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[fuyu]

Me: Okay, iMovie. I've got a nice, shiny new set of files for you... Please will you import them? Pretty please?
iMovie: NO. Absolutely not. ERROR -40, BITCH.
Me: Look, I'm not a native Mac user. I don't know what that means. I need to get this movie done, I'm trying my best here...
iMovie: Why don't you go ask Google?
Me: Fine, be that way. Hey, Google?
Google: Ayeah?
Me: What's Quicktime Error -40 mean when I'm importing video into iMovie?
Google: Ah, let's see here... Oh, here we go. "iMovie will not import a file over 2 gigabytes in length or about 9 minutes." Why, are you getting that?
Me: ...
Google: Huh?
Me: ...
Google: You okay there, kiddo?
Me: I wish I'd thought to look this up, like, a week ago.

Comments

[lynxgriffin.livejournal.com]

I had the exact same thing happen to me. What you need is Quicktime Pro. It's not exactly a movie-editing program, but you can at least take huge multi-GB .mov files and break them apart, or delete parts of the movie that you don't need. Then you can make smaller files of the footage you actually need, and iMovie can import them!

If you want, you can IM me files and let me know which parts you need trimmed and which parts kept, since I actually bought Quicktime Pro for that purpose. Might as well make some use out of the program and $25 I spent on it! :P

[fuyu]

School comp! 8D Can't install Pro, I'm stuck with what the computers have.

However, that would be fucking awesome of you if you would do that, and whatever I can't get chopped up in Premiere today I will joyously send you for this purpose. :D

I know, why the hell am I using iMovie when I have access to Premiere. It was what we were shown to work in, and it seemed easier at the time than trying to sort out my fuzzy memories of how Premiere works. D:

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

::pets you:: iMovie is stoopid.

[fuyu]

It is. I shoulda used Premiere, dammit.

[pyrasaur.livejournal.com]

I mentally heard Google as sorta stereotypically Canadian-sounding. Damnit, now I'll never be able to search again without imagining a polite lumberjack helping me.

[fuyu]

I am somehow not at all repentant for this. XD