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Many people would back up their DVD contents as VIDEO_TS folders on Mac so that they can keep their DVD gems in the shelf to avoid any damage. Maybe you are one of them and have ripped many DVD movies or home-made DVDs in VIDEO-TS format. Well, do you have a great idea to import VIDEO_TS to iMovie so that you can edit them at will, especial those VIDEO_TS files with your loved one’s life footage content?

To convert VIDEO_TS to iMovie (iMovie 11/09/iMovie 08/iMovie HD) for editing, a third-party tool is necessary for you, for VIDEO_TS can’t be directly imported to iMovie. I recommend you to use a powerful VIDEO_TS to iMovie Video Converter (OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion supported).

In this article, I’ll show you how to easily realize VIDEO_TS to iMovie conversion using the Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which directly offers you an optimized preset for iMovie.

Step 1: Load VIDEO_TS to the VIDEO_TS to iMovie converter

Before doing this, you need to install and launch this app.

Then, you have two flexible ways to do this job. Drag & drop VIDEO_TS files to the program. Or go to File menu, choose Load DVD to locate the VIDEO_TS files you want to add.

Step 2: Select iMovie as the output format

Simply click the format icon to open its output format list, and select iLife”>” iMovie Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.

Note: Before the conversion, you may simply edit videos directly in this app. In its editing window, you can split, crop, trim, add watermark and adjust video effect etc. After that, you may click the Play” button to preview the whole project.

Step 3: start VIDEO_TS to iMovie conversion

After all the setting is already, you can hit start” in the lower-right corner of its main interface to start VIDEO_TS to iMovie’11 (including iMovie 09/iMovie 08/iMovie HD) conversion, which may take you a while according to the sizes of your VIDEO_TS files. Just let this smart app run in the background and do other things at will.

With the VIDEO_TS to iMovie Video Converter Pro for Mac (10.8 Mountain Lion supported), you can edit the wonderful VIDEO_TS content in iMovie (iMovie 11/iMovie 09/iMovie 08/iMovie HD) now. Just have a try.