MP4 to iMovie, iMovie import .mp4, how to import mp4 into iMovie on Mac

There are times we need to import mp4 into iMovie on Mac for editing, but only to find iMovie doesn’t allow you to select the file and it just turn grayed out. Another case, you just convert a video to mp4 for iMovie but still can’t be imported into iMovie. Does iMovie not accept .mp4 files? Well, that depends on; let’s check out what’s mp4 first.

Mp4 is a file container for video and audio. The files may contain any number of audio, video, and even subtitle streams, making it impossible to determine the type of streams in an MPEG-4 file based on its filename extension alone.

You may have some clues that why people using Mac always meet difficulty with importing mp4 to iMovie. According Apple official website, iMovie can only import DV, mpeg-4, mpeg-2, MOV and M4V, the reason is simply because iMovie includes all the necessary codecs to read them. But where can we find the codecs needed to import mp4 to iMovie? Video converter for Mac is the best programs ever that being able to convert mp4 and a variety of other video and audio files for iMovie workable, while no other codecs are needed.

Video converter for Mac equips itself with all of the codecs that needed to transcode/convert/compress almost all video and audio files for iMovie on Mac. Mp4 is one of them that can be easily encoded. The program is suitable to run both on Intel Processor and PowerPC from version 10.4 to 10.5. Just simply load the .mp4 video clip to video converter then choose DV, MPEG-4 or MPEG-2 as the output format. The work is done.

If you are not satisfied with the picture quality and want to keep the original clarity or sharpness, fine, video converter for Mac has a set of simple yet powerful video editing system that let you set the resolution, frame rate, bit rate to possible high. You can also trim, crop, rotate, apply video effect to the video so that can meet every of your project need.

Step by Step on how to import MP4 to iMovie on Mac.

Step 1: Download video converter for Mac and install the program to your Application folder

After download, you will finally have a video converter .app folder on your computer; please drag the video converter .app to your Application Folder, the program will be then correctly installed.

Step 2: Load video files into Video Converter for Mac

Double click video converter .app to launch Video Converter for Mac. Click ‘Add Files’ to browse your computer hard drive and select the videos you want to convert. The video files are not limited to mp4; many of other video and audio files can be supported.

Step 3: Appoint the desired output Format

In order to be workable on iMovie, you can select among DV, MPEG-4 or MPEG-2 as output formats. To choose the output format, click the drop down menu next to the Output field; just choose one of them in the list will be ok.

Step 3 Set Output directories

On the bottom of the panel, click the pull down list next to Destination; instruct the program a location to store the converted video.

Step 4: Convert video

Hit Convert…button, the program will begin to convert your MP4 files to iMovie immediately.