DropDV 2.0.13
January 29, 2006

DropDV is a Mac OS X droplet which converts MPEG video into DV video streams.  After conversion, your video can be edited in iMovie, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or any other DV video editing system.

To install, simply copy DropDV to your hard drive.

To convert an  MPEG to DV format, drop the MPEG file onto the DropDV icon either in the Finder or on the Dock.  With version 2.0.9, you can also drop MPEG files onto the DropDV window itself.

By default, DropDV places the DV Streams in a folder called "DV Project 1" (or some other number) on the Desktop.  You can change where the projects are created by setting the "Output Folder" preference from the DropDV menu.

DropDV creates projects that are recognized by iMovie.  Double click the file named "imovie project" in "DV Project 1" to open your project in iMovie.  Your DV files will be displayed in the iMovie clips pane.  You can use the drop down menu to select whether you want one iMovie project created for all the files in a drop action, or otherwise create a separate project for each MPEG file that you drop.

Because iMovie cannot open DV files larger than 2 Gigabytes, DropDV will split the converted DV files so they are smaller than 2 Gigabytes.  You can disable this feature in the Preferences.

As of DropDV 2.0.11, Automator Actions are supported via AppleScript.  To use DropDV with Automator, create an Automator "Run AppleScript" action that contains the following AppleScript:

on run {input, parameters}
  tell application "DropDV"
    open input
  end tell
end run

DropDV is available as a Free Trial download.  Registration keys disable the watermarking of the DV video streams, and are available from the DropDV website:
http://www.dropdv.com/registration/

If you have any questions or problems, please contact support@dropdv.com. Indicate which versions of DropDV and Mac OS X you are using in any correspondence.

http://www.dropdv.com
DropDV Software