Can I really not import from Photos app into iMovie?

Thank you so much Leonie,

Ugh, I feel like a dunce, but I’m happy the answer was there and I just couldn’t see it! Sometimes its good to ask silly questions. Its just that I’m excited because my first Mac (iMac DV+) came with a copy of iMovie 2 and I never used it because I didn’t have a DV camera and external HDD’s were so expensive at the time.

Now here we are 15 years later and storage is cheap, I got a nice second-hand Nikon for a good price and I have a 1Tb external HDD to play with! I can finally do what I always wanted to do with the old iMac (which I still have by the way, and it never feels old to me; looks as new as the day I got it!).

Interestingly the app store is showing no further updates to the version of iMovie I currently have. I wonder why I'm a version or two behind and it hasn't prompted me? Waiting for an International English version, perhaps? I'm based in the UK.

Yes, its in the same place its always been. I went to the app store just now to check my updates and its not in the list. I then went across to the ‘Featured Apps’ page and looked at Apple Programs. Alongside other things I have installed like Pages and Numbers (both of which I don’t use, and they have the grey ‘Update’ button next to them waiting for me to update), is iMovie, and instead of the grey ‘Update’ button it says ‘Install’.

Some time ago I began downloading an update of iMovie, and kept pausing it time and again over many weeks because I was doing other things and it was a big download. Recently (about a fortnight ago) I finally let iMovie update and it took me to iMovie 10.0.8.

Maybe I just need to try and install it from scratch? My current version of El Capitan (10.11.4) certainly qualifies!

Thanks Leonie, I’ll give that a try over the next few days. I’ve got a little video project that’s in progress and I would like to finish it first before upgrading! 🙂