IMovie crashes at startup while trying to read iPhoto library

Question

Hello,
Like many others here, iMovie 7.1 won't start up properly for me. I'm feeling a little frustrated because I bought iLife 08 quite a while back and one of the components I paid for doesn't work AT ALL. It didn't work in Tiger for me, and when I installed Leopard FRESH with nothing else but iLife it still didn't work.
Here is the error I receive:
Process: iMovie [5611]
Path: /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie
Identifier: com.apple.iMovie7
Version: 7.1 (506)
Build Info: iMovieApp-5060000~13
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [88]
Date/Time: 2007-11-25 00:05:49.850 -0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_ARITHMETIC (SIGFPE)
Exception Codes: EXCI386DIV (divide by zero)
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x95cb9b32 STMediaSTAddSampleReferencesS64 + 2376
1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x93c915ea CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1494
2 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x95c9548a STMediaComponentDispatch + 125
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x93c90ef5 CallComponentDispatch + 29
4 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x969378a5 MediaSTAddSampleReferencesS64 + 86
5 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x95c6affb Video2STAddSampleReferencesS64 + 111
6 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x93c915ea CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1494
7 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x95c6a687 Video2ComponentDispatch + 210
8 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x93c90ef5 CallComponentDispatch + 29
9 com.apple.QuickTime 0x908c8f81 MediaSTAddSampleReferencesS64 + 86
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I have (after reading people's suggestions):
1. Removed com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist
2. Made sure there is nothing except for AppleIntermediateCodec and AppleMPEG2Codec.
3. Changed my color profile.
None of this has worked. Same error.
Any suggestions? Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi,
I wouldn't say I have such a lot of movies in Iphoto but deffintely they are quite a few... anyway, I suspect it will never end because the timer gets bigger and bigger; and yes I left it running overnight with no luck.
Is there any way to see in which video is iMovie having the problem? The other workarround means having to backup and delete videos randomly until I find "the bad one".
Cheers.