John Varela
Registered
I recently bought a Canon S100 camera that shoots HD video and took it on a vacation trip. This was my first experience with HD video.
The camera produces video in .mov format at 1080p. The clips have been culled and copied to files on the hard drive, where they play perfectly well at full size in Quicktime. When imported into iMovie HD 6.03, however, iMovie HD converts them to standard definition. I have gone over and over all the iMovie settings and can't find a reason why iMovie HD won't accept these as HD videos. The only thing I have thought of is that the camera is using a codec that didn't exist when iMovie HD was coded.
Using Toast 11 Titanium and a trial copy of iSkysoft Video Converter (whose web site claims to solve exactly this problem) I converted files to every 1080p format that seemed likely to work. In all cases, iMovie either didn't recognize the format or it imported and converted to standard definition.
iMovie '11 imports the videos properly at 1080p. However, I want access to the titles and transitions in iMovie HD.
Has anyone seen and solved a problem like this? I have put a sample of my video at
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17288735/MVI_0210.MOV
The camera produces video in .mov format at 1080p. The clips have been culled and copied to files on the hard drive, where they play perfectly well at full size in Quicktime. When imported into iMovie HD 6.03, however, iMovie HD converts them to standard definition. I have gone over and over all the iMovie settings and can't find a reason why iMovie HD won't accept these as HD videos. The only thing I have thought of is that the camera is using a codec that didn't exist when iMovie HD was coded.
Using Toast 11 Titanium and a trial copy of iSkysoft Video Converter (whose web site claims to solve exactly this problem) I converted files to every 1080p format that seemed likely to work. In all cases, iMovie either didn't recognize the format or it imported and converted to standard definition.
iMovie '11 imports the videos properly at 1080p. However, I want access to the titles and transitions in iMovie HD.
Has anyone seen and solved a problem like this? I have put a sample of my video at
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17288735/MVI_0210.MOV