How to make a home movie on Mac using iMovie
One of the benefits about digital video is that the videos can be shared with family and friends. iMovie is created for this purpose, just several steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV, or play on iTunes, QuickTime.
If you are ready to make a movie using iMovie, here are something you need to foreknow.
1. Can I add any video format with any preferences like FLV, MOV, MPEG, AVI, WMV to iMovie?
iMovie '09 works with more Mini DV tape-based camcorders and tapeless camcorders. Most of high definition camera/camcorder videos (AVCHD/MTS/M2TS, MOD/MPG/MPEG/MOI, TOD/M2T, TR, TRP, TS) can be imported into iMovie, but the formats are still very limited as following:Tapeless Camcorder (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and AVCHD);
Tape based DV-Standard and HDV (High Definition Video);
Part Camera/Mobile Phone video/other video recorder devices (MPEG-1, MEPG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, 3GP, MP4);
Part of QuickTime compatible MOV videos;
MPEG-4 video.
With wondershare Video Converter for Mac, you can convert YouTube video(.flv), QuickTime video(.mov), Windows Media Video(.wmv), Camcorder HD formats(including Sony\Canon\JVC\Panasonic AVCHD .mts .m2ts, JVC\Canon\Panasonic .mod .moi .mpg, .mpeg, JVC .tod, .m2t), M4V(without DRM protection), AVI, ASF, VOB and other popular video formats to iMovie supported .mp4 video. Also you can create video clips on Mac or merge videos into one file to convert to iMovie supported MP4 video. The Mac Video Converter also can split audio from video file to MP3, AAC, AIFF, etc. Then, you can import the converted video into iMovie to edit.
Tip: iMovie supported camcorder and device.
Demo: How to import video from camera.
2. Can i import whole DVD into iMovie or make some clips from DVD into apple iMovie.
Related article:How to convert DVD to MP4 and import DVD to iMovie.3. How to import a home video to iMovie?
Step1: Load videos to make movie on Mac with iMovie
In the 'File' menu, click 'Import from Camera' to load HD videos from camera. After the conversion for iMovie unsupported videos and DVDs with iMovie Converter, click 'Import Movies' to add into project.
Step 2: Create a new project in iMovie
After loading the files into iMovie, we need to create a new project, choose File -> New Project and name it. If your footage is widescreen, ensure you choose the ‘Widescreen (16:9)’ option.
Step 3: Start to make a home video using iMovie
Then we can just start to make a home video using iMovie editing functions.
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