What image types are supported in iMovie?

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What image types are supported in iMovie?

I'm going on a trip with a group of youth, and I'm wanting to send video updates back to their family members during the trip. I've gotten an image to sync to my iPhone 4, and I can import it into iMovie, but while it shows the photo at the bottom, it won't actually show the image in the movie preview area?

Importing photos that were taking on the iPhone works, as does taking a photo directly from iMovie, but I want to add some special graphics into the Movie itself.

Is there a way to tell what formats are supported? The image was made in gimp, 700x300 @ 150dpi exported as a PNG and as a JPG, but neither of them work.

2010 13" MBP; iPhone 4 16gb, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jun 24, 2010 6:24 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 24, 2010 10:12 PM in response to peripatew

I'm not sure if you tried this, but here it goes:

_ Using your Mac, make a copy of your Graphic / image to your Desktop
_ Launch "Preview" on your Mac
_ Save the file as a JPG
_ Quit "Preview"
_ Copy this newly saved JPG to "iPhoto"
_ Quit "iPhoto"
_ Launch "iTunes"
_ Plug your iPhone4 via USB
_ From "iTunes", select the iPhone4 and go to the Photos Tab.
_ Make sure the Event or Album of the Graphics/iMage you created above, is Checked
_ Sync your iPhone

Now from your iPhone4, verify that you can add this photo into iMovie.

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Jun 24, 2010 10:16 PM in response to iphonejunky

This is exactly what I've done. And when I pop the image into iMovie, it shows at the bottom just fine, but it doesn't show in the main playback area. But an image taken by my iPhone can be imported just fine.

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Answer 3

Jun 25, 2010 8:19 AM in response to peripatew

Here is the quickest work-around I can think of:

Using your Mac, take a screenshot of your Gimp image using command + shift + 4.
Then add it to iPhoto, and sync it to your iPhone4 via iTunes.

BTW, how did you create that image in Gimp? What settings did you use?

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peripatew Author

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Jun 26, 2010 5:04 PM in response to peripatew

I can try the screenshot method, but I'd rather just get the picture specifications figured out. Not sure what you mean by how I made the image, it is a multilayer image that I exported as a PNG and a JPG.

Does anyone from Apple answer in their support forums?!

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