MPG files and iMovie.. can anyone help?
I'm trying to make a lil movie using iMovie 3.0.3. I have some .MPG movies (with sound) taken with a Sony digital camera. When I drag and drop them to iMovie the video plays fine, but I get no sound. I've been playing around with it, but I just can't make the sound from the .MPG files work. Am I doing something wrong? I've never really used iMovie before.
Help please!
Help please!
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Originally posted by MCQ
you can also try some freeware to try and demux the mpegs... search for mpgtx or bbdemux on versiontracker
Exactly.
bbdemux (VT)
After running this, you get two files-- a video and an audio Quicktime file. Open both. Go to the video and select the whole thing. Switch to the audio and paste it in (Paste Scaled).
I don't know if you need QT Pro to do this pasting, but it can't hurt. However, to work with iMovie, the file has to be in DV format. For that you need QT Pro, I think. I saw a couple of little programs recently that turns QT movies to DV. You may want to search Version Tracker for these. Sorry, but I can't remember the name of the program right now.
Originally posted by jimdad
Am I missing something here? Surely if you can open the files in QT you can just import straight into iMovie 3 ?
iMovie is a Digital Video editing program. It works with DV movies. Therefore you need QuickTime Pro to be able to export standard mpgs into DV mpgs.
It that simple.
1. demux the MPEG file -> you get separate video, audio files.
2. combine the files
3. export the combined files as DV format
4. import into iMovie.
I read somewhere that the sound part of the MPG needs to be converted to Aiff before getting it back together with the video part of the MPG and then convert to DV.
Thanks so much for all your help. I'll post this webpage I came across with too.
How to convert MPEG1 muxed file for use in iMovie