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How to import/convert HD videos to iMovie on Mac
To edit HD videos with some professional needs on Mac, iMovie is an ideal tool. It comes with a variety of amazing editing functions and supports some HD formats such as DV, HDV,HD MP4. But, if your HD files are in different formats, such as AVCHD(MTS/M2TS), TOD, TS, TPR etc, and if your DV/HDV/HD MP4 videos cannot be imported to iMovie, you will need to convert HD to iMovie first.
Mac HD video Converter is the perfect choice to convert HD video to iMovie, whether you want to convert HD AVI to iMovie, AVCHD to iMoive, or other HD formats to iMovie.
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Step 1. Add HD video files to HD to iMovie Converter
Click the "Add Files" button in the top-left to add HD video you want to convert from your hard disk. You can also simply drag-and-drop the HD video files to the program.
Step 2. Select an iMovie format
Click the "Output Format" drop-up list, and you will see all the output formats, move your mouse pointer to " Apple Software –MOV - QuickTime(*.mov)". iFunia Video Converter for Mac also supports multiple formats well including MPG, FLV, AVI, 3GP, MP4, iPad, iPod, iPhone formats as output.
Notes: Usually, default settings are good enough and they're recommended. However, you can customize settings completely as you like. Here you can set the Video Codec, Video Size, Video Bitrate, Video Framerate, and decide whether to Keep Aspect or not.
Step 3. Start converting and then import the converted HD files to iMovie
Click "Start" button to start converting HD video to the format that iMovie supported. After converting, open iMovie, click on File > Import > Movies, and navigate to where the file is. Create a new event and import into iMovie.
