Digital photography

Because iMovie '08 won't open .mov files, but will open .dv

I'm doing things in the order I said before, first converting the .mov files from h264 to avid DNxHD so that the video is smooth, not choppy, then resaving those files as .dv so that I can open them iMovie.

You know you can simply convert from H.264 to DV if you want, your intermediate stage of H.264 to DNxHD serves no point other than to lose quality.

But there is little point in converting to DV, as DV is a standard definition format - so you instantly loose an enormous amount of resolution as your original H.264 straight out of the camera is a high definition format.

I would do one of two things - convert from H.264 to some format that iMovie is happy with or let iMovie do the conversion for you.