QuickTime Pro to use this feature.
- Set the 'Export' drop down menu to 'Movie to QuickTime Movie'
- Click 'Options'
- Click 'Settings'
- The key items are H.264 compression and restricting the bit rate to 5500 kpbs, the rest should in the right spot by default.
- Next go to 'Size' and select 1280 x 720 HD, NOT HD 1280 x 720 16:9
- Leave the other boxes unchecked
- The rest should be fine as the default settings, so click 'ok'
- set your export location (again put it back in the software folder if you want to upload that way) then click 'save'
- Done!
Exporting (SD):
Option 1 (QuickTime Pro way):
Note: You much purchase QuickTime Pro to use this feature. The alternate is to deal with .m4v files which are kicked out by the non-HD iMovie settings and they are a bit of a pain to work with and upload.
Note(2): You'll also lose 60fps in iMovie :(
- Select share/Export Using QuickTime...
- Set the 'Export' drop down menu to 'Movie to QuickTime Movie'
- Click 'Options'
- Click 'Settings'
- The key items are H.264 compression and restricting the bit rate to 5500 kpbs, the rest should in the right spot by default.
- Next go to 'Size' and select 'custom' then enter 848 x 480
- Leave the other boxes unchecked
- The rest should be fine as the default settings, so click 'ok'
- set your export location (again put it back in the software folder if you want to upload that way) then click 'save'
- Done!
Thanks NholdR, this is just what I was wondering how to do :)
I have tried both your HD options and here is my findings:
Option1 = 250MB
Option2 = 134MB
This is for around a 3 min HD clip, after watching them both a couple of times I can say that there is almost no diffs in quality.
Thanks again for this awesome product :D
No problem, and thanks for posting the size results, that helps. The difference lies in the fact that you can limit the bit rate in option 2.
Thanks,
Nate
Unfortunately I've done most of what is posted above, but nothing works for me and importing files into iMovie.
First off, this option does not exist in my '08 version of iMovie -- 'Check the Optimize video box and select 'Full - Original Size' from the drop down for the box'
I only get the following options:
- Save to:
- Add to existing Event:
- Create new Event:
- Import 1080i video as:
- radio button selection for 'Copy files' or 'Move files'
There is no optimization option
The only way I can import the .MOV file into iMovie is if I completely remove the audio track in the .MOV file (via MPEG Streamclip). Unfortunately when I do this I can no longer overlay a new audio track/music over that file once in iMovie. I drag an mp3 file over to the imported file and it won't overlay. I have literally tried everything on this support site, but iMovie just doesn't work...any suggestions?
Things i've tried:
- convert .MOV to MP4 and other formats - result: doesn't work, I always have to remove audio track before it works (leads me to believe that VholdR firmware is doing something odd with audio)
- rename .MOV file to MP4 - result: video looks fine in MPEG Streamclip, but won't import into iMovie. Tried to convert .MP4 file to different format, doesn't work. Conversion of MP4 to other format only works if I remove original audio track
- import original .MOV, close iMovie, go to file system and remove all cache and other items so that iMovie will re-import automagically as posts here say to do - result: absolutely freagin' nothing
- I have made multiple .MOV files (small files as I just bought the VHoldR 1080p and I'm testing its functionality) and all of them *do not* import into iMovie.
Any help you can provide would be appreciated...otherwise helmet cam is useless to me.
Thanks.