No 4K (AKA: 2160) 60 FPS for iMovie

To clarify: You import the 4K 60fps clip into iMovie. It will import into the iMovie media browser (as opposed to the timeline) as a 4k 60fps clip. You then can select the clip in the media browser view, and export it from there as a 4k 60fps clip. But once you move it to the timeline, you can only export the project as 4K 30fps, or 1080 60 fps. Of course, it's not much help to be able to export a 4K 60 fps clip from the iMovie media browser, as very little editing can be done to it from there. You can apply filters, color adjustments, and some other audio/video effects from the tool bar in the upper right of the project screen. You can also do some cropping. However, you wouldn't have the other editing options that would be available if editing from the timeline, like, titles, transitions, etc.

-- Rich

Hi, pF Eric,

This is a consumer forum.  Unless Apple publishes an explanatory bulletin or asks for input, we have no knowledge of, or input into,  the reasoning for Apple's software decisions.   

Apple says that iMovie for Mac will export 1080p 60 fps, and

4K 30 fps.   It cannot export a project at 4K 60 fps.

One can import a 4k 60 fps clip into iMovie, and export it as 4K 60fps from the media browser.  But once a 4K 60 fps clip is dragged into the timeline of a project, iMovie will reduce it to 4K 30fps, and export it at 4K 30 fps.  If the 60 fps frame rate is of prime importance, you can export the project at 1080 60fps. 

-- Rich 

I've not used Final Cut Pro, so I need to defer to others on that question.

At present iMovie for Mac cannot export a 4K 60fps project. So it wouldn't matter

what Final Cut Pro can or cannot do in that regard.

-- Rich

You are very welcome.

-- Rich