How do I import MPG files to iMovie on a Mac?

Converting always includes a loss of quality no matter what you do. It's the nature of digital files. Though, sadly, there is no other way of doing it in iMovie.

You might try these three products. DropDV "DropDV is a Mac OS X droplet which converts MPEG video into DV video streams. After conversion, your video can be edited with iMovie, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or any other DV video editing system."

dropdv.com/ and MPEG Streamclip "MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL" http://www.squared5.com/ and as dukeboles already mentioned, http://www.ffmpegx.com/ also does a great job of transcoding your video files.

Or if you already have Quicktime Pro, that can do it for you. Make sure you encode in h.264 then because that provides the best quality with the smallest file size. These are FREE solutions (except Quicktime Pro) and will save you money.

Don't go buying the Roxio or other paid stuff.

Usually, iMovie does allow the import of MPEG files. However, if MPEG (MPG) files are muxed (multiplexed) MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video, iMovie will refuse to import the MPEG (MPG) files. I Recently, Many Mac users have come across such a problem: Importing MPEG to iMovie (including iMovie '11/'09/'08), only to find MPEG files are grayed out.

Luckily, I find a step by step guide on how to import all kinds of mpeg to imovie http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-import-mpeg-to-imovie.html?xmahalo and it even applies to import avchd, mts, avi,, flv, wmv and more to imovie.

Import/Transcode SDR100 MPG Footage to AIC(Apple Intermediate Codec) for iMovie on Mac transcoding AVCHD . Mpg video to AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) for easily importing into iMovie via a powerful AVCHD to AIC converter ( http://www.foxreal.com/video-converter-mac/ )- Foxreal Video Converter for Mac. The Apple Intermediate Codec is a video codec designed to be an intermediate format in an HDV workflow.It features high performance and quality, being less processor intensive to work with than other editing formats.

The AIC doesn't use temporal compression, enabling every frame to be decoded immediately without decoding other frames, although the AIC takes three to four times more space than HDV. The Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) is recommended for use with all HD workflows in iMovie and Final Cut Express (FCE). Below is the step-by-step instructure on how to transcode MPG to AIC via Foxreal MPG to iMovie Converter.

Step 1: Run Foxreal Video Converter for Mac as the perfect MPG to iMovie converter, and add your MPG footage into this program. Step 2: Choose AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) to export for iMovie. Click on "Format" drop-down list, you could see a optimized profile list for various media devices and applications, such as iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Android, iPad, etc. Just select "QuickTime Movie Format Step 3: Click on the Convert button to start converting and transcoding MPG to AIC for iMovie.

Once the conversion is finished, you could get the converted files from its default folder determined by this Foxreal Video Converter for Mac. And then you could import them to iMovie for edting with ease.

Check out this thread: forums.macworld.com/message/163541 Looks like you can either split the video and audio out and THEN import into iMovie, or use a converter like Popcorn by Roxio. roxio.com/enu/products/popcorn/standard/....

Use this free tool to transcode to . Mov ffmpegx.com.

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