<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">I was hoping to figure this out myself but I have a problem that I need some help with. I've been using iMovie to import and create movies from our digital camera. This has worked fairly well with a few glitches now and then. But, I've discovered that a couple of iMovie videos have imported a few fairly large files that I now need to split. iMovie does not seem to be able to actually do this. I thought that when you cropped a video clip it would actually the decrease the video size but it doesn't. It just makes the video inaccessible to iMovie. The original file remains untouched. Is there a utility that can actually go in to a dv file and split it into smaller files. I realize that I could go back and reimport clips, and making smaller files but since I would have to do this in real time I was hoping for a faster way. Is the video that iMovie creates so proprietary that no other software can touch it?<BR>
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So why do I need to have smaller files- I bought another external backup drive from Seagate (I would not recommend the Western Digital MyBook at this time). Because I want to use the drive with both PC's and our Mac, I am forced to use the old ugly DOS FAT32 format. Obviously, a big drawback to this terrible decision is the "no file larger than 4GB" size problem. I've since discovered that I have several files that are over 5 GB from my video importing. I can watch this problem in the future. Most of the time camera files are much shorter than the 4 GB limit because we don't normally have the camera recording continuously. If I can't figure out a good solution to this problem I'll have to reformat the external backup drive to the normal Mac standard.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"></FONT><BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML>