Problem with imovie download from icloud drive

I am having a similar problem. I created a movie about month ago, now the clips are in the cloud and won't download. I don't want to start from scratch, but if I go get the clips they won't be edited and I have to start over. iMovie makes it seem like the clips will download, but they never do.

HELLO,I have been having a problem with my iMovies as I have one right now and I had a full movie ready to export to my YouTube. The next day i go to check it out so I can upload it and it shows the cloud on each little video in the top right and when I try to download the video from my moments it says failed to download video and to check my internet, and I have wifi that was working at the time I double checked . So now it shows the videos all in the bottom of my phone to edit but they have te cloud on the top right so if I push play to play the movie nothing comes out please help asap PLEASE

I wanted to download video that I had originally saved from Snapchat. The reason I couldn't download my edited video was because the video originally from Snapchat was in my video. So instead of taking your downloaded video from downloads. So : (for iPhone or iPad etc)

Go onto the edit section of the project,

Click on the plus,

Go onto VIDEOS,

DO NOT go into All,

Instead go into downloads

And in downloads any video that had been taken from anywhere and not from camera (such as snapchat in my case) will be there.

And you can use these videos, and you will be able to save them after.

I have this problem all the time & none of the answers I've seen have solved my problem. My best advice it to record and edit your video the same day then upload to YouTube as a private video. But sometimes you don't have the time to do that. So Apple! Get yo **** together! I should be able to come back to my project on iMovie and finish editing at my own pace and not worry about videos being downloaded from iCloud.... it's very frustrating!

On iPhone, inside iMovie press "+" select "Movie" --> bottom of screen press "Create Movie" --> THEN tap + to add video --> bottom of screen press "iCloud Drive" --> Tap your video & it will import. Bit of a face palm - poor UX.

Hello there, I was confused by this as well. You can only import projects from that particular screen. In order to import movies, go to the movies section inside of a project, and there is a section called iCloud Drive. You should be able to import vides from there.

Hi,

i have similar problem. i have recently uploaded many videos to iCloud Photo Library. If I tried to use any of the videos in iMovie on iOS, I cannot download them. When tapping the download button, it does not do anything.

IS this a bug?

You have to create a project in iMovie (either a trailer or movie) and then under the video tab you will have an iCloud drive option. The import on the project screen is to import projects, not video files.

(on iPad) ------- NONE OF THIS INFO. WAS HELPFUL HERE !?

No matter if I try viewing from the video album, or download from the section where you pick media files inside iMovie, it tries getting ithe video-file for a while, and then it just keeps telling me to check my internet all the time. ....so I have tried to do the Forget network and log on aNew.

I have also tried updating my iPad.

Even when I choose the option inside iMovie where you can access iCloud, the box that pops up is just empty, and since we can not see filenames anywhere I can not even search the files I need.

I also tried accessing from my iMac, but there is no iCloud icon in the Finder, and neither in the Preferences of Finder!?

...so I also updated the iMac, and I restarted it as well.

Yup! This works! Thanks!