About 4 years ago I created an iMovie with 700 pictures on my G5. Somehow over those years, I have lost access to those pictures. (I am reasonably sure its not a hardware failure problem -- the files may have been overwritten when I was moving files between my MacBook and the G5.) The iMovie files are fine and I can view them just as they were created and saved. Is there a way to reverse engineer iMovie and capture/reload the pictures to iPhoto? If not, is there another way to recapture these pictures. Thank you.
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Four years ago suggests you are talking about iMovie HD. If so, see if you can open up the project in the Finder by right clicking on it and choosing 'Show Package Contents'. Perhaps copies of some sort are in that directory structure. If so, the aspect ratio maybe warped and need adjusting.
I can't remember if you can export your resources from that version of iMovie but it would be worth looking into. If so, 700 image would take a while to go through.
The last option maybe to convert the DVD to a QuickTime file and use something to export every frame. QuickTime Player 7 Pro can do that via Export-->'Movie to Image Sequence'. Use the Options... and the Options... of that to control the export parameters. For instance you likely don't want to use 30 frames per second. Keep in mind this is the lowest quality option.
I can't remember if you can export your resources from that version of iMovie but it would be worth looking into. If so, 700 image would take a while to go through.
The last option maybe to convert the DVD to a QuickTime file and use something to export every frame. QuickTime Player 7 Pro can do that via Export-->'Movie to Image Sequence'. Use the Options... and the Options... of that to control the export parameters. For instance you likely don't want to use 30 frames per second. Keep in mind this is the lowest quality option.
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