Free and fast import MP4 to iMovie
Published on March 18 2013
As a free video editing application for Mac users, iMovie indeed simplified our daily life, you can free import your video files to iMovie for editing. However, as iMovie only support a few video formats such as MOV or MP4 etc, it is not possible for you to directly import all kinds of videos to iMovie for free editing.
And unlucky enough, iMovie can't even say Yes to all of MP4 files, as MP4 is a container file format which may contain different types of codecs, if you get some MP4 files that contains codec which are not compatible with iMovie, it is then impossible to import MP4 files to iMovie for editing. Then, you'd better turn to a third party application for help.
The easiest way to import MP4 videos to iMovie is to get a MP4 to iMovie Converter to help you successfully convert MP4 to iMovie with fast conversion speed and best output quality. Besides, it can also import other videos such as AVI to iMovie, MPG to iMovie, AVCHD to iMovie etc.
Simple guides to help you convert MP4 to iMovie
Step 1: Import MP4 files
You can either directly drag and drop MP4 files or click "Load Media Files" in the "File" menu to load MP4 files either from the Internet, from camcorders or cell phones or from other sources to MP4 to iMovie Converter on Mac (Mountain Lion included).
Step 2: Select iMovie as output format
You can directly choose "iMovie" as your output format, which will automatically set the appropriate file format, bit rate, and resolution. You also can simply edit videos with some useful edit functions provided before conversion.
Step 3: Convert .MP4 to iMovie
Click "Convert" to begin MP4 to iMovie conversion. After that, you can free transfer MP4 files to iMovie without any difficutly.