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    K.. after wasting an entire saturday screwing with this, Im tired and I want to be done..

    I have enough hard drive space (just) to just make all this stuff Ive captured uncompressed RGB/YCbCr AVI files.

    Will iMovie have any issues opening/editing these?

    thanks,
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    I cannot speak on iMovie '08 because I don't have or use it,
    but as far as iMovie 06 HD, and iMovie 4 which I have in front
    of me, both will have to take your avi files and convert these to
    DV stream files, for them to be able to use them.

    So, if you have an uncompressed RGB/YCbCr AVI that is
    say 48 GB, iMovie 4 and iMovie 06 HD will need to have another
    48GB of space available to load the file and convert it to DV
    for it to use, making for a total of 96GB of space to be used.

    Since I missed your original posting, I don't know how much
    available hard drive space you have, but if your planning on
    using iMovie to edit these, and it's iMovie 06 or earlier, you
    would be better off having the files as DV Stream, or
    have iMovie import the footage in from your camera directly.
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    What kind of uncompressed file is this?

    Basic rules:

    1. Compressed formats need proper codecs and lots of CPU and/or dispaly card hardware support to play smoothly.

    2. Uncompressed files need very fast disk drives up to fast RAID with multiple sync'd drives. Playback to a port (e.g. SDI) is possible. Playback though the display needs system analysis. Just because you can download an uncompressed file in no way means you can play it real time.
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    yeesh, what a pain.

    well, screw it.. Ive decided to use mpeg streamclip to convert everything into Quicktime DV and just cross my fingers that bro-in-law can work with it.

    thanks for the input all..

    nopk
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