imovie How to import and export video

For Mac users, perhaps there is a greater advantage to video clips than Windows, because it comes with a free and powerful video-clip tool: IMovie. About Imovie We will introduce a few installments, today we only preliminary look at the most basic how to import and export video.

　Import Video files

After opening the imovie, the first thing we need to do is to import the video file to clip, click on the third icon on the top left to enter the "import" interface. Here we can find the video file to clip on the hard disk or the external device.

However, one need to pay attention to the problem is that the current imovie support file format only MP4 and mov these two, and we use DV machine video files are generally MEPG-2 format, so need to turn the format.

Here we recommend a free format tool, total video Converter Lite, which can be downloaded for free in the Mac App Store.

Open the total video Converter Lite, and then drag directly to the main area of the file that needs to be converted into a format. Then click the Output Format option box on the right, where you choose the file format you want to output.

This option is actually MP4 format, but the definition is different, if the most clear compression effect, then choose "IMovie High Quality (H264)". Then select a good target folder, click the Switch button to wait.

After the transition is complete, we'll cut back to the imovie "import" interface and see that the video is ready to be imported. Select a good file click on the bottom right corner of the "import options" to complete the import.

　Exporting video files

This is the video import section, let's see how the edited video is exported.

As shown above, when we have finished editing the project, how can we export this video into a file that can be played? Click "File" on the top taskbar and select "Share" and click "File" here.

Then we see a new window where we can edit the title, description, format, resolution, quality, and compression speed. Note that the format section only "Video + audio" and "audio" two optional, the video is exported to the MOV format file, not to allow you to choose other video file format.

After all the choices, click Next, start rendering compression, the process is only waiting. We can view the process of the task in the upper-right corner.

It is worth mentioning that, if the choice of high quality output, then imovie will lead a low quality version, directly can play, and then continue to render high-quality files. This is still very human.

OK, for the import and export of imovie video we'll introduce you to this, and later we'll introduce some tips for imovie clips.