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iSight with iMovie sucks a$$!!

iChan

iChan

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Jan 12, 2003
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Dublin, Ireland.
I am trying to "record with isight" within iMovie and it works like a charm for about 1-2 minutes and then just stops!! the clip timer keeps going up but the image stops.

for some reason, the programs reverts itself to edit mode after the 1-2 minutes...

it isn't a problem with the camera as when i go back into import mode, the video is still being received...


does or has anyone else experienced this problem and could anyone offer a fix?


yours,
iChan.

PS. I am using the latest versions of everything.
 
just recorded a 3 minute movie

no stops..

4 minutes..

5 minutes...

dunno what to tell ya.

damn video conversion is slow, by the way.

glad that isn't one of my hobbies.
 
iChan said:
I am trying to "record with isight" within iMovie and it works like a charm for about 1-2 minutes and then just stops!! the clip timer keeps going up but the image stops.
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I thought there was a 3 minute cap on such recording, which uses 3 gigs of hardspace a minute. Not sure why the cap is there...
 
this is from the imovie help. open the help and search for isight.


You can record up to 9.5 minutes of video at a time, as long as you have enough disk space (a 9 minute clip takes about 3 gigabytes of disk space).
 
How much free space do you have on your hard drive? The video takes a ton of space and iMovie will behave like that when you run out of space.

I'm not sure why there would be a 9 minute limit on iSight recording, but I also can't see why anyone would record 9 minutes straight on an iSight in the first place. But the part of me saying that is the side that has tried to edit my old home videos when I used to shoot everything. 30 minutes of video usually yields 1-2 minutes of usable footage. Shoot smarter, not longer.
 
Horrortaxi said:
How much free space do you have on your hard drive? The video takes a ton of space and iMovie will behave like that when you run out of space.

I'm not sure why there would be a 9 minute limit on iSight recording, but I also can't see why anyone would record 9 minutes straight on an iSight in the first place. But the part of me saying that is the side that has tried to edit my old home videos when I used to shoot everything. 30 minutes of video usually yields 1-2 minutes of usable footage. Shoot smarter, not longer.
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I have 50GB free on my HD. so that should not be a problem. I also input video from Bro in law's digicam and i was able to get limitless video with that... (also, didn't need tot be converted! ugh!)

i really don't know what it is... quite worrisome though.


PS. I just want to record a video message for my family back home... not really an uncommon practise. with a 9+ minute limit, it would be more than enough, i also don't mind the video breaking into a number of separate clips. I just don't want it stalling!
 
About2SwitchOvr said:
I was thinking about trying this program out... Can you give us input on how it runs? Any cool features?
Thanks!
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Sure, you turn it on - choose your video quality, audio quality, compression, resolution - etc. You can do anything. Snapshots too. It's free - download it and play around.
 
Absolutely Great!

carletonmusic said:
the last few....
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I appreciate this Carletonmusic. I'm at work now, and I'll play around with this once I get home. In the meantime.. I wonder if it has a motion detector? Like EvoCam?
Hmmm...
 
Lectures etc.

I understand the idea of recording "smarter" rather than longer. It works great for creative projects where you can edit scenes together. I am interested in recording lectures at the University that are an hour and a half long. Fifteen minutes of conversion to DV time kind of kills any hope of capturing much of a lecture.
 
About2SwitchOvr said:
I appreciate this Carletonmusic. I'm at work now, and I'll play around with this once I get home. In the meantime.. I wonder if it has a motion detector? Like EvoCam?
Hmmm...
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I haven't seen that feature on this program, but I haven't looked extensively. Probably not for a free program.
 
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