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iMovie Formats

Avatar Rick Churchill
I have been experimenting with iMovie formats now I have a couple of cameras that will record in 4K resolution. In order to render a movie in this format after importing the still photos and movie files into iMovie the first clip that is placed on the time line HAS TO BE A MOVIE CLIP in 4K otherwise this resolution is denied.
I thought that it might accept still photographs with a resolution 3840 by 2160 pixels but this is not the case. I also tried with all sorts of sizes but the only time it recognises that you may wish to render in 4K is to start with a movie clip of this resolution.
So if you want to start your movie with a still image first drag a 4K movie clip to the time line then drag the still image in front. That is enough to trigger iMovie to allow rendering in 4K.
Guess who made a movie over a couple of days using still images carefully formatted to 3840 x 2160 with inserted 4K video clips then wondered why it wouldn't render in 4K? Don't you just love the Apple way of doing things?

Re: iMovie Formats

Avatar Eric Jervis
Oh yes, reminds me of a politician many years ago who was considered to be 'too clever by half'.

Re: iMovie Formats

Avatar Tony Still
Didn't you find the 'I know what I'm doing, really!' button?

If you can't find it, you have to buy Final Cut instead.

Re: iMovie Formats

Avatar Eric Jervis
And on the same subject I've been struggling for days to assemble a soundtrack in GarageBand 10.0.6; I exported it to mp3, copied it to an external drive, fired up my old faithful running Mountain Lion, popped the soundtrack into GarageBand 6, and lo and behold, everything was a doddle! Thanks for enriching my computer experience, Apple.
 
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