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I'm new to iMovie. I just want to edit my mpeg-4 movies to remove some extra material. When I drag & drop the movie into the app, it show up with a green tint and the upper right pane is all pixellated. The movie plays OK, but this makes it hard to edit. Why does it look this way?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 15.0
Hi,
Try this, if deleting preferences doesn't solve it.
Put the clip on your desktop. Control-click on it and, in the resulting pop-up menu, click on Encode Selected Video files. Follow the screen options. Then encode. You will get a re-encoded video on your desktop in addition to your original video. Import the re-encoded video into your project timeline and see if it displays normally.
This is to rule out a format or rendering issue that might be causing the green tint.
-- Rich
The movie may be damaged.
In case iMovie is to blame try deleting the preferences.
Hold down Command and Option as you launch iMovie until a window pops up asking whether you want to delete the preferences (settings). Click the Delete button.
Deleting the preferences did not make any difference.
Encoding the video file did help, the resulting .Mov file displays normally. Thanks Rich839!
Great. Glad it worked for you.
There must have been some codec in your mpeg-4 file's container that iMovie didn't like. Not all mpeg-4 files work in iMovie. Re-encoding cleared it up.
-- Rich
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