You can import movies well in DV, HDV, AVCHD, Apple Intermediate Codec, Apple Animation Codec or H.264, but notable MKV ( What's it?) is excluded in the supported list. See also: Rip a DVD to edit in iMovie.įeature-rich and marvelous as it though, iMovie is pretty picky about the video format. As a consumer-level video editing program preinstalled in Mac out of the box, iMovie allows film freaks to do all of the basic editing for video clips and does offer advanced options to create Hollywood-style trailers and stunning 4K-resolution movies. If you're a video enthusiast and fond of edit your videos to make them distinctive on a Mac, you then may be likely to use iMovie application to accomplish the task. Then you are free to adjust the volume and pitch, apply fade-in and fade-out effect according to your needs.How to import HD MKV to iMovie for editing on a Mac If you'd like to do some changes on the audio, you can click the Audio button on the top right corner of the Edit Box. Hare you are provided with options like rotate, crop, brightness, playback speed and more. To access more editing features, you can double click the video thumbnail to open the Edit Box. The sound track will be separated and displayed in the audio track.Īdd background music: drag the music you like to the music track and move it to sync with the video. Remove audio from the video: right click on the video thumbnail and then select the Audio Detach from the drop-down list. Split video: move the Playback Indicator to the place where you want to cut the video and then click the Split button. Merge video: drag all the videos to the video track and rearrange their sequence if necessary. The file will be displayed in the video track as thumbnail. Next, you can drag the target video to the Timeline Panel below from the User's Album. (include Apple products, game consoles, smartphones, etc.) HD Video: MP4, MPG, AVI, TS, TRP, WMV, MOVĪIFF, AVC, AVI, BMP, FLAC, JPEG, MP3, MPEG-2/4, OGG, PNG, TIFF, QuickTime, WAV, WMA, WMVĪVI, DV-AVI, MPEG-1/2/4, QuickTime, WMV(HD)，WAV, MP3(requires installation of Windows Media Player version 10 or higher) SD Video: MP4, AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 SECAM, ASF, M4V, Xvid, DV, DVD-Video NTSC, DVD-Video PAL, DVD-Video SECAM, HTML5

WMV, ASF, AVCHD, QuickTime, DV‑AVI, MPEG-1/2/4, WMA, PCM, MP3, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, Bitmap Files, Icon Files HD Video: HD MPG, HD TRP, HD TS, HD QuickTime Movie, HD MPEG-4 Movie, HD AVC MPEG-4 Movie, HD MPEG-4 Movie for iDVD, HD MPEG-4 Movie for iMovieĪA3, AIFF, AVI, BMP, CDA, FLAC, GIF, JPEG, MP3, MPEG-1/2/4, OGG, PCA, PNG, QuickTime, SND, SFA, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMVĪVI, MPEG-1/2/4, MTS, M2TS, QuickTime, WMV(HD), VOB, MKV SD Video: MP4, FLV, AVI, VOB, 3GP, 3G2, MOV, MPG, MPEG, F4V, M4V (without DRM), TS, TRP, M2TS, MTS, ASF, DV, TP, DAT, WMV, MKV, NSV, TOD, MOD, EVO Windows-only: Windows XP/Vista/7/8 (32-bit/64-bit) (needs an Internet connection for several functions)

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