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User profile for user: jodiemorgetron
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iMovie Question: YES audio NO video

Hello:


I'm making a graduation video for my daughter. I am using iMovie on my MacBook Air.


I have a bunch of videos that family and friends have sent to me. A handful of them lose the video once I import them. The audio is there, but no picture.


I see lots of fixes for videos with no sound, but none for sound without video ...


The video format is .mov and there are other .movs in the iMovie, so I don't think it's format. It's only affecting about three (important) clips.


Any ideas on what might be going wrong?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on May 13, 2020 5:55 PM

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User profile for user: Rich839
Rich839
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Posted on May 13, 2020 6:13 PM

Actually, I do think it is a format issue. The .mov format is a bucket that can contain different codecs depending on which device is rendering it.


Try re-encoding the clips to H.264, Mp4/AAC, even if they are already that format. You can do it with the free download Handbrake, that you can get here:


https://handbrake.fr/


To make it simple, open Handbrake and click on File/Open Source. In the window that pops up, navigate to your clip and click on it to choose it as the source. Then do a File/Start Encoding. You should end up with a converted clip that will play in iMovie. If it still doesn't play video you may need to redo the process, entering the codecs that I mentioned.


-- Rich

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Rich839
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May 13, 2020 6:13 PM in response to jodiemorgetron

Actually, I do think it is a format issue. The .mov format is a bucket that can contain different codecs depending on which device is rendering it.


Try re-encoding the clips to H.264, Mp4/AAC, even if they are already that format. You can do it with the free download Handbrake, that you can get here:


https://handbrake.fr/


To make it simple, open Handbrake and click on File/Open Source. In the window that pops up, navigate to your clip and click on it to choose it as the source. Then do a File/Start Encoding. You should end up with a converted clip that will play in iMovie. If it still doesn't play video you may need to redo the process, entering the codecs that I mentioned.


-- Rich

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iMovie Question: YES audio NO video

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