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Importing video into iMovie from VHS tape

I’m importing a video from a vhs tape into iMovie. When iMovie senses a scene change or shot change it captures that new shot as another clip in the project. Is there a way so iMovie captures the video as one long video instead of it automatically separating clips?

iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 13.5

Posted on Sep 15, 2023 4:53 PM

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Posted on Sep 15, 2023 7:03 PM

Hi,


iMovie captures video with scene breaks. No way to change that. The scene breaks should play seamlessly in the time line even though the video is segmented, assuming that there were no blank frames before and after the scence breaks. Once the video is exported out of iMovie the scene breaks will be stitched together into one clip.


However, you can import your video into the QuickTimePlayer on your Mac, instead of iMovie, and it will import as one continuous movie without scene breaks.


— Rich





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Sep 15, 2023 7:03 PM in response to EERRPP

Hi,


iMovie captures video with scene breaks. No way to change that. The scene breaks should play seamlessly in the time line even though the video is segmented, assuming that there were no blank frames before and after the scence breaks. Once the video is exported out of iMovie the scene breaks will be stitched together into one clip.


However, you can import your video into the QuickTimePlayer on your Mac, instead of iMovie, and it will import as one continuous movie without scene breaks.


— Rich





Importing video into iMovie from VHS tape

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