You should beable to put it on a 700mb CD, it would lose quality though, unless it was a really short short.

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Originally posted by vantango

Hello ?:p?

I'm new to these forums and filmmaking. I am planning to do a small short, and hopefully has a good plot. But I have a few questions.

First, I have a small mini-DV camcorder. I was wondering how I would get tape and transfer it to my mac, like into i-Movie. Would I have to transfer it scene by scene or what?

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You simply plug the camera into you Mac and open iMovie. It's so simple it will prompt you what to do at each step.

You can transfer each scene and take (that's what I do - the times spent logging each clip is a huge time saver later when you're editing) or you can just transfer the entire tape as one long clip.

It's up to you!

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Sorry, I was mistaken. My camcorder is older than I thought it was. It is actually a COMPACT VHS Camcorder, and it can only work by plugging it into a VHS, edit there, and transfer it unto DVD. I guess I just solved my own question. ?:o)?

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You should beable to put it on a 700mb CD, it would lose quality though, unless it was a really short short.

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You can fit about 10-15 minutes onto a CD in DVD format at DVD quality, and about an hour on there if you use DiVX for video and MP3 for audio, where the quality won't be much lower. Quicktime MPEG-4 would probably manage about the same as DiVX on a Mac.