How do I get iMovies to see my imported videos?

Same issue here.

I was hoping for the following workflow.
1. Connect video camera to my mac and export video using iMovie
2. Locate exported video files in events folder, all files in that folder are in .mov format
3. Drop it to iTunes and Sync to iPad 2

No luck videos are not recognized

Fine, next step.
1. Open .mov file from events in quicktime player
2. Save as HD 720 p, it saves it as .mov
3. Drop to itunes and sync
4. Movie is synced to iPad and I can see it in video player
iMovie does not see the file

Oh well, let's try creating project in Mac iMOve and doing export in 720p HD
File syncs but does not show in iOS iMovie

Took video shot by iPhone 4 and synced it to iPad, still does not show in iMove.

Any recommendations?

this is just disappointing.. all the preview videos showing how 'simple' it is to take a movie from camera and import to iMovie.. however seems you tried everything sorta like i did.. i converted my videos to .mp4 and ipad can view them.. they are listed in 'videos' however iMovie STILL wont import or even SHOW i have videos on the iPad 2.. what gives apple? fix this ***

I figured out several things in a past 24 hrs.

iOS iMovie will see videos only from iOS camera roll.

so if camera roll app cannot read the video iMovie will that fail at that to.

Videos from iPhone 4, and 3GS are not the problem.

I am trying to get videos from my other video camera.


Interesting observation: if you copy video from Mac iMovie events (.mov file) into a iOS camera roll it will not be recognized, but when you connect iPad to your computer and open Mac iMovie and you select iPad as camera source you will be able to see that video as beeing available for export.

All these .mov files are encoded differently so unless your video encoded exactly the same way as videos from iPhone 4 or 3GS it would not show in iOS camera roll.

Anybody has other ideas on encoding and file formats for iOS iMovie.

right now iOS iMovie is useless to me since it does not support my workflow, do not even want spend time learning it.

Please prove me wrong.

I am dealing with this same issue as well. It is extremely frustrating as the iMovie app is one of the main reasons I purchased an iPad 2. I have a Go Pro Hero HD camera and I can edit these movies on the MacBook, however no success importing these .mov files into the iPad iMovie App. I as well have converted the .mov files into the iPad video format of .mp4 via the Wondershare Video Converter program and I'm able to view the video in the iPad video strip app however nothing is available for import into the iMovie app.

Someone please help! Or Apple please update ASAP as this is extremely frustrating and pathetic!

Thanks.

I think you have to use the camera connection kit in order to import to i-movie. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2779723&tstart=0

I wonder if, while using the camera connection kit, you can import movies from you external hard drive to i-movie. Has anyone tried this?

I found a solution, it's not perfect but, well... Let's just say if you're "Team Pure" it won't work.

If you aren't, you still need to connect your iPhone to the iPad via the camera connection kit and anything that's in the camera roll on your iPhone will transfer over. But that's all I can say here 🙂 There is a way, but even with the way I've got, it's NOT perfect by any stretch of the imagination. They need to do a lot more work to make this feasible.

I spent ALL day trying to figure this out. I finally did so I hope this helps!

I thought you needed them to be on your iPad camera roll too, but you don't. You need to save your .mov files in a photo album folder. When you sync on iTunes, go to the photos tab. Check the box that says "include videos". The photos (and videos) will appear in iMovie. Voila

Haven't gotten the camera connection kit yet. Everyone at the apple store told me that it would not work to upload videos from my iPhone to my iPad. Everything I've read online said it will work.

Anyway, hope that helped.

I second the use of iSwifter. It's new, and free, and actually almost usable.

I've never needed it myself, but a coworker with an iPad needs to access a site that uses flash and found iSwifter to be a godsend.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4174
iMovie FAQ
Fourth entry

you keep posting that link and the "fourth" entry is "What is a theme". The 5th entry which i assume is what you are referring to still doesn't say how to fix our issue but it does mention videos in the "camera roll"

if it only works with video taken with the ipad itself then it is very much so a useless app as it is too awkward to use the ipad as a camera and the video quality really isn't that great

This is a serious limitation. I want to import HD vids taken on my Kodak Zi8 in .MOV format. I hope there is a workaround coming soon via a hack or update.

Movie shot on iphone4, imported to and edited on ipad with imovie:
http://www.maclife.com/article/news/ipad2_iphone_4_and_imovie_combine_make_first_alliosmovie

Two possible solutions:

The first is to find an app that you like that will let you transfer videos to your iDevice wirelessly as they will be imported into your camera roll. There are a few that are in the App Store that work well for this.

The second method (I have not tested this yet) would be to put your movies in your synced folder for pics and ensure you've set it to include videos as well. This should place those videos into your camera roll.

Here's hoping Apple update iMovie with that feature in the next update as it would be nice to edit any video but I suspect there's probably a reason behind the current setup.

Hope this helps 🙂

JTrimble wrote:
I second the use of iSwifter. It's new, and free, and actually almost usable.

What does this have to do with iMovie?

So I tried iCarly's method and successfully had a video in the iMovie "video clip" however it had a big yellow triangle with an exclamation mark. The movie was converted from a .mov file to a .mp4 file and it still wasn't working. I was close but it still didnt work. ICarly if you got an actual video file which was not recorded using an apple device to work in iMovie could you please provide a more detailed description of the process taken, thanks.