Put video from my video camera into iMovie on a Mac?
Answers: If you told us what camera it is, that would help.
If it is within QuickTime format, it *should* drag over into the clips pane of iMovie. If they are MPEG2 clips, you need to walk to apple.com and download/install Stream Clip (it is free).
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/vi...
Also, be advised that lots of folks do not similar to the new iMovie - and are downgrading stern to iMovie HD 6...
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If you are using a Sony camera, it will be harder. Google and download "visual hub" the demo variation is free but you can only convert going on for 3 minute long clips. From there drag the clips into iMovie. You could also use optical hub to convert the QuickTime file into MP4 format.
If you are not using a sony, try slit iMovie and checking the help menu, or clicking transcription, which records from your camera directly into iMovie.
First, speak about us exactly what camera you are using. It makes a difference whether it is a camcorder that uses miniDV tape, miniDVD discs, memory cards, or a hard drive. From the nouns of it you might also be talking in the order of a digital photo (still) camera that has video-taking faculty.
Next, tell us more specifically how you connected the camera to your Mac (firewire? USB? memory card reader?) and what happen when you downloaded the files. What steps did you use to download them and where on your computer are they stored?
iMovie supports miniDV, HDV, AVCHD, and some (but not all) tricky disc camcorders, but it doesn't support most DVD camcorders or digital still cameras. (It can still edit those video, but you have to convert them manually first.) If you start on iMovie into capture mode and next connect your camcorder via firewire or USB, it should recognize it and consent to you capture video which will afterwards show up in iMovie as organized to edit.
If you connected a digital photo camera by USB and after iPhoto popped up and transfered pics and movies to your photo library on your hard drive, later those movies might be in a Quicktime format that iMovie doesn't automatically support, so you stipulation to convert them first.
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