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After you capture great footage with your FireWire camcorder, you're ready to make a movie. First you'll need to connect your camcorder to your Mac, and then copy footage from the camcorder into iMovie, a process known as importing. iMovie makes importing easy. When you import video into an iMovie project, it automatically divides your video into individual clips, making it easy to edit.



Part 1. How to Import Video from a Camcorder to your Mac

Step 1: Connect camcorder to your Mac computer with cable (USB/Wifi);
Step 2: Select mode of camcorder such as PC/Computer mode;
Step 3: iMovie will automatic open Import window;
Step 4: If DVD Player automatic open. just quit DVD Player first;
Step 5: So Now, you can review your video or select "Import All"(make sure your switch is set to "Automatic");
Step 6: If you select "Manual", you can import some clip to iMovie;
Step 7: If you import from Tape based device (DV/HDV), iMovie will automatic revise tape and import all;
Step 8: iMovie automatic create thumbnail video after complete import.

Part 2. More Tips:
Tip 1. iMovie automatically detects your camcorder;
Tip 2. iMovie supports different video formats;
Tip 3. Import directly to the iMovie timeline;
Tip 4. If you're importing video that is already edited;
Tip 5. What you need to make a high-definition video with iMovie;
Tip 6. Using video from an MPEG-4 camera;
Tip 7. Using video from your connected or built-in iSight camera;
Tip 8. Monitor the amount of hard disk space remaining;

If you are interested in this tutorial, you can visit the origional entry for more info here:
How to import video from camcorder to Mac

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maccolar

Nice guide, thanks for sharing.

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keven

Thanks for your sharing, i think it's common to import different video files into imovie.

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sovle the problem i am finding ,thanks a lot 1