Importing albums and photos into iMovie

On iMovie, when I import an album from iPhoto the pictures are imported last photo to first, or in reverse order. If I try copying pictures from iPhoto and pasting them into iMovie I lose all my edits. This happens on both my MacBook Pro with a Core i9 processor and my MacBook Air with an M1 Processor. The MacBook Pro has iMovie 10.3.5, the MacBook Air has iMovie 10.3.7.

Posted on Aug 1, 2023 9:56 AM

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Rich839

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Aug 1, 2023 1:23 PM in response to herb171

Try exporting the photos from the Photos app to a folder on your desktop, and from there dragging them as a batch into iMovie. See if the correct sequence is preserved.

-- Rich

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