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dragging video from Photos app?

Why does dragging a movie from the Photos app into iMovie only places a still image???? Why haven't you fixed this Apple????!!!!

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Sep 22, 2021 7:27 AM

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Posted on Sep 22, 2021 8:39 AM

It is the intended behaviour, as described in: Add photos and videos from the Photos app to your iMovie project - Apple Support :

"If you drag a video directly from the Photos app into the iMovie timeline, it appears in your project as a still image."

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Sep 22, 2021 8:14 AM in response to John Cangemi

I don't think that it is anything to "fix" actually. You can drag photos from the Photos app library directly into iMovie, but videos have a different way.


The recommended way to import videos into iMovie from the Photos app is first to designate your Photos library as the System Photo Library in the Photos app general preferences, and then drag the video into iMovie from the Photos item in the media sidebar of an iMovie project.


Another way is to drag the video to your desktop and from there drag it into an iMovie project.


-- Rich



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