subject: How To Import Flip Video To Imovie 9 With Flip Video Converter For Mac [print this page] You might capture magical moments of your kid with Flip Video Camcorder and want to import these flip videos to iMovie to organize or fine-tune them. For some Mac users, importing flip video to iMovie is as easy as a few simple clicks, but for others, its just a headache. Thats because different Flip Video Camcorders do not use the same codecs and formats for record videos. So if the format is not natively supported by iMovie, like WMV, AVI, etc. you need to do a little conversion thing to make iMovie recognized it. Follow these steps to import Flip Video to iMovie:
Connect your Flip Video camcorder to Mac. In iMovie, choose Import Movies from the File menu.
Note: If you are using MinoHD camcorder which records in MP4 format, you will import the footage with ease. However, the videos will grey out for some other Flip Video Camcorders like Flip Video Mino camcorders which use AVI format. So you can:
Install 3ivx MPEG-4 Decoder to enable iMovie to open AVI files. Not the surefire way.
Convert Flip Video to iMovie compatible format with Flip Video Converter for Mac. It supports any Flip Video and offers iMovie output format preset.
Step 2. Locate Flip Video
Locate the Flip Video camcorder in the import window sidebar. Select the DCIM folder and then select the 100VIDEO folder. For each video you recorded, you will find a video file in MP4 format.
Step 3. Import Flip Video to iMovie
Select the files that you would like to import. Select a destination, event name, and video size setting. Click Import and you are done.
Thats it. Now your flip videos should now appear in iMovie and you can stylize them now!
