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I have just bought a Olympus OM-M5 camera. So I took some video today in HD video. I am able to see it just fine in Lightroom. Next I tried to put it into iMovie. It was just importing ,it shut down iMovie so was unable to get it in to the program. Why would this be ? I have a one year old iMac with lion. Can any of you shed some light on this?
 
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To complete the info you've given us...
How much RAM and how much hard drive free space do you have? What version of iMovie is that? How long are the videos and how large the files?
 
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Hi, the hard drive is 90 procent empty (1 gig) it has 4gig ram. What version iMovie I don't know. My iMac is one year old. 27" 3.1gh . I was trying to import 4 clips total of 8 minutes in HD quality. The highest the camera has. It did not take long to import in to Lightroom.
 
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Import straight from the SD card and see if the problem occurs again.
 
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The strange thing is I did import it to Photoshop just fine , also in to Lightroom but it will not import straight from the card in to iMovie on the imac. The other weird thing is it did import from card to MacBook Pro in to iMovie. iMac runs Lion and MacBook Pro has mountain lion .
 
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I suspect that improvements in iMovie under Mountain Lion -- particularly with regards to how it handles AVCHD -- is the key there.

I don't know if you can upgrade iMovie to the latest version in Lion, but check the version on your ML machine and the one on your Lion machine and I suspect there will be a difference. Let us know what versions you have and we can suggest further courses of action.
 
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Hi Chas_m The Imovie in Mountain lion uploaded the video clips fairly fast. I managed to upload two small clips total of 45 second to the imac it took almost 8 minutes. Took only 1minute in to Photoshop.
The settings are for the imac 960x i forget what the other was, and 25 frames ps. set to Pal as that is what we have here in Australia. The OM-D5 does not have AVCHD to my knowledge. My G3 does have AVCHD and I have never had a problem with that on the Imac with Lion. I has me puzzled why this is.
 

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