Setting PAL as default video format in iMovie HD 06
This week I got my hands on a PowerMac dual G4 Mirror Drive Door that I will use as a video editing station with iMovie.
When I started iMovie I noticed that it had set the default DV format to be DV-NTSC (probably since I use English as my language). iMovie adjusts the format based on the camera hooked in to the system but as I created the project before I hooked my camera to the computer it used NTSC and I was screwed. I did not find any setting in iMovie to change the default format. I did a search in the manual. I searched Google but could not find anything. So I decided to apply some brute force the application folder. In a couple of minutes I found the setting string defaultVideoFormat that said DV-NTSC. Changed it to DV-PAL and I was good to go.
The file you need to change is located in:
/Applications/iMovieHD.app/Contents/Resources/
English.lproj/Localizable.strings
(If you are using some other language than English look in that folder instead)
July 16th, 2007
And that’s not just the language file, i.e. the translation of the program?
July 16th, 2007
It might be as well. I used grep to seach for PAL in the application folder and since I use English I guessed that line should be edited to PAL and it seems to work.
I think it would be better for the application to read such data from the regional settings. Or?
July 18th, 2007
Not entirely stupid no, but seems a bit unusual though!
Cheers!