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How to convert and import WMV to iMovie Easily?

November 5th, 2014 by Emily Moore

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iMovie and WMV- not compatible with each other

iMovie, a wonderful video editing software app sold by Apple Inc. for Mac and iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini and iPod Touch). With the iMovie on iOS or Mac, you have fun creating videos and combining videos, photos, and music, to make your own movie. It's never been easier to make films and share your moments with all your friends on social network.

No one can deny that the iMovie could never be better, but indeed there is an obvious shortcoming in it. Videos in only limited formats are supported to be imported into iMovie. Below is a list of iMovie video formats.

According to Apple, iMovie supports these video formats: MPEG-4, QuickTime MOV, MPEG-2, AVCHD, DV (both standard and high-definition videos). And iMovie supports most of the commonly-used video codecs, including H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DV, and AIC.

But sometimes the movies you've downloaded online or the videos recorded by your camcorders are not just in the iMovie-friendly formats.

For example, the WMV (Windows Media Video) files, a compressed video file format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft, is a popular video type for most Windows users but a Mac user can't play WMV with QuickTime, iTunes, let alone import WMV to iMovie and edit WMV files in iMovie.

However, don't be depressed, there still is a way to fix it. You can convert the videos toiMovie compatible formats in first by using a versatile app, the Bigasoft Total Video Converter. It is your best choice to do video conversion.

Introduction to WMV converter

Bigasoft Total Video Converter is a powerful and reliable app, which satisfies all your demand for the format conversion among WMV, MPEG-4, QuickTime MOV, MPEG-2, AVCHD, DV, etc. the video converter supports to convert video files in a wide range of video formats, including HEVC/H.265, AVI, Xvid, DivX, H.264, MP4, 3GP, MKV, WMV, RM, FLV, MOV, WTV, MXF, MVI, F4V, Apple ProRes MOV, WebM, VP8, 720p, 1080p, 1080i HD, AVCHD videos and more. As Bigasoft total video converter is designed with an intuitive interface with high quality engine to give any layman a good experience to convert video, audio and image files between popular media formats.

Then I will convert a WMV file to a iMovie supportable format, MPEG-4 (*.mp4), for example, showing you how to convert to a iMovie-friendly format.

Tutorial about Convert WMV to iMovie

Free download the professional iMovie to WMV Converter - Bigasoft Total Video Converter (Windows Version, Mac Version), install and launch it. The following screenshot will pop up.

Step 1 Load the source video files

Click "Add File" button to browse the WMV video files saved in the hard drive and to load the video and then the software will analyze it soon. Alternatively, you may simply drag and drop the WMV file which you want to convert to iMovie.

Step 2 Choose the output format

Click the "Profile" drop-down button to select iMovie supported video format like iMovie Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4) which is recommended though iMovie also support MOV, DV and etc.

Step 3 Select the output folder

Click the "Browse" button and choose the location where you would like to save the converted files after the program finishes the video conversion.

Step 4 Start the conversion

Click "start" button and the conversion begins. Sit back and the software will run smoothly to convert WMV to iMovie Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4) and the whole process will only take a few minutes.

Convert WMV to iMovie

Now you have successfully get iMovie Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4) files and can't wait to import it to the iMovie and continue you visual experience with this versatile video editing software. Of course, if you make a video with iMovie, and like to share with your windows user friends, this converter also can satisfy you. The process is just on the contrary.