A problem with iMovie

[pammm56]

iMovie 08 rejected my 120 minutes of video which came into the Mac quite fine. I finished by sending it to iMovie. iMovie shows the project, but rejects the whole file. I also created a .mov file which seems to be workable in Quicktime (and it 11GB), but iMovie doesn't like it either.

[eagillan]

 

 

I'm happy to say that the new 1.0.2 update took care of the problem and I can now edit movies in iMovie.

 

THANKS TO EVERYONE AT ROXIO THAT GOT THIS PRODUCT TO WORK AS STATED.

 

A HEARTY CHEERS TO ALL!!!

 

 

[MarkTF]

Another new but very unhappy user of Easy VHS to DVD for Mac. Again iMovie will not recognize the import. How about a fix????

[rsetzer]

I received my VHS to DVD program yesterday and immediately threw in a 20 year old tape of my daughter's volleyball. I had the same problem moving the file into iMovie 09. It was unrecognizable and stated that no file existed. Time wasted, but I may have a work-around. I exported the file to QuickTime and then exported it as a "dv" file. That can be brought into iMovie for editing. Seems to work. I cannot tell how much quality will be lost at this point.

[patatrox]

Another new but very unhappy user of Easy VHS to DVD for Mac. Again iMovie will not recognize the import. How about a fix????

 

I expect an update to be posted Friday. We're currently testing and verifying fixes for this update. If anyone is interested in testing the beta, send me a PM with your e-mail address.

 

cheers

 

Patrick

 

[eagillan]

The Easy VHS to DVD for Mac is an MPEG 2 encoder because that is the format used for video DVDs. It also has an option that at the end of the MPEG 2 encoding you can tell it to convert another copy in MPEG 4 format for import to iMovie. The product is not called Easy VHS to iMovie. If that is what you were looking for it probably would have been a better choice to buy the capture device sold by ElGato which encodes directly to MPEG 4. But with that you would need to convert the video to MPEG 2 if you want a video DVD.

 

My guess is that most users are wanting a simple way to make DVDs from their VHS tapes in which case iMovie is not needed with this device.

 

It may not be called "Easy VHS to iMovie", but now that I have been able to transfer all of my Video8 and VHS tapes into iMovie for editing... I just tried burning my first DVD and it worked great. I even ran it in super-slow-motion and each frame still has excellent quality, even in full-screen on my 24" Mac. This is my first time using iMovie for editing and I love all of the things that you are able to do with it. This was why I bought the Roxio Converter in the first place. Now that it works, I couldn't be happier.

 

HERE'S A LITTLE TIP: for those of you who only have a "mono-input" on your Camcorders. I had orginally recorded all of my movies on a Sony Handycam with stereo imputs but it stopped working long ago and I couldn't find a used one on ebay, so I borrowed my sisters Sony Handycam that only has a mono jack and I simply went over to Radio Shack and got myself an audio-splitter so that I could record sound from both the left and right channels. Otherwise, when you burn a DVD and go to play it back on your computer or TV, you will only have sound coming out of one side. Not Good!!

[eagillan]

I tried the beta update Patrick from Roxio sent to me for testing and although it now allows me to move files to iMovie for editing, it only lets me do it in 5-minute increments. Anything longer than that and it won't reconize it for downloading. So it's the same old problem. I emailed Patrick about it and since I didn't see it posted for download on their site yesterday like he said they were going to do, I'm sure they realized they hadn't worked out all the bugs yet and are still working on it.

 

Let's hope they get it all together soon.

 

 

 

 

[gaper1]

have you tried 1.0.2 update?

[tsantee]

Despite upgrading to v.1.0.2,I'm still getting lots of frame dropouts. PLEASE FIX!

 

The other problem is that after capturing the videos,I don't always want to send them straight off to iMovie.If I close the Easy VHS-DVD program and later on try to open the .mpg files with iMovie,it just won't-they're greyed out and I can't drag them in either. I have iMovie '08 v.7.1.4.

Is there an alternative to iMovie for editing the captured videos?

The frame dropouts for some Macs should be fixed with the 1.0.3 update that is very near completion. As for editing, if all you want to do is cut out segments or cut the movie into multiple movie titles then you can do this with a full version of Toast or with MPEG Streamclip without having to change the format from MPEG 2. This eliminates the need to do any re-encoding although you can't add any transitions, titles or clips from photos and other sources as you can with iMovie.

[tommy404]

Here's what I found. The non-updated version that came on the installation CD in the box (version 1.0) worked fine.

 

Naturally, I updated to version 1.0.1, and that version saved the incoming video in an .mpg format that was unrecognizable to any program I have, including Windows Media Player, Quicktime Player, iMovie, and even GraphicConverter, which can usually open most graphics and movie files. I wasted a few hours trying several work-arounds.

 

Finally, knowing that I had successfully imported video using the 1.0 version, I reinstalled it after dumping the 1.0.1 version, and the older version worked fine.

 

I am using Mac OS X 10.5.7 on a white plastic MacBook (2GHz with 2GB of DRAM).

 

Also, when I pointed this problem out to Roxio tech support, I got a response to download version 1.0.1. Sorry, fellas, I ain't going there. I don't think anyone at Roxio actually read my incoming message.

[newjob]

I'm having this same problem. When is an about going to be available?

[tsantee]

I'm having this same problem. When is an about going to be available?

Version 1.0.2 is available now. See the pinned post at the top of this forum.

[martink]

iMovie 08 rejected my 120 minutes of video which came into the Mac quite fine. I finished by sending it to iMovie. iMovie shows the project, but rejects the whole file. I also created a .mov file which seems to be workable in Quicktime (and it 11GB), but iMovie doesn't like it either.

 

I have exactly the same problem, all works fine until I try to send the movie to iMovie 08, it goes through the encoding process and finishes, but when I try to open the movie in iMOvie 08, it shows 'no matching video'. I guess this is a codec problem ? Anyone with any solutions ?

 

I'm using Leopard 10.5.7 on a 2.4 GHz Intel iMac with 4 Gb DDR2 Dram, iMovie 08 7.1.4, and Easy VHS 1.0.1 (5122)

 

Martin

[patatrox]

I received my VHS to DVD program yesterday and immediately threw in a 20 year old tape of my daughter's volleyball. I had the same problem moving the file into iMovie 09. It was unrecognizable and stated that no file existed. Time wasted, but I may have a work-around. I exported the file to QuickTime and then exported it as a "dv" file. That can be brought into iMovie for editing. Seems to work. I cannot tell how much quality will be lost at this point.

 

The issue actually appears to be a glitch with iMovie in that it doesn't accept Apple Intermediate Codec formatted files with QT Text Tracks, we'll have an update out to resolve this issue shortly. You will notice, that if you navigate to Movies --> iMovie Events you will see the video in the iMovie Event folder within Finder and that you can play it with QuickTime.

 

I received my VHS to DVD program yesterday and immediately threw in a 20 year old tape of my daughter's volleyball. I had the same problem moving the file into iMovie 09. It was unrecognizable and stated that no file existed. Time wasted, but I may have a work-around. I exported the file to QuickTime and then exported it as a "dv" file. That can be brought into iMovie for editing. Seems to work. I cannot tell how much quality will be lost at this point.

 

Another work around, for users that have QuickTime Pro, is to find the .MOV file within the iMovie Event folder and use QuickTime to delete the Text Track.

[uffe]

I too have exactly the same problem, all works fine until I try to send the movie to iMovie, but I have 09, it goes through the encoding process and finishes, but when I try to open the movie in iMovie 09, it shows 'no matching video'. I guess this is a codec problem ? Anyone with any solutions ?

 

I'm using Leopard 10.5.7 on a 2.53 GHz Intel macbook pro with 4 Gb DDR3 Dram, iMovie 09 8.0.2, and Easy VHS for mac 1.0.1

 

/uffe

[melton]

I have exactly the same problem, all works fine until I try to send the movie to iMovie 08, it goes through the encoding process and finishes, but when I try to open the movie in iMOvie 08, it shows 'no matching video'. I guess this is a codec problem ? Anyone with any solutions ?

 

I'm using Leopard 10.5.7 on a 2.4 GHz Intel iMac with 4 Gb DDR2 Dram, iMovie 08 7.1.4, and Easy VHS 1.0.1 (5122)

 

Martin

I have an Imac 2.8 GHz 2 core - OSX 10.5.7 running iMovie 08 - same problem

[Cherylsunshine]

same same, I downloaded the so called up date pinned at the top x2 prior to even starting. the movie looks to encode to imovie, the title date are there but no movie. however, i found it in quicktime through search/spotlight. I see someone is using a fix that isn't fixin gand in beta for 5 minutes a shot, vhs are long tapes hello.

 

my pc is out being fixed and I have a great vhr machine with editing in it that plugs right in - to a pc not a mac and NO IMOVIE. I want to use both I have so many and for some I need the Imovie.

 

Also the female/male short extension isn't working and not recognized by vhsToDvd, nadda, to take it off and plug in the original usb takes up 2 usb ports. signed ticked off to say the least. honosync has been out for years, roxio may be new but there are other programs, elgato and i think grass valley, not sure about the last one but costs 3-500 $ with no preview.

 

this being fixed fast or is this A SEND BACK.

 

I also see other posters not getting responses in the forum here. I should have looked regarding that prior to purchase as well.

 

Thank you

Cheryl

 

 

you shouldn't have to use Toast to convert the MPEG videos to DV format for import to iMovie. They should be in iMovie, they show that they import there but import to quicktime and leave the title and date in imovie

 

posting this and hoping for answer tomorrow and complete fix or tell, so I can send it back and get one that actually works like it says it does, there is pinnacle as well. I need this NOW.

 

 

thank you

[zzzuppp]

So by a full version of Toast do you mean something more than the basic Toast provided with Easy VHS-DVD? I've got Toast Titanium 6; is that enough?

And I really don't understand why it shouldn't be possible to have an 'Open file' dropdown in Easy VHS,or something similar, to be able to send old captured files to iMovie at a later date.

[bookman]

Add one more. When I emailed customer service a week ago they have not yet bothered to reply.

 

Bookman

 

[patatrox]

Despite upgrading to v.1.0.2,I'm still getting lots of frame dropouts. PLEASE FIX!

 

The other problem is that after capturing the videos,I don't always want to send them straight off to iMovie.If I close the Easy VHS-DVD program and later on try to open the .mpg files with iMovie,it just won't-they're greyed out and I can't drag them in either. I have iMovie '08 v.7.1.4.

Is there an alternative to iMovie for editing the captured videos?

 

I sent you an e-mail with a beta of 1.0.3 that should resolve your frame drop issues, I expect this to be available to all users no later than next Tuesday.

 

 

[ryck]

I'm happy to say that the new 1.0.2 update took care of the problem and I can now edit movies in iMovie.

 

THANKS TO EVERYONE AT ROXIO THAT GOT THIS PRODUCT TO WORK AS STATED.

 

A HEARTY CHEERS TO ALL!!!

 

That's interesting. Which iMovie are you using?

 

I have updated to 1.0.2 and the only thing that has changed is that the software generates a .mpg file instead of a .mov file. Neither works with my iMovie '08. I have to go through an additional conversion in Toast to get a .dv file.

 

The bottom line is that the software should generate the correct file to start with.

[tsantee]

So by a full version of Toast do you mean something more than the basic Toast provided with Easy VHS-DVD? I've got Toast Titanium 6; is that enough?

And I really don't understand why it shouldn't be possible to have an 'Open file' dropdown in Easy VHS,or something similar, to be able to send old captured files to iMovie at a later date.

The MPEG editing function is in the full versions of Toast 9 and 10. Your captured videos are in the Easy VHS to DVD Capture folder in your Movies folder. You should be able to use your Toast 6 to convert the MPEG videos to DV format for import to iMovie.

[tsantee]

That's interesting. Which iMovie are you using?

 

I have updated to 1.0.2 and the only thing that has changed is that the software generates a .mpg file instead of a .mov file. Neither works with my iMovie '08. I have to go through an additional conversion in Toast to get a .dv file.

 

The bottom line is that the software should generate the correct file to start with.

The Easy VHS to DVD for Mac is an MPEG 2 encoder because that is the format used for video DVDs. It also has an option that at the end of the MPEG 2 encoding you can tell it to convert another copy in MPEG 4 format for import to iMovie. The product is not called Easy VHS to iMovie. If that is what you were looking for it probably would have been a better choice to buy the capture device sold by ElGato which encodes directly to MPEG 4. But with that you would need to convert the video to MPEG 2 if you want a video DVD.

 

My guess is that most users are wanting a simple way to make DVDs from their VHS tapes in which case iMovie is not needed with this device.

[tsantee]

Cheryl,

I'm sorry this is so frustrating for you. Patatrox (a Roxio manager) says an update to version 1.0.3 should be released this Tuesday that takes care of the frame dropping problem. It has some other tweaks, too, so you should wait and use it. Roxio has worked very quickly to fix problems that users experienced with certain Mac hardware.

 

The frame-dropping issue and the iMovie import issue were fixed for my system with version 1.0.2 now available. The reason I suggested to another poster that the full version of Toast can convert to DV for import to iMovie is that person had quit the Easy VHS to DVD Capture application so the option to convert for iMovie was no longer available for that capture. The captured MPEG 2 file is still there and needs to be converted before using in iMovie and that wasn't done before quitting the capture application, so a different application is needed in this case to perform that function.

 

The short cable packaged with my unit is working. Yours may be defective but that should be a very rare problem. I'd contact Roxio customer service and ask to be shipped a replacement cable.

 

[eagillan]

I use iMovie 8.0.3 and have upgraded recently with iLife09. Once you have downloaded the "Roxio VHS to DVD Capture Update" (1.0.2), you need to open the program right from that update each time in order to get it to work properly. I dragged it down into my dock to make it easier to open each time.

 

I only capture one hour of Video-8 film or VHS film at a time, so when I hit the "Stop Recording" button it takes a couple of minutes to download then I immediately click the "Edit with iMovie" icon and it will then download the file into a format that iMovie will recognize. This step takes about 15 minutes for every 1 hour of analog tape you are converting. Then once that is completed, it opens up iMovie for you and you will see a drop down screen that tells you it is now "Generating Thumbnails" for that movie file. That only takes a couple of minutes then the new file will come up in the "Event Library" where you can begin editing.

[Cherylsunshine]

Cheryl,

I'm sorry this is so frustrating for you. Patatrox (a Roxio manager) says an update to version 1.0.3 should be released this Tuesday that takes care of the frame dropping problem. It has some other tweaks, too, so you should wait and use it. Roxio has worked very quickly to fix problems that users experienced with certain Mac hardware.

 

The frame-dropping issue and the iMovie import issue were fixed for my system with version 1.0.2 now available. The reason I suggested to another poster that the full version of Toast can convert to DV for import to iMovie is that person had quit the Easy VHS to DVD Capture application so the option to convert for iMovie was no longer available for that capture. The captured MPEG 2 file is still there and needs to be converted before using in iMovie and that wasn't done before quitting the capture application, so a different application is needed in this case to perform that function.

 

The short cable packaged with my unit is working. Yours may be defective but that should be a very rare problem. I'd contact Roxio customer service and ask to be shipped a replacement cable.

have emailed custumer service and tech, thank you for your response & patience

i have done the directions over and over for 2 days to update to 1.0.2 and it still reads as 1.0, i just opened it and it's aksing me to update to 1.01, when I go there 1.0.2 is there which i have downloaded unzippeed dragged to apps and into vhs/dvd right on top and NADDA.

 

Ihave 2 columns appearing for apps. one has gone to users and not under my name and some are repeated some are not, don;t know how that happened or why I didn't set up users. I also newbie at mac. I am also quite ill and disabled and can only sit up for short periods of time and extremely frustrated as that limited and painful time is even more precious to get something done

 

and it isn't happening with this.

 

I don't know what to do, I lick on the app and it's asking me to up grade to 101, whihc takes to 1.02. which Ihave already done as say I have given up count now for 2 days.

 

i on disability too, more moeny send back and get the elgato i watched a review, it better than the roxio, the frames skipping as well, and no imovie he left out and added after - anotyer i read thou said the quality was bad, maybe because they are vhs tapes no matter what u used to transferred with maybe the excepton fothe grass valley, excuse typos hard to type often can't often type the way my brain chops off words, way i speak (or not)

 

gratitude and at a loss it's asking me to upgrade again