How long can imovie record for

Sep 10, AM in response to howdesign In response to howdesign. I have been getting the same error with an iMovie 11 project that is 2. I have never had this issue before even with longer movies.

I am running Lion and iMove 11 9. Sep 10, AM. Jun 8, PM in response to howdesign In response to howdesign. I am currently working on a 7. My most recent attempt is to export through quicktime. Now I have tried to export through here before however my project was going to become this gigabyte eating file.

This time, before clicking save so it will start exporting I clicked on options right next to it. From there I was able to set the codec to animation which instantly reduces the final size of the file. Also through there you can change the FPS, color depth, and key frames. Originally my project exported through quicktime was going to take 60 hours, now it projects 6. Hopefully after all of this is said and done I will not have the "project is too long" error message.

Jun 8, PM. Same here. Ripped a 2 hour and 32 minute movie from a blu-ray that I own, and only need iMovie to boost the volume. When it gets to the very end, it gives me an error telling me that it is too long. The original file size is just over 1. Jul 20, AM. Dec 7, PM in response to howdesign In response to howdesign.

Your camcorder continues to play. Each time a new scene begins, a new clip icon appears in the Clips pane. The Clips pane scrolls as much as necessary to hold the imported clips. What iMovie is actually doing is studying the date and time stamp that DV camcorders record into every frame of video.

When iMovie detects a break in time, it assumes that you stopped recording, if only for a moment, and therefore that the next piece of footage should be considered a new shot. It turns each new shot into a new clip. This behavior lets you just roll the camera, unattended, as iMovie automatically downloads the footage, turning each scene into a clip while you sit there leafing through a magazine.

If you prefer, you can ask iMovie to dump incoming clips into the Clip Viewer at the bottom of the screen instead of the Clips pane. You might want to do that when, for example, you filmed your shots roughly in sequence. Click OK. Now when you begin importing clips, iMovie stacks them end to end in the Timeline instead of on the Clips pane. If you would prefer to have manual control over when each clip begins and ends, iMovie is happy to comply.

Tapping the Space bar is the same as clicking the Import button. In fact, if you tap Space when the camcorder is stopped, it begins to play and iMovie begins to capture the footage. You can chop out part of a clip today—and then return next week or even next year and change your mind. That trick works because iMovie never really deletes any video when you shorten a clip.

On your hard drive, the entire clip is still lying there, ready to be restored to your project. For example, a one-minute video ought to take up about megabytes of hard drive space.

You can read more about this habit in Section 5. Turns out that if you delete an entire clip rather than just a piece of it , iMovie does indeed remove it completely from the project. Having more subdivisions of your video means more opportunities to delete entire chunks. For example, suppose you filmed the last 15 minutes of a soccer game, eating up 3. They still play seamlessly, with no visible hiccup between them. True, the ever-diminishing digits in the Free Space indicator may put you under pressure to limit the amount of footage you import.

You will again have to drag the audio file from the Project Library to the timeline. If you plan to record the audio in iMovie, move the playhead to the beginning of the slideshow and hit record. You may want to record each slide separately and line up the audio as you do the slides. Select your QuickTime file. It should show up in the Project Library the upper left hand section of your iMovie screen.

To build your movie, select the media file and drag it into the timeline bottom half of screen. It will already be timed according to the assignment 4 min, 20 seconds for each slide. Be sure to check the crop on the media before moving forward. In the preview window, click on the crop button and toggle between fit and Crop to Fill depending on what you think works best. You want to make sure all of your slide show content is in the window. Select all of the jpeg files.

They will appear separately in the Project Library upper left hand section of the iMovie screen. To build your movie, select each photo and drag it into the timeline bottom half of screen.

You may choose to drag in one image at a time, record the voiceover for that slide and then move on to the next. This can account for slight timing changes — ie. Perhaps one slide has a voice over of 25 seconds, one 18 seconds, and one 17 seconds. You can make some modifications on how you would like your project to be exported. It is recommended that most of the time you do not need to change any of these values.

You will be prompted to save the file. If you want to mess with the saturation, brightness or values of your video, iMovie makes it very easy. Simply press the "palette" icon above the preview screen as shown here to open up the menu. The slider on the right controls the "temperature" of the photo, whether the warm colours like red, yellow, orange and pink are more prominent in the photo, or whether the cool colours like blue, green, purple and are more prominent.

The slider in the middle controls the saturation of the picture: whether the picture is more brightly coloured, or whether the colours are more muted and grey. The slider on the left controls the brightness of the picture. If you increase the top slider, the white slider, that will make the highlights of the picture brighter or darker.

If you move the bottom slider, the black slider, that will make the shadows of the picture brighter or darker. If you move the middle sliders, this will change the contrast of the picture: whether bright and dark are very diametrically opposed, or not. Finding the optimal settings for the video differs depending on the style of the video.

Don't be afraid to mess around with the sliders, until you find the ideal colour-grading. Sometimes, if you're thinking of making a timelapse video, or you want to slow down an action shot within your editing, you'll want to mess with the speed of the video, to display differently. Right-click on the video file you want to speed up, and select "Show Speed Editor" from the dropdown menu.

This will make a small slider bar display on the top of the video file. Drag the slider bar leftwards, and this will make your video faster. The video file will flash with the icon of a hare to indicate this. Hare is for a sped-up video. Drag the slider bar rightwards, and this will make your video slower. The video file with flash with the icon of a tortoise to indicate this. Tortoise is for a slowed-down video. It isn't always easy finding a pool of places where free videos or audio can be found without needing to pay royalties, but this will hopefully give you a places to start off with!

Creative Commons Attribution 3. University Library. I try to drag them in and they bounce off! I am working with event files on an external disk, so space isn't the issue.

The project file is on my laptop though. Anyway I was wondering if IMovie has a limit whether project file size or project minute length. Can't find anything in the help menu,plus I have a pretty good book on it. I am in iMovie Thank you so much. How full is your hard drive? About 80 gigs free? Hippocampus24 said:. Yes it is weird I wouldn't be surprised if iMovie does have a limit, I am just surprised no one has mentioned it.

I have a project due in two days. The total footage I want is about 75 minutes which I can pare down if I need to If there is a workaround I would be happy with that.