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My video won't open in iMovie?
I recorded something on my HTC and sent it to my computer, and now I am trying to put it into iMovie, but when i go to import it, it it won't let me click it. I changed the format to AVI but it won't let me select it. Can anyone help me?
2 Answers
- ƃʍɐp ʇıdsuɹnʇLv 610 years agoFavorite Answer
The video file format created by this HTC model is probably .3GP (using H.264 video compression).
If your Mac is running on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), you can make the video available to iMovie by opening it in QuickTime Player and then saving a copy using the .MOV file format first. In QuickTime Player, choose File->Save As... (or press Cmd-Shift-S), and in the save dialog, select «Format: Movie».
If your Mac uses an older version of Mac OS X, your QuickTime Player doesn't come with this feature, but you can use the conversion tool MPEG Streamclip instead. Download from http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac... (completely freeware)
Drag the .3gp file onto the MPEG Streamclip icon to launch it, then choose File->Save As... and select the file format «MOV».
PS: Simply changing the filename extension 'by hand' in the Finder doesn't EVER change the actual file format – not on Macs, not on Windows, and not on Linux. Remember this and tell everyone else off who comes up with this misconception.
- ElbertLv 710 years ago
AVI is just a container for video files. The HTC video file is probably not recognized by iMovie in which case you must convert it into a file that iMovie recognizes like .mov file.
