[mattmac]

Hi,

Whenever I capture long sequences from DV into iMovie 4 it always starts a new clip every 9 minutes, 27 seconds and 12 frames! They fit back together seamlessly but it would be nice to have it as all one clip. This happens whether I select the option to start a new clip for every scene or not.

Is this a bug, or is there something I can do to prevent it?

Thanks,

Matt

[edavis]

If you take a close look at the files generated by the clip, you will notice that it is extremely close to 2GB in size.....I think OSX has a 2GB file size limit per file. iMovie is "smart" enough to break up the clips into files that aren't too big for the OS.

[mattmac]

Thanks, I thought it might be something like that!

[Uncle Skeleton]

Originally posted by edavis:
I think OSX has a 2GB file size limit per file

certainly not, but iMovie does that just in case some other piece of software that might want to use the files does have such a limit. Also, common sense says you break the files up into chunks after a certain size, and that size might as well be 2 GB (I think 2 GB is the max you can address with just normal a signed int or something)