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iMove on Sonoma on my mac mini with m1 chip does not want to import any files
Sent by you: iMove on Sonoma on my mac mini with m1 chip does not want to import any files
Mac Pro, OS X 10.11
Your file looks fine, and should be able to be opened with iMovie. You can try re-transcoding it with Handbrake.
macOS 14 Sonoma QuickTime Player does not play video codecs like H.265 with Codec ID hev1, VP8 and VP9, and audio codecs like Vorbis (Sonoma now supports Opus audio), and wrappers like .avi, .mkv and .webm.
ffmpeg can losslessly and very fast fix that H.265 with Codec ID hev1 issue with:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c copy -tag:v hvc1 output.mp4
macOS 10.14 Mojave QuickTime Player does not play H.265 with Chroma subsampling 4:2:2 (Bit depth 10 bits).
IINA and VLC should have no issues with playing any decent new or old codec.
Handbrake, Shutter Encoder, VLC and ffmpeg can be used to convert old codecs to H.264 or H.265 video and AAC audio wrapped as .mp4 (or its very close cousin .m4v or .mov. I have used MacPorts to install ffmpeg but there are also precompiled versions).
You can check all those pesky codec details with apps like MediaInfo or Invisor.
As shown above it is H.264 and AAC so from what I see iMovie should play it
I can play the video on QuickTime Player but I cannot play the video on iMovie. And it looks like it is H.264 and AAC wrapped in mp4. So it is strange iMovie does not play it.
Is it Sony XAVC-S by chance?
Can you put a small sample movie on some cloud site?
I can put the video on iCloud and send you a share link but I need your email address
iMovie will not import any mp4 or mkv files
