Add photos and videos from the Photos app to your iMovie project

Add together photos and videos from your photograph library to your iMovie project on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

  •  iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

  •  Mac

Add photos and videos on an iPhone or iPad

When you create a new iMovie projection, you're prompted to add content from the Photos app photograph library. Yous can also add content from the photo library after you've created your project:

  1. With your iMovie project open up, roll the timeline so the playhead (the white vertical line) appears where yous desire to add the image or video clip.
  2. Tap the Add Media button , and then tap the location where the photo or video is stored. For example, if the photo or video is in the photo library of the Photos app, tap Moments, Video, Photos, or Albums.
    iPad iMovie project with Media browser open
  3. Tap the photograph or video you want to add, then tap the Add to Project button.
  4. If you added a photo, it appears for iii to 6 seconds in the timeline of your project, depending on the length of the transitions before and later the photograph. You can trim the photo in the timeline and so it appears for a shorter or longer amount of fourth dimension in your video.

Add together photos and videos on a Mac

To add photos and videos from the Photos app photo library into your iMovie project, use the browser in iMovie.

Utilize the browser in iMovie

Yous tin can scan and add content from the Photos app photo library in iMovie:

  1. In the left-hand sidebar of the iMovie window, select Photos.
    Mac iMovie project with My Media browser open
  2. Click the pop-up menu at the top of the browser to choose a content category—My Albums, Albums, Years, Collections, Moments, or Places.
  3. When y'all find the photo or video yous'd like to employ, elevate it into the timeline of your project. If you add a photograph, information technology appears for iii to six seconds in your project, depending on the length of the transitions next to the photo. You tin can trim the photo in the timeline and then information technology appears for a shorter or longer corporeality of fourth dimension in your video.
  4. To replace an existing clip, drag the photo or video onto the clip you want to replace, then cull one of the replacement options.

If Photos isn't in the Libraries list, your Photos Library might non exist designated every bit your arrangement photo library. You can too elevate photos and videos from the Finder or the Photos app into your iMovie project.

Drag photos and videos into an iMovie projection on Mac

Drag from the Finder: Drag videos or photos directly into the timeline of your iMovie project.

Drag from the Photos app:

  • Photos: Drag direct into the timeline of your iMovie project.
  • Videos: Drag from the Photos app to your Desktop, then drag the video from the Desktop into the timeline of your iMovie project.

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

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