GoPro HD MP4 GOOD for iMovie?- Editing GoPro videos with iMovie on Mac(Mavericks & Yosemite)

The following pages will clearly describe the reasons, and teach you how to convert GoPro MP4 video to iMovie AIC MOV format (iMovie'11 Included) on Mac OS X (Mavericks & Yosemite)?

I usually edit my videos on my Mac with Apple’s iMovie app. This tutorial is about GoPro video and iMovie. All the reports I’d read suggested that GoPro videos needed converting from MPEG-4 to a format iMovie can handle. But the first time I tried importing directly, iMovie seemed to handle everything fine without converting. But then I ran into difficulties. I had to cancel the first import – and couldn’t get the Mac to resume. (It wouldn’t do anything without the camera being connected.) I had no better luck the second time. So today, I bit the bullet, and converted my latest GoPro videos before attempting to edit it in iMovie. It worked flawlessly.

You may also be confused: is it necessary to convert GoPro videos to iMovie? According to my own experience, my best tip for anyone else wanting to edit GoPro footage in iMovie is this: accept you need to convert the footage first. You’ll save yourself a lot of frustration.

The basic reason is that the GoPro video file off of the micro SD card has a H.264 codec, and has an MP4 file extension. The file type is a compressed output format, but not ideal for editing in NLE system. For the purpose to help all the GoPro(Surf Hero, Hero 960, HD Hero 2, HD Hero 3, Hero 3+) users to import GoPro MP4 files to iMovie smoothly, I will share a fast way to convert GoPro video to iMovie with Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac.

It supports converting all GoPro camera MP4 files to Apple InterMediate Codec MOV with fast encoding speed and without quality loss. With it, you can effortlessly import and edit your GoPro HD MP4 footage within iMovie '11, iMovie'9 and iMovie 08. This will help you import the file correctly and saving the rendering time and other issues. Just download it and follow the step-by-step guide to transcode GoPro MP4 files for editing in iMovie.

Convert/Import GoPro MP4 files to iMovie 11

Step 1: Add Gopro video files

Install and launch the best GoPro to iMovie Converter and load source MP4 clips to it. You can check the “Merge into one file” to join GoPro files together.



Step 2: Choose output format

Hit the "Format" bar and select iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple InterMediate Codec(*.mov) as output format on the drop-down menu.



Tip - Profile Settings:
In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click “Settings” button and enter “Profile Settings” panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 3: Start GoPro to iMovie conversion

Click the arrow button to start converting GoPro MP4 to AIC MOV for iMovie.

Once the process completed, click "Open" button to find the generated videos, and then you can transfer the converted GoPro MP4 files to iMovie 11 easily and quickly.

Additional Tip:

Besides transcoding GoPro MP4 to iMovie, the best GoPro Video Converter Mac can also export DNxHD for Avid Media Composer, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro/Premiere Element, ProRes for Final Cut Pro and more NLE systems for native editing.

Read More:x
Problems Editing Nikon D4S files in FCP 6/7/X
How to Get Sony Vegas work with FS7 XAVC files
Edit Sony F65 4K MXF videos in Premiere CC/CS6/CS5
Can iMovie support 4K videos from Sony FDR-AX100?
Practicable way to Watch and View DVD movies on LG G3
Transcoding Sony PDW-850 MXF files to ProRes 422 for Final Cut Pro
Rewrap Panasonic AG-AC160/130 MTS videos to MPEG-2 for Premiere
Change Canon C300 MXF footage to AVI for Pinnacle Studio
Samsung NX1 H.265HEVC 4K videos unacceptable by iMovie
Edit Canon XF300/XF305 MXF files in Pinnacle Studio
Ingest Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM media to Avid Media Composer
Import Panasonic GH3 AVCHD footage to FCP 7/X on Mac (Yosemite)
Editing 2K/4K RAW from Sony F5 in Final Cut Pro 7 (Yosemite)
Transcode Sony DSC-WX500 XAVC-S files to Adobe Premiere Pro CC/CS6