Importing Camera Archive into new iMovie
I have years of old AVCHD camera archives on my hard drive from my old camcorders. To work with those files, with prior versions of iMovie it was as simple as importing it (File->Import->Camera Archive as simply stated here: iMovie '11: Import video from a camera archive into iMovie)
Just upgraded to Yosemite and running iMovie 10.0.6. When I use the import feature and navigate to where the archives are on my hard drive, they don't show up as importable. Despite the folders and AVCHD files showing up in Finder, they do not show up in iMovie's menus. What am I missing? Appreciate any thoughts.
Well, interesting thing upon further research.
All my AVCHD archives were in a standard folder under Movies->iMovie Camera Archives. Within that folder there is folder after folder of archives. I can see them just fine in Finder.
When I go to the "iMovie Camera Archives" folder in iMovie it says: "iMovie Camera Archives.localized" and NONE of those sub-folders show up. I copied one of the archives to my desktop and it imported perfectly fine. So it's something odd about the iMovie Camera Archives folder itself that is preventing me from importing all those archives. Odd. Thanks!
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