Audio is very sporadic, in and out, mostly out. It moves really speeded up in spots, then slows down. It is unbelievably choppy, with lots and lots of audio dropouts. mov file, which opened it in QuickTime Player. I then used the "Share" function to export it to the iMac desktop in. I imported about 45 seconds of video with audio into iMovie. I hooked up my "old" miniDV tape camcorder to the iMac via a FireWire 400 cable that plugs into the camera, then an adapter with a FireWire 400 connector on one end and a FireWire 800 connector on the other end, then another adapter with a FireWire 800 connector on one end and a Thunderbolt connector on the other end, then this is what is plugged into the iMac. Here's a digitizer that should work fine. And if not there's a program called LifeFlix available for $10 from the App Store that will. But iMovie should be able to capture of this device.
It's not as elegant as DV capture (for instance, you have to manually play your video and then turn on the software to capture to capture it rather than using the software to communicate directly with the camcorder). It might be worth buying a cheap USB-connected digitizer. Capture from tape-based video has really been kind of thrown to the curb, as far as PC and Mac manufacturers go. I'm not sure about using a FireWire/Thunderbolt adaptor. But I've used it to capture miniDV in the past and, once I found the video, it worked just fine in Premiere Elements. iMovie sort of "hides" its captured video. However, getting to it is kind of tricky.
Video captured by iMovie is also editable in Premiere Elements. *** Basic Training for Premiere Elements 15 *** This is for the last version of the program but the principles and the interface are virtually the same as for version 2019. You may also benefit from watching my free 8 part Basic Training tutorials. Make sure that it works with your system and matches your workflow.
You do need to manually trim back your clips to allow for head and tail footage during transitions.īefore you buy, I'd very much recommend that you download the free trial of the program and give it a good test drive. While Premiere Elements no longer includes tools for capturing tape-based video, video captured from a miniDV over a FireWire connection using a free program like WinDV is very much editable in Premiere Elements.Ĥ.
The PC version of Premiere Elements can do green screen and chroma key effects, while both the Mac and the PC version can use a tool called Videomerge, which does keying effects virtually automatically.ģ. In Expert View, you can have up to 99 video and 99 audio tracks.Ģ.