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importing photos into iMovie

In the middle of a iMovie project and everything was working fine until now. When importing photos (drag or importing from "Media" on iMovie), only the "original" photos come across - not the ones I have edited? Additionally, before, I would arrange photos in an album in the order desired for the iMovie project but when "dragging" over, they are scrambled in a different order.


Any ideas? Again, things were working fine a few updates ago???


iMac 24″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Nov 11, 2022 10:06 AM

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Posted on Nov 11, 2022 11:03 AM

Hi, JKSTU,


A bug in recent updates is causing the photos edits not to carry over. We'll need to wait for Apple to fix it.


Meanwhile, the workaround is to do a File/Export/__ no. of Photos from the Photos app to a folder on your desktop, and then drag the photos from the desktop into iMovie. The edits will carry over.


As for preserving the order of manually arranged photos imported into iMovie, a workaround is needed there, too.

From the Photos app export the photos to a folder on your desktop as described above, but use the Sequential file name option in the Photos export box. The order will be preserved in the finder folder.



Then drag the photos from the Finder folder into the timeline of an iMovie project. The order will preserved. It seems that if one drags them into the Media pane view rather than the timeline the order will be preserved in reverse, or jumbled, but when subsequently dragged into the timeline the order will revert to the correct order.


So, if you export from the Photos app using the above described settings, both the edits and the sequence will be preserved.


-- Rich



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Nov 11, 2022 11:03 AM in response to JKSTU

Hi, JKSTU,


A bug in recent updates is causing the photos edits not to carry over. We'll need to wait for Apple to fix it.


Meanwhile, the workaround is to do a File/Export/__ no. of Photos from the Photos app to a folder on your desktop, and then drag the photos from the desktop into iMovie. The edits will carry over.


As for preserving the order of manually arranged photos imported into iMovie, a workaround is needed there, too.

From the Photos app export the photos to a folder on your desktop as described above, but use the Sequential file name option in the Photos export box. The order will be preserved in the finder folder.



Then drag the photos from the Finder folder into the timeline of an iMovie project. The order will preserved. It seems that if one drags them into the Media pane view rather than the timeline the order will be preserved in reverse, or jumbled, but when subsequently dragged into the timeline the order will revert to the correct order.


So, if you export from the Photos app using the above described settings, both the edits and the sequence will be preserved.


-- Rich



importing photos into iMovie

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