I have home movie files on an external hard drive that were downloaded there from my old Windows XP computer. They are ".mov", ".mpg", and ".avi" file extensions. When I try to import them into iPhotos on my iMac, running OS X Mavericks, I get a dialog box stating that they cannot be imported. How do I get these movies onto my iMac. Thank you for your help!
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
There must be compatible with Quicktime formats:
Media formats supported by QuickTime Player
If you can open the movies with Quicktime, save or export within the app to a compatible format. Otherwise you'll have to use another 3r party software to convert those movies, or use another player to view the movies without converting them, but does will not fix your issue with iPhoto.
There must be compatible with Quicktime formats:
Media formats supported by QuickTime Player
If you can open the movies with Quicktime, save or export within the app to a compatible format. Otherwise you'll have to use another 3r party software to convert those movies, or use another player to view the movies without converting them, but does will not fix your issue with iPhoto.
Have you tried simply dragging them to your desktop and then either import them into iMovie or use MPEG Streamclip which can read quite a few different formats and convert them to a Quicktime format.
Cannot import files into iPhoto
