by By and large, I quite like iMovie’s new look and feel—but in Apple’s revamp, the editing program has lost one of its more-favored features: importing projects between iOS and the Mac. In addition, some users are complaining about being unable to upgrade to the newest version of iMovie on their Macs as their machines lack the right video cards.
No love for iOS projects on the Mac
iMovie for iOS began life unable to transfer projects to its desktop sibling, though it could still back up those projects to iTunes. In July 2012, however, the desktop version of the app was updated to allow you to import iMovie for iOS projects into iMovie ’11 on the Mac.
Unfortunately, it looks as if this feature has disappeared in the new version of iMovie for the Mac. I was first informed by reader Jeff Roy about this problem, and independently confirmed it myself: While you can still send your projects to iTunes, you can’t open a mobile iMovie project in the new iMovie for Mac—nor will it open in iMovie ’11. Try to do so, and you’ll get the following error message: “iMovie can import projects created with iMovie for iOS version 1.4.1 or earlier.”
Try to import into the new iMovie for Mac, and you’ll get a different error message.
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