[itou]

I tried to record a video with iMovie 04 using my iSight and there seems to be this limit (10 minutes) on each footage. it's really bothering me that there's this time limit.. not to mention a slight delay in the footage.
what gives?

[joetaxpayer]

that's the 2GB file limit, just one clip, the next clip starts seemlessly. you then can easily edit to make your final movie.

[itou]

the second clip does not start seamlessly. it renders into DV format before it starts the second one.
in my case, the rendering takes about 10 minutes for the full 10 minutes capture.

[Christian_Jack]

This must be some kind of technical restriction. Because the video that come in from iSight is not DV format it must be encoded into DV format in order for iMovie t deal with it.
I have to ask why you would need to record a 10 minute shot with iSight. It not meat as a serious video camera for making movies it is a web cam that can record clips into iMovie.
There should be no limit on the length of video iMovie captures, the only limit is you HD space.
Not owning an iSight i can test.

[joetaxpayer]

hmmm, sorry, I am open to the fact that I may be clueless. really.
my experience is with a digitizer which sends DV to iMovie via firwire. iMovie creates a new clip every 2GB or 9 minutes and change. If iSight workes differently, I'm sorry.
JOE

[itou]

iSight works differently.
capturing long clips is not something i need. i'm just curious as to the limitation.

[swhitset]

Christian Jack has it right.
The iSight does not send video into the mac as a DV stream. imovie has to do a conversion which is processor intensive... Hence the delay.