I have an intriguing and for me right now, frustrating problem with
editing HDV. Part of it is of my own making, because I don't like using
the latest version of iMovie I have on my machine (ver 7.1) and much
prefer to work in the old iMovie HD (mine is ver 6.0.3).
I have a Canon XH A1 camcorder, which works beautifully - wonderful
stuff coming from it compared with my old DV Panasonic. (3 gHz MacPro
Quad duo core with 4 gb RAM - plenty of computing power) I im****t it
into iMovie HD and the images seem to come in perfectly but the sound
files often play slow. This is inconsistent - that's what I don't get,
but the long and short of it is that the sound in unreliable (which
isn't great when you are doing video recording of stage musicals!) Some
parts sound as if the pitch has been dropped by about 50%.
Now I can fix this with a workaround, by selecting a clip, going to
Fast/Slow/Reverse and simply applying it with the setting at the centre
(unchanged!) But if you have a large clip (1 hr!) that can take a very
long time, and it isn't really a good way to solve the problem.
I think the problem relates to the im****t settings for HD. It seems to
me that you can im****t into iMovie HD only at 25 frames/sec, though the
HDV camera uses 50 (It says in iMovie HD that it is HD-1080i-25). It
im****ts no problem in iMovie (latest version), I guess because it
specifies HD-1080-50 frame rate. But *sometimes* it works fine
im****ting in iMovie HD and sometimes not. That's the weird bit. If it
was consistent one way or the other I wouldn't mind.
If there is someone experienced with working with HDV and iMovie, I
would be very appreciative of any clues as to how I can edit in iMovie
HD and not have to worry that the sound file is haywire. Otherwise it
looks as if I will have to study iMovie (latest version) and see if I
can make more sense of it than I have already.
Rifty
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