Long Time to Import Video

When I try to import a MP4 movie file into iMovie, it tells me that it will take 180 minutes to import the video. The movie itself is only one hour long. Is this normal? Also, if I am importing that MP4 file, what type of movie project should I use when I first create the movie project?

a file with a ".mp4" suffix could mean many different codecs.. it could be a mpeg4, but could also be a h264 or a divx or..
such codecs need a conversion, which iM does automatically using the Quicktime engine.. a conversion from h264 to dv (iM's native format...) needs a lot of computation=time...
finally, reading in your specs "macbook"= small harddrive... your MacOs alone needs ~5GB for "this&that" (=temp files), it is recommended to have 10 - 15GB free on your internal drive while handling video.... going under these recommendations slows down the apps dramatically - size/free space on external drives don't matter in this issue....

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