I have a mac and want to make a video with imovie?

Question

I know how to edit and do everything, but I have some clips that I want to make into a movie, but they are Quicktime clips and not on a tape (on a memory card).On the computer they come up (when you click on them) as a separate little screen. Is there a way to get those clips onto imovie?
Thanks for any information!

I did try to drag and drop... and I dont see an import button. Would the import button be on the file drag-down of imovie or quicktime. I'm not very much of a computer wiz, so please try to explain carefully!
Thanks!

ok, just kidding, I figured out how to import the files... but there's just one problem. The sound diappeared. When I listen to the clips on quicktime... the sound is fine, but the clips on imovie are completely silent. Any ideas why this happened?

Answer 1

Some older forms of QuickTime files are not fully compatible with iMovie. To find out what format you are watching:
Open the QuickTime movie in QuickTime Player (the "separate little screen"). Choose "Window > Show Movie Info". Click "More Info" if needed to see the exact format. If it is "MPEG1 Mixed format", that's why it has no sound. You can't import audio from those old files.

By the way, AVI files are not an exact format. They are a container file designed by Microsoft to make it look like they had the same format year after year. Several different video formats can be put inside the container. Usually nowadays it will be a DivX video file.

If you have paid the 50 bucks to have QuickTime Pro, you can export the audio from the old QuickTime movie. Then you will have an AIFF file. That can be imported into iMovie but it will need careful editing to be sure the sound matches the video. Otherwise, it will look like the Chinese TV programs I watch over here in Shanghai where the mouth starts moving before you hear the sound! Some other software might be available for download that can extract audio from old QuickTime files but nothing comes to mind.

Answer 2

In iMovie, either drag the Quicktime clips into the "Clips" section, or choose File - Import. When you capture from a camera or from a memory card, you are actually creating Quicktime clips. When you double-click on the clips, they will open in Quicktime as a default. That does not mean, though, that they can't be used in an editing program such as iMovie.

Answer 3

Try to drag and drp the clips into you iMovie library or bin - also try the Import File feature. If the flie clips are the wrong format, iMovie will tell you, and you may need to transcode the clips into an AVI or MOV ffile format to get them into iMovie.

Answer 4

As i comprehend, iMovie reads mp4, mov and m4v records. So, first examine what's format of youtube video. If the youtube video isn't supported through iMovie, then convert it with the iPad video converter.

Answer 5

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