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katarina293 Author

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iMovie poor picture quality

When I add a picture or video from photos to movie in iMovie the quality is very poor. It's grainy and can't recognize faces. They look fine in the project media section. What do I do?

Posted on May 14, 2020 7:56 PM

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Rich839

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Posted on May 15, 2020 1:22 PM

If the photos are in the HEIF format you might try exporting them in a more compatible format. On your iPhone, go to Settings/Photos/Transfer to Mac or PC/Automatic. Then try exporting to desktop and importing from there into iMovie.

Also, you could try lowering the resolution of the photos or videos and see if that helps.

-- Rich

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