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Webbie sony camera and iMovie
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I'm looking to get the same camera and have the same question. I am assuming it will work since it is h.264 mp4.
Unless I hear confirmation that it will not work then I'm going to get one in the next couple weeks and will try it myself.
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The ad says: "The HD MP4 format is highly versatile, making your media files small enough to easily transfer them to your PC or Mac via USB."
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I don't think there is any question whether the files can be moved to the mac. The question is whether they are natively (read: without transcoding) editable/playable in iMovie.
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This from the Features page would make me wonder...
With pre-installed Picture Motion Browser (PMB) Portable software, the Webbie makes it simple to pre-select videos or pictures for viewing on your PC. It also makes it easy to upload to popular internet sharing sites like YouTube�.
It sounds like you might need to go through the Sony software to get stuff onto your hd. I'd bet that it doesn't interface with iMovie directly, knowing Sony.
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Originally Posted by Thorzdad
This from the Features page would make me wonder...
It sounds like you might need to go through the Sony software to get stuff onto your hd. I'd bet that it doesn't interface with iMovie directly, knowing Sony.
Sony says the pc software does not work on a mac, but the videos obviously do (hence stated mac support), but you don't get sonys (probably no so good anyway) software. That is all.
Again, the only question is, will the videos, once copied from the camera/mem stick to a mac natively work in iMovie without transcoding. The assumption is yes since Sony is using a standard format that Apple likes. THe only issue might be if sony has it in some bizarre config that makes it not directly compatible. It's terribly unlikely but possible.
Things known:
1) The device works with a mac (stated support)
2) The videos will play back on a mac (again stated support)
Unknown: Do the videos, once copied from the device work natively, that is without transcoding, in iMovie for editing.
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It looks like the answer to this question is "no" iMovie will not natively edit H.264 mp4 video. it will have to be transcoded to something else to edit. As stated though QT will play the unaltered files though.
It so happens that this format though is the format of most (inc. Flip HD) of these small HD camcorders. So not much of a choice there.
My understanding is that h.264 mp4 is a intended as a "delivery" format, not an editing format. So it is more of a matter of h.264 not being designed for iMovie/FCP/FCE (a digital editor) than iMovie/FCE/FCP not being designed to support h.264.
I found some of this info from posts on the apple message board regarding FCP and the webbie.
So the question becomes, what is the best way to transcode the video for least quality degradation.
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Originally Posted by iamnotmad
It looks like the answer to this question is "no" iMovie will not natively edit H.264 mp4 video. it will have to be transcoded to something else to edit. As stated though QT will play the unaltered files though.
I don't have a camera that creates h.264 videos, but that's the format I convert all my movies into using QuickTime, and iMovie '08 has no problem taking these h.264 videos and editing them. No transcoding is taking place.
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
I don't have a camera that creates h.264 videos, but that's the format I convert all my movies into using QuickTime, and iMovie '08 has no problem taking these h.264 videos and editing them. No transcoding is taking place.
Hi TETENAL, that is interesting and good news, but conflicting with other stuff I have read. I ordered a Sony Webbie yesterday so I'll know for sure early next week on how iMovie deals with the h.264 from the webbie.
Thanks for your info.
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