iMovie 10.1.16 - washing out video clips from Photos (Macbook Air)

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iMovie 10.1.16 - washing out video clips from Photos (Macbook Air)

Hi everyone! I am currently running Catalina 10.15.7 and am having issues with iMovie (10.1.16). When I try to import a clip from Photos (filmed on my iPhone 12 Pro running iOS 14.2 in 4K), the colors of the movie becoming completely oversaturated / washed out when I pull them into the filed to edit and create a moive. Oddly, in the preview frame above, the video looks just fine, but when you hover the cursor over top of the movie, it then washes out. In Photos and on my iPhone 12 Pro, the video quality is fine - as it should be.

I have tried restarting, resetting preferences, and uninstalling and reinstalling iMovie, but nothing is working. Has anyone else had / is anyone else having this problem? Grateful for some fixes if they are available! Thank you!

MacBook Air

Posted on Nov 10, 2020 9:29 AM

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Rich839

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Dec 22, 2020 2:26 PM in response to Joseph1122

Try converting with the free download, Handbrake. You can get Handbrake here:

https://handbrake.fr/

A simple way to do it is to open Handbrake and do a File/Open Source. Navigate to your video and choose it as the source from the resulting screen. Then do File/Start Encoding. Wait a couple of minutes for the conversion to complete. Then save and import the converted clip into iMovie.

-- Rich

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Rich839

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Nov 10, 2020 11:58 AM in response to bsteph50

Hi, bsteph50,

The oversaturated, washed out, look happens because iMovie for Mac doesn't yet support the

HDR video from your iPhone 12. You would need to go to your phone settings and turn off HDR for recording future videos. Go into the camera settings and turn off HDR under the Record Video sub menu. Once the HDR setting is off any future recordings should work in iMovie for Mac.

If you can’t or don’t want to redo your HDR videos, then on Mac open the HDR video in QuickTime. Then export/save video in H264 format. It will strip all HDR meta data so you will be able to use it in iMovie for Mac.

-- Rich

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