AVI to iMovie,How to Import AVI videos to iMovie '08/'09/'11

Q: I can import my AVI clips into iMovie, but when I play them in iMovie, there's an image but no sound.

Q: My AVI plays smoothly in QuickTime, but in iMovie, I get audio but no picture.

Q: AVI played just fine in QuickTime, but they "grey out" in the import window, so I couldn't import to iMovie.

iMovie only reads AVI that both the audio and the video were compressed by using a codec that iMovie can recognize. If iMovie can' t recognize your AVI video files, it's because of the codec used to create the AVI file is not supported by iMovie, even if you have Perian installed, which only allows you to play AVI in QuickTime. If you want to edit AVI in iMovie, the easy option would be converting the AVI files to an iMovie compatible format, like MOV, MP4, or M4V.

iMovie is a powerful videos editing software sold by Apple Inc. for apple devices such as iPhone, iPod, iPad and so on. If you love customizing movies, this software is really good for you to make you personal movies conveniently. Especially the launch of iMovie'11, users can even edit AVCHD Lite at ease. But this article will focus on how to import one of the most common video formats— AVI to iMovie for editing.

AVI is one streaming media format which is commonly used on Internet with high video quality and not very large volume, so it is easy to transmit through internet. Some camera record videos at AVI format such as Canon Powershot, Samsung, RCA, Panasonic, Flip Mino etc.

Why need to convert AVI to iMovie

As is known to us, not all audio and video compression formats are supported by iMovie '08/'09. iMovie only read AVI that both the audio and the video were compressed using a codec that iMovie can use. If iMovie can't recognize your AVI video files, it's because the codec used to create the AVI file is not supported by iMovie.

Guide on how to import AVI to iMovie

Step 1:Free Download and Install AVI to iMovie Converter , run it on your Mac.

Step 2: Add AVI files you want to edit to the converter.

Step 3: Convert AVI to iMovie. From the drop-down list of Profile, you can find iMovie icon, click it, then hit Convert Button to start convert AVI to iMove format

Step 4: After finish converting, you can import AVI to iMovie then

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AVI to iMovie Converter is a good software to import AVI to iMovie after convert .avi to iMovie compatible formats DV, MOV or MP4

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