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Peter Franks

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Been trying to get to the bottom of this problem of importing into (iMovie 11) 9.0.4. which is as high a version as my MBP will take.


Does anyone on here know why when optimizing video is unticked, it still 'OPTIMIZES VIDEO'

Once it didn't do it, and it just said 'generating thumbnails' and it was barely 10 mins to load, as opposed to 4 hours, AND it didn't mess with it and make the picture lighter. All the same mpeg4 fornat. Now I do exactly the same thing, and it's reverted back to the 4 hour wait to load up again. It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't mess up the colour, It doesn't optimize much, it makes it look far worse.
 

MBAir2010

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hello, what version of osx or year is iMovie 11) 9.0.4?
2012?

since Tiger, i always had problems with that and used “quicktime” instead.

i hoped this helped!
 
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Peter Franks

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hello, what version of osx or year is iMovie 11) 9.0.4?
2012?

since Tiger, i always had problems with that and used “quicktime” instead.

i hoped this helped!
Hey, I'm on a 2011 MBP so it's probably around that time yeh
Quicktime does editing? I thought I just have a player on here.
 

Peter Franks

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Is it because this is an older version that nobody knows how to do this? In the current iMovie does it now not do this optimizing stuff?
 
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