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Hi guys,

Please pardon my noob question. I would like to create a movie/DVD from footage I captured recently. I have already imported the footage. I created a project using a certain theme. I ended up with a "trailer", it plays for about 45 seconds. I thought that I would be able to add video clips to that very same project but I cannot.

I had to create another project but this time around I went with "no theme". Here's what I am battling to understand:

  • Will I be able to combine these two projects in one DVD at a later stage?

  • Why is it not possible to do all this in one project?
 
I dont really use iMovie too much - prefer quicktime (pro), seems to do most of what I need except hitting snags when editing files over 4GB. Joining / combining 2 clips or adding sound is also a breeze, also able to export to a number of formats.
 
NetDude said:
Hi guys,

Please pardon my noob question. I would like to create a movie/DVD from footage I captured recently. I have already imported the footage. I created a project using a certain theme. I ended up with a "trailer", it plays for about 45 seconds. I thought that I would be able to add video clips to that very same project but I cannot.

I had to create another project but this time around I went with "no theme". Here's what I am battling to understand:

  • Will I be able to combine these two projects in one DVD at a later stage?

  • Why is it not possible to do all this in one project?
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The trailers are not meant for full movies since it's mostly automated, I plan to combine my trailers and movies that I exported with imovie, I may use imovie to do that.
 
Aqua_lung said:
The trailers are not meant for full movies since it's mostly automated, I plan to combine my trailers and movies that I exported with imovie, I may use imovie to do that.
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Thanks for posting!! :)
How do you plan on combining your trailer & movie on the same DVD? If that's what you meant...
 
Aqua_lung said:
I have no plan for a DVD yet but If I decide to I'll let you know.
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Thanks Aqua_lung! I'm getting there... I made a 1h22min DVD but the quality wasn't so good with "professional quality" encoding option. I reduced to 0h57min and went for "best quality"... I cant see much of a difference when playing back on my TV between "prof quality" & "best quality"! :-( I am now trying 4:3 instead of 16:9... Not sure what to expect. I doubt that it'll make much of a difference. But I'm learning. :) My next project should be LESS PAINFUL!
 
NetDude said:
Thanks Aqua_lung! I'm getting there... I made a 1h22min DVD but the quality wasn't so good with "professional quality" encoding option. I reduced to 0h57min and went for "best quality"... I cant see much of a difference when playing back on my TV between "prof quality" & "best quality"! :-( I am now trying 4:3 instead of 16:9... Not sure what to expect. I doubt that it'll make much of a difference. But I'm learning. :) My next project should be LESS PAINFUL!
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Great, so you've used imovie to do this?, since my movies are HD there is no point to burn it to DVD though. I'll just copy them as files onto the DVD maybe and give them to family and friends.
 
Yes, iMovie. I did all the editing stuff in iMovie and the Share>>iDVD, from menu. Then I burn a DVD from iDVD.
 
Using iDVD you can import several iMovie projects into one DVD. As long as it fits.
 
Export you trailer as a project then you can edit more on it and make it longer
 
Another noob question: Why does iMovie give me the option for 16:9 and 4:3 formats but the output of my projects same format? :( Or, could thus have already been determined by my OLD cam during recording $ that cannot be changed? Why the option then?

Thanks guys...
 
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