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Import DV files into iMovie more quickly
Authored by: cpreston on Jun 05, '10 04:35:47PM

I have a completely different method that perhaps works only on recent versions of MacOS/iMovie, but it is MUCH easier than the procedure above.

For each directory containing video files that you want to import (.dv or .mov), all you need to do is do this:
1. Close iMovie
2. Create the following sub-directories in the directory you wish to import
iMovie Cache
iMovie Thumbnails
3. Start up iMovie. it will process the directory, create the thumbnails, etc.

You can create the directories above in a shell prompt by typing the following commands:
cd <directory-with-videos>
mkdir 'iMovie Cache'
mkdir 'iMovie Thumbnails'

or if you have a lot of directories, you can do this

cd <directory above all of the directories to import>
for i in *
do
mkdir "$i/iMovie Cache"
mkdir "$i/iMovie Thumbnails"
done



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