Imovie clip to PC problem.

[Coldkilla9]

I took my camcorder to school and I imported the video from the camcorder into my schools mac. (Located in the movie folder "Movie1" under the "Media Folder", the 40 minute movie was imported and split up into 4 clips. (Basically inside the Media Folder files Clip1, Clip2, Clip3, and Clip4) . I took these clips all at 2GB perclip and made 2 dvd's containing these 4 clips. I took the DVD's home and dragged them into my PC. The teacher said if I had quicktime it should be fine, but they are not MOV. files. They are just "Type of File: 'File' " and thats it. Any idea how to make the files now in my computer work?

[daamon]

Hi Coldkilla9,

Open one of the files in GSpot (v2.52 beta) and post a screen shot here.

Include details (not in the screen shot) of the full filename, including extension.

[Coldkilla9]

Path
F:\Clip 01

Size
1.90 GB (or 1,950 MB or 1,996,875 KB or 2,044,800,000 bytes)

Container:
File Type: Unknown
Mimi Type: Unknown

Everything else is blank

[daamon]

Wow. Odd...

Is your camcorder a DV camcorder? If not, in what format does it record?

If it's a DV camcorder, you'll get DV AVI when capturing to a PC using firewire.

DV AVI is approximately 13.5Gb per hour. So, if your files were DV they would either be 8 minutes long (not the 40 minutes) for 1.9Gb, or 9Gb for 40 minutes.

Try changing / adding various extensions to the clip's files to see if you can get them to work: .AVI, .MOV, .MPG, .M2V, .QT etc.

Even if you do get them working, I don't know that the quality will be all that great based on the filesize and running time - unless some high-compression lossless codec was used. Maybe magic...?

[Coldkilla9]

Well I tried a bunch of extensions. Nothing works. I'll go take the DVD's back to my school and ask the film teacher.

[daamon]

Good idea.

Strange. Mac's - Don't you just love 'em eh? This guy does...

Hook your (DV?) cam up to a PC via firewire and, if it is DV, you can use WinDV to get your video and audio into a DV AVI file that you'll be able to use straight away...