“I’m trying to import a MP4 video to iMovie. But whenever I import it the first frame freezes and the whole video just becomes that whole frame, the sound still works, but the moving picture is what I really need. I’m looking for a good solution. This is very important for me so any help would be much appreciated.”    —— Answers Yahoo

For Mac users, iMovie is a free video editing program to edit videos on Mac. You can free edit MOV, MP4 videos in iMovie. However, people still have problems when they try to import MP4 to iMovie for editing. Why?

This is because MP4 is a container file format which may contain different types of codecs, and iMovie can only edit MP4 videos in codec of MPEG-4 or H.264. If you have MP4 videos in other codecs, then it is maybe impossible for you to transfer MP4 to iMovie.

Then, you may need a MP4 to iMovie Converter to convert MP4 to iMovie compatible videos. Here, you can turn to iSkysoft MP4 to iMovie Converter which can fast and best convert MP4 to iMovie editable videos. Besides, it can also convert other videos such as AVI, WMV, MPG, FLV, 3GP, MKV, ASF, AVCHD, MTS, MOD, MXF, Tivo, VRO, PVR, XAVC etc to iMovie workable files.

Step by step to convert MP4 to iMovie

Step 1: Import MP4 videos

You can either click  “Load Media Files” in the “File”menu or  directly drag and drop MP4 files from the Internet, from camcorders or cell phones or from other sources to MP4 to iMovie Converter on Mac.

Step 2: Select iMovie as output format

You can directly choose “iMovie” as your output format, which will automatically set the appropriate file format, bit rate, and resolution. You also can simply edit videos with some useful edit functions provided before conversion.

Step 3: Convert MP4 to iMovie

After all the settings have been done, click “Convert” to convert MP4 to iMovie.