Originally posted by torpesco How do others hear deal with video clips? I should note I've got a Mac.
I'm using Lightroom, and it courteously copies the videos off for me, but it can't do anything with them. It opens up QuickTime to display them, but QuickTime doesn't get beyond saying "loading movie...". If I browse to the folder in Finder and click on the movie, the preview thumbnail doesn't get beyond the spinner thing indicating it's creating a thumbnail.
With the Pentax software, I tried browsing to a directory containing a video clip... and it crashed the second I clicked on that directory. Not impressive crashing when generating thumbnails of only files that came out of a Pentax camera.
iMovie seems to handle them fine, but I'm just getting short clips for the memories, and it seems more complex than I'd like. I just want to preview to pick which ones to keep, and trim the ends if anything. If I have to use it I guess I will... but is there another option?
Most probably when you install K-Lite codec pack with media player all your problems will go away, because when installing it puts latest codes into your puter.
Other than pricey Adobe Premier, Windows movie maker is the best little editing software for cut, paste, add etc.
BTW both are free and can find them with a simple search on the internet.