{"id":502,"date":"2007-04-07T22:04:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T06:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=502"},"modified":"2009-01-11T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T17:07:58","slug":"dealing-with-mpeg-2-with-imovie-and-final-cut-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with MPEG-2 with iMovie and Final Cut Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/final_cut_pro.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" alt=\"Final Cut Pro\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\"><image src=\"mac\/imovie_6.gif\" alt=\"imovie video tutorial\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nIf you edit movies with your Mac frequently, you may have wondered once in your lifetime why iMovie or Final Cut Pro doesn&#8217;t let you import MPEG-2 files to the application?  If you know the answer, then you should know the best way of using MPEG-2 files with iMovie or Final Cut Pro.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this video tutorial, we use Squared 5&#8217;s MPEG Streamclip and Major&#8217;s ffmpegX to make an MPEG file readable with iMovie and Final Cut Pro.  An MPEG-2 file that we use in this video tutorial comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/CoffeeMatte-Mixup-v01\">Internet Archive<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/mpeg2_fcp_imovie_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/mpeg2_fcp_imovie_01.jpg\" height=\"165\" width=\"220\" alt=\"MPEG-2 Final Cut Pro iMovie\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/mpeg2_fcp_imovie_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/mpeg2_fcp_imovie_02.jpg\" height=\"165\" width=\"220\" alt=\"MPEG-2 Final Cut Pro iMovie\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<li>iMovie version: 6.0.3<\/li>\n<li>Final Cut Pro version: 5.0.4<\/li>\n<li>MPEG Streamclip: 1.8.1<\/li>\n<li>ffmpegX: 0.0.9x<\/li>\n<li>VTC version: 1.0<\/li>\n<li>Video length: 7 minutes 43 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Video format: QuickTime<\/li>\n<li>Video compression: H.264<\/li>\n<li>Video resolution: 720 x 540 pixels<\/li>\n<li>Audio effects: Enabled<\/li>\n<li>Audio commentary: Enabled<\/li>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\"><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"machouse\/video_tutorials_no_visitors.gif\" alt=\"Mac video tutorials\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"200\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/vtc\/mpeg2_imovie_fcp.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"machouse\/video_tutorials_members.gif\" alt=\"Mac video tutorials\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/terms_guests.php\">Terms of Use for Guests<\/a> before watching any of the video tutorials.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\niMovie and Final Cut Pro are products of Apple, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you edit movies with your Mac frequently, you may have wondered once in your lifetime why iMovie or Final Cut Pro doesn&#8217;t let you import MPEG-2 files to the application? If you know the answer, then you should know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=502\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vtc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}