Convert a trailer to a movie in iMovie on Mac

You can convert a trailer to a standard movie project, which allows you to edit it in the timeline.

Note: After you convert a trailer to a movie, you can’t convert it back to a trailer. If you want to keep a copy of your trailer, duplicate it before you convert it.

  1. In the iMovie app on your Mac, select a trailer in the browser, or double-click a trailer in Projects view to open it.

  2. Choose File > Convert Trailer to Movie.

    Unfilled placeholder clips appear as grayscale images in the timeline after the conversion.

    Timeline showing trailer converted to movie, with black clips representing opening studio logo sequence, black clips with purple bars representing trailer’s title sequences, and grayscale images representing placeholder clips

Note: If you want to preserve the original pacing of the trailer, replace existing clips with video clips of the same length. To learn how to replace video, see “Replace a clip in the timeline” in Add clips to your movie in iMovie on Mac.

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