digital video

[Christopher Miller]

One thing to keep in mind if you want to work with iMove (whatever version)
  is that it only reads *digital* video files and not analogue files, which 
is why you need a separate digitiser as Alex suggests. Otherwise, Final 
Cut Pro can read either analogue or digital files. One thing to keep in 
mind is that you can compress your original huge files to much smaller 
sizes using the Sorenson compression algorithms Alex refers to (without 
perceptible loss of image quality to boot), thereby allowing you to store 
much more video in a given medium. The compression can take some time, 
given the size of a raw video file, but te result more than makes up for 
the wait.

¶ Christopher Miller
¶ Professeur associé
¶ Département de linguistique et de didactique des langues
¶ Université du Québec à Montréal
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