IMovie Theater video length limit

Why does iMovie Theater limits you to a 15 minute max video length? Most of my home movies are around 20 to thirty minutes. Seems silly to limit the video to such a short length if you are paying for the iCloud storage for your video.

Any thoughts on this one? I'm completely perplexed.

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Can I make iMovie theatre videos appear in my macs iCloud folder?

Hi -
is it possible to make my iMovie theatre videos appear in my macs iCloud folder? Also, is there any way of doing this on iOS? I don't particularly need iMovie on my phone but would like to be able to access my movies
thanks!
N

Hey there Nickholl,
It sounds like you want to know how to share iMovie Theater videos between your devices with iCloud Drive. The article below provides a lot of great information that should answer your question and walk you through setting up the devices.
Use iMovie Theater with iOS 8 or OS X Yosemite - Apple Support
Also, if you haven’t already upgraded to OS X Yosemite on your MacBook Pro, this webpage will guide you through that process:
Apple - OS X Yosemite - How to Upgrade
Ciao,
-Jason

Imovie theater items

Hey my imovie theater videos I had before on icloud (I had them in imovie for ios in my theater) and I reinstalled the program and they are gone.How do I get them back? Aren't they stored on icloud?

yup they are here sorry for leaving the thread unanswered I have them for ages now-just forgot about this thread.

Not all Video visible on iMovie Theater is visible on AppleTV! ???

I created Video Clips of iPhoto Slideshows (originally from an iPhoto Album with pix and videos) and "shared" them to iMovie Theater on the iMac. So far, so good. Three video clips are visible on the iMac (iMac>iMovie>iMovie Theater)
But one video of these 3 clips is NOT visible on the AppleTV (2nd gen.) although it used to be visible there.
What did I do wrong? Please help me understand this problem. I have read Apple's iMovie background: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14731?viewlocale=en_US and think I have done everthing correctly.
Cheers,
Veit
Add-on:
I just realized that the same 1 videoclip is NOT visible in the Theater tab of iMovie for iOS on the iPhone (4S).
Summary:
3 videoclips visible on the iMac, but only 2 clips on AppleTV and on the iPhone.

I think I found the answer to my own question:
The Videos that are visible on the iMac, but invisible on the iOS devices, are OVER 15 MINUTES: the max. length to upload to iCloud (and hence to other devices) is 15 minutes.
Should I award myself the 10 points for finding a solution to my question? :-) Why not!

Can I import video into iMovie Theater directly?

In iPhoto I created a Slideshow with Music of an iPhoto Album of pictures and video clips. When exported this creates a .m4v file.
Can I directly get this file into iMovie Theater? Without first going to iMovie, importing the .m4v file and Sharing it to Theater, which creates a .mp4 file
In other words, can I spare this extra time (and effort for the good iMac; it gets quite hot when rendering)?
(I do not know the difference between these two file types.)
Thanks for your advice/pointers/solutions
Veit Burger

You can do this with a free app called MPEG Streamclip and a $20 quicktime component from Apple.
See detailed instructions here.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3951

Add existing video to iMovie theater

Hey Gang
I have about 250 home videos that I current have access to via Home Sharing to my Apple TV. I've upgraded to Mavericks and the latest iMovie and I'd love to get all my old videos into iMovie Theater, anyone know of a quick way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
Max

thanks justin ... but i think i haven't explained
myself correctly ... so here i'll try again:
i click file then import and a new window apears for
me to select wich file i want to import then i select
my video and then open, then instead of importing my
video an alert message opens and says "couldn't open
file, skipping it and continuing" and nothing gets
done i have tryed .mpg .avi .mpeg
another question what video formats are supported by
imovie?
thank you!
.avi is definitely not supportive toward imovie. .avi has a problem with quicktime for some strange reason, happens alot to me, but you can download ffmpegx that will convert your .avi to supportive quicktime formats. imovie should support .mov and .mpeg, as long as quicktime can read it.

IMovie appears to be picking a random frame from a project that it assigns as the Thumbnail/Poster for the final video that is shared via iMovie Theater. How does it choose this frame, and is there a way to change this? I cannot find this anywhere.

This question was posted back in 2013, and I'll having it today. Anyone know what the deal is with the system selecting a theater image with NO way to change it--better yet--has anyone figured out a way to change it? Not a clue, do you know wherethe theater files are located on a MAC?

I can't answer your first question.
The default location for the imovie Theater.theater package is in your user / Movies folder.

Video length Quality

I'm apologize if this has been discussed ahead of time.
I have read that at Best Quality settings, "iDVD evaluates the amount of video and chooses the best quality setting possible"
So my question is at what amount of video do I get best quality settings possible?
I have read that 60 minutes for older versions of idvd, is this still true for idvd 6? Can anyone tell me at what video length I would get best quality?
I have just burned a dvd with 112 minutes length, and I'm not very pleased with the quality, I see pixels at times.

Dear Mr. Shippey...
thanks. just the info I was seeking. i guess i'd steamed my glasses and couldn't find the answer in the 500 pages of David Pogue's "the missing iMovie manual" . and there it is on pg. 380. What a relief that I found it here. I was despairing that I'd taken a couple of months, few hours a day, putting together a present for my twin 7-yr-olds, that came in at 1:10:52:26 and when I opened the "Project Info" pane, to top bar was full, 4.2 of 4.2 GB filled, but only 77 minutes! I nearly croaked.
I'd have to say that the "Best Performance" and "Best Quality" radio buttons are misleading to the total newbie. I was thinking the context was how the movie will look/work when the target audiences see it, now how long it'll take to digitize it.
(I also didn't find, in Pogue's $35 magnum, comprehensive iMovie opus any table trying to at least roughly relate throughput rates by CPU clock speed/Gigabytes of data, video/audio, to munge, etc. I'd love to know how well a dual-CPU would do. --- Gadzooks--just configured a new dualie with max ram, max disk drives, dual optical drives, (no x-server), dual 30-inch screens--(well, one can dream and hope to hit the lottery--that's hard when you don't buy the tickets, tho <smile>) and we're quickly up from 2499.99 (I hate those 99.99.99.99.99 things) to a mere $16,716.00. Good God--that's getting back to the workstation prices of the Xerox Star in Jimmy Carter's White House (remember those days?)) But, good lord, what a difference in capacity, performance, ease of use. We've come a long way, baby.
Speaking of the non-intuitive "performance" radio buttons in iDVD, it reminds me of the trash can--I was trying to tell my late dad that he had to drag the diskette icon to the trash to eject it, and he immediately asked, "But doesn't that wipe out what's on the disk? You just told me that to delete anything I just had to toss it into the trashcan!"
(This was in the 1st five minutes of my "orientation" class for him. I explained the inconsistency. "I thought this was supposed to be 'intuitive' to use," he grumped. I felt better when I read Tog On User Interfaces to find that at least there'd been a battle about the illogic. Steve won; Tognazzini lost. (users lost a little bit, too, IMHO.))

IMovie Theater Thumbnails/Posters

iMovie appears to be picking a random frame from a project that it assigns as the Thumbnail/Poster for the final video that is shared via iMovie Theater. How does it choose this frame, and is there a way to change this? I cannot find this anywhere.

Your not going to like this! I did track down the .png files that are used for the iMovie Theatre thumbnails. They are inside the iMovie Theatre Package. Show package contents... And you will see a Thumbnails folder, editing these files (carefully), can result in control over what you see in the Theatre view in iMovie. Indeed, they also make it through to iCloud and what you see on the Apple TV.
...just remember this is definitely 'under the hood' and a mess-up is never far away...

When I first turned on iMovie all videos from iPhoto automatically were found. Now I have more videos on iphoto, how do I get iMovie to find the new ones?

When I first turned on iMovie all videos from iPhoto automatically were found. Now I have more videos on iphoto, how do I get iMovie to find the new ones?

jtcollins wrote:
if iMovie is open, connect your iPhone to comp. iMovie '11 will now find your phone and look for videos as it would if camera was connected
(Underline is my emphasis)
Hi jt - Alex was actually referring to video clips in iPhoto not appearing in the item "iPhoto Videos" in the Events Library in iMovie - thanks for your post though (the 2 words are very similar).
John

Can no longer access home movies from imovie theater on atv. Keep seeing the circle while waiting.

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10g - report object - filename property length limit

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How to remove a movie from iCloud and iMovie Theater?

So I figured out how to publish a movie from iMovie 10 to the Apple TV channel iMovie Theater> by using the iCloud button. But now once it's there how can I remove it? Or is this a new way for Apple to get me to purchase more space in iCloud?

There is a another solution as in my case. I was tired of all my lousy movies and so I deleted my entire iMove libary in my user folder. That "stranded" some movies in the Theater cloud which showed up on my Apple TV.
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A friend of mine had video that he imported from his camera on iMovie on his mac. He then gave the files to me to edit. I edit video with Adobe Premier CS4. When I began working on the video, I could not view the video. All I get when I open the video files in any media player, including quicktime, I only get the audio. Quicktime tells me that I am missing a codec or something, then takes me to a web page with a list of codecs, none of which seem to suite my problem. Is there a way for me to get these iMove optimized videos to work on my PC?
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Apple TV cannot connect to iMovie Theater Channel

My Apple TV (3rd generation) CAN connect to My Music, My Films etc... but CANNOT connect anymore to the iMovie Theater Channel. The Apple TV is up to date and its "region" is correct. It happened when I updated my iMac to Yosemite and to the new iMovie application. But the home made movies on the iMovie Theater were posted before the Yosemite update and I had no trouble connecting to them. Thank you in advance.

Greetings bacave,
If you are having an issue with using iMovie Theater with your Apple TV since updating your computer's operating system to Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
Use iMovie Theater with iOS 8 or OS X Yosemite - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

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