Tips Importing WebM to iMovie on Mac

 In this page, I will share an efficient way to edit WebM files in iMovie. 

Although iMovie provides support for kinds of video formats, but WebM is not included. After reading several different post here I put together a working workflow to use WebM files in iMovie without hassle.  

Since, iMovie doesn’t support WebM video, what can we do? The easy option is to convert WebM to iMovie supported video format first. To do the conversion task, Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac will give you a big hand. 

It is an powerful video converter, editor and player. It offers an optimized iMovie preset for easy access. With it, you can easily transcode WebM to Apple Intermediate Codec .MOV, which ensures maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with iMovie. The all-in-one toolkit can also convert among all popular video format like AVI, MKV, VOB, WMV, FLV, etc. for convenience editing and playing on Mac OS X (macOS High Sierra included). Besides, this program also supports some video editing functions. With these function, you can crop the frame size, add watermark, load subtitle, merge several videos into one file, etc. Just follow the guideline below, you can convert and import Webm videos to iMovie easily and successfully. 

How to convert WebM files to iMovie compatible AIC MOV 

1. Add WebM video files 

Run the WebM to iMovie Converter. Directly drag and drop the .webm video(s) to the main display window of the program. To save your time, you can load multiple files at a time for this program supports batch conversion. You can also merge several files into one. 

 

2. Select the output format 

Click "format" bar, choose iMovie/FCE -- > Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov) as the output format. The output video can be imported to iMovie 11/iMovie 09/iMovie 08 directly. 

 

Tip: Furthermore, you are provided some useful edit functions cropping, trimming, adding watermark, attaching subtitles for pre-editing your video files so that you can simplify your iMovie editing. 

3. Start WebM to iMovie conversion 

After all the settings are done, click the Convert button to start converting your WebM videos to AIC .mov for iMovie. The conversion will finish soon if your videos are too large. 

After the conversion, click "Open" to locate the result videos and then launch iMovie, choose File > Import > Movies..., to import the converted WebM video into iMovie; prepare for editing. 

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