How to Convert and Import VOB to iMovie on Mac

Once you have tried to import VOB to iMovie to edit the movies, you may find that VOB is not recognized by iMovie. Why? That's because iMovie only supports the following video formats: MPEG 4, DV, DV, HDV, HDV and iSight. However, VOB is basically a MPEG-2 video file which is stored in Video_TS folder in a DVD. As this kind of video file usually contains one or several audio tracks and subtitle tracks that are multiplexed together into one stream form, it is not so easy to playback directly on PC or Mac. If you need to import VOB video files to iMovie, you can turn to Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac to convert VOB files to iMovie supported MP4 format first.

Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac is a powerful video converter designed for Mac users to convert between diverse video/audio format, such as VOB to MP4, WMV to MOV, AVI to Apple TV, MKV to MP4, etc. It provides optimized video profiles for iMovie. You can convert any videos in any format for iMovie with a few simple clicks. Besides, this program also supports some video editing functions. With these function, you can crop the frame size, add watermark, load subtitle, merge several videos into one file, etc. Just follow the guideline below, you can convert and import VOB files to iMovie easily and successfully.

How to import VOB files to iMovie?

Aimerosft Video Converter for Mac is a green program. It is safe to download and install it in your Mac.

1 Add VOB files

Run the Video Converter. Directly drag and drop the VOB files which you want to convert to the main display window of the program. To save your time, you can load multiple files at a time for this program supports batch conversion. You can also merge several files into one.

2 Select iMovie as the output format

Open the submenu of the Editing format option and choose MP4 format for iMovie as the output format. Before starting the conversion, you can crop, trim, add water mark and subtitle to the videos.

3 Designate the output folder and start to convert

You can customize an output folder or just follow the default one to get your converted files. Simply click “Convert” button to start converting the VOB video to iMovie. The conversion will finish in a few seconds.

Here is the vide tutorial on how to convert VOB files to iMovie:

About iMovie and iMovie supported video formats

iMovie is an Apple-based software used to create and edit movies. The software can use clips that are recorded off a camcorder, a webcam, or network camera to be edited directly into the software. Importing movies and video clips into iMovie for further editing are possible as well. However, do note that the software can only handle a few supported movie formats.

iMovie will generally accept file video formats having the following extensions: MP4, MOV, M4V, DV, and AVCHD. If the file that you would like to work on doesn't fall under these formats, you would have to convert them first. And if it happens that one of the listed video file formats above is not accepted by iMovie for any reason, the error could lie in the codec that was used in creating that video. The same solution applies: convert the file into another compatible format.