imovie wont play .mov files?

Question

I'm doing a project and I have a bunch of .avi movies, but they won't play sound on my mac, so I converted them to .mov files, and now imovie won't let me load it.

Answer 1

As I know, iMovie support MOV and MP4 files.



1. Make sure that your AVI movies is playable on a AVI player.

2. Make sure that the MOV files` video codec as h264

3. Try another software to convert your AVI files to MOV or MP4 with h.264 video codec. I recommend you this one: http://www.aimersoft.com/video-converter.html#161

Answer 2

When using iMovie it could be tricky as Apple has opened the many different file formats out there for iMovie so from Apple and a few other sites here is some info on the supported files I am giving you the following list as I do not what the .Mov file info your importing

The .Avi what is the format? and the export of the .Mov what was the settings that you used? If you want hit me with an email or you could read up on the file formats.



http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2264



http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22875?viewlocale=en_US





UPDATE:



David I came back and reread you post and the lake of audio is due to not having any of the following plug-ins and add ons to QuickTime so here is the list:



Perian (A Must have for any QuickTime Playback)

http://perian.org/



FlipForMAc:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx



Divx another must have:

http://www.divx.com/en/software/mac



3Vix:

http://www.3ivx.com/download/macos.html



Xvid:

http://n.ethz.ch/student/naegelic/download/





That'll do ya..........

Answer 3

iMovie only supports the MOV movie file whose video codec is DV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, or AIC. If a .mov video contains an incompatible video codec, the file will either not import into iMovie or will exhibit playback issues after import. In this case, you may need to convert the video file to iMovie compatible video format. I always use Bigasoft iMovie Converter to convert iMovie unfriendly video format to iMovie supported MPEG-4. You can download a copy to evaluate it.

Answer 4

Use Quicktime Player from Apple itself...

Answer 5

hmmm...

convert avi to mp4 on mac and that would be fine for you importing mp4 videos

here is a tutorial:

http://www.aimersoft-mac.com/articles/how-to-convert-avi-to-mp4-on-mac.html#206