Importing Photos into iMovie HD 6

I have searched and searched. FOund several people with the same problem, but have not found any solutions. I have used iMovie for years, successfully. All of the sudden, now when I import any photo using ken burn's effect it imports as a black screen. even photos that I have used in prior movies. Please Help!!!!!

Hi
First thoughts:
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ?
• Where did your photos originate from ? iPhoto, SmartCard etc.
• What format are Your photos in ? .jpg, .bmp, .pic - or what ?
Yours Bengt W

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Trouble Importing Photos into iMovie

I am trying to import photos into iMovie and am having trouble. They look like they are importing OK, and when the import is through (the red bar has finished loading) the picture disappears and the clip becomes blank. This is happening when I import from the finder, from iPhoto, or from FILE>Import, and with lots of different photo sizes, none seem to work. My iMovie project file is located on an external drive with tons of space. I have plenty of space of the startup disk, so I don't know why this is happening, and it was working fine a few days ago. Any ideas?

I had this problem last year (August-Sept 2007), and I'm having it again now (August 2008). When I import jpeg photos from iPhoto to iMovie, they turn black and are not accessible in iMovie. In addition, this time when I imported several photos, the replay of the iMovie became jerky. When I threw out the photos, the movie became smoother, the way it was originally. There seems to be some sort of bug that has not been fixed in over a year.

How do you import photos into imovie?

How do you import photos into imovie?

If you can open a Finder Window to your photos, you can drag them in to an iMovie project from the Finder.
Some third party apps might support drag and drop, but I haven't got Lightroom to test it. If drag and drop from LightRoom does not work, try exporting from LightRoom into a Finder folder and drag them in from there.

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I have used iMovie for years to make a video (and then a DVD) from my photographs. The photographs are all in iPhoto events. In the past, i create a new movie, select photographs for the iMovie browser and drag some of them into the movie work area. The problem which just came up is that if I drag in 10 pictures, all of the pictures in the movie show as the same image. They have the correct mixture of portrait and landscape according to what I was dragging in. If I try to "run" the movie, I just get a blank screen. I have tried:
1. Deleting all the pictures and dragging them in again.
2. Restarting the program. (iMovie).
3. Rebooting the Mac Book.
4. Reintalling iLive 11
5. Deleting the movie and creating a new one.
I had the problem a few week ago and it went away. Other movies in the library are wokring fine. I don't have a clue of what to try next.

Hey cagafromgbr!
Here is an article that can give you an overview of the different ways to import videos in iMovie:
iMovie (2013): Importing overview
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14670
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

What is the best file format for importing photos into Imovie?

What is the best format to save photos in before bringing into Imovie? What is the best resolution for them and what is the best size? These will eventually be ported over to IDVD. It seems that as jpgs Imovie didn't recognize them, but as psds it did.
Dick

hi Richard:
Just a personal preference, but if I intend on using the photos for printing I keep them in the PSD form. When adding to imovie, however, I use .pict
Sue

Re-Importing photos into iMovie?

Hello,
This is a difficult question to explain, but I'll give it my best shot: So I used to use windows (and windows movie maker) and I started to notice that if I drew a picture (say, on MSPaint) and then imported it into movie maker, it would be all okay. Then if I went back and made a change to the picture, then replaced the old file with the new one, it would also change the picture in my movie on movie maker. (as in, it would replace the old imported picture with the new-replaced-file picture.) I tried doing this in iMovie, but for some reason, whilst the file changed, the picture which was already in the movie did not. Is there some way I can my movie pictures to change if their files change, or do I have to re-import them each time? (I only ask because It's very useful for animtion, if you have all the frames the lengths you want them as sketches, then you can just easily replace them with their fully-coloured and shaded counterparts)
Any ideas? Thankyou! - Roxina100

I don't believe there is any way in iMovie to do what you describe. iMovie will detect the changes and give you an error of unnlinked clip. You need to import the revised clip and do a replace edit in the timeline.

Photos into iMovie: yes, it's been addressed, but...

... I can't find exactly my issue, at least not recently.
Many of the posts on this topic seem to be about exporting to iDVD, but that's not my problem. It starts earlier. My photos get compressed and look terrible as soon as they're imported into iMovie. I have '09, but the local Apple Store didn't think upgrading to '11 would help, because -- such as I understand -- a single large photo is much bigger than a frame of video or something more or less like that.
Now, I pretty much just want to do slideshows, high-quality slideshows, and I don't even care about Ken Burns effects. But before you say: DON'T do this in iMovie! That's not what it's for! Do it in something else! Consider:
-People I know who use Final Cut Pro (which is more than I want to invest, anyway) say that it, too, has problems importing and manipulating photos. No one I know has Final Cut Express to play around with, and there's no Free Demo, obviously.
-I've now dabbled in both FotoMagico and Photo to Movie, and they seem to have some things going for them, but I can't seem to control audio in them as well as in iMovie, and that's a huge problem. I need to control fades precisely, and I need multiple audio tracks to layer and cross-fade.
-Other programs I've dabbled with, such as Aperture 3 and Sounds Slides, also have limited ability to manipulate sound and/or adjust the length of individual slides.
-One responder in a forum last year named Klaus suggested an elegant work-around: create the slideshow in Photo to Movie (which he uses) or FotoMagico (which he guessed would work ok), and then bring it back into iMovie as a .dv video clip for sound editing and finishing. I tried this, but P2M compressed the images when I saved as a .dv (back to square one), and I couldn't figure out a way to export in FM that iMovie would recognize.
So . . .
Is there a better way to import photos into iMovie to preserve integrity? (I don't think so)
Is there a better way to export video out of FotoMagico or P2M into iMovie?
Is there something I'm missing about their sound editing capabilities?
Can Final Cut Express do what I want without much more excess capacity than I need and a huge learning curve?
Are there any other programs?
Klaus, Bengt, others -- please weigh in!!!
Thanks, Danke, Merci . . .
Fred

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I import photos from my camera into iphoto as raw.
When I want to import photos into imovie they come in as raw, how can I change the format into jpeg, and still keep the raw file in iphoto?
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Merelyn:
Upon import into iPhoto, RAW files get a jpg version generated by iPhoto for use and editing. No editor will or can modify the original RAW file. The edits are always saved to some other format, jpg, tiff, etc. Those jpgs should be the ones that are exported/imported into iMovie for use via the Media Browser. iMovie will copy them in and resize to the size it uses. So there should not be a problem with the large RAW files.
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I imported videos from photo into iMovie when I set up iMovie (obvious mistake) and now iMovie doesn't work properly, nor can I move specific videos into a folder where I want them. How do I fix this? I even tried deleting iMovie, bought a new copy and installed it, but the folder "iPhoto Videos" is still there and I can't get new clips loaded to iMovie, especially where I want them. Please help.

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Set the first pulldown menu to keyword, second to contains, then in the last box type Movie with a capital 'M'. Then click OK. This smart album more or less does as search of the whole iPhoto Library and only displays items that match your search tearm of "Movie" exactly. In that smart album then you can find the original Movies you want to move out of iPhoto and into iMovie, <CTRL> click on the Movie clip, then choose Reveal in Finder. That will jump you out of iPhoto temporarily and into the iPhoto Library folder. From there you can move that movie file to the desktop. Move all the clips you want, once they're all collected up go to iMovie and go to the File Menu > Import Files. Then point it to the desktop where you moved your video clips.
This will put all those videos into an Event folder in iMovie and bypass iPhoto Videos altogether.

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I use Adobe's Lightroom for all of my photo needs and would like to avoid iPhoto if possible.

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I want to automatically extract my iphone-videos from the iPhoto library since I have way over 25 000 objects in there. Afterwards I would like to import them into iMovie. Anyone having an idea? Or is there no possibility to do so?
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.

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I am trying to import some photos into iMovie that I copied from a website. When I try to insert them from a file on my desktop, where I saved them, I only get a portion of the photo. I went back to the folder and opened each picture outside of iMovie and they are complete pictures of high resolution. When I insert them, they turn out to be a part of the photo in low resolution. Ideas?

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Why cant I Imports photos into a trailer storyboard?

My import buttons on the right side of my workspace are greyed out while Im in the storyboard... USELESS... I especially need to import photos into the storyboard... anyone know how to resolve this without buying a 3rd party app to convert he photos into .MOV files?

Hi
Yes it's tedious. But need to be done.
Use iMovie to convert the photo to a movie file - by
• create a new project
• drop photo into it
• Export / Share it as full quality Quicktime (.mov)
• Use this new .mov file in Your Trailer
Yes this could have been 100% easier. But still it can be done.
Yours Bengt W

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