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gene · May 8, 2001, 12:02 PM

I tried to load a 2.5 hour movie into iMovie and it broke the footage into many segments. Why would it do that? I thought that file size limitation of 2Gig was lifted in Mac OS 9....

Any ideas?

jac · May 8, 2001, 12:53 PM

iMovie automatically detects scne changes and makes a new file for each scene (pretty handy feature when editing). You can turn it off though in the import settings.

gene · May 8, 2001, 01:02 PM

I'll double-check but I thought that I turned that option off. It seems as it was breaking in the middle of scenes...

GreenMnM · May 8, 2001, 05:27 PM

I think Mac OS 9 will allow you to have files over 2GB, but I don't think iMovie will let you. It always breaks my files into 2GB segments as I'm importing (if they weren't from a DV camera that had scene breaks in it already). They play seamlessly, though, and I would really hate to have one 12GB file go bad on me...

...not that that would EVER happen on my Cube....

-Doug