A few n00bish questions...

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A few n00bish questions...

Postby Phonebook » Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:30 pm

Hello all, this is my first post on this forum and id like to introduce myself to you all........................ hi :?

Okay, i'll get started on my topic now.

Questions:

Can iMovie use anime movies (not music videos) that are downloaded from Kazaa, iMesh exct... or to I need a DVD player?

is iMovie good for beginers (ive made a couple AMV's but nothing outstanding) ?

thats all I really need to know, thanx for your help


Have a nice day..

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Re: A few n00bish questions...

Postby aznfs » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:38 am

Phonebook wrote:Hello all, this is my first post on this forum and id like to introduce myself to you all........................ hi :?

Okay, i'll get started on my topic now.

Questions:

Can iMovie use anime movies (not music videos) that are downloaded from Kazaa, iMesh exct... or to I need a DVD player?

is iMovie good for beginers (ive made a couple AMV's but nothing outstanding) ?

thats all I really need to know, thanx for your help


Have a nice day..

(Phonebook) 8)


don't use dled footage, its illegal, its bad quality... though i think imovie supports it

imovie is good for beginners
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Postby bum » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:24 pm

any vid editor should be able to open any file type (well, common ones) so ya should have no problems. however if you use downloaded footage expect nothing but flames and a string of 0's for your opps
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Postby Phonebook » Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:14 pm

okay, thats all i needed thanks... meh, loooks like i'll be ditching out tons of money on DVDs... :wink:
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Postby bum » Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:50 am

best thing to do is to buy box sets. oh and, you can actualy use downloaded footage, just make sure ya dont tell anyone :P . oh yeah, ya'll almost certianly have to deal with subtitle removal, which can get a bit messy in certian scenes. but video quality issues are prety much gone, i see almost dvd quality anime from BT sites, at around 215MB. then again, id realy rather not have to deal with subtitles when creating an amv
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Postby ongakuka » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:49 pm

iMovie will work fine for importing/editing any *ahem* support video formats. If you happen to have Quicktime Pro and you can export the AVI files to DV streams, you'll get "better" overall editing performance (more disk space required though).
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Postby ongakuka » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:13 pm

Opps, I take it back. You *will* need to convert whatever it is you're using to DV before iMovie will import it (I'm used to Final Cut, which will accept anything it can read pretty much). Quicktime Pro ($30) will allow you to do this conversion easily.
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