Q&A: How to import a sims 3 video into iMovie on a mac?
Question by Carly Harley: How to import a sims 3 video into iMovie on a mac?
Hi well I’m trying to make a sims 3 movie, and i go into iMovie and press file, then import (i saved all of the sims 3 videos out on my desktop) so then when i go to click on the videos to import, it won’t let me click on it. its not “clickable”. it’s an avi file so i don’t know why quicktime can’t play it, because it says that quicktime can’t play the video. please help i mean do i need some sort of converter? im not good with this stuff so can someone give me some answers please?
Best answer:
Answer by Little Dog
AVI is a Windows proprietary file type. QuickTime will not deal with AVI files directly. If you only want to play them back, download and install Flip4Mac.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/flip4macwindowsmediacomponentsforquicktime.html
After installation, you will be able to play AVI (and other Windows media file formats) using QuickTime.
If you want to edit, it will probably be better to transcode – convert – the AVI files to a format iMovie can deal with. Most common are DV and MP4 files. I like using MPEG StreamClip for the conversion
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
there are other transcoders available.
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