Importing & Editing AVI in iMovie(Yosemite)

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Summary: If you are puzzled by the problem that you can’t import AVI to iMovie directly, here recommend you the best AVI to iMovie converter to solve the incompatible problem.



You may get some AVI files and need to add these AVI files to iMovie for editing on Mac(Yosemite). However, when trying to import AVI to iMovie, only to find that there are many issues always around you. Let’s look at the following problems many happen:

1. AVI plays smoothly in QuickTime, but in iMovie, I get audio but no picture.
2. Import AVI clips into iMovie, but when play them, there's an image but no sound.
3. Imported an AVI file to iMovie, and it goes through the copying process, but nothing shows up on screen.
4. AVI played just fine in QuickTime, but they "grey out" in the import window.

These are the common problems encountered by many users who wanna use AVI files in iMovie. As a matter of fact, iMovie only reads AVI that both the audio and the video were compressed by using a codec that iMovie can recognize. If your AVI video files are not imported, it's because of the codec used to create the AVI file is not supported by iMovie, even if you have Perian installed, which only allows you to play AVI in QuickTime. If you want to edit AVI in iMovie, the easy option would be converting AVI files to iMovie compatible format, like Apple InterMediate Codec .mov.

The article would show you how to change AVI to iMovie editing-friendly format step by step with a professional Video Converter for Mac from Brorsoft, buy running it, there’s no need to set the codec yourself: the program has optimized presets for iMovie. Besides AVI, you can convert any video file like WMV, FLV, VOB, MPG, MKV to iMovie compatible format without loosing quality.

Guide: How to convert and import AVI files to iMovie

Step 1. After downloading, install and run this AVI converter for iMovie, just drag the AVI files to the software for converting.



Step 2. Click the format bar, and move mouse cursor to "iMovie and Final Cut Express -> Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)".



Step 3. Finally, hit the big Convert button on bottom of the main windows and the conversion from AVI to iMovie will begin immediately.

More features of AVI to iMovie converter:

Adjust audio and video settings (optional)

The Mac video converter enables users to adjust audio and video settings before transcoding AVI to AIC .mov. Click “Settings” button, then you will enter the following interface, on which you are allowed to customize size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel to your required ones.

2. Basic video editing (optional)

This Mac video converter has some simple edit functions like cropping, splitting, adding effects etc. so you can touch up the video with basic video editing functions.

After the conversion is complete, get the resulted files via clicking the Open button and then you can import converted AVI files to iMovie for further editing without any hassle.

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iPad Air Video Converter: Convert Video to iPad Air 2 on Mac

Summary: Are you all Apple fans? Are you all fond of enjoying movies on iPad tablets? In order to make al various videos play well on iPad Air 2, we are here talking on how to add the MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, FLV, or WMV movies to iPad Air 2 supported formats for playback. In this way, a strong functional iPad Air 2 Video Converter is offered for you guys.

"I have collected rich movies on my computer's HDD with various formats like MKV, AVI, VOB, etc. what I want is to copy movies onto iPad Air 2 and then play at anytime, anywhere. I found the iPad Air 2 can't support all my video files, so I need iPad Air 2 video converter to convert the movies. Any good suggestions?"

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Why we need to do some extra video transcodings for playing on iPad Air 2?

iPad Air 2 is the latest tablet from Apple, it is one of the most popular tablets on the market, it has equipped with better hardware and software compared to its previous version. But recently a few of iPad Air 2 users have encountered problems when they play videos on iPad Air 2, for example, they can't play MKV on iPad Air 2 directly, many video formats are not supported by iPad Air 2. From Apple iPad Air 2 product page you will find that iPad Air 2 can only play H.264/MPEG-4 codec MP4, MOV and M4V formats, the other video formats like MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, VOB, MTS, etc.

Solutions to play MKV, AVI, VOB, FLV, Tivo files on iPad Air 2

This task can be easily accomplished with a qualified iPad Air 2 video converter. For mac users, among the top of multifunctional and reliable video converters, here Pavtube Video Converter for Mac / Windows stands out. You will thumb up for its wide support of video input and output formats. This Mac Video to iPad Air 2 converter is able to convert any videos like MKV, AVI, Xvid, FLV, VOB, WMV, etc to iPad Air 2 and transfer these videos to make them playable on any platform.

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Detailed conversion steps on importing MKV/AVI/VOB/FLV to iPad Air 2:

1.Free download video converter for iPad Air 2, you can download Windows version or Mac version according to your computer. Then with the 'Add videos' or 'Add from folder' buttons, we can add the original files in.



2. Click "Format" bar and choose best format for iPad Air 2. MP4 format is the typical one of the best supported formats of iPad Air 2, so we recommend you to choose MP4 format. "HD Video -> H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" can be the nice one.



3. Tip: If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. According to my experience, the file size and video quality is based more on bitrates than resolution which means bitrates higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.



Finally, as soon as you have chosen the right output format for iPad Air 2 and adjust the video/audio parameters as you want, just go back to the main interface and hit the "Convert" button we can wait for the output result. Next, transfer the videos from Mac to iTunes and then sync files from iTunes to iPad Air 2 as you like, it's time to enjoy ourselves!

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