iMovie will not let me import my 24p movies

sweetpollypurebred wrote:
You can quit iMovie and try this in terminal.

defaults write com.apple.iMovie8 videoFrameRate 23.976

Open a new iMovie project and see what happens.

If it doesn't work for you just go to preferences>Video Standard and select the two options from the list and restart iMovie.

sweetpollypurebred wrote:
You type the whole line after the prompt. *defaults write com.apple.iMovie8 videoFrameRate 23.976*

Terminal will give no indication that it worked. The way you would know that it worked is the drop down list where you choose between 30 and 25 would be blank. If you select either 25 or 30 you undo the terminal command. It really changes the settings for within iMovie and the export but is worth a try. Your issue is probably more with the type of camera and/or video files. You should post that information so others may be able to help you further. If you can get it in there iM will play, edit and export it at 24fps with this command. Use 24 instead of 23.976 though as iM apparently does the math for anything less than 30 and you will be close enough at 23.98.