īeginning in 2007, iMovie HD was renamed to iMovie again, but continues to include high definition support. iMovie transcodes (‘optimizes’) HD video upon ingestion (‘import’) using this codec and stores it in the QuickTime file format (.movie). To facilitate this, iMovie/iLife installs the Apple Intermediate Codec on the system as a QuickTime component. a number of digital photo cameras with HD video recording feature.
Later versions added support for footage from AVCHD camcorders, and H.264-compressed video from MPEG-4 or QuickTime Movie files (.mov)., as generated by e.g.
Starting in 2005, iMovie was renamed to iMovie HD, and added support for high-definition video from HDV camcorders. 2.2 Importing and exporting from other Apple software.
