iMovie is one of the most popular video editing programs on Mac OS X. It's intuitive and easy to comprehend, so you don't need to be an expert on video editing to make a home video or create your own movie project. iMovie has greatly enriched people's digital life.

A brief introduction to iMovie formats

• Movie File Type
• MPEG-2 and AVCHD
• DV-Standard and HDV (High Definition Video)
• QuickTime Movie
• MEPG-4

If the format of the videos is any of the above five formats, two simple steps can get it done.

Step 1: Launch iMovie, go to "file > import movies".

Step 2: Browse through movies to find the videos you want. Click "import".

Many popular video formats such as AVI, WMV and FLV are not supported by iMovie. To import these videos to iMovie, you need to convert them to iMovie compatible format. The following is a step by step tutorial of converting WMV videos to MPEG-4 format using video converter for Mac software. For the other formats(AVI, FLV, MPG, MKV, etc.), the converting process is generally the same.

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How to import video like WMV, MTS, M2TS, AVI and more to iMovie

1 Load video files to iMovie Converter for Mac

Launch iMovie Video Converter for Mac, drag the video files to the program.

2Select "iMovie" from output format list

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3Start video to iMovie conversion on Mac OS X

Click the Convert button and let this iMovie Video Converter for Mac do the rest for you.

4Import output file to iMovie

Launch iMovie, go to "file > import movies". Select the converted MP4 video then click "import".

That's it! Now you can edit or your videos in iMovie. Enjoy making your own movies!

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