I just got my new video camera, the Panasonic PV-GS320. Its a great camera and I have filmed a a few minutes of footage in widescreen, but when I try to import it into iMovie, it seems like it can only capture in fullscreen. How can I change it to capture in 16:9, or how can I change it afterwards?
Thanks
I answered my own question. iMovie 4, which is what i have, doesn’t support widescreen. So I would need to get iLife '08, which includes iMovie HD/iMovie 5 if I wanted to use widescreen. And since my computer doesn’t have the system requirements, it looks like I will have to use full screen for now. Or get a different editing program…
How old is your computer? I think I have iMovie 6.0.2.
It is a 3 year old eMac G4, 1.25 ghz.
And I think I just thought of another way around my probablem. I film in widescreen, import it normally and allow it to be screezed into 4:3, then I edit it like that, but when I export it I will change the dimensions to a 16:9 aspect ratio, to put it back into widescreen. It should work but I haven’t tried it yet.
Yay! my idea worked:) I love finding ways around problems
Good workaround, does it keep all the pixels in the image, or do you lose anything in the stretch?
Everything looks normal after it is stretched back out, but I think im just going to stick with fullscreen untill I get a better computer and a better editting program.
Good idea. Its def best to stay as compatable as you can. Its never worth compromising picture quality for a feature that is not truely needed.
imovie is pretty dope tho. A great learning and advanced working program.
Rather then start a new thread I thought I’d post a question on this one.
Does anyone know how to get slow-mo and other effects on iMovie?
Cheers
The current iMovie does not have slow-mo or the ability to speed up clips.
It used to though.
There are a couple freeware programs you can download that only slow-mo and speed up the clip if you’d like though, made specifically to get around this problem.
links?
are they free?
T.
You can run software that doesnt meet requirements just as long as its not something that you really need. Like only have 20 gigs of free space and needing 40gigs for the installation. Or only working on one OS and not another version/OS.
But besides that, the program will still work, just some functions are going to run slower. I ran Adobe cs3 master collection, mainly photoshop and premiere, on a 700mhz intel processor that I cant remember the name of, and about 1.5gigs of slow ram. The programs worked fine but rendering some photo edits would take about 20 seconds instead of instant. Video work was fine as long as I wasnt using .MOD or using twixtor (Which is slowest to render with anyways). But everything works, you just need to be a bit more patient with things.
Hehe.