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How to convert/import flip video to imovie on Mac
iMovie is a professional video editing application for Mac users and it is widely used even by many Hollywood people on professional movie post-production. The Flip Camcorder is a very easy to use, pocket sized camcorder. It is ideal for people who aren't computer experts and just want shoot video and share it. If you are a flip video fan and you want to give professional editing to your flip videos, iMovie is a great choice. However, flip videos cannot be directly imported to iMoive and to edit flip videos using iMovie, you will have to convert flip videos to iMovie supported formats.
Since flip videos are not supported by iMovie, you will need a converter. Mac flip to iMovie converter is a program specially designed to make Flip Mino and Flip Ultra work well with iMovie, iTunes and QuickTime, it can convert flip video to various common formats like mpeg4, mpeg2, mov, dv that compatible with the iMovie.
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Step 1. Import flip video to flip video converter
Click the "Add Files" button to add the flip videos you want to edit in iMovie to iFunia Video Converter for Mac. If you have many video clips and want to load them at one time, just go ahead, the batch mode will let you do without any problem.
Step 2. Select an iMovie format for your conversion
At the right side of "Output Format", you can select the output format from the down-list, just select your need format or match your device format, e.g. "MOV - Quicktime(*.mov)".
Step 3. Start converting flip video to iMovie compatible format
Hit "Start" button, this will instruct the program to convert the list of flip video immediately. Please wait patiently till the progress bar says conversion done.
Step 4: Importing flip video files to imovie
Launch iMovie, go to "file > import movies". Select the converted Flip video then click "import".
