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6 Responses to “Importing AVI Videos into iMovie”

1. Gary Rosenzweig says:

   Feb 4 at 8:17 am

   If they won’t import into iMovie, then you need to convert them first. Use a program like VLC, FFMpegX or MPEGStreamclip to do that.

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   • nova says:

     Feb 4 at 9:43 am

     i have VLC how to convert ? thanks

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     • Gary Rosenzweig says:

       Feb 4 at 9:50 am

       Open the .avi file in VLC. Choose File, Streaming/Export Wizard…, then choose Transcode/Save to file, etc.

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2. nova says:

   Feb 5 at 1:58 am

   i converted the file in VLC and saved it on desk top now it does not open saying it cannot open its not a movie file ???????? now what went wrong

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   • Gary Rosenzweig says:

     Feb 5 at 7:41 am

     Sounds like you did not export it in the right format. What format did you use? Try another one. Standard mp4 should work.

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     • Scott Fairclough says:

       Feb 6 at 1:23 am

       Try getting hold of a great little utility called VisualHub, it makes video conversion a breeze, unfortunetly the development for the app has since been stopped but you can still find it on places like http://www.download.com or if you google around for it. Once you’ve done that you can convert the avi’s and import them straight into Itunes, from there you can easily add them into iMovie. VisualHub made video conversion a breeze. No complicated settings to mess around with it really was just drag n drop. good luck

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