[servo]

I brought my video camera into work and imported 3 tapes into iMovie. Each iMovie project is roughly 23 GB. So I have around 70 GB of video sitting on my hard drive at work. I want to get these projects on my PowerBook for editing but I only have a 30 GB hard drive.
Can anyone suggest a way to compress the video so I can get at least one tape's worth at a time on my PowerBook and still retain some quality? I want to be able to open the iMovie project up and edit on my PowerBook while at home.

[Uncle Skeleton]

to edit in iMovie you would have to convert back to DV anyway. You'll have to just get a bigger (firewire probably) hard drive if you want to edit on your powerbook (and have the whole project on there at one time)

[beanbag]

Does Final Cut Express support offline capturing? That might be your best bet if it does. AFAIK there's no such feature in iMovie.

[hadocon]

Originally posted by beanbag:
Does Final Cut Express support offline capturing? That might be your best bet if it does. AFAIK there's no such feature in iMovie.

<I'm an idiot>
Offline capturing won't help. Where's the video? Oh, it is _offline_.
</I'm an idiot>

[Uncle Skeleton]

but...that's the point. you can edit without having to haul the actual video around. Then when it's time to print you reimport (presumably just what's necessary), render and export without having to have the editor (you) do any work

[hadocon]

Originally posted by Uncle Skeleton:
but...that's the point. you can edit without having to haul the actual video around. Then when it's time to print you reimport (presumably just what's necessary), render and export without having to have the editor (you) do any work

<foot in mouth>Gwich wught</foot in mouth>



Quite right

Looks like this is a great way to try OfflineRT. However you will have to use regular FCP for this as FCPE does not include the Media Manager function and therefore no OfflineRT.