Transferring mini DV tapes to iMovie

I have never seen or heard of an option to " process" after a tape appears to have transferred to iMovie, so that is unusual .

If you can stop the process ( you may have already ?) without quitting iMovie then see if you have transferred successfully.

Normally you should be able to capture the tape without having to stop the tape before reaching the end of the tape.

If you have let the tape run to the very end of the tape ,then try stopping the capture / transfer just before reaching the end of the tape.

A bit tedious as you will need to sit by the camcorder towards the end of the capture, but might be worth it.

Can't think what is causing the small ' jump'.

Sounds as though this is happening between the scene breaks.

You could try capturing with Quick Time Pro which should capture in one long clip with no scene breaks.

If successful you would then import this one long clip into iMovie, hopefully with no jumps.

Try the New Movie Recording feature in QTP and look at paragraph 2 which tells you how to import from an external camcorder.

You have a choice of 2 quality settings; the ProRes can get quite large so the H264 should be OK, but experiment to see which you prefer.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/quicktime-player/qtp356b55534/mac

Hi, LeBoy,

Do you have sufficient free space on your internal drive for iMovie to function and sufficient free space on whatever external drive on which your destination iMovie library is stored?

-- Rich

Quick Time Pro above should have been Quick Time Player.

For some reason I was not able to go into Edit and change it.