I can't import supported movie files

I tried importing a mpeg4 video into iMovie but it appears greyed out. I converted the file to quicktime and this also shows greyed out. both are supported formats. what do i do?

I had a similar problem. I found out there are QuickTime movies that are just incompatible: format, compression scheme or something. Experimenting, I converted my QuickTime movie to a QuickTime movie. If you have QuickTimePro, try this. Open the clip in QuickTime. From the FILE menu, click Export. From the resulting window, in the Export field, select Movie to QuickTime Movie. Then click the Options button. On the resulting window you can see the various options provided. Choose Settings. On the resulting window, on the Compression Type field, choose H.264 or Apple Intermediate Codec for high quality, but others will work, too. You can experiment with Size, but the larger the size, the longer it will take to convert (think pixel by pixel). It took me more than 8 hours to convert a 37 minute clip to Apple Intermediate Codec and longer with H.264 at 854x480. You can experiment with others as well, and iMovie 8 or 9 should have no issues importing most of these. If you do not have QuickTimePro, consider buying it. It’s available as a download from Apple and you’ll probably use it more than you might think.
Good luck.
George S

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