[lawgeek]

Hi,

I have a .m2v file that I'm trying to import into iMovie so I can edit it (mostly cut out commercials). So first, I tried to export it from QT into dv format. It seem to go fine, and produced a huge (10+ gig) file, but I guess that's to be expected. The exported dv movie plays fine in QT. Now, when I try to import the dv movie into iMovie, it tries to import for a while then it will say that there was an error (-41 or something like that) and that it could not be imported. Does anyone have any solutions? I'm going to reencode the movie using mediapipe or some other program and see if that works.

[ibookuser2]

AFAIK, iMovie only accepts stuff that's standard NTSC 4:3 size (720x480). If your MPEG2 stream is different, iMovie won't take it (I don't think it will anyway).

If you're just cutting stuff out and doing simple editing, why not do it right in Quicktime?

[lawgeek]

Ah good point. I thought of doing that but am not sure why I decided not to.