Videos inserted in iMovie timeline appear as green icon

Creating a new project/timeline with photos and videos. Photos appear fine. Videos show up on the timeline as a green icon (no video content displayed) with the audio intact. Verified iMovie version is up-to-date.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 15.4

Posted on Sep 4, 2025 02:41 PM

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Sep 7, 2025 07:14 PM in response to cazi222

Hi,


Likely it is some sort of incompatibility problem. Try putting one of the video clips on your desktop, and then control click on its icon. In the pop-up menu that appears, scroll down toward the bottom and click on "encode selected video files". Follow the prompts in the boxes that appear to re-encode the movie clip. Re-encoding will create an additional new clip, but your original clip will remain as a separate clip. Now see if the re-encoded clip plays properly in iMovie.


-- Rich

Videos inserted in iMovie timeline appear as green icon

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