How do you import a movie from my iphone into imovie?

[Microman]

I took some movies of my Grandchildren, and then sent them to me on G Mail. I then drag them to imovie HD, and they look squashed or flattened down. There suppose to be 360 x 480 , so what do I need to do, to make the movies look good or the right proportions.

Thanks.

[Ken Sp.]

If you download your phone to any Macs iPhoto, they will be there-then you should be able to work with it.

[guitarist]

Yes, I suspect mailing them to yourself isn't the ideal way to move the data to your computer. Let iPhoto do it. It should launch automatically when you plug your phone into the iPhone data cable, connected via USB to your computer. You probably don't regularly sync your iPhone, otherwise it'd be in iPhoto by now.

[Ken Sp.]

You can connect your iPhone to any computer just like a digital still camera. No permission needed like iTunes.

[deckeda]

Been a long time since I've used iMovie HD but I don't think it knows about video with an aspect ratio of 3:2.

But iMovie '09 can. If you don't have it, but do have Quicktime Pro, you can use that for edits, patch clips together, add a new soundtrack etc. None of it is as easy as iMovie (any version) but it can be done.

[Microman]

Was going to try and take movie off by syncing, I synched this morning with itunes. BUt the choice to sync with iPhoto to get the movies and photos, says that if I do, everything on the phone will be lost, and all that is on the CPU will be what is saved.

What do I do to get movie off iphone, without erasing it?

[guitarist]

Don't worry about "erasing" it, that's normal, otherwise, every photo you took on your phone would pile up on your iPhone's "Camera Roll". You can still store this movie (or picture) on your iPhone, because you're downloading it to your iPhoto library, on your mac's hard drive (it's not stored on the mac's "CPU", it's on your hard drive, in iPhoto) and removing it from the camera roll on your iPhone.

You have the option to store it in a more permanent folder in your iPhone's photo library. "Camera Roll" is a temporary folder on your iPhone, for images and movies you've just taken. In other words, it takes care of itself when you sync your iPhone.

It's only "erasing" (removing) it from your iPhone's "Camera Roll" (recently shot photos & movies) but you can select it. Or even set it to automatically do it, by checking the box that says "Last Import", in iTunes "Photo" or "movie" preferences. Where you select which pics and movies you want to store on your iPhone. That way, whatever the last thing you imported from your phone, into iPhoto, will have its own folder in your iPhone's photo library.