Windows Movie Maker for Mac?

Yukina_Raven · Post by **Yukina_Raven** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:05 pm

Okay, so...does anybody know if Windows Movie Maker has a verison for the Mac? If so, is there a place I can download/buy it? Thanks!

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:26 pm

There is no version for the Mac. It's a Windows-only program (Windows Movie Maker

). The equivalent (free) program for Macs is called iMovie, and is usually included in the default install of any recent Mac.

milatchi · Post by **milatchi** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:23 pm

HA HA!

el jacko · Post by **el jacko** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:22 pm

JHU Battousai wrote:There is no version for the Mac. It's a Windows-only program (Windows Movie Maker ). The equivalent (free) program for Macs is called iMovie, and is usually included in the default install of any recent Mac.

What he said. Also, iMovie is generally a much better program to use overall than Windows Move Maker (though I haven't really touched either since I got Final Cut Express).

You can find iMovie here.

Yukina_Raven · Post by **Yukina_Raven** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:16 pm

JHU Battousai wrote:There is no version for the Mac. It's a Windows-only program (Windows Movie Maker ). The equivalent (free) program for Macs is called iMovie, and is usually included in the default install of any recent Mac.

Hey, I only asked 'cause Windows Media Player can be used with Mac.

Anyway, I do have iMovie and it's a very good program, but for some reason it won't let me import full episodes into it.

Tasuku-Sempai · Post by **Tasuku-Sempai** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:03 pm

hey speakin of iMovie, i cant seem to import my DVDs onto iMovie so i cant make any vids

can sum1 help me out? and if u can, help me thru AIM my screenname is Naota1565

milatchi · Post by **milatchi** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:55 am

Yukina_Raven wrote: I do have iMovie and it's a very good program, but for some reason it won't let me import full episodes into it.

iMovie has a 1.9 GB size limit for imported files which ends up being a little over 9 minutes of footage.

Tasuku-Sempai wrote: i cant seem to import my DVDs onto iMovie so i cant make any vids can sum1 help me out?

DVD's use MPEG-2 video in a ".vob" container and iMovie can only import ".dv" or ".mov" (with a DV codec). In order to get the footage from the DVD into iMovie you will need a DVD Ripper the two most prominent for Mac OS X are "DVDBackup" and "0SEx". Once you have used one of those to decrypt and copy the ".vob" files to your Hard Disk you will need to re-encode them to ".dv" or ".mov" (with DV codec) using "MacMPEG2Decoder" or "DiVA". Now if you are going to import those into iMovie they have to be 1.9 GB or less the easiest way to do this would be with QuickTime Pro (even better would be a good editor like Final Cut). If you don't have QuickTime Pro to cut the files then ugh...

um...

mmm...

have fun editing !