iPhoto Videos Not showing up in iMovie

Hi Solo,

See the information in this Apple article, which I have quoted in full:

*iMovie '09: iMovie may not load or recognize iPhoto Videos*

Symptoms

If you are using Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, iMovie ‘09 may not recognize iPhoto Videos in the iMovie Event Library. This can occur because some older video file formats need to have QuickTime Player 7 installed in order to play.

Resolution

To resolve this issue:

Follow the steps in Installing QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.
After you install QuickTime Player 7, choose Software Update from the Apple () menu and install any updates related to QuickTime.
Restart your computer.

Here is the link to the article, which provides a link to installing QuickTime Player 7:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3355

John

In case you missed it Solo, here's the link to installing QuickTime Player 7:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3678

John

Thanks for letting us know Solo - good to hear it's now working for you (thanks for the star)! At least Apple did the right thing by posting a fix for this issue. When I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I selected the option to include QuickTime 7 in the upgrade, so haven't experienced any problems like this.

John

I have QuickTime Player 10, so why is this not working for me?

QuickTime Player 10 is a special release by Apple, which I think uses different technology to that used in QuickTime Player 7. QT 7 also has a Pro version which can be purchased through the Apple Store. There is no version 8 or 9.

When first installing Snow Leopard, you are given an option to install QT 7. From memory, the installer did mention something about QT 7 being required for some applications. I chose to install it and haven't had any problems with running any of my applications. I have the Pro version, but my understanding is that you don't need this for the iPhoto/iMovie issue raised in this thread.

Note that you can have both QT 7 and QT 10 (X) on your Mac. When playing videos etc you can choose either one. The default player is usually version 10.

John

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I have the same problem ... can import video from my cell phone to my video folder or to iPhoto and they play fine in Quicktime (player), but iMovie doesn't "see" them in either location. I am using Q-T Player 7.6.6 and the files are in the .3g2 format. I would love to be able to edit them and make short movies to share/export/burn, but cannot pull them into iMovie.

Thanks for any help you can give!

Usually any videos in iPhoto appear in iMovie '09 in the item "iPhoto Videos" at the top of the listing in the iMovie Events browser. Clicking on this item (heading) reveals the video thumbnails to the right of the Events listing. However, I've noticed that my old 3gp videos from an earlier mobile phone don't show up in the Events, whereas some other formats do (for example, avi).

MPEG Streamclip will convert 3gp files to a suitable format for import to iMovie. I'm not sure if it will handle 3g2. In MPEG Streamclip, navigate to your movie and open it, or simply drag it into the workspace. Now export it as a QuickTime movie (.mov) in the format AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) or H.264. The default settings for these formats should be OK. Both these formats work well with iMovie. I just tested a 3gp movie, exported from MPEG Streamclip as AIC - this worked perfectly with iMovie.

To import in iMovie go to File>Import - Movies, then navigate to your movie.

You can download the free MPEG Streamclip here:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

PS After posting this, I realised that you can also export as AIC or H.264 from QuickTime 7.6.6 (although I do have the pro version - not sure if you need that). In QT go to File>Export and select Movie to QuickTime Movie then choose Options and select the format.

John

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