I am trying to add movies from my Panasonic lumix to I photo but they aren't showing up. If I try to import into Imovie they also don't show up on the sd card as importable movies. I am using I photo 9.2 on 10.6.8 and never had a problem before.

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I am trying to add movies from my Panasonic lumix to I photo but they aren't showing up. If I try to import into Imovie they also don't show up on the sd card as importable movies. I am using I photo 9.2 on 10.6.8 and never had a problem before.

My camera can be set to record as motion JPEG or light AVCHD. It was set for AVCHD. Could that be affecting it? If so, can you think of any way I can load these. I am trying to add them to an IMovie I started from a different source.

iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 22, 2012 5:28 PM

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LarryHN

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Jan 22, 2012 5:29 PM in response to ehemond

iPhoto will not import AVCHD video - use iMovie

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ehemond Author

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Jan 22, 2012 5:34 PM in response to LarryHN

I tried but that doesn't seem to work either. The camera only has a USB attachment and when I use that and select import from carera it doesn't recognize the camera. When I just select import and search the SD card none of the files show up as selectable except the JPG photos.

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ehemond Author

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Jan 22, 2012 5:40 PM in response to ehemond

Well I decided to try one more time based on your answer and this time as soon as I opened IMovie the clips showed up at the bottom and allowed me to import them without even going to the menu at the top of the screen. Not quite sure I understand what I did right but at least it's resolved.

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Apr 19, 2015 1:42 AM in response to ehemond

I had this problem.

The answer is to close iphoto (you might have to force quit iphoto if it starts automatically when you connect the camera or insert the SD card) and open imovie.

Imovie then presents an import page which easily imports the video into imovie.

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Yer_Man

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Apr 19, 2015 1:47 AM in response to Stevomacrocket

You realise this is a 3 year old thread, right?

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Apr 19, 2015 2:03 AM in response to Yer_Man

Yes and others like me will find it in searching for a solution like I did.

so now they will find a solution! 🙂

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Yer_Man

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Apr 19, 2015 2:38 AM in response to Stevomacrocket

Helpful then if you explain which version of the OS, iPhoto and iMovie you are using.

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LarryHN

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Apr 19, 2015 7:00 AM in response to Stevomacrocket

Stevomacrocket wrote:

I had this problem.

The answer is to close iphoto (you might have to force quit iphoto if it starts automatically when you connect the camera or insert the SD card) and open imovie.

Imovie then presents an import page which easily imports the video into imovie.

It is a real bad idea to "force Quit" iPhoto - if it has any update activity going on that you interrupt you can corrupt your library an close data or even photos - Force quit should ONLY be used in an emergency where there is no other alternative and you are positive that nothing is going on in iPhoto

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